Cromwell gives a fist-up “power to the people” sign
as he entered jail last Friday
GOSHEN – The three members of the Wawayanda Six, who went to jail
rather than pay a $375 fine, were released Monday from the Orange County
Jail with time served. They were sentenced to seven days in jail and reported
for incarceration late Friday afternoon.
Pramilla Malick, Madeline Shaw and actor James Cromwell were placed in
quarantine pending the results of a routine tuberculosis test.
Three others who were arrested over a year ago when they blocked the entrance
to the CPV power plant in Wawayanda paid their fines.
Cromwell told Mid-Hudson News after his release on Monday that he will
be back protesting outside the plant in an effort to save the planet.
“What we are trying to do by our silly little gesture of getting
arrested and getting sentenced to three days in jail, we are trying to
make the ordinary people see there is only one way to interface with the
entrenched power of the ruling class and that is to oppose them with people
power,” he said. “There is no interface between ordinary people
and power. You must oppose these things with your body.”
Cromwell claims the use of fracked methane gas from Pennsylvania to fuel
the CPV plant is just a means of getting the gas to Canada to be liquefied
and sold internationally.
He said global warming caused by power plants like CPV will destroy the
planet.
