2015 Book Cliffs Summer of Climate Justice
From Peaceful Uprising, Book Cliffs, Utah – Our third annual mass action camp is just around the corner, and we’re stoked to be hosting close to 100 participants who care about defending our future from tar sands mining! The camp will include workshops on climate justice and decolonization, nonviolent direct action, art, the history of the land we’re working to protect, and lots more. This large gathering helps us build needed momentum for our campaign, and prepares many new people to join us, some for the short-term and others for the long haul.
We’ll also be holding subsequent trainings throughout the summer and fall, and these funds will help to support them as well.
To pull this off, we need to raise $5,000. We need your support to make this gathering a huge success.
If you’ve been following the news about the water study conducted in the area adjacent to the tar sands mine, you know the science is on our side. In the only peer-reviewed or independent study ever conducted in the area at risk, Professor William Johnson and his colleagues found that the watershed would be contaminated by tar sands mining. They’ve mapped out the water system, and they know it feeds into rivers leading out to the Colorado.
But science alone isn’t going to stop the mine from going forward–not when state authorities determinedly look the other way. Only popular resistance will defend land, water, air, and lives from the toxic pollution, water depletion, and climate change that tar sands mining would cause. By working together to build the skills to carry the movement forward, we will win.
By bringing together members of frontline communities and other social justice struggles throughout the region, these gatherings also solidify networks of movement-builders in the Southwest who support each other across intersectional struggles.
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