Bill McKibben: This Is Getting Exciting

[marmar]

from YES! Magazine:



Bill McKibben: This Is Getting Exciting
The climate movement’s biggest civil disobedience action ever is about to take Washington by storm.

by Bill McKibben
posted Aug 18, 2011


This is starting to get exciting.

Five or six of us are hunched around a table in a small Washington office, shouting into phones and pecking away at keyboards as we count down toward the Saturday beginning of what looks like it will be the largest civil disobedience protest in the history of the American environmental movement.

We’ve got 2,000 people signed up to come to Washington and get arrested outside the White House between August 20 and September 3, all in an effort to persuade President Obama not to grant a permit for a new pipeline from the tar sands of Canada.

As momentum builds, we’re hearing from the famous and powerful: the wonderful Bernie Sanders just offered up a blogpost pointing out how many more jobs we’d create if we concentrated on clean energy; and the dynamic actor Mark Ruffalo chipped in a heartfelt video imploring people to head to Washington for the protest. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/bill-mckibben-this-is-starting-to-get-exciting

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[WhiteTara]

2. Kick

:kick: for hoping

[madokie]

3. I think its a great idea

but I wonder sometimes if maybe the powers to be don't use situations like this as a stimulus to do exactly what the protesters are against, out of spite maybe or just down right assholieness.

[starroute]

4. There's another thread on this -- arrests have already started

Omaha Steve posted "65 arrested at pipeline sit-in"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4968033

[Pooka Fey]

5. K&R