Howdy neighbor,
It’s gonna be a long, hot, beautiful summer.
This morning, ten people with Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance were arrested blockading the construction of a Keystone XL pump station in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, dozens with the Detroit Coalition Against Tar Sands stopped dump trucks in their tracks from adding to a massive mound of toxic petcoke, a byproduct of tar sands mining, that’s piling up along the Detroit River. And in Marshall, Michigan, a brave activist climbed into a segment of an Enbridge pipeline to
protest the pipeline giant’s failed clean-up of the biggest tar sands
spill in U.S. history in Kalamazoo, MI -- and its plans to expand
construction on the very pipeline that spilled.
And that’s just the beginning.
Fearless Summer, a coalition of over 50 grassroots
organizations, including Tar Sands Blockade, today launched a Week of
Action to step up the fight against the pathological extreme energy
industry and its deliberate destruction of our communities and the
climate we depend on for survival.
The extreme energy industry would rather our movement remain
disparate and siloed in our individual issues. But our struggle is one. We
recognize that our fight in Texas is being fought all across the
country -- in every community facing resource extraction -- so we are
coming together as a movement to fight back together.
We
know that fracked gas is not better than coal; uranium mining for
future nuclear waste endangers everyone; and tar sands exploitation is
poised to take every bad idea in recent years, mix them together in a
toxic slurry, then allow corporations to pump it through our homes
without permission or disclosure.
The
solstice has passed; the nights grow longer daily. As the daylight
wanes, Fearless Summer moves to light the way to a future where we
refuse to trade one community's suffering for another. We act in
solidarity with all of the escalating calls to action within and beyond
our Fearless Summer network like Sovereignty Summer, Summer Heat, Pledge
to Resist, and Our Power Campaign.
In Solidarity,
Murtaza Nek
Tar Sands Blockade
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