DeChristopher writes: "This morning, 5 activists have successfully shut down 5 pipelines across the United States delivering tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada in support of the call for International Days of Prayer and Action for Standing Rock. Activists employed manual safety valves, calling on President Obama to use emergency powers to keep the pipelines closed and mobilize for the extraordinary shift away from fossil fuels now required to avert catastrophe."
Tar sands protest. (photo: unknown)
BREAKING: Tar Sands Pipeline Shut Down
12 October 16
his morning, by 7:30 PST, 5 activists have successfully shut down 5 pipelines across the United States deliverying tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada in support of the call for International Days of Prayer and Action for Standing Rock. Activists employed manual safety valves, calling on President Obama to use emergency powers to keep the pipelines closed and mobilize for the extraordinary shift away from fossil fuels now required to avert catastrophe.
192 nations have agreed that average global temperature should not increase 1.5C� above baseline in order to avert climate change cataclysm. This objective cannot be met, and any hope of keeping temperature below even 2.0�C depends on a total ban on new fossil fuel extractions and an immediate end to oil sands and coal use. In the absence of any political leadership or legal mechanisms for accomplishing this, these individuals feel duty bound to halt the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels by personal direct action.
Ken Ward, 59, of Corbette OR said, "There is no plan of action, policy or strategy being advanced now by any political leader or environmental organization playing by the rules that does anything but acquiesce to ruin. Our only hope is to step outside polite conversation and put our bodies in the way. We must shut it down, starting with the most immediate threats -- oil sands fuels and coal."
Emily Johnston, 50, of Seattle WA said, "For years we�ve tried the legal, incremental, reasonable methods, and they haven�t been enough; without a radical shift in our relationship to Earth, all that we love will disappear. My fear of that possibility is far greater than my fear of jail. My love for the beauties of this world is far greater than my love of an easy life."
Annette Klapstein, 64, of Bainbridge Island, WA said "Like mothers everywhere, I act from a deep love that extends to all children and young people, and all living beings on this planet. I have signed hundreds of petitions, testified at dozens of hearings, met with most of my political representatives at every level, to very little avail. I have come to believe that our current economic and political system is a death sentence to life on earth, and that I must do everything in my power to replace these systems with cooperative, just, equitable and love-centered ways of living together. This is my act of love."
Michael Foster, 52 of Seattle WA said, "I am here to generate action that wakes people up to the reality of what we are doing to life as we know it. All of our climate victories are meaningless if we don�t stop extracting oil, coal and gas now."
Leonard Higgins, 64, of Eugene, OR said, "Because of the climate change emergency, because governments and corporations have for decades increased fossil fuel extraction and carbon emissions when instead we must dramatically reduce carbon emissions; I am committed to the moral necessity of participating in nonviolent direct action to protect life."
WHERE. Enbridge line 4 and 67, Leonard, MN; TransCanada�s Keystone pipeline, Walhalla, ND; Spectra Energy�s Express pipeline, Coal Banks Landing, MT; Kinder-Morgan�s Trans-Mountain pipeline, Anacortes, WA.
WHO. Climate Direct Action is Emily Johnson, 50 and Michael Foster, 52, of Seattle, WA, Annette Klapstein, 64, of Bainbridge Island, WA, Ken Ward, 59, of Corbett, OR, and Leonard Higgins, 64, of Eugene, Oregon, with the support of Climate Disobedience Action Fund.
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Europe is all jazzed up over this (I'm in Europe now, and it's madness, truly), as is "The Street," for all the reasons you've pointed out. A call for a referendum gives power to the people...wow... what a novel idea. I can see the headline now:
"Greece: The First REAL Democracy!"
Nan
support assange and wikileaks if u want your gov to be honest with you and allow u to have a say.
http://www.swedenversusassange.com/
The fact that Greece is out spending its ability to repay will not go away with any vote about refinancing - they have to live within their means or go bankrupt and then live within their means.
Just like our politicians never should of replaced actual savings in Social Security with IOU's and papered that fact over by calling the IOU's government securities (Dudes - when these 'securities' mature - exactly where is the money going to come from to make them good?)
Then you are a poor student of history.
The founders knew that democracies always commit suicide by realizing they can vote them selves largess from the public treasury and they do and the whole thing collapses - then a dictatorship is pushed in to play by the same idiots who did not want to take responsibility for them selves when they were a democracy (its the 1% holding us down mannn -- what an ignorant load of crap.)
Whenever the topic is of importance to the 1% oligarchs, it is ALWAYS an inside job here in the land of faux democracy.
Whose faux is it...
I totally agree!
Nan
Robbing Greece is the symbolic, if not actual, death blow they would like to inflict on meaningful Democracy. They want the Greek people to pay more taxes while getting lower wages and in the meantime they should sell off their historical inheritance.
The banks fucked Greece up back 10 years ago when they began insisting on austerity instead of investment. The banks lost money and the people must pay. I hope the righties look at Greece and see the dangers of cutting everything back, of ignoring investing in the future, of putting the onus of recovery on those least able to afford it.
Instead they will just twist the Greek fiasco into a warped validation of their concepts of economics.
When are we going to wake up to the fact that the IMF and banks should not control the world? We followed the IMF bailout/payoff/ austerity model and screwed the pooch--finance execs bought new Porsches and vacationed offshore on our dime, also.
So Greece had the guts to ask the people. Wow, what an amazing and courageous step to take.
>> If Greek voters reject the terms and the nation defaults, it will face far higher borrowing costs [??] in the future
Greece has been a great role model, they have the ability to restructure.
So OB is going there to tell them not to be a Democracy while killing other Dictators and lying to the people in other Countries about Democracy Should be interesting .
Greece hold your own and tell Euro to take their markers and shove them. People of Greece stop and look, are you importing more than you export...Suppor t Made in Greece! That goes for all Countries. Put your Country first...let China et al export to themselves. Keep jobs in your Country. Tell Wall Street to go home. Finance thru Credit Unions let the Banks and Corporate shills play their games amongst themselves.
Review the past, correct it, you will see once you start listening to others, not following what you know, you lose control on your situation.
Democracy is Alive and Well in Greece!!
Glad we found its location, there is hope for us yet