Re: Occupy BNSF
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 12-03-2011 - 14:15
SLOCONDR Wrote:
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> Anyone remember the protest/sit in in Livermore,
> Ca. years ago? A bunch of people protesting, I
> think the Livermore Lab, and occupied the rail.
> One guy decided the engine would stop, and had an
> extremity cut off.....
Not Livermore. It was on the Concord Naval Weapons railroad and involved a train that was headed to Port Chicago. The guy's name is Brian Wilson (not of the Beach Boys). And yes, he succeded in stopping it.
Protesters used to sit on the SP tracks in Berkeley, too.