“I’m guessing “protest” in this case means “try to blow up,” or something similar.”
It probably means something like supergluing your breasts to a pipeline and causing a delay. (Actually, that would be hilarious. I’d pay money to see that.)
I remember an antiwar nun protester who broke into a government facility. If I recall she got jail time.
Several decades ago animal rights protestors broke into a CDC lab studying plagues and let plague infected animals free. They weren’t caught and the animals probably died soon after so we didn’t end up with a plague. But it was pure luck. I’d imagine that would be worth 10 years if they were caught.
Every once in a while, people used to break into SAC bases and pour blood on a B-52, or hit the landing gear of a B-1 with a little hammer.
They got pretty heavy sentences, IIRC. Quite a few years.
Could have been worse, instead of Plague (which you can get here, thank you San Fransisco!) it could have been Rage...