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Actions and protests
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Climate (campaign title)
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KWCI (GPI)
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One person
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Shell Protest during President Obama’s Visit to Alaska
'Frostpaw' holding a sign on the shore of Resurrection Bay as President Obama passes by on a water tour, highlights the President's deeply hypocritical move to come to Alaska to stress the urgent need to take action on climate change immediately after giving Shell final approval to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean. Solidarity rallies in Seattle and Portland, site of two major protests against Shell's Arctic drilling, were planned.
Unique identifier:
GP0STPAO1
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
01/09/2015
Locations:
Alaska
,
North America
,
Resurrection Bay
,
Seward
,
United States of America
Credit line:
© Mark Meyer / Greenpeace
Size:
7113px × 4747px 15MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Shell Protest during President Obama’s Visit to Alaska
Activists protest Shell oil drilling in the Arctic in Anchorage and Seward as U.S. President Obama tours Alaska to bring a message of urgency on dealing with climate change. The “Rally to Confront the Glacial Pace of Political Action” was held in Anchorage as President Obama met with ministers from around the world for the GLACIER conference on climate change and the Arctic at the nearby Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center.
Alaskans including Besse Odom with Alaska NAACP, Noah Sunflower, Faith Gimmell of REDOIL, Kirk Karn from the Interfaith Climate Action Group, and Sweetwater Nannauck of Idle No More vocally and visibly highlight what they see as the President’s deeply hypocritical move to come to their state to highlight climate change immediately after he gave Shell approval to drill in the Arctic ocean.
Activists took the "Polar Profiteer" oil rig prop and the "Frostpaws" polar bear costume, signs and banners to Seward and displayed them along President Obama's motorcade route and on the shores of Resurrection Bay as the President passed by in a U.S. Coast Guard ship en route to the Exit Glacier which is quickly retreating due to the effects of climate change.
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