and next thing i kne i was in west roxbury almost every week.re coming out, they were standing in front of the trucks, stopping the construction, and i supported them. but in terms of getting arrested, i held back. i figured, does the world really need another black person to go to prison? so, finally i got an email from a friend. it talked about how in pakistan, the summer before, 1,300 people had died because of heatwaves-- so many people that grave diggers were starting to dig ditches in anticipation of summer. and the ditches in pakistan looked eerily similar to the ditch in west roxbury. so we decided to have an action to call attention to this, and to mourn all the people who were losing their lives because of climate change. we chose a date, june 29th, my birthday. my birthday's complicated. it's a day i celebrate, but it's also a day that i mourn. anyway, the day came, i was in all black in my full clerical gear, and there was a lot of sun. so, we had a prar service, but we kept it short. and then we jumped in the ditch. standing there,