Now at Port of Seattle, hundreds of activists blocking entrance to Terminal Five

[Divernan]

Source: Investigative Reporter John Ryan, KUOW Seattle

"I'm now at the Port of Seattle, where hundreds of activists are blocking the entrance to Terminal 5, where Shell's Polar Pioneer drill rig is moored. Here's my NPR story on Saturday's protest. More to come."

Hundreds Of 'Kayaktivists' In Seattle Protest Shell's Arctic Drilling
Seattle will be home port to a large Shell Oil Arctic drilling platform when it's not up in the Arctic Ocean. But the city and many residents aren't happy about it.
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This is a FB post I just received within the past hour from investigative journalist, John Ryan, covering this event for KUOW, Seattle. It included a link to his NPR report on Saturday's protest. NOTE: This is a NEW protest, so kindly don't dump this as not current enough!

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Twitter had some nice pics earlier.

Very happy to see Seattle has retained some of its activist reputation.

[jtuck004]

2. If they had any kind of spine, or brain, millions of millenials would shut down this country, joined

by tens of millions willing and older folks. We are only keeping it going like this for the comfort of a few.

Whether the younger ones can even live in what scraps will be left for them is debatable.

Ironic. They are sitting on their asses, watching this little action, and too empty headed to realize they should be doing the same thing. Instead they are going to work, living at home perhaps, and participating in their own demise. I mean, I know they haven't really built much of anything, but we should thank them for sacrificing what they might have built on, so we could have marble kitchen counters.



Schooling works.

[F4lconF16]

4. Wow, this is a nasty thing to say.

Ageism sucks.

[jtuck004]

6. I'm sure excuses will help them as they stand holding the cinder that is the world they

get.Is too bad, but maybe their kid's kids will learn the lesson their grandparents knew about having to build to survive. Then again, they weren't so schooled as their grandparents, told over and over that someone else has the right answer, and they must acquiesce to them..

Maybe they can run around and call each other names. Your "Ageist" come to mind. So does "Loser". Maybe if they were older they would be less of a pushover, but hey, some people are easy to steal from.

One can hurl names at me all day long, but until someone grows up and stops it, the next generations is being robbed fucking blind. So we get to burn it up, they won't have it. And they just sit there until it's al gone, calling people names. .

Maybe they can go tell an adult, or a teacher or something. Or maybe they will learn being offended gets them not a fucking thing, and mostly nobody cares. (look at how much that generation has lost just in the past 10 years just to keep your housing prices inflated - lol).

It's not my fault that they can't stand up to the bullies we are, nor is it my fault you are burning up their future right along with me.

Don't be a hypocrite, yeah?

[Divernan]

3. Hundreds of "Kayaktivists": "Shell no!"'; bang paddles on their boats

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/18/407619645/hundreds-of-kayaktivists-in-seattle-protest-shells-arctic-drilling?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=environment
(transcript of excerpts from NPR broadcast)

JOHN RYAN, BYLINE: In some ways, this protest was a lot like any other with banners everywhere. Messages included climate justice and Shell, no.

UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: Shell, no.

RYAN: But here's a sound you don't hear at the usual Seattle protest march.

(SOUNDBITE OF PADDLE)

RYAN: That's hundreds of people banging their paddles against their boats. Their kayaks and canoes and paddleboards are densely clustered next to the Polar Pioneer drill rig. It arrived on Thursday.

RYAN: They call themselves kayaktivists. They're concerned about global climate change and the risk of an oil spill in the remote and icy Arctic Ocean. RYAN: They call themselves kayaktivists. They're concerned about global climate change and the risk of an oil spill in the remote and icy Arctic Ocean. Seattle's mayor and the Port of Seattle have said the Polar Pioneer rig doesn't have proper permits to dock here. Shell brought it here anyway. The company plans to keep its rigs in Seattle except during drilling season in the brief Arctic summer. Seattle city councilman Mike O'Brien was out on the water in his little orange kayak. The Polar Pioneer towered above. It's half as tall as the Seattle Space Needle.

RYAN: Shell's contractor has appealed the city's permit ruling. So far, the company has invested about $7 billion looking for oil in the Arctic Ocean. It expects to find decades worth of oil there. Saturday's protest was festive, but protesters vowed to be more confrontational today. They aim to shut down work on the rig with many planning to be arrested. In an email, a Shell spokesman said the company respects the choice to protest. It just asks that protesters do so safely and within the boundaries of the law. For NPR News, I'm John Ryan in Seattle.

[seveneyes]

5. Paddles and boats made from Oil

There's some irony in that.