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The No Tar Sands Caravan protests in D.C. at the Tar Sands Action.
August 27, 2011 by Jordan Perry
The No Tar Sands Caravan arrived in Washington DC tonight after seven days and over 3,300 miles travelled on the journey from California to Washington DC to protest the Keystone XL pipeline.
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August 27, 2011 by Jordan Perry
We are wheels up from The Farm, our home for the last 2 day, at 10am EST headed to DC. Greg Carroll was our host. Greg is the state historian for West Virgina and a founding member of the collection of people and homes that make up The Farm. We're not thrill seekers. We've been following the path of the storm and discussing options. We have a safe path, and a safe place to land, and alternatives in place if we have to stop short. Ultimately, we'll end up at the Rogner home - where we'll again be fed and sheltered by a loving American family in their home. Unity is a beautiful thing!
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August 26, 2011 by Jordan Perry
KAYFORD MOUNTAIN, West Virginia: Today, the No Tar Sands Caravan met with Larry Gibson, a longtime mountain top removal (MTR) opponent. His property has been in his family for generations and abuts an MTR site. His fight against the efforts to take his land is legendary. Thousands of visitors come to his land to see the MTR site first hand. For information on Larry's organization visit www.ilovemountains.org.
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August 25, 2011 by Jordan Perry and Davey Rogner
Today's summary speaks not of deeds done or tasks accomplished. It speaks from the heart, and it puts our collective mission in focus. Davey Rogner is a founder of Pickup America project, and is an inspired and inspiring American activist. Meeting people like Davey make this trip a foundational life experience. I'm proud to let Davey speak on behalf of the No Tar Sands Caravan, and no other words would do better to sum up our day and our mood. We are activated, and we're coming to D.C. to stand tall against the Keystone XL Pipeline.
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August 25, 2011 by Jordan Perry
We’ve seen the sights crossing through ten states, with one more to close out Day 5 of the No Tar Sands Caravan. As a bit of a roving collective we feel at home together. We’ve slept on floors, side by side. We’ve slept in carports and buses, happily. But tonight, we look forward to staying at The Farm, a historic collective in West Virginia evolving since 1970.
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August 24, 2011 by Jordan Perry
Members of the No Tar Sands Caravan and Stop The Pipeline Tour converse with locals and the media in Lincoln, NB.
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, August 25th, 2011 - With 2,300 miles and eight states traversed, the No Tar Sands Caravan arrived in St. Louis at midnight on its 4th day of travel headed for D.C. from California. The day featured a lively press conference in Lincoln, Nebraska, an engaging mini-action at a Kansas City gas station, and a 614-mile drive from Lincoln to St. Louis. After adding two cars in Lincoln, the caravan has swelled to four cars (two hybrid) and a dozen riders planning to arrive in Washington D.C. on Saturday with even more company.
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August 24, 2011 by Jordan Perry
The heady first two days of the No Tar Sands Caravan willed over 8,000 words from this blogger. We crossed California and Nevada, passed into Utah, met with new friends at the Free Speech Zone and Peaceful Uprising, and finally rolled into Colorado and experienced communal living of the highest order at the Masala Community House. We were accosted in Wyoming, and felt genuinely at risk throughout the trek across that state. I went from active to hyperactive. The caravan is breathtaking.
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August 24, 2011 by Jordan Perry
Leaving Boulder is never easy. I had to do it once before, after a short business trip. I think I swore I’d never leave again if I got there again. Another broken promise. Speaking of broken promises, President Obama needs to restore his standing with his base. He can do so by taking a stand to big oil and honoring his election commitment to help “heal the planet”. I’ve met hundreds of people and many of them voted for Obama in 2008.
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August 24, 2011 by Jordan Perry
We had comfortable beds available if we split into two groups, or we could all call Masala home if four people slept on a few couches and a lot of concrete in the carport outside. Shauna, Jonathan, Christian, Chauncey didn’t even pause. “We’ll stay together, I prefer sleeping in the open air anyway,” said Shauna, deciding it. As one! Of course, those four continue to count that night outside as their favorite accommodation of the trip. Consider the scene; it’s too good to make up: A college town, right when school is commencing, outside in the cool mountain air, with activist blood pumping through their veins, and activist dreams queuing up behind closed eyelids. I’ve never seen someone peel themselves off a concrete bed with such a smile on their face.
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August 23, 2011 by Jordan Perry
Lincoln, Nebraska - Day 3 began with a flash protest at the Denver Capitol with local 350.org members. We got the day’s journey started after a breakfast lovingly provided by their hosts at the Masala Community House. This inspiring collective has been in existence for over a decade in the heart of Boulder. Lincoln, a founding member, told us that providing housing for travelling political activists had always been part of the vision. The caravan was happy to make it a reality.
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August 23, 2011 by Ryan Andersen
Full article at Huffingtonpost »
August 22, 2011 by Jordan Perry
The No Tar Sands Caravan Team Meets With Peaceful Uprising
Boulder,CO – The No Tar Sands Caravan arrived in Boulder, CO after 2 days and 1,200 miles travelled carrying the Tar Sands Action message to people across America. Final destination: the Tar Sands Action Protests in D.C.
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August 22, 2011 by Jordan Perry
They’re not superheroes, they’re people just like us. OK I’m trying to convince myself. The People at PeaceUp are in fact extraordinary folks in an extraordinary situation. They’ve come to be as a necessity of Tim DeChristopher’s brave “Bidder 70” action. They exist to carry on the work Tim was doing locally, while also supporting his legal defense and keeping him connected while in jail.
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August 22, 2011 by Jordan Perry
526 miles to Boulder, CO. 8 ½ hours or so. Will Dick Cheney meet with us in Cheyenne? I’ll have to get back to you on that.
Parleys Summit ahead. Beautiful, winding canyons with steep forested walls giving way to sheer red cliffs escort us out of the Salt Lake basin. No altitude marker, will have to look it up.
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August 22, 2011 by Jordan Perry
The caravaners are accosted by some angry folks in Wyoming when they stage a small protest at a truck stop.
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August 22, 2011 by Jordan Perry
Photo Credit: Josh Lopez
Salt Lake City opened it's capable and loving arms to the NoTarSandsCaravan.org after our first day trekking from Capitol to Capitol to participate in the largest act of civil disobedience in the history of the environmental movement. We've learned that people need more information on every piece of this proposal - no surprise since very little media attention has been paid to the issue, until now...
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August 22, 2011 by Ryan Andersen
August 21, 2011 by Jordan Perry
We came over yet another rise, in a series of rises. But we weren't ready for the reveal to come. The valley opens up - vast and outstretched. The kicker was the white coating of salt that dusted the miles and miles that unfolded. I've never seen such a thing, and it goes on for what seems like forever. We all piled out of the cars at our second refueling stop of the trip -not bad for the 570 miles. It bears repeating that these awesome vistas, these truly fantastic places that knit together to become this country. Driving across Nevada and Utah on a perfectly clear August day with our hearts filled with the joy of news from the action today and excitement over our arrival in DC and participation...
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August 21, 2011 by Jordan Perry
Elko Nevada, next 5 exits. Small roads appear along the side of the freeway. On the edge of town, large lots with mobiles reside on rolling hills with symmetrical dirt access roads. Like Winnemucca, who sported a large "W" on the hillside, Elko has its very own "E". I didn't see one in Reno. The caravan stopped to connect to the internet - thank you Starbucks, I suppose. Outside, the protesters raised their signs and started conversations. And good news, someone ordered...
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August 21, 2011 by Jordan Perry
300 miles from SLC. 60 miles from Elko, the second, and last Nevada stop. I omitted Battle Mountain and, oddly, East Battle Mountain, both impossibly small, but separated by a bend in the road and their own freeway exit. I'll talk about the hypocrisy - or carpocricy, as I call it - of driving a car to a fossil fuel protest event, but I don't want to go on at length. But know I could, and I'd love to get any questions. I don't know the answers but...
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August 21, 2011 by Jordan Perry
40 miles from Winnemucca, the sights along Interstate 80 are at once inspiring and sleepily repetitive. As seen from the road, certainly never the place from which a place should be judged, it is nonetheless sparsely populated and little used. In that irony of the lost American West, there still runs a triple stack of barbed wire fence along the highway. It quite a lot of fence to protect open space. And yes, to the degree that it saves wildlife it is worthy. Although, at that rate, I would answer that the roads that arbitrary creases through an ecosystem kills far more animals that the fence alongside it might save.
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August 21, 2011 by Jordan Perry
Sacramento sits at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Rising from the flatland of one of America's most productive farmlands, the mountains give balance to the urban setting of California's capitol. The forests and the lands of these mountains are mostly protected from abuse. Traveling through these mountains where I've camped and hiked so often at the start of this journey to participate in the Tar Sands Action in DC helps me remember the root mission. To save this. To save the good and the bad, the genuine and inauthentic. To take a stand against a mining effort that destroys lands equaling the beauty of the most beautiful place you've ever seen.
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August 20, 2011 by Jordan Perry
It's sunny and warm. Another 95 degree day - not unusual for Sacramento, but certainly not the 100+ degree smokers the city can suffer through in a typical August. In fact, the Sacramento Bee reported this week that this summer has been the coolest on record since 1985. This kind of news flash always fuels the climate denierism deeply embedded in the surprisingly some conservative heavy Sacramento areas.
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We invite riders and drivers to jump on board at any point of the caravan route.
We need drivers! Drivers can join with either a full vehicle, or a vehicle with empty seats. We will fill up the empty seats!
Riders will have to find a way to meet us along the route, and then jump on board a vehicle.
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We hope you can meet us! Email notarsandscaravan@gmail.com with any questions.
This itinerary is subject to change.
From August 20th, 2011 to September 3rd, 2011 thousands of people from across the United States will participate in a peaceful protest at the White House to let President Obama know that the citizens of the U.S. and Canada do not support the construction of the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
The No Tar Sands Caravan was formed as a way to get as many people as possible from the U.S. and Canada to the Stop The Pipeline Sit-In at The White House, while also garnering media attention and building awareness about this critical issue across America.
The caravan was originally conceived by a single individual, but now has over 30 founding participants and is looking for dozens more from across the U.S. and Canada to join along the way to say no to the Keystone, XL Pipeline and yes to clean energy.
The caravan is not led by any organization or individual. It is a community organized event. You can contact the organizers at notarsandscaravan@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CARAVAN CROSSES U.S. TO BRING CITIZENS TO KEYSTONE XL TAR SANDS FPIPELINE PROTESTS IN WASHINGTON D.C.
Dozens of climate activists are traveling aboard the No Tar Sands Caravan from Davis, California to Washington, DC August 21st - 26th to join Naomi Klein, Bill Mckibben, Jim Hansen, Danny Glover and thousands more to risk arrest in protest to the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. The aim of the caravan is to mobilize hundreds of people across the country and bring as many as possible to the gates of the White House to encourage President Obama to take a stand against the construction of the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline from Alberta Canada to Texas oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to environmentalist and author Bill Mckibben the three weeks of sustained presence from over 2,000 citizens on the White House gates, "will be the largest collective act of civil disobedience in the history of the climate movement."
Dozens of people will be jumping on the caravan as it travels across the United States to form a diverse coalition of landowners, farmers, educators, students and concerned citizens. In solidarity with the caravan, organizations across the country are holding events in Salt Lake City, Denver and in Lincoln, NE to recruit caravaners and raise awareness about the Keystone XL Pipeline.
If approved, the Keystone XL pipeline would transport crude oil 1,661 miles from the Tar Sands of Alberta to Texas refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The Tar Sands mining operation in Alberta has already destroyed large swaths of Boreal forest and poisoned waterways; in addition, the full exploitation of this difficult to extract source of oil would be "essentially game over for the climate" according to renowned Climatologist Jim Hansen.
Caravan participant, Karen Enger of Rocklin, California states her reasons for traveling to Washington, DC: "Our planet's resources belong to all of us - they are not to be exploited for profit for the benefit of a few and the marginalization of the many. And...I am a mother. Fighting to protect the earth and climate for my our young is primal."
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