Ssegirinya supporters to hold protest run
Organizers target at least 600, 000 people who will all wear a white T-shirt with detained MP Mohammad Ssegirinya's photo and name
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Organizers target at least 600, 000 people who will all wear a white T-shirt with detained MP Mohammad Ssegirinya's photo and name
Sarah Hodder, Katie Thompson, and Mercedes Walters (ages 31, 32, and 32, respectively) are all ultrarunners who live near the area. They decided running the pipeline route was a considerate way to protest its existence and impact on local communities. “In doing so, our team hopes to raise awareness of the deleterious impacts of the pipeline and tell the stories of those people whose lives are so negatively impacted by its construction,” Walters said. The Mountain Valley Pipeline runs 303 miles through Southwest Virginia up through West Virginia, across 17 counties; over 1,000 waterways; a...
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