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Over 1,200 Youth March to the White House to Protest Keystone XL
2014-03-03 01:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Hundreds gather at the White House to protest Keystone XL This past Sunday, over 1,200 youth marched to the White House and staged a protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The protest was organized just as President Barack Obama is getting ready to announce his final decision concerning this controversial project. Media reports say that the young people who took part in the march and then gathered in front of the White House were representatives of over 50 colleges and universities...
Keystone XL protesters arrested after strapping selves to White House fence
2014-03-02 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Police on Sunday arrested around 200 people who strapped themselves to the White House fence to protest the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. The protesters were mostly college students who participated in a peaceful march that began at Georgetown University and ended outside the White House. The marchers chanted climate justice now and carried signs such as dont tarnish the Earth in their efforts to convince President Barack Obama to reject the pipeline. They say it will contribute to global...
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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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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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