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01-11-2017, 08:32 PM
Climate activists protested Rex Tillerson’s **mination in T. Rex costumes
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With a name like Rex, such a stunt was inevitable.
On Wednesday, environmental activists marched around Washington, D.C., in Tyran**saurus rex suits to show their disdain for Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil and Donald Trump's **minee for secretary of state.
SEE ALSO: Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, climate archvillain, to be named secretary of state (http://mashable.com/2016/12/10/exxon-tillerson-climate-investigation/)
The protest coincides with Tillerson's confirmation hearing held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"We won’t allow our climate diplomacy to be in the hands of a di**saur like Rex Tillerson," May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots environmental group leading Wednesday's march, said in a statement (https://350.org/press-release/rejectrex-tillerson-hearing/). "By tapping Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, Donald Trump is essentially declaring war on our planet and betting against a livable future." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/rex-tillerson-hearing-trex-protests/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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With a name like Rex, such a stunt was inevitable.
On Wednesday, environmental activists marched around Washington, D.C., in Tyran**saurus rex suits to show their disdain for Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil and Donald Trump's **minee for secretary of state.
SEE ALSO: Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, climate archvillain, to be named secretary of state (http://mashable.com/2016/12/10/exxon-tillerson-climate-investigation/)
The protest coincides with Tillerson's confirmation hearing held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"We won’t allow our climate diplomacy to be in the hands of a di**saur like Rex Tillerson," May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots environmental group leading Wednesday's march, said in a statement (https://350.org/press-release/rejectrex-tillerson-hearing/). "By tapping Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, Donald Trump is essentially declaring war on our planet and betting against a livable future." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/rex-tillerson-hearing-trex-protests/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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