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Human Chain Encircles the White House

November 6, 2011 at 8:36 PM Leave a comment

I don’t know if you have or will hear about this, giving the proclivities of the “liberal media,” but the world needs to know that this happened today:

Today, more than 12,000 people from across the United States and Canada gathered at the White House to call on President Obama to stop the TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.  After a rally in Lafayette Square addressed by elected officials, youth climate activists,  environmental leaders, climate scientist James Hansen, religious leaders, Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams, Naomi Klein, and local opponents of the pipeline from South Dakota, Texas, and Nebraska, the boisterous crowd formed a human chain that completely encircled the White House.

I read somewhere in the run-up to this event (sorry, I don’t remember where) that the last time the White House was completely surrounded by protesters was in the 1960s.  So, this is BIG.

More here via the AP:

And here’s a photo from DailyKos:

Bravo to all those who took the time to participate!  I was there in spirit (stuck in Colorado).

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