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WASHINGTON — Robert Kennedy Jr., actress Daryl Hannah and dozens of others were arrested after attaching themselves to the White House gates Wednesday.

The group was protesting the Keystone pipeline, according to website Politico.com.

“This is our lunch counter moment for the 21st century,” the Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. of the Hip Hop Caucus told the crowd of protesters and reporters in Lafayette Square. “This pipeline is our Birmingham.”

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