January 2013
On the 28th of January, Chesapeake Earth First and DC Rising Tide
invaded and “mic-checked” 1001 Penn Ave, home of the Carslyle Group.
This action was carried out as a solidarity action in support of Idle No
More, which declared Jan 28 to be a global day of action.
This protest seemed to catch building security by surprise. Deeming
themselves unable to remove the protesters, they called the cops, who
took about 5 minutes to show up. A lot can happen in 5 minutes! Even
after the cops showed up, the protest continued until cops implied that
protesters could either leave under their own power or face arrest for
“trespassing.”
To Idle No More and to the residents of the North Dakota trailers where
Bakken Oil is tearing out doors and windows, it is Bakken that is
trespassing on Native Land. Carsysle Group’s office is also trespassing
on Native land simply by it’s existance anywhere on Turtle Island!
Carslyle Group is a top investor in Bakken Oil. In North Dakota, Bakken
Oil is evicting Native American people from their trailers and homes to
make space for more workers for their North Dakota shale oil mining
project. Shale oil, like tar sands oil, is processed by applying several times the oil’s energy value in heat to raw material that is strip-mined.