Monday, March 3, 2014

Oh, THERE They Are

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.

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I was standing with press from Politico, the National Journal, CNN, CBS and others as students continued to cheer and chant at the White House fence. Even the seasoned reporters seemed impressed by the scale of the protest. No one could think of a larger student civil disobedience at the White House.

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There were just over a thousand students that rallied in Lafayette Park, but it sounded like 10 thousand. This wasn't your parents' protest, but the spark-shooting dynamo of student movement that is beginning to embrace its true power.

  HuffPo
Let us hope.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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