Common climate campers face court again

Those climate campers are in trouble again.

Scores of university students are spending each Sunday night camping out on Boston Common in hopes of convincing Governor Deval Patrick to introduce a bill to re-power the state with 100 percent clean electricity by 2020.

But camping in Boston Common is apparently illegal. So last night, for the second week in a row, the campers were told they would receive summons to appear in court, according to a spokesman from the Leadership Council. Climate activist Bill McKibben was among the group. In all, 122 people received summons, according to the group. The Boston Police Department had no report yet on the incident when I called.

Tomorrow the group is meeting with Gov. Deval Patrick to try and convince him to file that climate bill.

Here's my previous post: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/11/climate_campers_on_common_to_g.html