Amy Goodman
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Michigan Activists Face Up to 2 Years in Prison for Protesting Oil Pipeline Behind 2010 Spill
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February 3, 2014
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6:20Now PlayingThree environmentalists have just been convicted for their role in nonviolently protesting the construction of tar sands pipelines in Michigan. Last summer, they tied themselves to excavators at an Enbridge Inc. construction site to stall work on a pipeline that had ruptured in 2010 and dumped about 800,000 gallons of crude oil into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. On Friday, the protesters Barbara Carter, Vicci Hamlin, and Lisa Leggio were found guilty of misdemeanor trespassing as well as resisting and obstructing police, which carries a maximum twoyear felony. We are joined from Grand Rapids, Michigan by Christopher Wahmhoff of the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands. In June, Wahmhoff protested the Enbridge pipeline by skateboarding deep inside the pipe and refusing to come out.
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