On Friday, September 2, 2011, as I stood with 160 or more climate activists in front of the White House, I was arrested, handcuffed and placed in a police van with twelve other activists.  The people waiting for their turn to be cuffed clapped and cheered as each of us was led from our place in front of the White House to an area where we were frisked and photographed.  Supporters in Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue from us chimed in, "Thank you.  Stop the pipeline."  We received training in peaceful civil disobedience from The Ruckus Society the evening before at a DC church.  Our trainers were professionals and I learned more than I ever dreamed I would about civil disobedience.  I had always thought my reading of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience made me an expert in the area.  The training kept us from performing inadvertent actions that could have detracted from our mission.  We had a great vegan meal and some of us slept in the church over night.