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susanreads) wrote2011-11-13 11:34 am
susanreads) wrote2011-11-13 11:34 am
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Progress on Tar Sands
This week, President Obama decided to order an in-depth review of the Keystone XL pipeline. Campaigners, assuming the review will be honest, reckon this means the pipeline will never be built. More detail at the currently-top blog post on the Tar Sands Action site. Meanwhile, I was directed to the pledge page, where there's an embedded video.
Transcript of video "A Victory in the Fight Against Keystone XL":
caption: 1,253 arrested outside the White House taking part in non-violent action against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Aug 20 - Sept 3, 2011
caption: 10,000 encircled the White House to urge President Obama to reject Keystone XL. Nov 6, 2011
Huge crowd with a few placards, cheering. Speaker, a white guy with a "STOP Keystone XL" t-shirt - I think this is Bill McKibben: "Heyyyy, everybody! We have been wondering if anybody would come." (cheering) "We have been wondering how many people it will actually take to circle the White House. And my early guess is, we might just have done it." (cheering)
Another speaker, with the crowd repeating his words: "We are here today ... to remind President Obama ... of his promise ... that we ... would end ... the tyranny ... of oil."
Another speaker: "I take the President at his word. He's gonna look at the science, he's gonna weigh the facts, and he's gonna reject the Keystone XL pipeline." (cheering)
Another speaker (possibly Native?): "We the American people should not have to sacrifice our land and water to meet Transcanada's bottom line." (cheering)
Woman speaker: "We need to bring the movement demanding economic justice and the movement demanding climate justice together so that they're one strong movement."
Another speaker (Black guy?): "We stand here right now because we are at our launch [?indistinct] moment for the 21st century. President Obama, do the right thing! Do the right thing! We stand! We stand! ... Let's go get 'em." (cheering)
Shots of people marching with NOXL banners and an inflatable "pipeline". Placards include "Make the change we believed in" and "If you build it, it will leak". People hold hands, circling the White House.
Black guy with dreadlocks and megaphone: "It's been decades since there's been a crowd like this outside the White House about something to do with the environment." (crowd whoops)
First speaker again: "So you have done a great thing today, and if we're gonna win it we need you doing everything that you can think of, cos that's what this has been about from the very beginning. This is the definition of a grassroots movement. Thank you all so much for being here, travel safe back home, and dammit we are going to win this thing if we do it right. Thank you so much." (cheers drown him out)
caption: 4 days later, the President sent Keystone XL back to the drawing board, effectively killing the pipeline.
caption: Power responds to a demand. Get involved at www.tarsandsaction.org (logo: no-entry type sign with Tar Sands Action and Stop Keystone XL pipeline)
Transcript of video "A Victory in the Fight Against Keystone XL":
caption: 1,253 arrested outside the White House taking part in non-violent action against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Aug 20 - Sept 3, 2011
caption: 10,000 encircled the White House to urge President Obama to reject Keystone XL. Nov 6, 2011
Huge crowd with a few placards, cheering. Speaker, a white guy with a "STOP Keystone XL" t-shirt - I think this is Bill McKibben: "Heyyyy, everybody! We have been wondering if anybody would come." (cheering) "We have been wondering how many people it will actually take to circle the White House. And my early guess is, we might just have done it." (cheering)
Another speaker, with the crowd repeating his words: "We are here today ... to remind President Obama ... of his promise ... that we ... would end ... the tyranny ... of oil."
Another speaker: "I take the President at his word. He's gonna look at the science, he's gonna weigh the facts, and he's gonna reject the Keystone XL pipeline." (cheering)
Another speaker (possibly Native?): "We the American people should not have to sacrifice our land and water to meet Transcanada's bottom line." (cheering)
Woman speaker: "We need to bring the movement demanding economic justice and the movement demanding climate justice together so that they're one strong movement."
Another speaker (Black guy?): "We stand here right now because we are at our launch [?indistinct] moment for the 21st century. President Obama, do the right thing! Do the right thing! We stand! We stand! ... Let's go get 'em." (cheering)
Shots of people marching with NOXL banners and an inflatable "pipeline". Placards include "Make the change we believed in" and "If you build it, it will leak". People hold hands, circling the White House.
Black guy with dreadlocks and megaphone: "It's been decades since there's been a crowd like this outside the White House about something to do with the environment." (crowd whoops)
First speaker again: "So you have done a great thing today, and if we're gonna win it we need you doing everything that you can think of, cos that's what this has been about from the very beginning. This is the definition of a grassroots movement. Thank you all so much for being here, travel safe back home, and dammit we are going to win this thing if we do it right. Thank you so much." (cheers drown him out)
caption: 4 days later, the President sent Keystone XL back to the drawing board, effectively killing the pipeline.
caption: Power responds to a demand. Get involved at www.tarsandsaction.org (logo: no-entry type sign with Tar Sands Action and Stop Keystone XL pipeline)