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TX and OK Residents Start New Chapter as KXL South Begins Hazardous Materials Transport Through Region
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January 22, 2014
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January 22, 2014
TX and OK Residents Start New Chapter as KXL South Begins Hazardous Materials Transport Through Region Shoddy KXL South Pipeline Connects Communities United in Opposition to Tar Sands The highly anticipated startup of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has not deterred impacted residents from beginning a new chapter in advocating for the safety and …
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Alabama Residents Draw the Line on Tar Sands on Mobile Bay
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September 21, 2013
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September 21, 2013
***UPDATE 9/21/13 8:30PM – Check out some of the local coverage of today’s march: WKRG CBS 5: Original here: http://www.wkrg.com/story/23493557/protesting-tar-sands-in-mobile FOX 10 – report: http://www.fox10tv.com/news/local/mobile-county/groups-protest-tar-sands-tanker-project *This post is based on MEJACoalition’s press release from today’s march: Press Contacts: Joe Womack, Kim McCuiston, 251-298-7952, mejacoalition@gmail.com Mobile Residents Draw the Line on Tar Sands on Mobile Bay …
Permanent link to this article: https://tarsandsblockade.org/mejacoalition/
Why Riseup.Net is Awesome & You Should Support Them
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September 14, 2013
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September 14, 2013
Tar Sands Blockade has used Riseup.net’s services extensively and we thought we should tell you about our friends at Riseup and their recent efforts and notoriety in the tech world!! Right now, a group of online freedom advocacy organizations from across the Internet and many, many others are launching an initiative to challenge the NSA’s …
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- Owe Aku Sends its Voice to Tar Sands Healing Walk
- No Más Tar Sands! -- Healing Begins at the Source
- Texans Demand Answers for Suspicious Pipeline Shutdown
- Fueling Dissent: Stories from the Fight Against Keystone XL
- Questions Raised About Integrity of Keystone XL's Southern Route After Conditions Added for Northern Leg
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- Are State Officials Withholding Vital Info From the Mayflower Oil Spill?
- The Climate Movement Needs to Stop 'Winning'
- The Aftermath of a Chevron Pipeline Explosion
- 2014 Social Ecology Intensive Seminar in Texas
- Public Citizen Calls on PHMSA, TransCanada to Fix a Broken KXL South
- ‘What’s in the Pipeline?’ Renowned Chemist to Speak at NacSTOP 3rd Anniversary Meeting
- Ill-Prepared: How The Arkansas Department of Health Failed the Victims of the Mayflower Disaster
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- Dozens of Gulf Coast Organizations Draw the Line on Tar Sands
- Rally and Vigil in Dallas Protests Exxon's Negligence in Mayflower Spill
- November 19th Tree-Sit Activists Go to Court
- The People's Eminent Domain: Tar Sands Blockade Condemns Keystone XL Project Director's Home
- Alabama Residents Draw the Line on Tar Sands on Mobile Bay
- Life at the End of the Line -- Drawing the Line on Tar Sands in Houston’s East End
- Rising Tide Philly Draws The Line at TD Bank
- BREAKING: MI CATS Scratch Back at Enbridge
- Why Riseup.Net is Awesome & You Should Support Them
- Spotlight: Ride for the Future
- (+) August (2)
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- ACTION to Stop Tar Sands Mining in Utah!
- TWAC Attacks TransCanada!
- MI-CATS Reports: Activists Block Tar Sands Pipeline
- FBI Investigating Anti-Tar Sands Activists in Seattle, WA
- Legal Support for Wood County Defendants - We Need Your Help!
- Tar Sands Healing Walk
- Fearless Summer Starts Strong: Photos and Stories from the First Two Weeks
- Moccasins on the Ground: It’s About Survival.
- (+) June (13)
- TD Bank Divestment from Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline a Hoax Conducted by Tar Sands Blockade Activists
- Is Barack Obama an Ally of this Movement?
- Reactions to Obama’s Keystone XL Announcement
- BREAKING: Injunction served on Line 9 blockaders, entire camp resisting, 4 locked down
- Lockdowns, Road Blockades, and Pipeline Occupations (oh my!) Fearless Summer Week of Action Is On!
- BREAKING: Swamp Line 9 - a New Blockade to Halt Tar Sands in Enbridge's Line 9 Pipeline
- How Can We Trust You, TransCanada?
- TransCanada Caught Training Police to Treat Peaceful Protestors as “Terrorists”
- Help Put Moccasins on the Ground to Stop Tar Sands
- Climate storms are raging and the dirty energy industry wants your silence.
- Moccasins on the Ground Tour of Resistance Heads to the Cheyenne River Eagle Butte Sioux Reservation
- Fearless Summer week of action June 24-29
- Video: Our Back Is Against the Wall
- (+) May (7)
- Indigenous Activists Living In "Chemical Valley" Disrupt Pro-Tar Sands Conference
- Mountain Justice: Two Actions in One Day!
- TransCanada Reps Kicked Out of Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation
- Fourth Generation Oklahoman Catholic Worker Locks Himself to KXL Machinery
- TransCanada Takes Advantage of Harvard to Prop Up Its Reputation
- Support Womyn and Transgender People Blockading KXL
- Exposed: the Pegasus in Texas
- (+) April (19)
- Two Texans Lock Down to Protect Cross Timbers from Tar Sands
- The “Red River Showdown" Continues! - Blockader Encases Arm in Concrete and Shuts Down Work on KXL
- Activist Locks Himself to Keystone XL Heavy Machinery Launching a “Red River Showdown” Over KXL South
- Video: Stand Tall with Julia
- Two Lifelong Oklahomans Halt Construction of Keystone XL Work Site
- Dispatches From Exxon's Spill Zone, April 11
- Dispatches From Exxon's Spill Zone: The Cover-up Continues
- Oklahoma Grandmother Locks Herself to KXL Heavy Machinery in Solidarity With Affected Arkansas Residents
- Valero Texas Open Struck by Mysterious Spill, Just as Mysteriously Ignored by Valero
- Protect The Sacred: Young Native Organizer Speaks Out About Tar Sands, Line 9, Environmental Racism & Colonialism
- 'Inconvenience' Isn't the Truth
- Dispatches From Exxon’s Spill Zone, Days 3 and 4
- Blockader Disrupts Valero-Sponsored Golf Tournament, Demands Accountability for Manchester
- Dispatches From Exxon's Spill Zone, Day 2
- Moccasins on the Ground Tour of Resistance to Tar Sands Continues
- On Line 9: Solidarity with Indigenous Resistance
- Dispatches From Exxon's Spill Zone
- Tar Sands Protestors in Seattle Chain Themselves To Canadian Consulate Doors
- Residents of Houston’s Toxic East End Speak Out
- (+) March (15)
- Massive Spill from Train Derailment in MN Confirmed as Carrying Toxic Tar Sands
- Activist Climbs Flagpole Outside LyondellBasell, Hangs Banner Denouncing Investment in Tar Sands
- Stop Tar Sands Profiteers Week of Action a Huge Success with 55 Actions Across the Continent!
- Day 8: Over 60 People Blockade Chevron Tar Sands Refinery in Utah -- NYC and DC Call Out TD Bank
- Day 7: Six Arrested for Actions At TransCanada, TD Bank, John Hancock Life Insurance Offices
- Day 6: Twenty Arrested for #NoKXL Actions in Washington, DC - Hundreds March with Idle No More in Seattle
- Day 5: TransCanada Office Shut Down - Big Banks Called Out For Bankrolling Coal & KXL
- Day 4: TD Bank Slammed As Tar Sands Profiteer
- Day 3: Blockades and Bikes From Coast to Coast
- Week of Action Kicks Off With Creativity Across the Country
- Red Lake Chippewa Discover Enbridge Tar Sands Pipelines Through Nation-Owned Land Have No Easement Contracts
- From Texas to Appalachia, Putting Our Bodies on the Line
- Over 100 Hold a "Funeral For Our Future" at TransCanada Office Outside Boston
- Moccasins on the Ground to Protect Sacred Water
- Video: Fighting For Cummins Hill - Stop the Tennessee Pipeline!
- (+) February (16)
- Protestor Locks Himself to Conference Equipment, Disrupts TransCanada Presentation At Oil Industry Gathering
- Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade
- I Went to Washington D.C.
- BREAKING: Appalachia Resist!, Ohio Residents Shut Down a Frack Waste Storage Facility in Ohio with Monopod and Banner Drops
- The Beehive Design Collective shares their latest work, Mesoamerica Resiste, around Texas this week
- Climate Justice Activists in Portland, OR Occupy Exhibit for Tar Sands Profiteer ESCO Corp.
- Voices of Resistance: Four Women Tell Why They're Rallying in D.C.
- 48 Arrested at White House Fence In Opposition to Keystone XL
- Photos of KXL's Life-Threatening Weld Confirm Pipeline Opponents' Fears
- Lifelong Oklahoman Youth Pastor Suspended and Locked to KXL Machinery
- Join the Week of Action to Stop Tar Sands Profiteers, March 16 – 23
- Update from Angelina County
- TSB Unites with Indigenous Leaders from the Achuar & Shuar Tribes to Stop Ecuador's Amazon Oil Auction
- Norman, Oklahoma Resident Elizabeth Leja Locks Her Neck to KXL Machinery in Oklahoma
- Pipe-Sitters Matt and Indigo Conclude Legal Case in Smith County!
- Troublemaker Award
- (+) January (20)
- Blockader Disrupts Oil & Gas Pipeline Conference
- Indigenous Organizers to Hold Round Table Meeting on Tar Sands Resistance and Decolonization
- Protect the Sacred From Tar Sands and Keystone XL Treaty
- Great Plains Coalition Announces March Action Camp
- Idle No More World Day of Action
- Activists Forced to Settle Lawsuit But Will Continue to Fight Keystone XL Pipeline; TransCanada Claimed $5 Million in Damages
- Tar Sands Free Northeast Demonstration in Portland, ME
- Actions Springing Up for a Tar Sands Free Northeast
- Statement of Solidarity with Worldwide Tar Sands Resistance
- Sacred Land : Idle No More Recap & Upcoming Events
- Tar Sands Free Northeast Actions Against the Trailbreaker Project
- Western Mass Takes A Stand
- Bob and Diane Announce End to Hunger Strike on 45th day
- VIDEO: January 3rd Aerial Blockade Continues to Halt Construction!
- Video: Why We Blockade at TransCanada's Houston Offices
- Tar Sands Blockaders Rally In Solidarity With Idle No More at Canadian Consulate
- Oklahomans Rally on KXL Easement Through Indigenous Lands to Say: "No Tar Sands on Stolen Lands!"
- Over 100 People Storm TransCanada Offices in Houston
- Visiting Audrey and Mike in Jail
- Spectacular Aerial Tree Blockade Halts Construction in Solidarity with Idle No More First Nations Movement
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- Matt is out of jail!
- Manchester Community Puts New Demands on Valero, Hunger Strike Marks 29 days
- Judge reduces Indigo and Matt's bail, Indigo free on bond!
- Highway Blockade Near Fort McMurray
- Glen is Out of Jail!
- Justice Delayed is Justice Denied!
- Mike Bishop and Supporters Respond to His Case Being Moved to District Court
- Diane Wilson's daughter, Santanna, joins hunger strike in solidarity! Mother of twins is on her 4th day without food.
- Building Bockadia: Training Camp and Mass Action Logistics and Registration (Jan 3-8)
- No More Eminent Domain For Private Gain!
- Code Pink Sends Statement of Solidarity to Tar Sands Blockade, Diane Wilson & Bob Lindsey
- Join Our Mass Action and Training Camp, Jan. 3-8th
- Community Rallies in Support of Michael Bishop as Legal Ruling Allows KXL Construction to Move Forward on His Land
- Diane Wilson & Bob Lindsey send letter of solidarity to incarcerated Tar Sands Blockaders- Indigo, Matt & Glen
- Judge Halts Construction on Section of KXL!
- Visiting Our Friends in Jail
- The Texas Jail Project sends statement of solidarity to Tar Sands Blockade, Diane Wilson & Bob Lindsey
- Diane Wilson & Bob Lindsey's Blogs from Day 11 of Their Sustained Hunger Strike
- Solidarity Letter From Germany
- Landowner's Dream of Sustainable Biofuel Farm Destroyed by TransCanada
- Diane Wilson's Harris County Jail Record
- Our friends have been in jail for five days. Let's write them letters of support!
- Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey Recount Their Experiences from the Harris County Jail
- Video: Direct Action To Protect Manchester From Valero
- Three People Barricade Themselves Inside Keystone XL Pipe To Halt Construction
- Nacogdoches Community Bike Ride and Teach-In
- Wild Idaho Rising Tide Announces Protests Against Megaloads
- Landowner Announces New Lawsuit at Rally
- (+) November (20)
- Potential Secretary of State Susan Rice Has Millions Invested in Tar Sands
- Sustained Hunger Strike Launched with Blockade at Valero's Houston Refinery
- Solidarity with the Unist'ot'en Clan to Say #NoPipelines!
- From The Trees: The Way Back Home (Day 65)
- Welcome to Manchester, a Houston Neighborhood Living in the Shadow of Valero
- Solidarity Actions
- Our 11 Heroes Have Been Released From Jail
- Video: Cherokee County police officer is shunned for pepper spraying locals.
- 120 People Stop Keystone XL Construction: Four Lock to Machinery, Nacogdoches Student and Two Others Launch New Tree Blockade
- DC Tells Obama to Do the Math and say #NoKXL
- Solidarity Action in NYC - Stop Spectra Pipeline Coalition
- Over 40 Climate Solidarity Actions Launch Worldwide to Defend Our Homes From Dirty Energy and Climate Change
- TransCanada Bulldozes Texas Farmer's Renewable Biofuels Business (Day 51)
- Children Playing Near the Valero Refinery In Houston
- Join the Mass Action to Stop Keystone XL -– Monday, Nov. 19th (Day 48)
- Vermont Stands with Tar Sands Blockade
- Video: Tar Sands Effects on the Houston Refinery Communities (Day 46)
- Is This TransCanada's Idea of a "Good Neighbor"? (Day 45)
- Washington D.C. #NoKXL Solidarity Action - November, 5th 2012
- Green Party Presidential Candidate Resupplies Winnsboro Tree Blockade as New Tree Blockade is Launched
- (+) October (45)
- Green Party Pres. Candidate Dr. Jill Stein Resupplies Winnsboro Tree Blockade as New Tree Blockade is Launched in Sacul, TX (Day 38)
- From The Trees: "Their Police" (Day 37)
- TranScamada Strikes Again (Day 36)
- Why Oppose the Keystone XL?
- From The Trees: A Diary Excerpt From Cat Ripley (Day 35)
- VIDEO: Speaking Truth to Power From the Trees (Day 34)
- Last Night in East Texas We Held a Community Panel
- SLAPPed, Arrested, Deemed Eco-Terrorists: TransCanada Blockaders Persevere
- Two More Join The Tree Blockade (Day 32)
- VIDEO: Solidarity from the Pacific Coast of Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas
- Gulf Coast Oilfield Wife, Mother of 6, Cherri Foytlin Chains Self to Keystone XL Pipeyard Gate
- Tree Blockade Sustains an Entire Month of Resistance!
- Video: Planetary Service Announcement (Day 30)
- Jerry Patterson Doesn't Speak for Texas Landowners (Day 29)
- Re-claiming the Tree Blockade from TransCanada – One Blockader's Story (Day 25)
- TransCanada’s Police Abuse Peaceful Blockader - A First Hand Account of the Arrest (Day 24)
- Over 50 Enter Tree Blockade in Defiance of Police Repression to Defend Tree-Sitters
- Video: TransCanada Denying Food and Water to Peaceful Blockaders (Day 21)
- A Wall Against the Threshold Of Collapse (Day 20)
- We're On the Front Page of the New York Times Online!
- Video: What Its Like on the Ground Defending the Tree Blockade (Day 19)
- Police Paid by TransCanada Detain New York Times Journalists on Private Property
- From the Trees -- A Long Walk to Freedom (Day 18)
- Texas Man Climbs Tree in Nature Preserve to Stop Keystone XL
- Video: Bill McKibben Gives A Shout Out to the Blockade in Austin
- From the Trees: “Forever Wild, Forever Wild, Let it Stay Forever Wild” (Day 17)
- Two Freelance Journalists Arrested While Reporting on Tree Blockade (Day16)
- Video: TransCanada Operating Heavy Machinery 20 Feet From Tree Blockader (Day 15)
- Join Our Direct Action Training Camp (Oct 12-14)
- Dreaming Eighty Feet In The Air (Day 14)
- Tree Blockade Standing Strong Despite Repression (Day 13)
- A Firsthand Account of Shannon's Retroactive Arrest
- Insult to Injury: Shannon Retroactively Arrested for a Felony
- Letter from Supporters on Police Brutality
- An Open Letter From Our Supporters
- Daryl Hannah, 78 year old Landowner Arrested for "Trespassing" on Landowner's Farm
- Tree Blockade Is Under Siege (Day 11)
- Maggie Has Been Arrested After Sitting On a 40 Foot Pole to Delay Keystone XL Clear-Cutting for Two Entire Days
- Five Minutes With A Tree-Sitter
- Video: Eleanor Reacts to TransCanada Destroying Her Land
- Action Video -- Maggie Delaying KXL For Another Day (Day 10)
- Texan Climbs 40 Foot Pole in Path of Keystone XL Clear Cut (Day 9)
- Environmental Justice: Why I Got Arrested to Stop Keystone XL
- Blockader Locks to Underground Capsule to Protect a Family Farm
- Tree Blockade Weathers an Intense Week (Day 8)
- (+) September (21)
- Tar Sands is Going to Poison Our Water
- From The Trees (Day 7)
- VIDEO: The Texas Tree Village
- Keystone XL Destroys David Hightower's Home
- Clear-Cutting Crews Near Tree Blockade -- Sheriff Assisting TransCanada (Day 6)
- Heavy Machinery, Police Approaching Tree Blockade (Day 5)
- VIDEO: TransCanada Worker Attempts to Drop Tree on Peaceful Blockader (Day 4)
- Tree Cutting Machines Within 20 Feet of Nine Blockaders in Trees in Path of Keystone XL (Day 3)
- TransCanada Actively Encouraged Torture Tactics to be Used on Peaceful Protesters (Day 3)
- Two People Lock Themselves to Keystone XL Machinery to Defend Eight People in Tree Blockade (Day 2)
- Eight People Climb Trees And Start Indefinite Tree Sit to Stop Keystone XL (Day 1)
- 5 Blockaders Arrested For Stopping Keystone XL Machinery
- Watch Our Action Packed Video -- Join Our Next Action
- “I just wish they would go away”
- Video: Texas Landowners Resist Keystone XL
- Texas Rice Farmers Challenge TransCanada’s Eminent Domain Claims in Court
- Community Rallies to Defend David Hightower's Home Vineyard
- 3 Blockaders Locked to Equipment Stop Work at Keystone XL Site
- Don't Frack New York Fights Back
- Correcting the Spin: TransCanada's Convenient Untruths
- One Year Later: Tar Sands Action and the Climate Justice Movement
- (+) August (10)
- Seven Arrested for Blocking KXL Pipe Truck -- Halt Site Work For Day
- We Are Ready for Action: Will You Join Us?
- The Time Has Come: A Call to Action
- Why Oppose the Keystone XL Pipeline?
- Standing With Julia: Courts Trample Landowners Rights, Again
- Construction of Keystone XL Begins, Met by Day of Action Across Texas and Oklahoma
- Schlumberger Fracking Shutdown Joins Summer of Solidarity
- Video: Why I'm Joining Tar Sands Blockade
- Tar sands blockade: Grassroots effort to stop reworked Keystone XL pipeline
- Seventy Reasons to Be Inspired
- (+) July (4)
- (+) June (7)
- The Gulf Coast Project: A Tar Sands Pipeline From the Outset
- Landowner Call to Action: Reject TransCanada Surveyors!
- Canadian Video Parodies Tar Sands Giant Enbridge
- Why Liberals and Conservatives Agree on Keystone XL in Texas
- Contaminating What Little Water Texas has Left
- The Tar Sands Pipeline Explained in Under Two Minutes
- What's Next for the Climate Movement?
- (+) May (1)
- (+) April (1)
- (+) December (28)