...it does indeed get worser. You probably have not heard about it as it is not getting too much coverage in the media but there is a protest going on in Washington DC right now. It is well over a thousand people and they are practicing the art of civil disobedience. So far, 381 people have been arrested. What are they demonstrating about? Healthcare? No. The wars? No. Proposed cuts to Medicare and Social Security? No. These brave men and women are trying to stop Obama from ratifying something called the Keystone Tar Sands pipeline. Shut the front door, you say? What the hell is that? It is one of the dirtiest forms of energy that America exports from our neighbors to the North, aye. This pipeline would travel all the way across the US right through to Texas. It is an environmental disaster on so many fronts just waiting to happen. Not only will many of Canada's beautiful forests have to be destroyed to extract this monstrosity, the pipeline will chew up and spit out many of our beautiful natural areas, as well as being a huge bulls-eye for terrorists . There is so much wrong with this, surely our "liberal" hopey changey president could never approve something like this, as the ultimate yay or nay comes from his pen. So we can breath a sigh of relief, he never would, right? RIGHT?
What do you think?
The order giving permission was signed today. I won't go into all of the details. But I will give you the tools to research this issue yourself. Please sign the petition and get others to do it too. Let's spread the word. There are smaller groups in the affected states trying to stop this as well. They need to know that we support them. If you are interested please check out these links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/opinion/tar-sands-and-the-carbon-numbers.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
http://www.nrdc.org/land/forests/fboreal.asp
http://dirtyoilsands.org/thedirt
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/09/obama-and-the-tar-sands-pipeline/
Here are a few of the faces fighting for us:
THANK YOU!!!
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