Activists shut down traffic in Washington, D.C. as U.N. climate summit gets underway

CBS News ^ | 9/23/2019 | Uncredited

[RightGeek]

Climate activists blocked major intersections in Washington, D.C. early Monday morning in a show of protest ahead of this week's United Nation's climate summit in New York City. More than 60 countries will attend the summit, which begins today, and activists are seeking to pressure U.S. lawmakers and other world leaders to create legislation that will address climate change.

The protest, called Shut Down DC, is loosely associated with the Metro D.C. chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and Black Lives Matter D.C. According to Reuters, nearly 1,150 people had signed up for the protests on a dedicated web site by Sunday night.

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The protests in Washington, D.C. were scheduled to take place on Monday in Farragut Square, Columbus Circle, Folger Park, and Hancock Park. Protesters blocked several major thoroughfares in the nation's capital and some chained themselves to a sailboat at the intersection of 16th and K Streets, WUSA reported.

[RightGeek]

All the usual suspects who don't work for a living.

[Red Badger]

Traffic on DC is gridlocked most weekdays...........so no one will notice.................😉

[Zathras]

A shut down DC is a bad thing?

[JonPreston]

Nothing gets me to reconsider my assumptions like street demonstrations by Democratic Socialists of America and Black Lives Matter.

[wastoute]

Here is a great “Social Engineering” Project. See if we can’t get them to disable the cities they live in permanently.

[cgbg]

Freaks are always hanging out on street-corners in DC, so nobody will notice!

[Lurkinanloomin]

I’d like to see the legislation that controls the Sun.

That’s the only way to address climate change since the Sun is what controls the climate.

[gimme1ibertee]

A George Soros enterprise.

[kingu]

They’ll be back out there Nov 4th, 2020, likely shutting the city down in the WAHH, WE LOST protest.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Every picture I have seen of the blocked traffic shows police doing nothing to clear the blockade.

I think if I was a motorist and was blocked I would roll right up to them and lay on the car horn non-stop.

[butlerweave]

60 countries and most of them are only there to get a cut of the what is it now $2.5 Trillion they expect the West to fork over

[Hatteras]

...looks like a bunch of privileged high school kids from Potomac

[newfreep]

Dinesh D'Souza@DineshDSouza:

"Children—notably Nordic white girls with braids and red cheeks—were often used in Nazi propaganda. An old Goebbels technique! Looks like today’s progressive Left is still learning its game from an earlier Left in the 1930s"

[matt04]

So instead of free-flowing but slow traffic, These idiots gridlock traffic causing excessive amounts of idling and rerouting burning more fuel in the process. No one ever said this idiot protesters were smart.

[chrisser]

What I find most ironic about these road-blocking protests, is that, if the protestors actually had jobs and worked like the people who they're supposedly trying to influence, they would realize that their antics royally tick people off that are try to get to work. It pretty much kills your message to that audience, even if the message has validity. Blocking traffic is essentially a poison pill.

But since most of these protestors don't have jobs, they're going to continue to shoot themselves in the collective feet with stupidity.

[subterfuge]

You are correct. The POLICE shut down the intersection on orders from the deep state.

[Yogafist]

Someone needs to join that crowd with a pro life banner. Cops would shut that down fast.

[outofsalt]

Great short video answers the climate kids!
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/09/21/so-much-this-australian-broadcaster-shares-a-harsh-reality-check-for-climatestrike-students-ouch-video/

[outofsalt]

Is that David Hogg, with his fist in the air, towards the background?

[DarthVader]

Another group of NWO terrorists.