Climate Defiance Saturday evening blocked the entrance to the Washington Correspondents’ Dinner in a bid to bring their message to President Biden — #EndFossilFuels. The President is being called out for his approval of the ConocoPhillips Willow project in Alaska. The federally owned land on Alaska’s north slope is estimated to hold nearly 600 million barrels of oil.
Biden entered the dinner through a separate entrance, while many guests had to abandon their cars and walk through the protestors to attend the yearly gathering. The two members of the Tennessee legislature who were reinstated after being voted out for activism joined the demonstrators. Many celebrities attending the dinner expressed their support for ending fossil fuels.
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