West Roxbury -5/25/16- Over a dozen clergy were arrested at the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline construction site on Grove Street as they sat on the edge of the exacted street above the 16 inch gas pipeline being laid five feet below the street, and halted the work from being done. They were allowed to sit on the edge for five minutes before they were arrested.Boston Globe staff Photo by John Tlumacki (metro)

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Sometimes Fighting Climate Change Means Breaking The Law – The New Yorker, April 3, 2018

The Boston climate trial that might have been – Wen Stephenson, Commonwealth Magazine, March 28, 2018

Why I was Arrested In West Roxbury – Karenna Gore, The Boston Globe, July 24, 2016

Pipeline Protests Just Got a New Legal Defense – Vice News, March 31, 2018

Judge rules civil disobedience a ‘necessity’ to prevent climate change – Natasha Geiling, ThinkProgress, March 28, 2018

Long-time Bedford resident still fighting for a cause – By Jesse Collings, Wicked Local, March 12, 2018

Judge sets aside charges in pipeline protest – Boston Herald, March 29, 2018

Defendants Acquitted Based on Climate Necessity Defense – eurasia review, March 29, 2018

Anti-pipeline campaigners found not guilty by judge because ‘protest against climate change crisis’ was legal ‘necessity’ – Andrew Buncombe, The Independent (UK) March 27, 2018

Radio

Resistance is Necessary to Overcome the Climate Crisis – Clearing the FOG (radio), April 2, 2018

Judge Rules Boston Climate Change Protest A Legal ‘Necessity’ – Radio Boston, WBUR, March 29, 2018

Television/Video

Pipeline Protest and Climate Change – New England Cable News, March 29, 2018

Judgement Frees Pipeline Activists: Tim DeChristopher – Thom Hartmann Show, March 29, 2018

Blog/Update/Press Release

Courts Across US Move Closer To Finding Civil Disobedience Necessary To Avert Climate Change – Climate Disobedience Center, April 17, 2018

Exciting News from West Roxbury – Marla Marcum March 27, 2018

Prosecution Backs Down–Reduces Charges to Avoid Trial of 13 West Roxbury Pipeline Protesters – Marla Marcum March 26, 2018 

West Roxbury Judge Ruling Outcome – March 27, 2018