San Francisco Mission District activist, youth worker and muralist Nancy Pili Hernandez is one of seven protesters who were arrested on Wednesday after climbing a 270-foot crane in the nation’s capital as an act of peaceful defiance against the country’s new administration.
“We are hoping that people are looking up today and seeing that the resistance is strong, although the opposition in front of us seems to be adamant about dividing the people of this country,” Pili Hernandez said in a video of the action.
Strapped in harnesses and bound together by ropes, the “string of activists” spent some 14 hours dangling against a clear blue sky with a view of the White House, where President Donald Trump issued executive orders to restart two controversial pipeline projects and to stall environmental policy.
The protesters are associated with the environmental group Greenpeace and made national headlines after unfurling a 75-foot banner above a construction site that in bold handwritten letters said “Resist” -- a message for President Trump that they hoped would resonate in communities across the country.
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