Climate activists arrested for blocking airstrip in Massachusetts

A group of ecoactivists were arrested after disrupting traffic at an airfield in Massachusetts on Saturday, the latest in the ongoing trend of public demonstrations against climate change.

Approximately two dozen protesters with the ecoactivist group Extinction Rebellion were arrested by police and taken into custody at Laurence G. Hanscom Airfield in Bedford.

The activists stood in the path of planes during taxi in order to "resist the proposed expansion of 17 new hangars, which would...