Monday, April 16, 2018

States across the country are trying to make it illegal to plan a pipeline protest

A new movement of bills being introduced in states such as Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota aim to criminalize the process of planning a protest against the construction of an oil or gas pipeline. If signed into law, the act of simply planning a protest that might break a law, such as trespassing or other forms of civil disobedience, would itself become illegal. Legal observers note that the three states that introduced these broadly defined anti-protest bills are also home to proposed controversial...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/states-across-the-country-are-trying-to-make-it-illegal-to-plan-a-pipeline-protest
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