Ted Glick has devoted 54 years of his life to the progressive social change movement. After a year of student activism as a sophomore at Grinnell College in Iowa, he left college in 1969 to work full time against the Vietnam War. As a Selective Service draft resister, he spent 11 months in prison. In 1973 he co-founded the National Committee to Impeach Nixon and worked as a national coordinator on grassroots street actions around the country, keeping the heat on Nixon until his August, 1974 resignation.

Since late 2003 Ted has played a national leadership role in the effort to stabilize our climate and for a renewable energy revolution. He was a co-founder in 2004 of the Climate Crisis Coalition and in 2005 coordinated the USA Join the World effort leading up to December actions during the United Nations Climate Change conference in Montreal. In May, 2006 he began working with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and was CCAN National Campaign Coordinator until his retirement in October, 2015. He is a co-founder (2014) and one of the leaders of the group Beyond Extreme Energy. He is President of the group 350NJ/Rockland, on the steering committee of the DivestNJ Coalition and on the leadership group of the Climate Reality Check network.

Since the 1970’s Ted has been actively involved in community organizing efforts around environmental, tenant rights, community development and racial justice issues in Brooklyn, N.Y. and northern New Jersey. On a national scale he has been a leader in coalition-building and independent politics efforts. From 1995 to 2005, he was the National Coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network.

He has participated in, sometimes leading, hundreds of actions. He has been arrested 28 times for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, including 14 times since October, 2006 on climate and climate justice issues.

As the national coordinator of the People’s Alliance, he helped to organize the 1980 People’s Convention of several thousand people on the devastated Charlotte St. area in the South Bronx and a march of 15,000 people to Madison Square Garden just before the Democratic Convention. In 2002 he was a primary organizer of the April 20th, 80,000-person march in Washington, D.C. against the militaristic and repressive response of the Bush administration to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Also in 2002, he was a Green Party of New Jersey candidate for U.S. Senate.

Over the years, Ted’s commitment to social justice has led him to partake in 20 extended fasts, six of which were for more than a month, including the Climate Emergency Fast in the fall of 2007 and the 2020, 32-day Fast to Defeat Trump at the age of 71. During the Climate Emergency Fast he ate no solid food for 107 days as part of an effort to get Congress to pass strong climate legislation.

For 22 years he has been a prolific writer on behalf of the movement to which he devotes his life. Since 2000 he has been writing a regular column of political, social and cultural commentary, “Future Hope.” In August, 2020 PM Press released “Burglar for Peace: Lessons Learned in the Catholic Left’s Resistance to the Vietnam War,” a semi-autobiographical account of the draft resistance movement, particularly the Catholic Left component of it, between 1968 and 1973. In 2021 he self-published “21st Century Revolution: Through Higher Love, Racial Justice and Democratic Cooperation.” He published a book in 2000, “Future Hope: A Winning Strategy for a Just Society.”  In 2009 he finished a book manuscript, “Love Refuses to Quit: Climate Change and Social Change in the 21st Century,” which is posted elsewhere on this website.