News brief: Eight UU clergy arrested at Boston pipeline protest

News brief: Eight UU clergy arrested at Boston pipeline protest

Climate justice, safety concerns spur fight against West Roxbury lateral pipeline.

Elaine McArdle

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Eight UU ministers were among sixteen religious leaders who were arrested May 25 protesting the West Roxbury lateral pipeline, a natural gas pipeline slated to go through a dense part of Boston, which Boston-area UUs have been fighting for months on climate justice and safety grounds.

UU ministers who were arrested: the Rev. Anne Bancroft, the Rev. Heather Concannon, the Rev. Rebecca Froom, the Rev. John Gibbons, the Rev. Martha Niebanck, the Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen, the Rev. Fred Small, the Rev. Rali Weaver.

The protest was covered by the Roslindale TranscriptBoston Globe, and Boston Metro.

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