Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Why I blockaded an oil train | GUEST OPINION

From:  Bainbridge Island Review

BY ANNETTE KLAPSTEIN

On Monday, July 28, I joined Jan Woodruff of Anacortes and Adam Gaya of Seattle in locking ourselves to barrels full of concrete on the rail spur into the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes in order to keep an oil train from leaving the refinery.

Why would a 62-year-old retired lawyer and long-time resident of Bainbridge Island take such a drastic action?

The short answer is: I could not do otherwise.  MORE

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