Tens of Thousands Rally to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline & Urge Obama to Move "Forward on Climate"

Democracynow.org - February 18, 2013

Tens of thousands of people gathered on Washington’s National Mall Sunday [February 17, 2013] to urge President Obama to reject the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Organizers of the Forward on Climate event described it as the largest climate rally in history. Protesters displayed a mock pipeline with the motto, quote, "Separate oil and—separate oil and state." The proposed 1,700-mile pipeline would deliver tar sands oil from Canada to refineries in Texas. The Reverend Lennox Yearwood compared the rally to Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington for civil rights. The protest was organized by 350.org, the Sierra Club and the Hip Hop Caucus, among others. Speakers included President Obama’s former green jobs adviser, Van Jones.

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