PEPCO,Cat, Monsanto offices RAIDED by Funk the Warming

On Jan 2009, Funk the Warming, featuring DC SDS and Rising Tide DC, stormed the offices of PEPCO(aka PEPCOAL),Caterpiller, and Monsanto, to deliver "fossil eggs" about the size of soccer balls. Additional deliveries took place outside The US Chamber of Commerce, Shell and the building housing Xe(Blackwater) and Chevron.

At Pepco and Monsanto, cops drew billy clubs against protesters in a futile attempt to defend the "fossil hawks" from Funk the Warming. All the entry teams ended up being grabbed and physically thrown out of the buildings, though nobody was arrested.

In effect, protesters raided the "Fossil Hawks" instead of their security forces raiding protesters!

PEPCO, which sources half it's electricity from coal, much of it mountaintop removal coal,was a particularily good target, given that treesitters are currently keeping Massey's Beetree Surface Mine shut down in West Virginia.

The "fossil eggs" were an amusing followup to the "melted glaciers" delivered to another list of corporate targets back in November.

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• MTR
• mountaintop removal
• PEPCO
• Caterpillar
• Monsanto
• Monsatan