2014 XL Dissent DC 8
Washington DC, in front of he White House, Sunday March 2, 2014. An unexpectedly large gathering of around 2,500 climate justice activists marched from Georgetown to the front of the White House to oppose US government approval of further extension of the Keystone XL pipeline and to protest the Obama administration's ongoing capitulation to the climate wrecking fossil fuel industry. Nearly 400 of the mostly college age activists locked their hands to the White House fence with plastic cable ties. They were later arrested for this act of peaceful civil disobedience. Has our formerly somewhat democratic system of government devolved into a totalitarian police state? Refusing to leave any area marked off with flimsy yellow tape that Obama and his cops deem 'off limits' to First Amendment protected protest is a Federal crime.
2014 XL Dissent DC 8
Washington DC, in front of he White House, Sunday March 2, 2014. An unexpectedly large gathering of around 2,500 climate justice activists marched from Georgetown to the front of the White House to oppose US government approval of further extension of the Keystone XL pipeline and to protest the Obama administration's ongoing capitulation to the climate wrecking fossil fuel industry. Nearly 400 of the mostly college age activists locked their hands to the White House fence with plastic cable ties. They were later arrested for this act of peaceful civil disobedience. Has our formerly somewhat democratic system of government devolved into a totalitarian police state? Refusing to leave any area marked off with flimsy yellow tape that Obama and his cops deem 'off limits' to First Amendment protected protest is a Federal crime.