Tar Sands Blockade
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Tar Sands Blockade
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Tar Sands Blockade is a grassroots coalition of affected Texas and Oklahoma people and climate justice organizers who use peaceful and sustained civil disobedience to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Tar Sands Blockade used nonviolent direct action to stop construction of the pipeline throughout East Texas including banner drops, lockdowns, and tree sits.
They are best known for a large scale tree sit outside Winnsboro, Texas. Naomi Klein attributes the origin of the term Blockadia, whic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Sands_Blockade
date created:
2012-11-10T19:20:37Z
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2024-09-03T07:09:55Z
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