2 Wisconsin Climate-Change Activists Among 4 Arrested At Protest Site

Four Wisconsin climate-change activists have been arrested while trying to shut down the operation of a Minnesota pipeline.  Two of those taken into custody by the Itasca County Sheriff’s Department are from Cuba City, Wisconsin.  Brenna Cussen Anglada and Daniel Yildirim were part of a group from the Catholic Worker movement are breaking into a fenced area near Grand Rapids.  They were trying to access shut-off valves for an Enbridge oil pipeline, but the company diverted the flow from a remote location.  The four Catholic Workers are charged with felony-level aiding and abetting pipeline property damage and a misdemeanor count of criminal damage to property.