Update 5 March: watch a highlights video from the Capitol Climate Action
Yesterday was a momentous one for the climate movement in the US. Over 2,500 clean energy activists came to Washington DC to participate in the largest act of civil disobedience on global warming in American history. Former coal miners, ministers, mothers and students - all members of Capitol Climate Action - successfully shut all five entrances to the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant, which is used to heat and cool the Capitol building, for over four hours.
See BBC Newsnight's 'ethical man' Justin Rowlatt on his way to DC for the Capitol Climate Action
Capitol Climate Action is sponsored by a national coalition of over 70 conservation, faith-based, social justice and labor groups, reflecting the diversity of people all over America who are increasingly concerned with the negative environmental and public health impacts of coal and global warming.
The crowd heard from the world renowned NASA scientist Dr James Hansen, Robert Kennedy Jr., the poet Wendell Berry and many more committed environmental leaders. You can read all about the day's events here, as well as view the unedited footage from our live streaming video coverage.
