Lowell Sun: On climate change, coal and civil disobedience

“Climate change is well underway,” Wen Stephenson told the audience seated in St. Andrews Episcopal Church’s office space. Behind him, slides projected quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and images of activists blocking the path of a coal train.

Just months before, the church had opened its doors and offered soup and a warm place to stay while Stephenson and his comrades waited for a coal train to pass through. In the frigid, early morning hours of Dec. 8, they gathered on the tracks to stop the train on its way to a coal plant in Bow, N.H.

“We were glad to make it possible for them to be here,” said parishioner Faith Salter.

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