Top NASA climate scientist arrested at White HouseTop NASA climate scientist arrested at White House

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/29/top-nasa-climate-scientist-arrested-at-white-house/

By Stephen C. Webster
Monday, August 29th, 2011 -- 4:06 pm

One of the nation's foremost experts on climate change was arrested outside the White House on Monday morning after he joined a protest against a planned Canadian tar sands pipeline.

Dr. James Hansen (pictured), who runs NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested along with 139 other protesters taking part in a series of demonstrations against the planned $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport 500,000 barrels of crude per day from America's neighbor to the north all the way to the Gulf coast of Texas.

So far, 521 activists have been arrested since their first protest on Saturday, Aug. 21. Also included in Monday's arrests were Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford, president of CREDO Mobile Michael Kieschnick, 350.org Executive Director May Boeve and many others.

[MoonRiver]

1. Horrible

This is totally unconscionable! :mad:

[Luminous Animal]

2. http://www.tarsandsaction.org/

http://www.tarsandsaction.org/

Check out Tar Sands Action for info of what you can do to support the protests. Also, I lot of good links for those who would like more info.

[EFerrari]

3. Good for him!

[Bluebear]

4. He didn't get his pony

:sarcasm:

[Lucian]

5. What happened to the right to protest?

Or is that gone now?

:grr:

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Proponents argue that the pipeline would bring hundreds of new jobs to the U.S.

and help the nation achieve greater energy independence.

So, we can free ourselves from foreign oil by buying DIFFERENT foreign oil.

Makes sense to me.

[Bluebear]

8. Tar sand oil has triple the carbon footprint & is not worth hundreds of jobs

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. I didn't see in the artile where they said WHY he was arrested.

I thought that protests at the WH were perfectly legal, so long as they don't disrupt traffic (hard to do now that traffic is no longer running on that street, since 9/11, as I understand it). What were the grounds for arest?

[Tesha]

10. According to another thread, "loitering".

In other words, bullshit charges that will later be
dismissed.

Tesha

[xchrom]

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