Rally against the construction of the pipeline Bashny.Net

More than forty thousand people took to the streets of Washington, D.C. on February 17 to convince President Barack Obama to accept the opinion of the people "the Climate is the most important" (Forward on Climate) and say "no" to the Keystone XL pipeline.

The team of organizers — the leaders of the major organizations for the protection of the environment, activists for civil rights and the rights of minorities and communities that were expecting a crowd, but the results exceeded their expectations, so a huge number of people gathered. Volunteers from across the country organized 130 buses to get people to come to the meeting and Express their opinion. People came of all ages from different parts of the country, from Florida and Wisconsin to California.





Especially actively manifested themselves students. Arrived a huge number of young people from across the country, many of which are in the walls of their universities conduct company and start a movement designed to discredit fossil fuels. This is the future of traffic generation climate protection, they are equally well carried out as the talks in the hall meetings and marching in the streets.

"Our message to President Obama was clear: it's time to keep their word, to send forces and people on the road to recovery the climate, and say no to the Keystone XL pipeline. As a former White House adviser on green (which contribute to the restoration of the environment) jobs (and green movement hero) van Jones (Van Jones) said from the stage: "This decision will define your legacy, Mr. President"".









The speakers on the stage represented the diversity of this movement, from indigenous leaders throughout the United States and Canada to investors in clean energy, such as the Stayer (Tom Steyer), leaders in environmental protection such as Mike Brune (Mike Brune) and bill McKibben (Bill McKibben), as well as activists for civil rights and protection of the right to vote such as Rosario Dawson (Rosario Dawson) and Reverend Lennox Erwood (Lennox Yearwood).

"The March today looked like the movement that elected President Obama. Now it's time for him to join us in opposition to Big Oil and say no to the Keystone XL pipeline. Because this green movement is not going anywhere. We are here, figuratively speaking, burning and ready for action. And we will not stop until the President did not take action".

Environmentalists against the construction of the XL pipeline: "There are two problems: the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which will pass through sensitive natural area and the fact that oil production from the tar Sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production."





We will remind that on February 14 of 48 leaders in the protection of the environment, civil rights and local communities have teamed up to historical manifestations of civil disobedience in front of the White House where they demanded that President Obama rejected construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, thus saving the world from climate crisis. All 48 protesters were arrested.

 

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