Tar Sands Action: Phase One

Part one of the Tar Sands Action was a two week long sit-in at the White House in which 1,253 people were arrested.

For more information visit 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
• Naomi Klein
• Gitz Crazyboy
• Eagle Woman
• Reverend Yearwood
• Jim Hansen

[GOLDENFLYWARRIOR]

SO FUCKED UP THAT WE ARE ARRSTED FOR STANGING UP FOR WHAT IS ETHICAL AND PART OF OUR RIGHTS IN THE BLL OF RIGHTS.....OUR GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT AND OBOMA IS WEAK>>>

[TVACdotCA]

Message from Canada: this pipeline and the dirty Tar Sands Oil is making Canada into a conservative petro-state. It's destroying our environment and our democracy with toxic oil money and the destruction of much of Alberta. Don't let the backwards oil companies win this one. Canada has chosen tax breaks for big oil over investment in the environment, good jobs or education. It's time for a real change -- and it starts with stopping this deadly and destructive pipeline.

[MrAspen55]

CO2 is not the cause of global warming, every planet is warming. Yet that pipeline will cause many more problems than CO2, like polluting ground water

[Skakid789]

I love how people will continue to bitch about not having oil. And when we finally find means of getting oil, people don't want it. OKAY! so lets stay in the middle east and continue to steal their oil, because they don't belong to a type of democracy... right?

[Skakid789]

@GOLDENFLYWARRIOR ...Obama... dumbass

[corncat]

Oil dictatorships in the Middle East, and the terrorists they support, are thanking you for your efforts to keep them in power.

[musesuseus]

I'm so grateful I made it to DC and was able to be part of Phase One-- If you wished you could have been with us, now's your chance -- Oct 7 and Nov 6 --and no arrest required.

[musesuseus]

@siclos Good question. I believe there is a link to at least one clear and informative video at NRDC blog. I'm sure there are more coming. And just yesterday reports of a whistleblower with video proof who came forward to testify about getting fired after he refused a company order to cover up rather than clean up tar sands oil after a big 2010 leak. The Austin hearings today might be interesting, but there's definitely need for more of what you're talking about. .

[jsnvnk]

Thanks for this video and this very powerful action. I am proud to be part of this movement.

[SnickerFizz123]

Asking me to waste my time sitting on the streets of Washington D.C. making myself look retarded? Ahahahaa. You don't even know that we can't afford renewable resources yet. You're all just a bunch of tools. You should have burned with the oil in Iraq in 1991.

[siclos]

Are there any videos about the pipeline that contain actual facts, numbers, and objective data? All I keep finding are videos of people talking about how this is their first time being arrested or whatever. Was hoping to find at least one video with a passionate scientist or engineer who has dedicated their life to green energy innovation and could explain things, but I keep coming across videos meant to provoke emotional responses but are otherwise lacking in substance.

[christophersj]

The era of the high quality demonstration video is here! Congrats!