The “Rally to Confront the Glacial Pace of Political Action” in Anchorage as President Obama meets with ministers from around the world for the GLACIER conference on climate change and the Arctic in Anchorage 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.