Climate activists are planning to blockade the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday in one attempt to send a message to President Biden on climate change.
Climate Defiance staged their blockade outside the Washington Hilton Saturday night, successfully turning away one government-issued SUV. Credit: Collin Rees via Twittergroup is planning to blockade the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night in an effort to send a message to President Biden on climate change.
The group, Climate Defiance, tweeted a video on Thursday accusing Biden of committing"ecocide," after he approved a 30-year Alaskan oil drilling project in March, the Willow Project. "We have only a few years left. Our very lives are at stake. And yet our political leaders wine and dine and laugh as though everything is ok," the group said in a tweet thread."So we will take matters into our own hands. In two days we will march on the White House Correspondents Dinner. And we will blockade it."The White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Saturday, April 30, 2022.
The Willow Project allows ConocoPhillips to use Alaskan land to produce up to an estimated 180,000 barrels of oil per day. The project will create 300 long-term jobs in addition to 2,500 construction jobs. In a video shared by the group, a government vehicle was forced to turn around after attempting to enter the Washington Hilton, where the dinner is being held, because protesters are blocking the entrance.Climate Defiance, responding to questions about possible arrests, said that it's aiming to bring such a large group that arrests won't be possible.
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