Howdy neighbor,
It’s gonna be a long, hot, beautiful summer.
This morning, ten people with Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance were arrested blockading the construction of a Keystone XL pump station in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, dozens with the Detroit Coalition Against Tar Sands stopped dump trucks in their tracks from adding to a massive mound of toxic petcoke, a byproduct of tar sands mining, that’s piling up along the Detroit River. And in Marshall, Michigan, a brave activist climbed into a segment of an Enbridge pipeline to protest the pipeline giant’s failed clean-up of the biggest tar sands spill in U.S. history in Kalamazoo, MI — and its plans to expand construction on the very pipeline that spilled.
And that’s just the beginning.
Fearless Summer, a coalition of over 50 grassroots organizations, including Tar Sands Blockade, today launched a Week of Action to step up the fight against the pathological extreme energy industry and its deliberate destruction of our communities and the climate we depend on for survival.
Check out the Fearless Summer website to locate an action happening this week nearest you.
The extreme energy industry would rather our movement remain disparate and siloed in our individual issues. But our struggle is one. We recognize that our fight in Texas is being fought all across the country — in every community facing resource extraction — so we are coming together as a movement to fight back together.
We know that fracked gas is not better than coal; uranium mining for future nuclear waste endangers everyone; and tar sands exploitation is poised to take every bad idea in recent years, mix them together in a toxic slurry, then allow corporations to pump it through our homes without permission or disclosure.
Sign up today to host your own Fearless Summer action or join one near you.
The solstice has passed; the nights grow longer daily. As the daylight wanes, Fearless Summer moves to light the way to a future where we refuse to trade one community’s suffering for another. We act in solidarity with all of the escalating calls to action within and beyond our Fearless Summer network like Sovereignty Summer, Summer Heat, Pledge to Resist, and Our Power Campaign.
Join us this week to take action as we all rise up to defend our homes!
In Solidarity,
Murtaza Nek
Tar Sands Blockade