Peaceful Protest Over Tar Sands Takes a Violent Turn in Burlington VT
<div class='node-body'><p>A Sunday tar sands protest in Burlington, Vermont turned violent when riot police shot protesters with pepper spray and rubber bullets.</p>
<p>Hundreds of activists were demonstrating against a proposed tar sands oil pipeline that would extend across northern New England gathered at the Burlington Hilton where the 36th annual conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers was being held.</p>
<p>Protesters created a "human oil spill" over the possibility that tar sands oil from western Canada might be shipped across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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