On Friday afternoon, former Mayor Mike McGinn joined about 150 local residents outside the fundraiser President Obama was hosting for Jay Inslee to demand an immediate halt to the shipment of dangerous Bakken crude over Washington railroads.
The Delta 5 trial concluded today, with a little something to bemoan (a guilty verdict for misdemeanor trespass and the fact that they couldn’t use the necessity defense in the end) and much to celebrate (an acquittal on the “obstructing a train” charge, and the thoughtful words of both the judge and the jurors. The wheels of justice are turning, if too slowly.)
Three of our nearest and dearest are getting ready to go to trial for their civil disobedience–blocking oil train tracks–in September 2014. Read their statements
Scores of people joined us for a processional and die-in yesterday, memorializing the 47 people who died in the July 2013 oil train explosion at Lac Megantic.
