Tar Sands Action: Come Join Us!

A short film capturing first day of 2-weeks of sit-ins at the White House to stop the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. More info:

http://www.tarsandsaction.org/

Video produced by Dahlman Cook Productions

Tar Sands Action was a program of Peaceful Uprising, a project of International Humanities Center a 501(c)(3) Charitable Trust

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Tar Sands Action
• Keystone XL Pipeline
• Bill McKibben
• Gus Speth
• White House
• Obama
• Protest

[flowerdiary]

Wish I could be there in support. You are all heroes!! Thank you from all of us!!! xoxo

[YY4Me133]

I really wish that people would stop using the term "civil disobedience" when referring to the exercise of rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

Amendment 1: "Congress shall make no law prohibiting…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

As far as I'm concerned, the police violate the U.S. Constitution when they arrest peaceful protesters.

[omgwtfbbqstfu]

@stuenva

yea? I'd love to see the green movement actually come out and make this clear, you want to make the first black president of america a one term president based on an empty symbolic green gesture?

[omgwtfbbqstfu]

@CryptWarrior69

Bingo, these folks think buying a prius saves the world. Sorry, the numbers don't add up anymore with a prius than with trying to ban a pipe line, the reason these folks have zero credibility is they ignore the numbers. If you cry about disaster and you have no solutions and you are protesting something that makes basically no difference in the equation, then of course you are going to look like you are crying wolf.

[omgwtfbbqstfu]

I'm sorry, this is a ridiculous issue and shows how out of touch with main stream america these folks have become. Energy runs the world, no alternative of note is currently available, just the truth. If oil prices spike because of instability all our other programs from health to education will take the hit, they already are hurting, so why focus on a pipeline over basically nimby reasons. Oil will be sold, deal with it, you have no solutions, just objections.

[CryptWarrior69]

protesting against something humanity runs on, fucking stupid, fucking hippies, go back to ur trees and have a salad

[masterbawth]

@masterbawth we all need oil, and albertas is the best in the world!

[masterbawth]

LETS SEE YOU PUSH THE CAR 10 FEET! ya lets see you walk a mile in the cars shoes!

[financialtools1]

Pipelines like the KeystoneXL are tricks for the classic organized Big Insurance Scammers: they buy land & homes around+under the pipeline, insure it to the max and then:BOOOOMMM! , this was the case in the classic Millenium Pipeline in NYC, right before 9/11 and where the landlords were also the partners of Silverstein and Goldman from the WTC , luckily Gov.Pataki and Mayor Giuliani got the facts : the pipeline did not have any manual valves to stop the gas : they had build a human grill !

[chrycohauler]

Obviously these people don't have jobs ..who has the time sit all goddamned day holding a stupid sign and displaying your total ignorance of the pipeline.I guess you nitwits want us back in the stone age hunting and gathering in our loincloths.Of course you wouldn't let us cook our hunted game over an open flame because that too would cause global warming. Try as you may..the pipeline will be built and it will keep you lazy bastards from freezing in the dark.

[SnickerFizz123]

Don't forget, you're giving future generations a bad example on wise stewardship of God's creation. Maybe you should just throw down your picket signs and get out of the nation's capital before you get yourself into even more trouble with the feds.