I’m forwarding the info along; interestng the this was covered in the UK.
Interesting! From across the pond regarding Boston.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pipeline-protesters-boston-protest-not-guilty-climate-change-karenna-gore-mary-ann-driscoll-a8276851.html
More than a dozen protesters who clambered into holes dug for a high
pressure gas pipeline said they had been found not responsible by a judge
after hearing them argue their actions to try and stop climate change were
a legal “necessity”.
Karenna Gore, the daughter of former Vice President Al Gore, was among
more than 198 people who were arrested because of their 2015 actions
protesting the pipeline in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, a neighbourhood of
Boston. Thirteen people were to go on trial this week, though prosecutors
downgraded their original criminal charges to one of civil infraction.
On Tuesday, Judge Mary Ann Driscoll of West Roxbury District Court, found
all 13 defendants not responsible, the equivalent of not guilty in a
criminal case. She did so after each of the defendants addressed the judge
and explained why they were driven to try and halt the pipeline’s
construction.
