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Youth Activists Plan #OccupyStateDept To Demand Obama Reject Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline | On Thursday evening, a group of youth and environmental activists, led by the Energy Action Coalition, will hold #OccupyStateDept, a sleep-in protest of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project on the steps of the scheduled State Department public hearing on the pipeline being held on Friday. Protesters will gather at the Ronald Reagan Building at 8 pm, including Energy Action Coalition Co-Director Maura Cowley and Indigenous Environmental Network’s Kandi Mossett.