Activists protest off shore oil drilling near White House

Environmental activists hold a rally to protest offshore drilling for oil with a 50-foot-long banner with the message "President Obama: this is your crude awakening" on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington on May 11, 2010. The protest comes in the wake of British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg