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June 30, 2016

23 Activists Arrested Protesting Spectra Pipeline in West Roxbury, MA
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In West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 23 activists were arrested protesting
the construction of a Spectra Energy gas pipeline. Among those arrested
were Karenna Gore, the daughter of former Vice President Al Gore, and
Tim De Christopher, who spent close to two years in prison when he posed
as a bidder at an oil and gas auction in Utah. The protesters lay down
in the trenches of the Spectra pipeline-drawing a comparison to the mass
graves dug in Pakistan in anticipation of a climate-fueled heat wave in
May. Tim De Christopher spoke out.

Tim De Christopher: "This is not just a pipeline trench. What they are
digging is a mass grave, because in this age of anticipatory mass
graves, we know that every new fossil fuel development that commits us
to burning fossil fuels for decades, when we put in this infrastructure,
we know that every new fossil fuel infrastructure will lead to another
mass grave somewhere in the world."

Tim De Christopher and Karenna Gore will join us from Boston, before
their arraignment, later in the broadcast.


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