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LEAVE THE TAR SANDS IN THE GROUND: Creative Commons 2011, by jerusha (harriet korim arnoldi, BMI). Written for the occasion of getting arrested on jerusha’s 65th b’day and NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION We, the Tar Sands Blockade and associated individuals, committ to this pledge of nonviolence and solidarity. With respect for our community, our opposition, and ourselves, we affirm that we will engage in nonviolent, community building tactics. With a need for professionalism, all participants will be well-trained and abide by our code of conduct. HOUSTON – TAR SANDS BLOCKADE November 29 – Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey Launch Sustained Hunger Strike with Blockade at Valero Refinery in Houston. December 19 – Diane’s daughter, Santanna, joins hunger strike in solidarity! Mother of twins is on her 4th day without food. December 27 – Manchester Community Puts New Demands on Valero, Hunger Strike Marks29 Days.
PROTECT THE SACRED FROM TAR SANDS AND KEYSTONE XL TREATY Several Tar Sands Blockade members were honored to be present at the Protect the Sacred Conference from Tar Sands in Pickstown, South Dakota on Yankton homelands. At the conference the 150th anniversary of the peace treaty between the Ihanktonwan, Ponca, Pawnee Nations, and witnessed by the United States Government was commemorated andreaffirmed.
THE PEOPLE’S EMINENT DOMAIN: TAR SANDS BLOCKADE CONDEMNS Houston, TX – Saturday, September 21st, 5:30pm – This evening, Houston residents and activists with Tar Sands Blockade have condemned the property of Keystone XL Project Director Les Cherwenuk with the power of the People’s Eminent Domain. “I’m here to stand with all the other Texas landowners whose land has been stolen by Les Cherwenuk and the Keystone XL pipeline,” said Jerry MOCCASINS ON THE GROUND TO PROTECT SACRED WATER There is a tarsands oil pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, planned by TransCanada, Inc. that will pierce through our Treaty Territory, or, if you go by American records, parts of THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT NEEDS TO STOP ‘WINNING’ Cross posted from Huffington Post — Guest post by Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas. As a child my favorite chore was hand-pumping water from the thirty-foot well on our family homestead. The pump was shiny black and the water ice-cold. DIANE WILSON’S HARRIS COUNTY JAIL RECORD The Harris County Jail system makes it nearly impossible to keep track of your loved ones. The Texas Jail Project, of which Diane Wilson is a co-founder, has reported that the DA often calls them to help them locate people behind bars. PROTESTERS SURROUNDING PIPELINE HQ SAY “NOOO KXXXL Protesters Surrounding Pipeline HQ Say “Nooo KXXXL Pipeline!”. September 19, 2014. September 19, 2014. Houston, TX – Downtown Houston was total mayhem this afternoon* at the U.S. headquarters of Canada-based pipeline giant Enbridge. When this reporter arrived, the scene was highly congested; nearly a hundred Houstonians protestingthe
WHO WE ARE – TAR SANDS BLOCKADE The Tar Sands Blockade is an open invitation for people across North America to join a peaceful direct action campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. We stand with people of all backgrounds who are fighting to save their homes, land and our planet from destruction by tar sands pumped by TransCanada. Tar Sands Blockade is coordinatingSONGS AND CHANTS!
LEAVE THE TAR SANDS IN THE GROUND: Creative Commons 2011, by jerusha (harriet korim arnoldi, BMI). Written for the occasion of getting arrested on jerusha’s 65th b’day and NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION We, the Tar Sands Blockade and associated individuals, committ to this pledge of nonviolence and solidarity. With respect for our community, our opposition, and ourselves, we affirm that we will engage in nonviolent, community building tactics. With a need for professionalism, all participants will be well-trained and abide by our code of conduct. HOUSTON – TAR SANDS BLOCKADE November 29 – Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey Launch Sustained Hunger Strike with Blockade at Valero Refinery in Houston. December 19 – Diane’s daughter, Santanna, joins hunger strike in solidarity! Mother of twins is on her 4th day without food. December 27 – Manchester Community Puts New Demands on Valero, Hunger Strike Marks29 Days.
PROTECT THE SACRED FROM TAR SANDS AND KEYSTONE XL TREATY Several Tar Sands Blockade members were honored to be present at the Protect the Sacred Conference from Tar Sands in Pickstown, South Dakota on Yankton homelands. At the conference the 150th anniversary of the peace treaty between the Ihanktonwan, Ponca, Pawnee Nations, and witnessed by the United States Government was commemorated andreaffirmed.
THE PEOPLE’S EMINENT DOMAIN: TAR SANDS BLOCKADE CONDEMNS Houston, TX – Saturday, September 21st, 5:30pm – This evening, Houston residents and activists with Tar Sands Blockade have condemned the property of Keystone XL Project Director Les Cherwenuk with the power of the People’s Eminent Domain. “I’m here to stand with all the other Texas landowners whose land has been stolen by Les Cherwenuk and the Keystone XL pipeline,” said Jerry MOCCASINS ON THE GROUND TO PROTECT SACRED WATER There is a tarsands oil pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, planned by TransCanada, Inc. that will pierce through our Treaty Territory, or, if you go by American records, parts of THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT NEEDS TO STOP ‘WINNING’ Cross posted from Huffington Post — Guest post by Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas. As a child my favorite chore was hand-pumping water from the thirty-foot well on our family homestead. The pump was shiny black and the water ice-cold. DIANE WILSON’S HARRIS COUNTY JAIL RECORD The Harris County Jail system makes it nearly impossible to keep track of your loved ones. The Texas Jail Project, of which Diane Wilson is a co-founder, has reported that the DA often calls them to help them locate people behind bars. PROTESTERS SURROUNDING PIPELINE HQ SAY “NOOO KXXXL Protesters Surrounding Pipeline HQ Say “Nooo KXXXL Pipeline!”. September 19, 2014. September 19, 2014. Houston, TX – Downtown Houston was total mayhem this afternoon* at the U.S. headquarters of Canada-based pipeline giant Enbridge. When this reporter arrived, the scene was highly congested; nearly a hundred Houstonians protestingthe
PROTECT THE SACRED FROM TAR SANDS AND KEYSTONE XL TREATY Several Tar Sands Blockade members were honored to be present at the Protect the Sacred Conference from Tar Sands in Pickstown, South Dakota on Yankton homelands. At the conference the 150th anniversary of the peace treaty between the Ihanktonwan, Ponca, Pawnee Nations, and witnessed by the United States Government was commemorated andreaffirmed.
MOCCASINS ON THE GROUND TO PROTECT SACRED WATER There is a tarsands oil pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, planned by TransCanada, Inc. that will pierce through our Treaty Territory, or, if you go by American records, parts of THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT NEEDS TO STOP ‘WINNING’ Cross posted from Huffington Post — Guest post by Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas. As a child my favorite chore was hand-pumping water from the thirty-foot well on our family homestead. The pump was shiny black and the water ice-cold.PROMOTIONAL TOOLS
These free tools are for you and your networks’ information about the toxic tar sands and TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. Please distribute these freely. FROM THE TREES: THE WAY BACK HOME (DAY 65) As the tree blockade enters is 65th day TransCanada is bending its pipeline around us. Here is some heartfelt prose and musing sent to us from Cat Ripley who is holding strong in an 80 feet tree. DIANE WILSON & BOB LINDSEY’S BLOGS FROM DAY 11 OF THEIR Bob Lindsey and Diane Wilson on the 11th day of a Sustained Hunger Strike to demand that Valero completely divest from the KXL Pipeline and vacate the Manchester community of Houston that they have been poisoning and exploiting for decades. They are pictured here wearing masks as a display of solidarity with all those who do not have the privilege of having their identity exposed. JERRY PATTERSON DOESN’T SPEAK FOR TEXAS LANDOWNERS (DAY 29 Jerry Patterson, The Texas Land Commissioner, who is in charge of public lands in the state recently wrote an op-ed slamming out-of-state “eco-anarchists” in East Texas attempting to halt TransCanada from building the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. What he didn’t expect was the backlash from all the real Texans who opposed a muli-national corporation seizing Texas propertyfor
TREE BLOCKADE IS UNDER SIEGE (DAY 11) UPDATE: Friday, October 5, 2:00PM: Police Doing Everything They Can To Discourage Blockaders. This afternoon, as a group of blockaders was trying to pull a stash of toilet paper up from the ground into theirblockade.
EIGHT PEOPLE CLIMB TREES AND START INDEFINITE TREE SIT TO Eight People Climb Trees And Start Indefinite Tree Sit to Stop Keystone XL (Day 1) September 24, 2012. September 24, 2012 TWO PEOPLE LOCK THEMSELVES TO KEYSTONE XL MACHINERY TO Two People Lock Themselves to Keystone XL Machinery to Defend Eight People in Tree Blockade (Day 2) September 25, 2012. September 25, 2012SONGS AND CHANTS!
LEAVE THE TAR SANDS IN THE GROUND: Creative Commons 2011, by jerusha (harriet korim arnoldi, BMI). Written for the occasion of getting arrested on jerusha’s 65th b’day and NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION We, the Tar Sands Blockade and associated individuals, committ to this pledge of nonviolence and solidarity. With respect for our community, our opposition, and ourselves, we affirm that we will engage in nonviolent, community building tactics. With a need for professionalism, all participants will be well-trained and abide by our code of conduct. HOUSTON – TAR SANDS BLOCKADEALBERTA TAR SANDSALBERTA TAR SANDS MAPCANADIAN TAR SANDSCANADIAN TAR SANDS MAPTAR SANDS USACANADIAN RAILBLOCKADE
November 29 – Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey Launch Sustained Hunger Strike with Blockade at Valero Refinery in Houston. December 19 – Diane’s daughter, Santanna, joins hunger strike in solidarity! Mother of twins is on her 4th day without food. December 27 – Manchester Community Puts New Demands on Valero, Hunger Strike Marks29 Days.
PROTECT THE SACRED FROM TAR SANDS AND KEYSTONE XL TREATYKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE MAPKEYSTONE PIPELINE MAPKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE NEBRASKAKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE ROUTEKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE SUMMARYXL KEYSTONE PIPELINE Several Tar Sands Blockade members were honored to be present at the Protect the Sacred Conference from Tar Sands in Pickstown, South Dakota on Yankton homelands. At the conference the 150th anniversary of the peace treaty between the Ihanktonwan, Ponca, Pawnee Nations, and witnessed by the United States Government was commemorated andreaffirmed.
SOLIDARITY WITH THE UNIST’OT’EN CLAN TO SAY #NOPIPELINES Last week our northern neighbors of the sovereign Unis’tot’en Clan, located in modern day British Columbia, answered our call for solidarity actions.For years now they have been actively resisting natural gas and tar sands pipelines on their sovereign and uncededterritory.
MOCCASINS ON THE GROUND TO PROTECT SACRED WATER There is a tarsands oil pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, planned by TransCanada, Inc. that will pierce through our Treaty Territory, or, if you go by American records, parts of THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT NEEDS TO STOP ‘WINNING’ Cross posted from Huffington Post — Guest post by Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas. As a child my favorite chore was hand-pumping water from the thirty-foot well on our family homestead. The pump was shiny black and the water ice-cold. THE PEOPLE’S EMINENT DOMAIN: TAR SANDS BLOCKADE CONDEMNS Houston, TX – Saturday, September 21st, 5:30pm – This evening, Houston residents and activists with Tar Sands Blockade have condemned the property of Keystone XL Project Director Les Cherwenuk with the power of the People’s Eminent Domain. “I’m here to stand with all the other Texas landowners whose land has been stolen by Les Cherwenuk and the Keystone XL pipeline,” said Jerry TAR SANDS FREE NORTHEAST ACTIONS AGAINST THE TRAILBREAKER Dear readers, let’s really meet Enbridge Inc., because they’re trying to screw us over again, this time in the U.S. Northeast.Enbridge has announced the revival of a previous plan to transport tar sands oil through the Northeast, a project called Trailbreaker, which would pass through “some of the most important natural and cultural landscapes in eastern Canada and Vermont, NewHampshire
PROTESTERS SURROUNDING PIPELINE HQ SAY “NOOO KXXXL Protesters Surrounding Pipeline HQ Say “Nooo KXXXL Pipeline!”. September 19, 2014. September 19, 2014. Houston, TX – Downtown Houston was total mayhem this afternoon* at the U.S. headquarters of Canada-based pipeline giant Enbridge. When this reporter arrived, the scene was highly congested; nearly a hundred Houstonians protestingthe
SONGS AND CHANTS!
LEAVE THE TAR SANDS IN THE GROUND: Creative Commons 2011, by jerusha (harriet korim arnoldi, BMI). Written for the occasion of getting arrested on jerusha’s 65th b’day and NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION We, the Tar Sands Blockade and associated individuals, committ to this pledge of nonviolence and solidarity. With respect for our community, our opposition, and ourselves, we affirm that we will engage in nonviolent, community building tactics. With a need for professionalism, all participants will be well-trained and abide by our code of conduct. HOUSTON – TAR SANDS BLOCKADEALBERTA TAR SANDSALBERTA TAR SANDS MAPCANADIAN TAR SANDSCANADIAN TAR SANDS MAPTAR SANDS USACANADIAN RAILBLOCKADE
November 29 – Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey Launch Sustained Hunger Strike with Blockade at Valero Refinery in Houston. December 19 – Diane’s daughter, Santanna, joins hunger strike in solidarity! Mother of twins is on her 4th day without food. December 27 – Manchester Community Puts New Demands on Valero, Hunger Strike Marks29 Days.
PROTECT THE SACRED FROM TAR SANDS AND KEYSTONE XL TREATYKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE MAPKEYSTONE PIPELINE MAPKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE NEBRASKAKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE ROUTEKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE SUMMARYXL KEYSTONE PIPELINE Several Tar Sands Blockade members were honored to be present at the Protect the Sacred Conference from Tar Sands in Pickstown, South Dakota on Yankton homelands. At the conference the 150th anniversary of the peace treaty between the Ihanktonwan, Ponca, Pawnee Nations, and witnessed by the United States Government was commemorated andreaffirmed.
SOLIDARITY WITH THE UNIST’OT’EN CLAN TO SAY #NOPIPELINES Last week our northern neighbors of the sovereign Unis’tot’en Clan, located in modern day British Columbia, answered our call for solidarity actions.For years now they have been actively resisting natural gas and tar sands pipelines on their sovereign and uncededterritory.
MOCCASINS ON THE GROUND TO PROTECT SACRED WATER There is a tarsands oil pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, planned by TransCanada, Inc. that will pierce through our Treaty Territory, or, if you go by American records, parts of THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT NEEDS TO STOP ‘WINNING’ Cross posted from Huffington Post — Guest post by Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas. As a child my favorite chore was hand-pumping water from the thirty-foot well on our family homestead. The pump was shiny black and the water ice-cold. THE PEOPLE’S EMINENT DOMAIN: TAR SANDS BLOCKADE CONDEMNS Houston, TX – Saturday, September 21st, 5:30pm – This evening, Houston residents and activists with Tar Sands Blockade have condemned the property of Keystone XL Project Director Les Cherwenuk with the power of the People’s Eminent Domain. “I’m here to stand with all the other Texas landowners whose land has been stolen by Les Cherwenuk and the Keystone XL pipeline,” said Jerry TAR SANDS FREE NORTHEAST ACTIONS AGAINST THE TRAILBREAKER Dear readers, let’s really meet Enbridge Inc., because they’re trying to screw us over again, this time in the U.S. Northeast.Enbridge has announced the revival of a previous plan to transport tar sands oil through the Northeast, a project called Trailbreaker, which would pass through “some of the most important natural and cultural landscapes in eastern Canada and Vermont, NewHampshire
PROTESTERS SURROUNDING PIPELINE HQ SAY “NOOO KXXXL Protesters Surrounding Pipeline HQ Say “Nooo KXXXL Pipeline!”. September 19, 2014. September 19, 2014. Houston, TX – Downtown Houston was total mayhem this afternoon* at the U.S. headquarters of Canada-based pipeline giant Enbridge. When this reporter arrived, the scene was highly congested; nearly a hundred Houstonians protestingthe
PROTECT THE SACRED FROM TAR SANDS AND KEYSTONE XL TREATY Several Tar Sands Blockade members were honored to be present at the Protect the Sacred Conference from Tar Sands in Pickstown, South Dakota on Yankton homelands. At the conference the 150th anniversary of the peace treaty between the Ihanktonwan, Ponca, Pawnee Nations, and witnessed by the United States Government was commemorated andreaffirmed.
MOCCASINS ON THE GROUND TO PROTECT SACRED WATER There is a tarsands oil pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, planned by TransCanada, Inc. that will pierce through our Treaty Territory, or, if you go by American records, parts of JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED! This week, Tar Sands Blockade delivered over 1,100 public comments telling the Texas Railroad Commission’s Sunset Advisory Commission to end eminent domain for private gain and to stop allowing pipeline companies to call tar sands/dilbit “crude oil.”WHY OPPOSE KXL?
We’ve tried to distill this information in a digestible form by coming up with a simple list of the ten reasons why you should oppose this pipeline project–and join our action to stop it. 1. CLIMATE CHANGE – NASA’s leading climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen has called the Keystone XL pipeline “a fuse to the largest carbon bombon the
TAR SANDS FREE NORTHEAST ACTIONS AGAINST THE TRAILBREAKER Dear readers, let’s really meet Enbridge Inc., because they’re trying to screw us over again, this time in the U.S. Northeast.Enbridge has announced the revival of a previous plan to transport tar sands oil through the Northeast, a project called Trailbreaker, which would pass through “some of the most important natural and cultural landscapes in eastern Canada and Vermont, NewHampshire
WELCOME TO MANCHESTER Tar Sands Blockade has been thinking about the recipients on the end on the Keystone XL pipeline quite a lot lately. To that end, we’ve been visiting the Houston neighborhood of Manchester, which is nestled firmly against the toxic Valero refinery to where much of the tar sands to be carried through TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline will flow to be refined and then exported. TRANSCANADA CAUGHT TRAINING POLICE TO TREAT PEACEFUL In the midst of recent national controversy surrounding government surveillance of the public, a recent Freedom of Information Act request to the Nebraska State Patrol has exposed evidence that TransCanada provided trainings to federal agents and local Nebraska police to suppress nonviolent activists protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline by arresting them on “anti-terrorism statutes.” VIDEO: FIGHTING FOR CUMMINS HILL Our allies working in Pennsylvania have been resisting the Tennessee Pipeline from going through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. This video highlights their struggle as they occupied the road on Cummins Hill to stop workers from clear cutting the trees on theeasement.
JERRY PATTERSON DOESN’T SPEAK FOR TEXAS LANDOWNERS (DAY 29 Jerry Patterson, The Texas Land Commissioner, who is in charge of public lands in the state recently wrote an op-ed slamming out-of-state “eco-anarchists” in East Texas attempting to halt TransCanada from building the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. What he didn’t expect was the backlash from all the real Texans who opposed a muli-national corporation seizing Texas propertyfor
EIGHT PEOPLE CLIMB TREES AND START INDEFINITE TREE SIT TO Eight People Climb Trees And Start Indefinite Tree Sit to Stop Keystone XL (Day 1) September 24, 2012. September 24, 2012SONGS AND CHANTS!
LEAVE THE TAR SANDS IN THE GROUND: Creative Commons 2011, by jerusha (harriet korim arnoldi, BMI). Written for the occasion of getting arrested on jerusha’s 65th b’day and NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION Our Pledge of Solidarity. We, the Tar Sands Blockade and associated individuals, committ to this pledge of nonviolence and solidarity. With respect for our community, our opposition, and ourselves, we affirm that we will engage in nonviolent, community building tactics. HOUSTON – TAR SANDS BLOCKADEALBERTA TAR SANDSALBERTA TAR SANDS MAPCANADIAN TAR SANDSCANADIAN TAR SANDS MAPTAR SANDS USACANADIAN RAILBLOCKADE
It was the Keystone XL that brought us from the woods of East Texas to Houston. Now that we’re here we can see firsthand that the fightagainst tar
THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT NEEDS TO STOP ‘WINNING’ Cross posted from Huffington Post — Guest post by Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas. As a child my favorite chore was hand-pumping water from the thirty-foot well on our family homestead. The pump was shiny black and the water ice-cold. PROTECT THE SACRED FROM TAR SANDS AND KEYSTONE XL TREATYKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE MAPKEYSTONE PIPELINE MAPKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE NEBRASKAKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE ROUTEKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE SUMMARYXL KEYSTONE PIPELINE Several Tar Sands Blockade members were honored to be present at the Protect the Sacred Conference from Tar Sands in Pickstown, South Dakota on Yankton homelands. MOCCASINS ON THE GROUND TO PROTECT SACRED WATER There is a tarsands oil pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, planned by TransCanada, Inc. that will pierce through our Treaty Territory, or, if you go by American records, parts of THE PEOPLE’S EMINENT DOMAIN: TAR SANDS BLOCKADE CONDEMNS Houston, TX – Saturday, September 21st, 5:30pm – This evening, Houston residents and activists with Tar Sands Blockade have condemned the property of Keystone XL Project Director Les Cherwenuk with the power of the People’s Eminent Domain. “I’m here to stand with all the other Texas landowners whose land has been stolen by Les Cherwenuk and the Keystone XL pipeline,” said Jerry TAR SANDS FREE NORTHEAST ACTIONS AGAINST THE TRAILBREAKER Dear readers, let’s really meet Enbridge Inc., because they’re trying to screw us over again, this time in the U.S. Northeast.Enbridge has announced the revival of a previous plan to transport tar sands oil through the Northeast, a project called Trailbreaker, which would pass through “some of the most important natural and cultural landscapes in eastern Canada and Vermont, NewHampshire
PROTESTERS SURROUNDING PIPELINE HQ SAY “NOOO KXXXL Houston, TX – Downtown Houston was total mayhem this afternoon* at the U.S. headquarters of Canada-based pipeline giant Enbridge. When this reporter arrived, the scene was highly congested; nearly a hundred Houstonians protesting the “KXXXL Pipeline” were surrounded by an almost equal number of HPD officers on foot, horseback, bicycle, and Segway™. OUR FRIENDS HAVE BEEN IN JAIL FOR FIVE DAYS. LET’S WRITE Our friends have been in jail for five days. Let’s write them letters of support! December 7, 2012. December 7, 2012SONGS AND CHANTS!
LEAVE THE TAR SANDS IN THE GROUND: Creative Commons 2011, by jerusha (harriet korim arnoldi, BMI). Written for the occasion of getting arrested on jerusha’s 65th b’day and NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION Our Pledge of Solidarity. We, the Tar Sands Blockade and associated individuals, committ to this pledge of nonviolence and solidarity. With respect for our community, our opposition, and ourselves, we affirm that we will engage in nonviolent, community building tactics. HOUSTON – TAR SANDS BLOCKADEALBERTA TAR SANDSALBERTA TAR SANDS MAPCANADIAN TAR SANDSCANADIAN TAR SANDS MAPTAR SANDS USACANADIAN RAILBLOCKADE
It was the Keystone XL that brought us from the woods of East Texas to Houston. Now that we’re here we can see firsthand that the fightagainst tar
THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT NEEDS TO STOP ‘WINNING’ Cross posted from Huffington Post — Guest post by Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas. As a child my favorite chore was hand-pumping water from the thirty-foot well on our family homestead. The pump was shiny black and the water ice-cold. PROTECT THE SACRED FROM TAR SANDS AND KEYSTONE XL TREATYKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE MAPKEYSTONE PIPELINE MAPKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE NEBRASKAKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE ROUTEKEYSTONE XL PIPELINE SUMMARYXL KEYSTONE PIPELINE Several Tar Sands Blockade members were honored to be present at the Protect the Sacred Conference from Tar Sands in Pickstown, South Dakota on Yankton homelands. MOCCASINS ON THE GROUND TO PROTECT SACRED WATER There is a tarsands oil pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, planned by TransCanada, Inc. that will pierce through our Treaty Territory, or, if you go by American records, parts of THE PEOPLE’S EMINENT DOMAIN: TAR SANDS BLOCKADE CONDEMNS Houston, TX – Saturday, September 21st, 5:30pm – This evening, Houston residents and activists with Tar Sands Blockade have condemned the property of Keystone XL Project Director Les Cherwenuk with the power of the People’s Eminent Domain. “I’m here to stand with all the other Texas landowners whose land has been stolen by Les Cherwenuk and the Keystone XL pipeline,” said Jerry TAR SANDS FREE NORTHEAST ACTIONS AGAINST THE TRAILBREAKER Dear readers, let’s really meet Enbridge Inc., because they’re trying to screw us over again, this time in the U.S. Northeast.Enbridge has announced the revival of a previous plan to transport tar sands oil through the Northeast, a project called Trailbreaker, which would pass through “some of the most important natural and cultural landscapes in eastern Canada and Vermont, NewHampshire
PROTESTERS SURROUNDING PIPELINE HQ SAY “NOOO KXXXL Houston, TX – Downtown Houston was total mayhem this afternoon* at the U.S. headquarters of Canada-based pipeline giant Enbridge. When this reporter arrived, the scene was highly congested; nearly a hundred Houstonians protesting the “KXXXL Pipeline” were surrounded by an almost equal number of HPD officers on foot, horseback, bicycle, and Segway™. OUR FRIENDS HAVE BEEN IN JAIL FOR FIVE DAYS. LET’S WRITE Our friends have been in jail for five days. Let’s write them letters of support! December 7, 2012. December 7, 2012 MOCCASINS ON THE GROUND TO PROTECT SACRED WATER There is a tarsands oil pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, planned by TransCanada, Inc. that will pierce through our Treaty Territory, or, if you go by American records, parts of PROTECT THE SACRED FROM TAR SANDS AND KEYSTONE XL TREATY Several Tar Sands Blockade members were honored to be present at the Protect the Sacred Conference from Tar Sands in Pickstown, South Dakota on Yankton homelands. JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED! This week, Tar Sands Blockade delivered over 1,100 public comments telling the Texas Railroad Commission’s Sunset Advisory Commission to end eminent domain for private gain and to stop allowing pipeline companies to call tar sands/dilbit “crude oil.” TAR SANDS FREE NORTHEAST ACTIONS AGAINST THE TRAILBREAKER Dear readers, let’s really meet Enbridge Inc., because they’re trying to screw us over again, this time in the U.S. Northeast.Enbridge has announced the revival of a previous plan to transport tar sands oil through the Northeast, a project called Trailbreaker, which would pass through “some of the most important natural and cultural landscapes in eastern Canada and Vermont, NewHampshire
WHY OPPOSE KXL?
There are myriad reasons to oppose the expansion of the already-existing Keystone system. Tar sands, tar sands pipelines and related issues are vast and complex with literally thousands of reports and articles on the subjects. WELCOME TO MANCHESTER Tar Sands Blockade has been thinking about the recipients on the end on the Keystone XL pipeline quite a lot lately. To that end, we’ve been visiting the Houston neighborhood of Manchester, which is nestled firmly against the toxic Valero refinery to where much of the tar sands to be carried through TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline will flow to be refined and then exported. TRANSCANADA CAUGHT TRAINING POLICE TO TREAT PEACEFUL In the midst of recent national controversy surrounding government surveillance of the public, a recent Freedom of Information Act request to the Nebraska State Patrol has exposed evidence that TransCanada provided trainings to federal agents and local Nebraska police to suppress nonviolent activists protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline by arresting them on “anti-terrorism statutes.” VIDEO: FIGHTING FOR CUMMINS HILL Our allies working in Pennsylvania have been resisting the Tennessee Pipeline from going through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. This video highlights their struggle as they occupied the road on Cummins Hill to stop workers from clear cutting the trees on theeasement.
JERRY PATTERSON DOESN’T SPEAK FOR TEXAS LANDOWNERS (DAY 29 Jerry Patterson, The Texas Land Commissioner, who is in charge of public lands in the state recently wrote an op-ed slamming out-of-state “eco-anarchists” in East Texas attempting to halt TransCanada from building the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. What he didn’t expect was the backlash from all the real Texans who opposed a muli-national corporation seizing Texas propertyfor
EIGHT PEOPLE CLIMB TREES AND START INDEFINITE TREE SIT TO Eight People Climb Trees And Start Indefinite Tree Sit to Stop Keystone XL (Day 1) September 24, 2012. September 24, 2012* __
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TEXAS BLOCKADER SUES POLICE OVER BRUTALIZATION SUFFERED DURINGPEACEFUL PROTEST
On Septmeber 25, 2012 Benjamin and Shannon locked themselves to Keystone XL construction machinery outside Winnsboro, Texas and delayed pipeline construction for most of the day. Police began using aggressive pain compliance tactics when a … BLOCKADIA ON TRIAL: WHAT THE JURY DID NOT HEAR Originally posted on Huffington Post Green On Earth Day, April 22, 2013, I disrupted construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXL Pipeline) and was arrested and charged with several offenses in Atoka County, Oklahoma. 18 … PIPELINE SPILL REACHES ONLY NATURAL LAKE IN TEXAS, DESPITE EPA ANDSUNOCO CLAIMS
On October 13th Sunoco Logistics’ Mid-Valley pipeline leaked at least 4,000 barrels of crude oil into Tete Bayou, a tributary that feeds Caddo Lake. For the last two weeks Sunoco has maintained that nooil …
LANDMARK KEYSTONE XL TRIAL UNDERWAY IN OKLAHOMA UPDATE: 11:30am– The six jurors have been selected! When it comes time to deliberate, only a simple majority (4 of 6) is required to reach a verdict in this case. Court in now in recess … CAN ASTROTURF CAMPAIGNS REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE? Originally published in Free Press Houston on September 22, 2014. By Perry Graham. Yesterday, over 300,000 people gathered in New York City for the People’s Climate March. Organizers for the march billedit as …
BEYOND THE PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH: WHERE WERE YOU DURING THE #FLOOD? This piece was written by a Boston-based group of 13 young people who were arrested in #FloodWallStreet. The Tar Sands Blockade collective did not write this piece, but we believe this is an importantconversation. …
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EXCLUSIVE: NEWLY RELEASED INSPECTION REPORTS ON KEYSTONE XL’S SOUTHERN ROUTE FUEL DOUBT OVER ‘SAFEST PIPELINE EVER BUILT’ CLAIMS* __
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By Julie Dermansky • Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Reposted from DeSmogBlog.com***
Julia Trigg Crawford at a TransCanada construction site across from her farm in Sumner, Texas, on Oct. 14, 2012. She tried to stop TransCanada from taking her land but was unable to prevent the company from using eminent domain. ©2012 Julie Dermansky TransCanada’s claim that the southern route of the Keystone XLPipeline
is the safest pipeline ever built in the in the United States is challenged by the release of new documentation confirming multiplecode violations.
Daily inspection reports on the construction of the pipeline obtained by the Tar Sands Blockade , an activist group, renew questions about the pipeline’s integrity. Mounting evidence that the pipeline was not built to mandated minimum requirements established by the American Petroleum Institute increases the chances the pipeline will leak or experience a catastrophic spill. The reports — prepared by federal regulators with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) — reveal some code violations not previously disclosed. The number of reports also account for less than half the number of days the agency claims it spent inspecting the pipeline while it was being constructed. Last year President Obama denied TransCanada a permit to build the northern route of the Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border. But his administration had fast-tracked the construction of the southern leg of the project in 2012. The Keystone XL’s southern route, renamed the Keystone Gulf Coast Pipeline when the project was split into sections, goes from Cushing, Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast. In Cushing, the pipeline connects to TransCanada’s pipeline network that originates in Alberta, Canada. After mandatory safety tests revealed potential problems with the integrity of the southern pipeline, TransCanada dug up 130 sites and made repairs before the pipeline was permitted to start up. PHMSA noted in its final inspection report that 37 sections of pipe had to be cut out and replaced and many areas of the pipeline’s coating had to be repaired. The Tar Sands Blockade, Public Citizen,
and landowners living along the pipelines path monitored the repair work. They were joined by Evan Vokes, former TransCanada materials engineer-turned-whistleblower, who shared his technical expertise. They requested PHMSA require TransCanada do a new pressure test on the pipeline to test the integrity of the repairs. But PHMSA turned them down at a private meeting held shortly before TransCanada started upthe pipeline.
PHSMA explained that it had faith the repairs were done correctly and assured the group that its inspectors spent over 150 days inspecting the pipeline during construction — overseeing welding, coating, installation, backfilling, testing and all other constructionactivities.
That claim prompted Kathy Redman, a member of the Tar Sands Blockade , to file a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the daily inspection reports. In total 66 reports were released covering 70 days. Of those reports, two recount a PHMSA inspector aborting his mission after being warned that protesters would be at the site he planned to inspect. Another recounts an inspector sitting in on a safety training session with contractors and interviewing personnel. “Inspecting pipeline construction is a boots on the ground activity,” Vokes told DeSmog. “Any time not spent on the pipeline right of way cannot be considered time spent inspectingconstruction.”
Vokes believes it would have been prudent for regulators to spend as much time as possible monitoring the construction of the pipeline. TransCanada has been cited on more than one occasion by regulators in the U.S. and Canada for not complying with construction code. A couple of the company’s latest projects blew up, not long after they started operating, including the Bison Pipeline in Wyoming and the North Central Corridor Loop in Alberta, Canada.
DeSmog asked PHMSA if it had documentation to prove more than 150 days were devoted to inspections. “There would not necessarily be 150 reports for 150 days, and we’ve been trying to find another way to explain that,” an email sent to DeSmog by a PHMSA director stated.** But PHMSA’s final inspection report for the Gulf Coast pipeline states, “Daily reports were submitted by each engineer/inspector to document the daily construction activities observed during the inspections.” It also says that “A total of 165.9 AFO days and 53.35 non-AFO days were spent on the TransCanada construction project.” “The discrepancy in the number of days the agency claims it spent inspecting to the number of daily inspection reports makes me doubt PHMSA’s credibility,” Redman told DeSmog. The reports she did get added to her concern that the pipeline is a disaster waiting tohappen.
The reports include inspectors’ observations of TransCanada violating construction codes. A report dated 10/30/2012 describes a welder who had the wrong welding rods in his bucket. “That is a fundamental fuck-up,” Vokes told DeSmog. “It could explain the high number of welding failures the pipeline suffered.” A welding inspector is required at all construction sites during pipeline installation. Using the wrong welding rods leads to bad welds, and bad welds can lead to slow leaks. “The welder and the welding inspector should have been fired on the spot,” Vokes said. Vokes found it troubling that the inspection report makes no mention of PHMSA’s inspector taking immediate corrective action. He believes stopping construction after discovering the wrong rods in a welder’s bucket would have been an appropriate response. In another PHMSA inspection report, dated 7/09/2013, TransCanada’s pipeline coating problems are noted. At a dig site where the company was assessing issues detected by a safety test, the inspector found damage done to the coating caused by a shovel. Previously released warning letters PHMSA sent to TransCanada reprimand the company for hiring unqualified welders and not protecting the pipeline’s coating during installation. And PHMSA’s final inspection report reveals TransCanada received unsatisfactory marks on welding procedures and installation practices related to the pipeline’sprotective coating.
PHMSA did not fine TransCanada for any of the violations it cited in warning letters or require a second pressure test after TransCanada repaired the pipeline, although it has the regulatory power to do so. A repaired pipeline segment on the Keystone Gulf Coast Pipeline. Source: PHMSA FOIA 2016-0041_000077 ”You can’t expect the pipeline to be safe if the basic rules of construction aren’t followed,” Vokes said. “’Get the bitch in the ditch’ is the best way to describe pipeline construction these days. Speeding up the construction process makes no sense because it is a lot cheaper to do things right in the first place.” Because pipeline regulators in the U.S. and Canada are not using the full force of their regulatory power, Vokes points out, operators have little reason to change their ways. Redman is skeptical she was provided all of the documents she requested. Regardless, the 66 reports she was able to obtain confirm her belief PHSMA didn’t spend an adequate amount of time acting as a watchdog of a company with a questionable safely record. “Anyone who relies on a safe water supply along the pipelines route should be concerned,” she said. PHMSA Daily inspection Reports Obtained by the Tar Sands Blockade in2016
PHMSA Daily inspection Report Obtained by the Tar Sands Blockade in2014
**Ed note: After publication of this article, a PHMSA public affairs specialist emailed DeSmog this statement: “The daily reports are essentially notes the inspector uses to document their observations over the course of the investigation. Our inspectors use them to complete the final construction report and don’t necessarily keep them once the final report is complete.” PERMANENT LINK TO THIS ARTICLE: https://tarsandsblockade.org/dermansky-kxl-inspections-prove-it-sucks/ WHAT ABOUT KEYSTONE SOUTH?* __
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Originally published by Tom Weison Huffington Post
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could feel it in the air during last April’s historic tipiencampment
on the National Mall in Washington, DC, and the feeling is even stronger today: “We’ve got this. Keystone North is not going through.” We cannot let up until Keystone North is vanquished, but all signs continue to point to the president nixing TransCanada’s cross-border permit. The latest flashing sign is a White House promise to vetoa
Keystone pipeline bill just passed by Congress. During his recent State of the Union Address, President Obama did not mention Keystone by name. He didn’t have to. Everyone knew he was talking about Keystone XL’s northern leg when he called on Democrats and Republicans to “set our sights higher than a single oilpipeline.”
He also said “no challenge – no challenge – poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.” For a president so clearly concerned about his climate legacy, he knows that approving Keystone North would destroy it. There’s just one little problem. He already approved Keystone South.
Remember the 485-mile southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline the president gift-wrapped for TransCanada back in 2012? Well, TransCanada completed it about this time last year and has since used it to transport toxic tar sludge all the way from Alberta to Texas. TransCanada’s CEO, RussellGirling, boasted
as much to a reporter last February: > “We just moved the first batch of Canadian oil right through the > whole system from Canada right through the Gulf Coast.” Please let that sink in for a minute. The map above shows why Keystone South (the solid teal line at the bottom, completed in 2014) was an even bigger play for Big Oil than Keystone North (the dotted red line at the top). Linking Keystone South to Keystone 1 (the black line, built in 2010), gave TransCanada what they wanted most: a straight shot from the minefields of “Mordor” to refineries on the Gulf Coast.With 70 percent
of the capacity of Keystone North, Keystone South has the ability – even without Keystone North – to transport more than half a millionbarrels of
toxic tar sludge daily from Canada to Texas. In June of 2013, the president said, “Our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” Last week, the president’s own EPAinformed him the
pipeline would indeed cause a “significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions.” The climate test President Obama set for Keystone applies equally to Keystone North andKeystone South.
As if any more reasons were needed to shut down Keystone South, hereare some:
• TransCanada’s built-to-spill Keystone South now lies buried in the backyards of pipeline fighterslike David Daniel
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Julia Trigg Crawford,
Michael Bishop
and Eleanor Fairchild, where a recent
plague of earthquakesin Texas
and Oklahoma could release its black venom into waterways and the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquiferat any time.
• Keystone South is perpetuating scorched earth extraction of tar sludge in Canada, where First Nations and the Métis are suffering what has been termed a “slow industrial genocide ,” with many peopledying
from cancer caused by industrial heavy metal contamination oftraditional foods.
• Keystone South was ruthlessly rammed through tribal and ancestrallands
in Oklahoma without adequate consultation to protect sacred sites and other tribal interests. • Keystone South’s toxic cargo will be processed in petrochemical refineries across the fence from where children play in Port Arthur and Houston, resulting in even more poison raining down on these communities ofcolor.
It is not enough for President Obama to deny a cross-border permit for Keystone North. If he truly believes the greatest threat facing future generations is global meltdown, he must put forth a real climateaction plan
that includes shutting down Keystone South and all tar sludge pipelines crossing our border, and preventing the industry from establishing a beachhead in Utah’sred rocks country.
As the editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout reminded everyone in 2013: “When Obama approved what is known as the southern leg of the pipeline, the spigot was opened to transport the climate-killing tar sands oil to refineries and ports in Texas.” That spigot mustnow be closed.
Fortunately, President Obama is a smart and accomplished man. What he could figure out how to start, he can figure out how to stop. PERMANENT LINK TO THIS ARTICLE: https://tarsandsblockade.org/what-about-kxlsouth/ TEXAS BLOCKADER SUES POLICE OVER BRUTALIZATION SUFFERED DURINGPEACEFUL PROTEST
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Benjamin and Shannon blockading an excavator in Wood County, Texas. On Septmeber 25, 2012 Benjamin and Shannon locked themselves to Keystone XL construction machinery outside Winnsboro, Texas and delayed pipeline construction for most of the day. Police began using aggressive pain compliance tactics when a senior TransCanada supervisor arrived and actively encouraged it. Torture tactics included sustained chokeholds, violent arm-twisting, pepper spray, and multiple uses of tasers, all while blockaders were in handcuffs. Immediately following a consultation with TransCanada supervisors, law enforcement handcuffed the protesters’ free hands to the excavator in a position behind their backs in stress positions, and then subjected them to repeated torture tactics. Four police officers participated while TransCanada employees stood by and watched. For a long time since this incident Benjamin has been planning to sue the Wood County Sheriff’s Department for their brutal and unlawful behavior, and we are excited that his lawsuit is soon to be filed! Benjamin is in the last phases of raising funds for filing fees and other related expenses. The lawsuit has many parts, but it boils downto 3 basic issues:
* “Pain compliance” should never be used on anyone! * Police should not take marching orders from corporations * Tools need to be used for their intended purpose, not misused as improvised methods of torture “Pain Compliance” is another term for torture. Even at face value, it means “we’re going to hurt you until you do what we say.” This is not how civilized people behave, as anyone who attended Kindergarden should be able to tell you. Second, the police officers in Wood County did not escalate the violence until the agents of Transcanada, a large Canadian corporation, arrived on the scene. Our police officers should not be taking marching orders from corporate middlemen who have no accountability to the general public. Third, tasers are tools for immobilizing someone who poses an immediate threat – not tools for “pain compliance” to convince protesters to stop protesting. Same can be said for pepper spray. IF YOU CAN DONATE TO BENJAMIN’S LEGAL FUNDRAISER, PLEASE CLICK HERE: HTTPS://WWW.INDIEGOGO.COM/PROJECTS/TEXAS-POLICE-BRUTALITY-ON-NOKXL-PROTESTORS-NOT-OKHere
is an account of the events as written by Benjamin in the days following his action in 2012: My faith calls me to express my values through my acts and my relationship with others. I took part in a nonviolent direct action campaign against the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline because these extreme extraction projects always harm those already marginalized the most. I will not allow my inaction to read as consent. That’s why I locked down to halt construction of KXL South and that’s why I’msuing Wood County
for the actions of their police officers. I doubt that my treatment was the first time these officers abused those under their power but hopefully my lawsuit can help make it one of the last. When I remember what happened, I remember the beauty first. The blue sky, the soaring hawk, the oak sapling mangled by the backhoe we’d stopped. That oak was very inspirational to us as we awaited our fate. By surviving TransCanada’s clear-cutting, it symbolized our own plans to weather the forces marshalled against us. It was Tuesday, September the 25th. I was anchored to the back of heavy machinery with someone I’d just met. We’d both travelled to East Texas to help derail TransCanada’s massive tar sands pipeline. Climate change is a global problem, but this terribly destructive project was coming right to our backyard; how could I sit idly by? For years now, TransCanada has been abusing eminent domain to expropriate Texans’ land for their phenomenally wasteful pipeline. Years of political lobbying had led to project delays, but had been insufficient to stop TransCanada from breaking ground. Despite multiple lawsuits, TransCanada was busy clear-cutting forests on disputed land, and so I joined TarSandsBlockade.org — a nonviolent direct action campaign dedicate to stopping the KXL Pipeline. I joined the Tar Sands Blockade for three reasons. One: We hoped to prevent the tar sands carbon bomb from being released, with the goal of preventing catastrophic levels of climate change. Two: As a proud member of Occupy Houston , I felt I had a responsibility to help prevent a multinational company from perverting Texas law so it might misuse eminent domain for its own private gain. Three: A belief, rooted in my Unitarian Universalism, that I have a
duty to assist nonviolent tactics and help demonstrate that they are a successful path to change. Things began calmly enough. Around 10 a.m., a small group of us discovered a backhoe that was working on a path perhaps a thousand feet away from – and rapidly approaching – the trees containing our friends’ aerial blockade.
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had a chance to delay the threat; we took it. At a run, we approached the machine. The driver stopped promptly, and Rain and I attached ourselves to the hydraulic arm at the back with a “lockbox” — in this
case, a steel pipe modified so that we could latch via carabiners onto a center pin. Rain and I had known each other for less than a day, but now I can’t imagine enduring what happened without her. TransCanada’s workers were upset when we locked ourselves onto their machine, but the situation remained verbal and stayed peaceful, if tense, for hours, until around two o’clock in the afternoon. Even after the arrival of the local police, we knew we were still in civilization; one of the TransCanada workers brought us water so quickly and quietly that the officers watching us didn’t evennotice.
When things changed, they changed suddenly and with startlingbrutality.
It started with the arrival of TransCanada’s senior supervisor. The regular employees became scarce as the supervisor called for a huddle with the police. The huddle broke and a phalanx of officers marched on us to announce that we were under arrest. Failing to unlock immediately was resisting, which would result in additional charges and justify the officers’ use of “pain compliance.” I suppose TransCanada had grown tired of waiting. IF YOU CAN DONATE TO BENJAMIN’S LEGAL FUNDRAISER, PLEASE CLICK HERE: HTTPS://WWW.INDIEGOGO.COM/PROJECTS/TEXAS-POLICE-BRUTALITY-ON-NOKXL-PROTESTORS-NOT-OK They started like schoolyard bullies – taunting us while twisting my arm behind me, and jumping on my back to put me in a choke hold. The lieutenant asked, “Is your goal just to go to jail? You can go to jail without the pain; it’s your stubbornness that’s making usdo this.”
I had to stop myself from replying, “I wish this cup would pass meby.”
I didn’t say it because I was sure they would misinterpret it as blasphemously casting myself as Jesus, but I meant it; I wished there was another way to accomplish our goals. I wasn’t looking forward to what my time with the ACLU led me to expect they would do to us. But I don’t believe in giving in to terrorism; to follow one’s moral compass in spite of extreme challenges is the way we move forward. The lieutenant told us he understood – the state had just taken some of his land to build a freeway. I tried to explain that this was different; Transcanada was still in court to see if they even had the right to be there. Even though he admitted that he had never seen anything like this in his twenty-two years of law enforcement, I failed to get through. Before breaking out the pepper spray, the officers handcuffed my unlocked arm to the backhoe. One officer then maneuvered my right arm so the nozzle of the can of pepper spray could be inserted into the lockbox anchoring us to the machine. Pepper spray is designed to be sprayed from a distance so the aerosol can dilute the active ingredients with air. Surprisingly, it didn’t hurt badly at first, and I thought, “Oh, this is like peppers that gradually build up in intensity.” Then they repeated the spray on Rain’s side and I could feel it entering the cuts on my fingers. I realized it would be a slow-building pain, and that’s when I remembered that I had known what to do when your hand is stuck in a pain-box since I’d read Herbert’s _Dune_ as a boy; for ages I silently chanted, “Fear is the mindkiller. Fear is the littledeath.”
It was through a single finger each that Rain and I were linked to each other. The pepper spray made our fingers slippery, and Rain’s fingers were already numb from how our arms were twisted. But compassion only needs a tiny connection to be more powerful thandespair.
In a moment of dark humor, we discovered that we knew to hold our breath when the pepper spray was being dispersed, but the cops didn’t, so it was the aggressors who first felt the effect of it, coughing and choking. We had closed our eyes, sure that they were going to spray us in the face, but we were spared that. The cops were surprised that we didn’t immediately let go, and they tried to joke away the wait. So when one of them said, “But Lieutenant, the pepper spray is expired!” I didn’t believe them at the time. The officers showed me the canister afterwards when we were in custody; it had expired in 2000. While the burn was building, the lieutenant assured the TransCanada supervisor he would buy a whole new crate for us protesters. When the pepper spray failed to produce immediate compliance, they broke out the taser. The police’s announced plan was to taser us repeatedly for increasing intervals until we detached. The older, plainclothes cop calmly explained that he was going to say “taser” three times, then engage for one second in my leg. Each repetition would be for anincreased duration.
“Taser… Taser… Taser…”Pain.
My voice in my head, quoting _V for Vendetta_’s famous torture sequence: “But for three years, I had roses. And apologized to noone.”
One second of intense pain takes you outside of time; nothing existsbut the pain.
A taser is sold as a weapon-tool for halting controlled motion: to make someone stop. While the torture device was on, I was able to remain standing and silent, but the pain was intense. I could not have gathered the concentration required to detach the carabiner even if the pipe hadn’t twisted it out of my grasp. I had a few seconds to clear my head, then he switched to my upper left arm – the arm where they had handcuffed me. It’s hard to describe. The world was pain, and I repeated Valerie’s quote from _V for Vendetta_ to myself as I heard the lieutenant speculate to the TransCanada supervisor that my fat was insulating me, making it harder for the taser to “bite into the meat,” which is why it wasn’t hurting me as much as they were hoping. The pain was fluid, and by the fifth second, my left pectoral muscle was tingling. But like all things, it passed. The pain, like the fear, washed through. The taunting, however, continued.The
officers informed us that I was too “mule-headed” to be chivalrous and spare Rain the pain I had just experienced. When they moved on to torture Rain, the young Wood County deputy who had been selected to taser her was reluctant. He asked if he really had to; he interrupted his count to ask if she was sure she wouldn’t let go. I don’t know what combination of humanity and patriarchal programing was at work, but it was a notable difference from the officer who tortured me. Rain was clearly in more pain from her treatment than I was, and she has a health condition that made sustained tasering significantly more dangerous to her. Rather than have the police continue to dice with our lives, we decided to detach. Throughout our ordeal, Rain and I were able to reassure each other by holding fingers inside our steel pipe; this human contact sustained us while we had to endure each other being tortured. It also allowed us to be sure that the decision to detach was mutual. Due to the earlier twisting of the tube and the effects of the torture, we were unable to untangle ourselves from the restraints without assistance from thecops.
As soon as we were fully in custody, the TransCanada supervisor thanked the Wood County lieutenant for “a job well done.” The lieutenant’s reply? “If this happens again, we’ll just skip to using pepper spray and tasing in the first 10 minutes.”_Benjamin Franklin_
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* 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 MysteriouslyIgnored 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 CanadianConsulate Doors
* Residents of Houston’s Toxic East End Speak Out* (+)March(15)
* Massive Spill from Train Derailment in MN Confirmed as CarryingToxic 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 OfficeOutside 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 KXLMachinery
* 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 Isabel 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 atCanadian 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* (+)2012 (137)
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* Matt is out of jail! * Manchester Community Puts New Demands on Valero, Hunger StrikeMarks 29 days
* Judge reduces Isabel and Matt's bail, Isabel 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 toDistrict 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- Isabel, 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 SustainedHunger Strike
* Solidarity Letter From Germany * Landowner's Dream of Sustainable Biofuel Farm Destroyed byTransCanada
* Diane Wilson's Harris County Jail Record * Our friends have been in jail for five days. Let's write themletters of support!
* Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey Recount Their Experiences from theHarris County Jail
* Video: Direct Action To Protect Manchester From Valero * Three People Barricade Themselves Inside Keystone XL Pipe To HaltConstruction
* 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 inTar Sands
* Sustained Hunger Strike Launched with Blockade at Valero's HoustonRefinery
* 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 Shadowof Valero
* Solidarity Actions * Our 11 Heroes Have Been Released From Jail * Video: Cherokee County police officer is shunned for pepperspraying 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 (Day46)
* 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 BlockadersPersevere
* Two More Join The Tree Blockade (Day 32) * VIDEO: Solidarity from the Pacific Coast of Canada to the GulfCoast 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'sStory (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 toDefend 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 (Day19)
* Police Paid by TransCanada Detain New York Times Journalists onPrivate 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 ForeverWild” (Day 17)
* Two Freelance Journalists Arrested While Reporting on Tree Blockade(Day16)
* Video: TransCanada Operating Heavy Machinery 20 Feet From TreeBlockader (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" onLandowner'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 AssistingTransCanada (Day 6)
* Heavy Machinery, Police Approaching Tree Blockade (Day 5) * VIDEO: TransCanada Worker Attempts to Drop Tree on PeacefulBlockader (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 StopKeystone 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 Claimsin 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 ForDay
* 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 AcrossTexas 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 XLpipeline
* Seventy Reasons to Be Inspired* (+)July(4)
* URGENT: Help Our Brothers and Sisters in West Virginia. * Texas Landowner Halts TransCanada Surveyors in Their Tracks * Press Release: Tar Sands Blockade Sends President Obama a Message * Putting Our Bodies on the Pipeline* (+)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)
* Join Us in Texas to Stand Against the Keystone XL Pipeline* (+)April(1)
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