More Than 70 Arrested At White House Tar Sands Protest

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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August 21, 2011 07:00 PM

More Than 70 Arrested At White House Tar Sands Protest

By Susie Madrak

Saturday kicked off two weeks of sit-ins in Washington, D.C. for thousands of activists fighting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

On the first day, over 70 people were arrested at the White House fence, including protest organizer Bill McKibben.

Tar Sands Action is fighting against the Keystone XL pipeline, which is a pipeline from the tar sands in Canada to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. Protestors are asking President Obama to reject a permit for the pipeline. According to the organization, the pipeline "will send 900,000 barrels a day of the world’s dirtiest oil to US refineries, allowing further development of the Alberta tar sands – development which could mean ‘game over’ for the climate, in the word’s of NASA’s James Hansen."

On the other side, Democracy Now! reports, "Supporters of the pipeline say the pipeline will create some 20,000 construction jobs, and the company behind it, TransCanada, has already signed agreements to employ the members of four international unions if the project is approved."

[freedom fighter jh]

1. Lots more info -- and learn how to join --

at www.tarsandsaction.org

[MineralMan]

2. Props to the demonstrators. Good civil disobedience.

If there are no arrests there was no civil disobedience.

[Enthusiast]

3. K&R!

Thank you!

[Lorien]

4. And just why are they being arrested? What ever happened to free speech??

Amazing that there exists the political will to do something SO regressive and destructive, yet the promised massive green energy investment simply is not happening.

[dotymed]

10. What is gonna happen on October 6th?

Do they have enough jail space for the millions of People that I hope attend?

[Pooka Fey]

5. K&R

[iamthebandfanman]

6. yay , more bush policies continued!

god i hate living in a fascist country.

[INdemo]

7. Destroy our environment for jobs that will take years to reach level they are

projecting

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/19/keystone-pipeline-oil-sands-us-lobbying_n_931610.html

[saras]

8. When's the last time you heard of seventy right-wingers arrested at once?

I'll admit to not having a comprehensive grasp of US history, but I couldn't find a single instance in the last century. Nothing on http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right">this list, for example was apparently worthy of seventy arrests.

When their offer of 'jobs' consist of construction jobs, which are temporary and rarely go to locals, you know they're scraping the bottom of the barrel, so to speak.

[florida08]

9. you make a good point

no they don't get arrested until after they've injured someone..and sometimes not even then

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/25/rand-paul-supporter-stomps-head_n_773857.html