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Hundreds of Keystone protesters arrested at White House

2014-03-02 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Police arrested hundreds of young people protesting the Keystone XL project on Sunday, as demonstrators fastened themselves with plastic ties to the White House fences and called for U.S. President Barack Obama to reject the controversial oil pipeline. Participants, who mostly appeared to be college-aged, held signs reading: "There is no planet B" and "Columbia says no to fossil fuels," referring to the university in New York City. Another group, several of whom were clad in white jumpsuits...

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Keystone pipeline foes create 'human oil spill' at rally; hundreds arrested

2014-03-02 16:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CNN: Hundreds of students and youth organizers were arrested outside the White House Sunday as they protested against the Keystone XL pipeline under review by the Obama administration. Some demonstrators zip-tied their hands to the White House fence, and others acted out a "human oil spill," lying on black tarps in front of the White House. Nearly a thousand students began their march at Georgetown University and proceeded to the outside of Secretary of State John Kerry's Washington home, where...

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Hundreds Keystone XL pipeline opponents arrested at White House

2014-03-02 16:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: More than 500 protesters chanting, Hey, Obama! We dont want no pipeline drama, marched to the White House Sunday, demanding that President Obama stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline extension that would daily carry 830,000 barrels of crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast. About 200 protesters, who marched from Georgetown University, through the streets of D.C., stopping in front of the house of Secretary of State John Kerry to drop "a fake oil spill," were arrested after they used...

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Hundreds Students Arrested at White House Protesting Keystone XL

2014-03-02 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: I just came back from the White House, where the police are still arresting the hundreds of students who are taking part in what will likely be the largest act of youth civil disobedience at the White House in a generation. This is XL Dissent: a massive surge of protest against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and a powerful show of solidarity with all communities who are fighting the fossil fuel industry and confronting the impacts of the climate crisis. "An entire movement has thrown itself...

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