Protestors Interrupt President Obama's Speech

President Barack Obama is interrupted by protestors while giving remarks in New Hampshire Tuesday. (0:59)

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D.C. Drivers Should Avoid BP, Says Protester Outside Gas Station

Diane Wilson, a shrimper and activist from Texas, blocked the driveway outside a local BP gas station in Washington D.C. Saturday. Wilson told Talk Radio News that she wants drivers to stop using BP gas stations. (0:17)
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BP Needs To Be Hit Economically, Says Protester Outside Gas Station

Diane Wilson, a shrimper and activist from Texas, protested outside a local BP gas station in Washington D.C. Saturday. She tells Talk Radio News that the only way BP will listen is if the protesters are able to affect them economically. (0:18)
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BP Needs To Be Punished, Says Protester Outside Gas Station

Diane Wilson, a shrimper and activist from Texas, tells Talk Radio News during a demonstration outside a BP gas station in Washington D.C. that the protest is just one step of many to get the message about BP that they need to be punished. (0:23)
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Foxx (R-N.C.) to Pelosi (D-Calif.): We are energized!

At the protesting House Republicans' afternoon press conference, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) says that Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) efforts to silence the Republican protest for energy this week has only energized the Republicans' efforts to bring back Congress and force a vote on their American Energy Act. (0:59)
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Pelosi selling her book instead of solving crisis says Gingrich

At a press conference in the Capitol with protesting House Republicans, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) thinks it's a better idea to go on a book tour than bring back Congress to solve the energy crisis. (0:34)
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Monks Protest the Dali Lama in NYC

In the West, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dali Lama, is generally regarded as a religious symbol of peace. Last Thursday, however, His Holiness was subject to a large, non-violent demonstration organized by the Western Shugden Society. As the Dali Lama spoke at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the Western Shugden Society organized several hundred monks to protest His Holiness' support of a particular document. The Dali Lama has encouraged Tibetan monks to sign a document that disavows a daily prayer to the deity Dorje Shugden. The prayer is an affirmation of health and peace, according to the Western Shugden Society. Many within the Society believe that the document could be used as an identity card to track dissidents.

Though the event was largely non-violent, many protesters began spitting and throwing bottles. Between 35 and 40 police officers, including six on horseback, were called in to quell the crowed. Western Shugden Society media representative Shelly Tanner stated that the Dali Lama does not have the right to speak for the Buddhist community. Tanner also claimed that the controversy has split the Buddhist community, and that Tibetans are "quite confused" about supporting the Dali Lama. Previous rallys, said Tanner, had low attendance because many Tibetans 'were scared" of persecution.

The Western Shugden Society has protested the Dali Lama's appearances in Great Britain, Germany, Philadelphia, and Madison.

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Code Pink red with anger

Four women from Code Pink, a group that protests injustice and the Iraq War, discuss their encounter with staff of the House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law and the United States Capitol Police at a hearing in which former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove failed to appear under subpoena. The women were told to remove clothing with political statements and hats under threat of arrest. The women accuse the committee of censorship and say that Rove suffers no consequences for failing to come before Congress while they are threatened with arrest for expressing their right to free speech. (4:12)
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DNC Rules Committee Protesters: Why did you come?

Outside the Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC, protesters and supporters gathered in a crowd as the Democratic National Committee held a hearing to discuss the votes of Michigan and Florida. I asked them, "Why did you come?" (2:03)
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Jeff Mallard, President of D.C. Iraq Veterans Against the War, Discusses Pending Iraqi Oil Law at Protest

While rolling an oil barrel towards the White House, Jeff Mallard, President of the D.C. Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War, describes the Iraqi Oil Law pending in Iraqi Parliament that would give foreign corporations extensive access to Iraqi oil reserves. His organization is taking part in a protest on behalf of Iraqi workers' unions against the law.
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U.S. Labor Against the War's Gene Bruskin Speaks Out Against the Privitazation of the Iraqi Oil Industry by Foreign Investors

U.S. Labor Against the War's Gene Bruskin speaks out against the privatization of the Iraqi oil industry by foreign investors during a press conference and march to commemorate "one year of opposition" to the Iraq Oil Law. (0:44)
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Oil Change International's Trina Zahller Discusses the Bush Administration's Oil Policy In Iraq

Oil Change International's Trina Zahller discusses the Bush Administration's oil policy in Iraq during a U.S. antiwar rally commemorating one year of opposition to the Iraq Oil Law. (1:04)
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