Tim DeChristopher Arrested Again in the "Age of Anticipatory Mass Graves" for Climate Victims

Tim DeChristopher, area clergy and the larger resistance against the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline. (Photo: Peter Bowden/flickr/cc)

Tim DeChristopher Arrested Again in the "Age of Anticipatory Mass Graves" for Climate Victims

On Wednesday, 23 people were arrested protesting Spectra Energy's fracked gas pipeline in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Longtime climate activist Tim DeChristopher was one of about 30 people who ventured onto the Spectra pipeline construction site in an attempt to nonviolently stop work. Local residents and politicians have long opposed the West Roxbury Lateral pipeline, which they say is dangerous for the pipeline to run alongside a quarry where there is frequent blasting.

On Wednesday, 23 people were arrested protesting Spectra Energy's fracked gas pipeline in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Longtime climate activist Tim DeChristopher was one of about 30 people who ventured onto the Spectra pipeline construction site in an attempt to nonviolently stop work. Local residents and politicians have long opposed the West Roxbury Lateral pipeline, which they say is dangerous for the pipeline to run alongside a quarry where there is frequent blasting. During the action, DeChristopher and 11 others climbed inside the pipeline trench and refused to budge for almost two hours before being forcibly removed by firefighters. DeChristopher drew a comparison between the trenches of the gas pipeline and the mass graves recently dug in Pakistan in anticipation of a climate-fueled heat wave.

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