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“Should a corporation poison your family for money?” Steyer asked the crowd. “Climate is the number one priority … not because we want it to be, but because it has to be.”
To understand the current controversy over the decommissioning of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, you have to understand its past
Addressing the US’s complicitness in maintaining the nuclear status quo
This year’s meeting was particularly fraught because a series of strong winter storms forced the plant to shut down—or scram—twice in the last three months. Pilgrim remains offline as plant workers attempt to fix a transformer located between the electrical switchyard and the reactor.
![Before things got out of hand last night, with a small group of demonstrators smashing windows and squaring off with violent police, tens of thousands of people marched from Nubian Square in Roxbury to the State House on Beacon Hill. These images by Derek Kouyoumjian (@derekimage) portray that event, which ran from approximately 6:30pm to 9:30pm before cops started spraying protesters with chemicals. READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT DIGBOSTON[dot]COM! #BlackLivesMatter #GeorgeFloyd #politics #economy #photo #Boston #Massachusetts #coronavirus #COVID19](https://752847.smushcdn.com/1661675/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
