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Green activist Ted Glick faces jail time for hanging banner in Hart Senate Office Bldg.
A township resident is facing the real possibility of spending the next three years in jail after being convicted last month of hanging two banners from a Senate office building in Washington, D.C.
Broughton Avenue resident Ted Glick, an avid environmentalist who has embarked on several hunger strikes for various green causes, landed in hot water when he and another woman unfurled two banners demanding heightened climate legislation on the Hart Senate Office Building. The incident occurred the same day the senate returned from summer recess last year.
The banners read "Green Jobs Now" and "Get to Work," respectively.
"As a couple of us were walking away, we were arrested by the police," said Glick, 60, recounting the incident on Sept. 8, 2009. "Then we ended up in court. The U.S. attorney offered the young woman with me–she was never arrested before–they offered her six months probation."
Glick wasn't so lucky: "Because of these prior nonviolent convictions, the government had the ability to ask for more time," he said.