With the slogan “Love in Action,” climate activists blocked a major commuter route for the nation’s capital and vandalized a case protecting the U.S. Constitution in honor of Valentine’s Day.
Declare Emergency, a climate extremism group, kicked off its February “week of action” Tuesday by blocking the George Washington Memorial Parkway, which runs along the Potomac River just outside Washington.
“Nonviolent civil disobedience is from a place of love and respect for our fellow citizens to include them in this time of pain pending [the] Earth’s climate system collapse that we’re facing,” Declare Emergency spokesperson Tim Martin told The Daily Signal.
Martin said police arrested two Declare Emergency activists, Donald Zepeda and Holliday Adams, for blocking the parkway about 11 a.m. Tuesday near Overlook No. 2 in Arlington, Virginia. The protest…