Talk:Seattle Arctic drilling protests

A fact from Seattle Arctic drilling protests appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 July 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that when word got out that the Shell Polar Pioneer and other Arctic drilling vessels were coming to Seattle, hundreds of kayaktivists came out to protest? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Seattle Arctic drilling protests.

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The same person who chained herself to the barge in Bellingham was up a tree protesting a Bainbridge Island development in 2014: [1][2]. Also, she is identified as a

The term kayaktivists has been used before this, in Battery Park City Ferry Terminal and Freedom Flotilla II. It appears that the Seattle events served to give it widespread exposre. It's use in these previous stories didn't quite catch fire:

• http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/kayaktivist
• http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2011/07/06/kayaktivists_from_gaza_flotilla_found_guilty_but_released.html

We could mention this somewhere in a footnote--Dennis Bratland (talk) 02:59, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]