Commonwealth - My hunger strike yields some progress

Nathan Phillips shares his reflection on his hunger strike in CommonWealth magazine. Read it here.

Commonwealth Magazine - My hunger strike yields some progress But Weymouth Compressor will still do damage (link)

Excerpt: “LAST WEDNESDAY, I concluded a two-week-long hunger strike to spotlight public safety violations at the construction site of the Weymouth Compressor, a new fossil fuel facility planned for Boston’s South Shore. Friends and journalists have asked: was it worth it? Did we get what we wanted?

Yes, and no.

Friends of friends, who’d never even heard of the Weymouth Compressor before, are asking, incredulously, how and why three eminently reasonable public safety demands of the strike needed to be anything more than baseline expectations, no less requiring of a hunger strike.

The three demands – to properly decontaminate dump trucks leaving the site; to test the site thoroughly for asbestos; and to install an air quality monitor – can be summarized in three words to the Department of Environmental Protection: Do Your Job. I feel good that a spotlight of scrutiny is now shining bright, and intensifying.” (Commonwealth Magazine, 2020)