Four of seven Greenpeace activists will return to the Bay Area next week after they were arrested for scaling a 270-foot crane to hang a massive banner reading “Resist” just blocks from the White House on Wednesday.
The activists unfurled the banner a day after President Donald Trump issued executive orders to restart the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects. The protest also comes after the Trump administration placed new restrictions on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, including a media blackout and a halt on the awarding of new grants and contracts.
The seven environmentalists were arrested on their descent Wednesday night and charged with misdemeanor offenses in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
San Francisco Mission district muralist Nancy Pili Hernandez was among those arrested.
“It was us sending a visual message to not only the new administration that we will not just roll over and accept the injustices we see in front of us, but also to the people who are feeling fear and feeling divided because of this current administration,” Pili Hernandez said on Friday.