Sallie Dean Shatz

Power Shift 2009, Washington DC. Students from across the country assemble to march on and protest outside the coal fired power plant that supplied Capitol Hill with power. Activists were led by writer Wendell Berry, NASA scientist Jim Hansen, Terry Tempest Williams, writer/activist Bill McKibbben, actress Daryl Hannah and others in an act of civil disobedience, the 1st large scale action. Kent Boardman from Salt Lake City celebrates after the end of the protest which shut down the coal fired power plant. : Tim DeChristopher : Sallie Dean Shatz

Power Shift 2009, Washington DC. Students from across the country assemble to march on and protest outside the coal fired power plant that supplied Capitol Hill with power. Activists were led by writer Wendell Berry, NASA scientist Jim Hansen, Terry Tempest Williams, writer/activist Bill McKibbben, actress Daryl Hannah and others in an act of civil disobedience, the 1st large scale action. Kent Boardman from Salt Lake City celebrates after the end of the protest which shut down the coal fired power plant.