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Video: Why I’m Joining Tar Sands Blockade
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August 3, 2012
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August 3, 2012
Last weekend 70 inspirational people joined us at the Keystone Convergence training in the heat of East Texas. Watch and share this video of their powerful, personal testimonies of why they are willing to put their bodies on the line.
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