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All right. it was the last week of july in portland, oregon. high over the famous willamette river. environmental protesters were hanging out under the st. john's bridge. they had rappelled over the side of that bridge. they were hanging there like trapeze artists. and they were doing that so they could try to stop a giant icebreaker run by shell oil from leaving port and heading to the alaskan arctic to drill for oil. this wasn't the first time they'd put themselves between a shell vessel and its destination. back in april as shell moved a drilling rig across the pacific heading for its arcti...

All right. it was the last week of july in portland, oregon. high over the famous willamette river. environmental protesters were hanging out under the st. john's bridge. they had rappelled over the side of that bridge. they were hanging there like trapeze artists. and they were doing that so they could try to stop a giant icebreaker run by shell oil from leaving port and heading to the alaskan arctic to drill for oil. this wasn't the first time they'd put themselves between a shell vessel and its destination. back in april as shell moved a drilling rig across the pacific heading for its arcti...

That means they have to pass under lots of bridges look the way, including this bridge right here, which we've marked on the map called the st. john's bridge. what happens happen too long is on that bridge or more specifically underneath it. it started this weekend, which this ship right here pulled into portland under the cover of darkness, you see the lights gleaming in the darkness there. that's a shell oil icebreaking. it's key to shell's efforts to try to drill the arctic for oil this summer. this is an icebreaking ship. it breaks ice, but it also holds something called the capping stack,...

Wide stretch, and it passed up one drawbridge i think it's a railroad drawbridge passing without incident but the next stop is the st. john's bridge started slowly approaches, where all those activists got suspended. it got closer and closer see the activists and this giant icebreaker just stopped. the activists were suspended underneath that bridge. at one point there was another commercial vessel a barge they let cross underneath them but as the "fenni counter. a" approached they stood their ground basically dards the "fennica" to come through them. all think kayaks as well. became a tense s...