On a balmy morning in the US in mid-June, hours before the Denton, Texas city council voted 6-1 to repeal the town’s now-famous ban on hydraulic fracturing, a 92-year-old great-grandmother named Violet Palmer blocked the gateway to a well site on the other side of town.
She sat in her rocking chair, joined by her son, who had chained himself to the gate and held a sign that read “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”, quoting US civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.
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