Category: Hunger Strike

Video: Protect SacredWater from Tar Sands

This weekend the Moccasins on the Ground Direct Action Training tour on the Lakota homelands traveled to the remote Red Shirt community. Dozens of diverse people from across Turtle Island turned out to deepen their spiritual connection to SacredWater and learn skills in nonviolent direct action, tactical media, and medical training. Owe Aku (Bring Back …

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Bob and Diane Announce End to Hunger Strike on 45th day

On November 29th, 2012 in protest of Valero’s involvement with the KXL pipeline we locked our necks to industrial trucks just outside the Valero refinery. We were arrested and immediately began a hunger strike in solidarity with the struggling people of the community of Manchester. We demanded that Valero not only cease all business with …

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Manchester Community Puts New Demands on Valero, Hunger Strike Marks 29 days

(http://www.scribd.com/doc/117705930/Manchester-Voices-from-a-Fence-Line-Community-Tar-Sands-Blockade) Houston, TX. Thursday 12/27/2012- Manchester residents unify with Tar Sands Blockade, TEJAS (Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services), and hunger strikers Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey, now in their 29th day of a sustained hunger strike to protest Valero’s involvement with the Keystone XL Pipeline and ultimately their presence in this community. Tar Sands Blockaders …

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