Business at the international headquarters of the world's most powerful company ground to a halt on Tuesday as the Greenpeace Global Warming Crimes Unit converged on ExxonMobil's compound in Irving, Texas. The move comes as ExxonMobil's Board of Directors and international executives attempt to gather from across the world for Wednesday's Annual Sharholder's Meeting. There were dozens of activists all around the headquarters: activists dressed as business people on the inside of the building, volunteers in fuzzy tiger costumes wandering the well-manicured lawns, and two teams of tigers locked to large vans at the two entrances to the compound. A total of 35 people were detained by police, and charged with criminal tresspass. Demonstrators were successful in delivering their letter of charges to exxon execs.
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