My must read of the day is "Hundreds of Students Arrested at White House Protesting Keystone XL," in the Huffington Post:
I just came back from the White House, where the police are still arresting the hundreds of students who are taking part in what will likely be the largest act of youth civil disobedience at the White House in a generation.
This is XL Dissent: a massive surge of protest against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and a powerful show of solidarity with all communities who are fighting the fossil fuel industry and confronting the impacts of the climate crisis. […]
The scene down at the White House this afternoon was incredible. There were just over a thousand students that rallied in Lafayette Park, but it sounded like 10 thousand. This wasn't your parents' protest, but the spark-shooting dynamo of student movement that is beginning to embrace its true power.
This weekend’s protest wasn’t just any old protest. It was a "youth protest." When I heard about this, I wanted to just repost an article by Stanley Kurtz, which I wrote about in a previous must read.
I cannot figure out what makes young people such zealous opponents of the Keystone XL. They probably don’t know much about the Keystone XL, and choose to ignore evidence that building it is the safest option, and that stopping it will not actually impact climate change.
People are starving and dying of curable illnesses throughout the world—how can so many young people feel attached to things like the pipeline?
As this group gathered outside the White House gates, Russia’s military was in Crimea, and the Ukrainian government was calling Russia actions a "declaration of war."
The fight against climate change is a case of seriously mistaken priorities. There are so many bigger problems we have to deal with right now.