Here Are the Scenes From DC’s Climate Protest

by Shelby Talcott

 

Climate change activists protested on the streets of Washington, D.C., Monday, aiming to shut down the city in an effort to push the government to take action on the climate crisis.

Activists blocked key intersections throughout the nation’s capital Monday morning, causing “gridlocked” traffic across D.C., Sam Sweeney, a reporter for WJLA, tweeted. Police began arresting protesters Monday morning, and the demonstrations are expected to continue throughout the day.

Other streets were locked down after a sail boat was placed in the middle of a road. Protesters bound themselves to the boat and police had to use saws to release them as they re-routed traffic. “Rebel for life” was written on the boat.

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“Police are using a saw to separate the links protesters have attached themselves to the boat with. They’ve given those people flame-resistant blankets for the sparks. And ear protection,” Alejandro Alvarez, a reporter for WTOP, tweeted. He added that “over an hour later” police were still trying to free two of the protesters from the boat.

Health care workers and Black Lives Matter members set up a “free health screening and blood pressure clinic” on Independence and Washington, Adam Greenberg, a SustainUS employee, wrote. Protesters were also seen blocking streets with a sign that read “Capitalism Is Killing The Planet.”

“Allowing people to lay in the middle of the street during morning rush hour is not a compelling argument for statehood. #ShutDownDC #ClimateStrikedc #DCisatoilet,” Kevin McLaughlin, Executive Director at National Republican Senatorial Committee, wrote Monday morning.

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Shelby Talcott is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “DC Climate Change Protesters” by Mark Dixon. CC BY 2.0.

 

 

 

 


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4 Thoughts to “Here Are the Scenes From DC’s Climate Protest”

  1. Pissed Off Nashvillian

    How come they don’t protest during the winter?

  2. Austin Pate

    Maybe the Climate Change groups should go and organize protests in Communist China, the world’s worst polluters!

  3. Traditional Thinker

    There will eventually be a global warming placed upon this sick generation of protestors out dancing their depraved dance and denying the creator of heaven and earth. It’s called hell.

  4. Milt

    Al Gore must to happy! He finally has a bunch of Fruitcakes pretending to be well informed people about the dynamics of climate change following his footsteps. I find it interesting that for a bunch of self proclaimed environmentalists would burn trash dumpsters, pollute the air with burning hydrocarbons, and throw trash on the ground for the taxpayers to clean up. Climate change is not man-made but a natural process of planetary evolution. This planet as gone through many climate changes in the past and continues to do so.

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