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Many Communities are Uniting against the Heavy Hauls. This weekend in Portland, Indigenous tribes from the Northwest gathered to protest tar sands equipment shipments.

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Many Communities are Uniting against the Heavy Hauls. This weekend in Portland, Indigenous tribes from the Northwest gathered to protest tar sands equipment shipments.


Native Americans gather in Portland to protest oil sands shipments
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Members of tribes from across the Northwest protested Sunday at Kelley Point Park against Imperial Oil’s efforts to move oil-factory modules from South Korea to Alberta, Canada, through the Columbia River and U.S. 12. They say the shipments — and the oil factory they’ll create — are dangerous to t

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Get Some Extraction Action!


Groups to mark Gulf Oil Spill anniversary with direct action against fossil fuel extraction « It’s G
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On April 20th dozens of environmental, climate, and social justice groups will target government and corporate operations with aggressive protests and civil disobedience in an International Day of Direct Action Against Extraction being organized by Rising Tide North America. The protests will co

Groups to mark Gulf Oil Spill anniversary with direct action against fossil fuel extraction.

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March 21, 2011

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Groups to mark Gulf Oil Spill anniversary with direct action against fossil fuel extraction.

On April 20th dozens of environmental, climate, and social justice groups will target government and corporate operations with aggressive protests and civil disobedience in an International Day of Direct Action Against Extraction being organized by Rising Tide North America. The protests will commemorate the 1 year anniversary of BP’s Gulf Oil Disaster by demanding an end to the environmental destruction and climate destabilization created by fossil fuel and other extractive industries.

“The Gulf Oil Disaster was the worst manifestation of the disasters that are created by extractive industries on a daily basis” said Matt Wilkerson of Rising Tide North America. “Communities around the world are terrorized by corporate and state ventures to extract fossil fuels. On top of poisoning our water and polluting our air, extractive industries are at the root of our climate crisis. If we have any hope of averting the worst affects of climate change we must leave fossil fuels in the ground.”

Act Against Extraction on April 20th!

The day of action will feature protests by Gulf Coast residents fighting offshore drilling, Appalachians resisting mountaintop removal Continue reading

Tomorrow is a month out from the April 20, 2011: Day of Action to End Extraction. Lots of people are signing up wanting to join existing actions, but we need more bottom-liners for actions. Please become an organizer and start something in your community.

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Tomorrow is a month out from the April 20, 2011: Day of Action to End Extraction. Lots of people are signing up wanting to join existing actions, but we need more bottom-liners for actions. Please become an organizer and start something in your community.


Act Against Extraction
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At about 2:30 am on Thursday morning, two residents of Missoula, MT, Carol Marsh, 69, and Ann Maechtlen, 50, sat down in the middle of Reserve St. in an attempt to halt the shipment of large, oversize loads of equipment heading to a ConocoPhillips tar sands oil refinery in Billings, MT. The police