Students arrested at White House protesting Keystone.

PositionOn the Line - Brief article

Police arrested hundreds of young people protesting the Keystone XL project on March 2. The demonstrators zip-tied themselves to the fence outside the White House, calling on President Obama to stop the controversial oil pipeline.

Protesters held signs that read: "There is no planet B." Some, wearing white jump suits and splattered with black ink, collapsed on a giant tarp that spread out over Pennsylvania Avenue like a giant oil spill.

"If the Democratic Party wants to keep our vote, they better make sure President Obama rejects that pipeline," Nick Stracco, a twenty-three-year-old student at Tulane University in New Orleans...

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