06 Oct '12, 4pm

[Blog Update] Thirty National & International Groups Call For Support Of the Tar Sands Blockade

[Blog Update] Thirty National & International Groups Call For Support Of the Tar Sands Blockade

In 2011, we saw the Tar Sands Action galvanize environmental and social justice communities in an unprecedented show of unity during the sit-ins in front of the White House. Every day members of Indigenous communities, faith communities, labor communities, anti-mountaintop removal movements, anti-fracking movements and many more stepped forward and put their bodies on the line in solidarity. In the year since, we have witnessed people from the Lakota nation in South Dakota and from Moscow, Idaho putting their bodies in roads and highways blocking large transport trucks carrying oil refining equipment to develop further tar sands extraction. Now, the Tar Sands Blockade has taken the next logical step confronting climate change.

Full article: http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2012/10/06/thirty-national...

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