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Individual admissions officials took to Twitter to let students know that joining such demonstrations wouldn't "affect their college acceptance decisions."

Donald Blakney is the third counter-protester to be arrested and charged for events connected to the rally. All three of these individuals are black, and all three were attacked at the rally.

“This latest attempt by Big Oil to silence dissent is no surprise.”

Together, we can build popular power that will effectively challenge the elite power holders.

There is a lot for us to do, and unless we have public space, we can’t do the work of building a different kind of society and a different kind of world.

This is how rallies grow into movements and create social change.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

“We, as a society and as a whole, have to respond to the climate crisis.”

The protest says the BLM has violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act by failing to analyze the risks of drilling for oil and fracking with dangerous chemicals on such a massive scale.

Even in the face of massive wealth and political influence, protest has the ability to change the conversation, to educate the public, change facts on the ground, and mobilize opposition.