15 people of all ages, were arrested this morning while obstructing Representative Boucher ’s (D-VA) office. Rick Boucher is the second largest recipient of coal money in congress (preceded only by fellow Democrat and Energy and Resources committee member John Dingell from Michigan) and many of his constituents are getting fed up with him for voting in favor of King Coal and against the economic well-being of his district. This action was the latest chapter in an escalating series of attempts by Virginia Tech students to meet with their legislator about the climate crisis, all attempts that were blatantly ignored by his scheduler. Instead of listening to his constituents, Rick Boucher has been busy  meeting with coal lobbyists and negotiated behind closed doors to weaken the American Clean Energy and 

After spending 4 months waiting for a response from Boucher’s scheduler, our friends at the Chesapeake Climate Action Network decided it was time to turn it up a notch and organized an incredibly inspiring sit-in to obstruct Rick Boucher’s office due to his own obstruction of working-class and climate friendly legislation. Check out this video and pictures after the gap:

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