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This morning, seven Greenpeace activists risked life and limb to climb a 300-foot crane and unfurl a banner in protest of the President.
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We should probably mention that the 70′ x 35′ banner is just several blocks from The White House, and anyone looking from the South Lawn can quite clearly see the message.
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“Greenpeace has used nonviolence to resist tyrannical bullies since 1971, and we’re not going to stop now,” board chair Karen Topakian said in a statement.
In a live Facebook video from atop the crane, she added:
We’re out here today with a message of resistance for our folks who are fighting for human rights, fighting for climate change, fighting for a better world.”
The crane isn’t the work of Greenpeace; it just happened to be chillaxing near The White House, and Greenpeace seized the opportunity to use it for their peaceful, death-defying protest.
“It was a little chilly this morning when we arrived at the crane site, but it was a lot chillier in the oval office when President Trump decided to sign those executive orders reinstating the Keystone Pipeline, reinstating the North Dakota pipeline, taking women’s right to choose away from them,” Topakian said in a Facebook vid.
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Pearl Robinson, an activist who helped hang the sign, said:
Now is the time to resist. We won’t stand rollbacks on all the progress the people have made on women’s reproductive rights, LGBTQIA rights, the heightened awareness of state-sanctioned violence on black and brown folks, and the progress we have made on access to clean and renewable energy, an issue I have personally worked on my entire adult life.”
1EqualityUSA
Whoa, powerful image. What’s the white, shadowy figure on the lawn? Lincoln’s ghost?
jhon_siders
That’s a fountain
Mo Bro
Sorry, kids, but you can march all you want, and you can put up all the signs you want, and you can stop traffic in the name of social justice all you want, but at the end of the day, Mr. Trump will still be in charge, and all you’ll have done is waste more time convincing yourselves you’re being productive by trashing the very society in which you live.
Kangol
Sorry, kid, but you can’t stand the fact that a majority of people detest this president, who entered office with the lowest popularity in history. Protesting this authoritarian monster is actually championing the very society in which we live. Maybe one day you’ll wake up and grasp this. Dissent is as American as cranberry bogs or apple pie!
jhon_siders
Well I don’t care for him ether But did every one get out and vote ?? If you did just face the fact he won and we are stuck with him for 4 years . If you did not vote you have no one to blame but your self !! Maybe I can get a job building the wall ?? need to business .
Mo Bro
@ Kangol
If protesting is “actually championing the very society in which we live,” then how come you didn’t do more of it when Obama was in office?
1EqualityUSA
The image is impressive. Sell postcards, so that we can write notes to Senators with them. I wouldn’t mind seeing a replica done in 3mm beads. There are so many ways to replicate it. A tabletop version would be fun. Miniature golf courses’ alternative to droll, crenulated castles. Open up miniature golf specific to raising funds. The 18th hole could have the White House, crane and all. Play a round and get the latest scoops on the resistance. Thanks for climbing to such heights to convey our message.