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"When Protest Becomes Sacrament: Grady Sisters Heed a Higher Call" [1]

"These Catholic social justice advocates are exemplars of the force behind We Are Seneca Lake, one of the nation’s longest-running campaigns of civil disobedience."

"On a warm May morning, two dozen people wearing blue shirts formed a neat line in front of the gates of a natural gas compressor station in central New York. The facility lay hidden somewhere in the trees behind them, and just beyond was Seneca Lake, a 38-mile azure gash through deep green hills that provides drinking water to 100,000 people. The sun crept over a ridge on the far side of the lake. It was still early enough to intercept the day's first delivery.

Within minutes, a tanker truck neared the gates and pulled onto the shoulder. Word soon came that sheriff's deputies were on their way, and the protesters started singing a verse that became a spiritual anthem of the civil rights movement.

'We shall, we shall not be moved;."

Nicholas Kusnetz reports for InsideClimate News August 10, 2016. [2]

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Source: InsideClimate News [2], 08/15/2016
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/when-protest-becomes-sacrament-grady-sisters-heed-higher-call [2] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09082016/new-york-fracking-ban-we-are-seneca-lake-protests-crestwood-natural-gas-plowshares-into-swords-nuclear [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [8] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast [9] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81