2014 XL Dissent DC 19
Washington DC, on the sidewalk in front the 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 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 protesters 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 our Disappointer In Chief Obama and his cops deem 'off limits' to First Amendment protected protest is now a Federal crime.
2014 XL Dissent DC 19
Washington DC, on the sidewalk in front the 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 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 protesters 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 our Disappointer In Chief Obama and his cops deem 'off limits' to First Amendment protected protest is now a Federal crime.