Series: Sans Tar Sands
For as much as the Keystone XL pipeline threatens indigenous communities, it has also connected them for a massive stand of resistance. More
The celebratory energy of Idle No More and its round dances are helping build unity and group power in Utah, where resistance to tar sands mining will soon be needed.More
The story of one small group's participation in this month's historic climate demonstrations is an example of how movements and campaigns can work together to build power for one another.More
Had Bill McKibben and 350.org not put so much effort into creating the perception of a powerful movement, they might never have built one.More
Despite a strategy of ignoring climate change during his first term, President Obama appears ready to make it a top priority. More
What happens when people from the nation’s largest and oldest environmental organization — the kind that sends cute nature calendars to its well-meaning supporters every year — get arrested in front of the White House?More
An article published by CounterPunch yesterday, “Inconvenient Truths about Tar Sands Action,” argues that the grassroots campaign targeting the Keystone XL pipeline was nothing more than “a manipulated charade, funded and run with loads of money from pro-Obama Democrats through non-transparent organizations like the Tides Foundation.” It follows, then, according to the article, that the real goal of Tar Sands Action “was to manufacture Obama a ‘green victory’ during his first term in the run up to the 2012 election.” In short, for those thousands of you who participated in the White House sit-ins or encirclement and became “True Believers in the mission,” you were duped.More
