Top image: © Greenpeace USA. 

At 4am on Wednesday morning, seven environmental activists climbed a 300-foot crane near the White House in a protest against the policies of President Trump, according to Greenpeace. Once they reached the top, they unfolded an enormous orange and yellow 70 by 35-foot banner that read; “RESIST”.

In a statement to the New York Times, Travis Nichols, a spokesman for Greenpeace, the environmental advocacy organisation for which the activists were volunteering, said the protesters were there “to resist the environmental, economic and racial injustice that Trump and his administration have already laid out and put into practice.”

After just one week in office, Donald Trump’s administration has instructed officials at the Environmental Protection Agency to freeze grants and contracts, and, according to Reuters, ordered the agency to remove the climate change page from its website. Trump also sharply revived the Keystone and Dakota Access pipeline projects that were rejected by Barack Obama and have been the subject of severe protests by environmental activists.

The crane, owned by construction subcontractors Miller and Long D.C., is stationed at a construction site three blocks north of the White House.