Obama’s speech brings protesters The majority of the protesters, including Subhashni Raj, protested against hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” – the process of extracting natural gas from underground rock formations. “All of these people here are concerned citizens who are taking this opportunity to show President Obama to be strong on these issues,” said Raj, who studies urban and regional planning. “[Obama talks] about addressing climate change, but you can’t address climate change if you keep saying, ‘Yes’ to oil and gas companies. You can’t.” Read the report By Lisa Khoury in The Spectrum ubspectrum/news/obama-s-speech-brings-protesters-1.3051423 — with Subhashni Raj and Rita Yelda.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:35:39 +0000
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