Action at Rex Tillerson Senate Confirmation Hearing in Washington D.C.

Greenpeace activist James Burch of San Francisco, California, holds up a protest sign reading "Reject Rexx". Four activists with Greenpeace peacefully interrupted the Foreign Relation Committee’s confirmation hearing for former ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson’s nomination for U.S. Secretary of State. Holding banners “RejectRexx,” the activists stood and delivered messages of opposition to the naming of an oil CEO as the nation’s chief diplomat. Hailing from New York, North Carolina, Texas, and California, the three women and one man represented a diversity of reasons for rejecting Tillerson’s appointment.