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Police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists

www.reuters.com Netherlands police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists

Police deployed water cannon to disperse thousands of climate activists protesting on a highway in the Netherlands on Saturday to demand an end to government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.

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The protesters will block this same stretch of road every single day from now until fossil fuel subsidies are ended. Every day, for as long as necessary
- It's mind blowing that our taxes line the pockets of the fossil fuel sociopaths destroying our planet
- Sounds like a reason to build a bridge over them...

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