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RandySF

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Mon Feb 25, 2019, 04:44 PM Feb 2019

At least Feinstein showed. Dozens of climate protesters storm McConnell's office over Green New Deal

More than 100 youth climate protesters entered Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) office Monday to advocate for the “Green New Deal" and challenge McConnell's plan to fast-track a vote on the resolution in the Senate.

The youth climate advocates, members of the national climate group The Sunrise Movement, were seen overflowing from McConnell’s office into the stairwell in the Russell Senate Office Building Monday morning.

Protesters inside his office held up a sign that read, “Mitch, Look Us In The Eyes.”

“I am here because people in my community don’t have jobs, are starving and turning to opiods [sic] and dying. Mitch McConnell refuses to do anything about,” said 15-year-old Kentucky high school student Lily Gardner, according to a press release from Sunrise Movement.

Within hours of the protests taking place, several members of the group could be seen being escorted out of the office in handcuffs by Capitol Police.




https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/431430-dozens-of-climate-protesters-storm-mcconnells-office-over-green

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At least Feinstein showed. Dozens of climate protesters storm McConnell's office over Green New Deal (Original Post) RandySF Feb 2019 OP
Feinstein didn't just speak, she met with them. manor321 Feb 2019 #1
"The Problem is Republicans." java108 Feb 2019 #2
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