Eco-Radical Protesters Climb On Top Of Red Line Subway Cars - Commuters Pull Civil Disobedience Activists Off Train Roofs - T Workers Protect EcoRadicals from Angry Crowd - 17 Oct 2019


Eco-Radical "Dirt First!" planned protest to disrupt public transport in Boson during rush hour took an unexpected turn when commuters dragged the activists off a train roof before staff came to their aid
The scene unfolded at North Wollaston  station on the Red line, where the protesters were besieged on all sides of the trains before being unceremoniously dragged back down to Earth and dumped on the platform.

MBTA staff were forced to intervene to defend the protesters from the angry crowd.




Elsewhere, five activists blocked the Purple Line commuter train to Hinghan, climbing on board the trains, with at least one climate activist gluing himself to the door. Commuters vented their frustration at the alleged hypocrisy of the protesters for blocking electric mass transit, as well as their perceived disregard for the wellbeing of the public.



One counter-protester made a sign at the station and sat to the side displaying a message opposing the eco-radical Doomsday advocacy.



“What if someone needed to go to hospital or something,” shouted one commuter.

"The Earth is more important than the petty concerns of all you lower middle class nobodies," one eco-radical yelled to the angry crowd.

Police have confirmed at least four people have been arrested so far for their part in the protests.

Dirt First launched the current wave of its divisive and polarizing form of protest on October 7. Since then, some 16  people have been arrested for their part in the planned civil disobedience.

(Passengers climb up and throw eco-radicals off train roofs)


The group invoked Rosa Parks on its Twitter feed, attempting to draw an equivalency between their climate protests and her fight for racial equality in the US.  Others have pointed out that Rosa Parks was trying to get equal access to transit services, not trying to stop other people from using transit services.

"That's old white mansplaining," a visibly agitated Gretel Tuneburg, who is white, wrote on Twitter.  "How dare you?"

As the days actions ended the Dirt First eco-radicals march down the railroad tracks to block a tunnel leading to the Blue Hills line.  MBTA workers and commuters did not tell the protesters that the line had been closed for years, and that the tunnel lead nowhere. 







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