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Kentucky Nuns Sing Out to Stop a Pipeline

Miles Kampf-Lassin

A group of nuns in Marion County, Kentucky are working to stop a proposed oil pipeline that would run through the state, and have become the face of a grassroots environmental campaign. Their protest tactic of choice? Singing. Read In These Times staff writer Cole Stangler’s story on the resistance to the Bluegrass Pipeline here.

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Miles Kampf-Lassin, a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School in Deliberative Democracy and Globalization, is a Web Editor at In These Times. Follow him on Twitter @MilesKLassin

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