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Source: ThinkProgress
Youth activists held a rally on Sunday outside of the White House demanding President Obama stop construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry tar sands south across the country from Alberta, Canada to Texas.
About 1,000 were expect to turn out for the protest, many of them university students. An estimated 300 people locked themselves to the White House fence before being arrested by security. The protest comes just days after a report from the State Departments Inspector General found that there was no conflict of interest in the fact that the contractor hired to write a Environmental Impact Statement on the pipeline also worked for major oil companies involved in its construction.
just updated
Rally organizers peg the number arrested at around 400. Buses were brought in to cart away those whod been arrested:
https://twitter.com/Agent350/status/440250574865715200
Heres a look at some photos from the protest:
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/02/3350081/photos-keystone-protest-arrests/
Keystone XL Pipeline Protestors Create Human Oil Spill
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/several-hundred-students-youth-marched-georgetown-university-white-photo-200501382.html
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/several-hundred-students-youth-marched-georgetown-university-white-photo-202353119.html
Associated Press Susan Walsh
Read more: Keystone XL Pipeline Protestors Create Human Oil Spill
http://swampland.time.com/2014/03/02/keystone-xl-pipeline-protestors-create-human-oil-spill/
Today more than 1,000 youth from across the country marched to the White House from Georgetown Universitywhere President Obama laid out his climate testto protest the Keystone XL pipeline. Once at the White House, hundreds of youth were arrested while participating in a nonviolent civil disobedience sit-in. This protest was the largest youth act of civil disobedience at the White House in a generation.
http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/02/hundreds-arrested-protesting-keystone-xl/
Co-founder and Communications Director, 350.org
http://350.org/
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.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-henn/keystone-xl-protest_b_4886208.html
Another update
Breaking: 400+ Youth Arrested at White House Protesting Keystone XL Pipeline
Today more than 1,200 youth from across the country marched to the White House from Georgetown Universitywhere President Obama laid out his climate testto protest the Keystone XL pipeline. Once at the White House, more than 400 youth were arrested while participating in a nonviolent civil disobedience sit-in. This protest was the largest youth act of civil disobedience at the White House in a generation.
http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/02/hundreds-arrested-protesting-keystone-xl/