201409.09
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Sutter agrees to plea deal in Brayton Point coal blockade

Article Date: September 9, 2014 From The Standard Times By Ariel Wittenberg FALL RIVER — Calling climate change “one of the gravest crises our planet has ever faced,” Bristol County District Attorney Samuel Sutter agreed to a plea deal Monday between his office and two activists arrested last year for blockading the coal-fired Brayton Point…

201409.08
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Charges Were Just Dropped Against These Climate Activists in the Most Stunning Way

Article Date: September 8, 2014 From The Nation By Wen Stephenson “Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary…” —Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” Henry’s jaw would’ve dropped. This morning, for a moment, at least, a higher law—the law of conscience—held sway in Massachusetts. OK,…

201409.08
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Charges Dropped Against Climate Activists

Article Date: September 8, 2014 From The New York Times By Jess Bidgood FALL RIVER, Mass. — In May 2013, two environmental activists piloted a lobster boat close to the vast pile of coal at the Brayton Point Power Station, the hulking plant that overlooks this industrial inlet near the border between Massachusetts and Rhode…

201407.05
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Sutter to give free tennis lesson to kids

Article Date: July 5, 2014 From The Standard Times Tennis stars of the future will get the chance to get free instruction from a former professional tennis player — District Attorney Sam Sutter. Young athletes from the age of 6 to 14 will get to participate in Sutter’s Free Youth Sports Program managed by former…