A Keystone XL activist gets his day in court

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By Heather SmithOct 28, 2014, 5:30 am92 pts
This past summer I interviewed Alec Johnson, the 62-year-old who locked himself to an excavator sitting on a pipeline easement site for Keystone XL in Atoka, Oklahoma, back in April 2013, as part of the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance. As it turned out, getting arrested was the easy part. More than a year…

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