Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Wendell Berry Call for Civil Disobedience on Tar Sands

The picture above depicts emissions from and a mining operation in a Canadian tar sand pit. Around Labor Day this year the State Department and the White House must decide whether to grant a certificate of "national interest" which would allow the "most environmentally devastating, energy project on earth" to proceed. If allowed by Washington oil and gas extractors would build a 1,661 mile pipeline extension across the heartland to transport the tar sand to refineries in Texas. With enormous and powerful interests pushing for an energy project that would greatly exacerbate global warming, environmental leaders are calling for peaceful public resistance to the project, in the form of civil disobedience, near the end of summer. The stakes of this policy are very high, like the floodwaters that have inundated America, and it will go forward unless a lot of people tune in and register their opposition. They've got the bucks but in theory we have the bodies. The organizers are stressing that this is not a regular demonstration but rather calls for principled civil disobedience that might well result in arrest. They are emphasizing message discipline as well by insisting on training prior to the event and encouraging participants to maintain decorum and appearance to maximize the impact of the action.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/161604/bill-mckibben-naomi-klein-wendell-berry-call-civil-disobedience-tar-sands

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