Protesting the Dirtiest Energy Source - Tar Sands, the Dirty Keystone XL pipeline that has already destroyed communities and promises to destroy more of the environment because the Corporate Polluters don't care, these great heroes were arrested to protect our future.
48 Arrested at Keystone Pipeline Protest as Sierra Club Lifts 120-Year Ban on Civil Disobedience
Forty-eight people, including civil rights
leader Julian Bond and NASA climate scientist James Hansen, were arrested
Wednesday in front of the White House as part of an ongoing protest calling on
the Obama administration to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The
action came before a rally planned for Sunday on Washington's National Mall,
which organizers have dubbed "the largest climate rally in history." We speak to
Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, who was arrested in the first act
of civil disobedience in the organization's 120-year history. Watch/Listen/Read
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"We Need To Push Him": Actress Daryl Hannah Arrested While Urging Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline
For the
second time in six months, actress Daryl Hannah has been jailed for protesting
the Keystone XL oil pipeline. In October, she was arrested in Texas. On
Wednesday, she and 47 others were arrested outside the White House. "It's
incumbent upon us, upon citizens, to show up and stand up and take action,"
Hannah says. Watch/Listen/Read
These Pictures May Give You Nightmares About The Canada Oil Sands
Wolves fall prey to Canada's rapacious tar sands business Birds Die Slow Death in Tar Sands Sludge Yesterday, reports surfaced that birds landed in the toxic sludge-filled lakes that surround the tar sands mines in northern Alberta. Over 120 birds had to be euthanized because they were covered in oily sludge and were suffering a slow death. 
Oiled tar sands duck from blogspot.com
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