WASHINGTON — Environmentalists are promising
mass arrests and acts of civil disobedience if the Obama administration moves forward with a controversial pipeline project through the Midwest — even as Obama's political arm seeks to use the project in its latest fundraiser.Opponents to the Keystone XL pipeline, which would run from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, said they have more than 50,000 recruits ready to be jailed as part of one of the largest broad-scale direct-action protests in their movement's history."With our Keystone XL pledge of resistance, over 50,000 of us have put President Obama on notice that we will risk arrest to make him take meaningful action on climate by rejecting Keystone XL," said Becky Bond, political director at CREDO, a San Francisco–based progressive group that has protested Obama over Keystone before. The group has also stood with the administration on issues like gun control but it says it has a list of more than 50,000 activists ready to be arrested in civil disobedience actions should Obama approve the pipeline.
i was just thinking, the right wants to psych us out as to the non benefits they say are positive but they seem to ignore the potential dangers and would do it this afternoon if they could, but with so many protesting it like everything else that they want and "we the people" don't they ignore us over and over, time to return the favor 2014.
In an email to supporters, Organizing for America specifically mentioned Keystone and slamming members of Congress who hope to force construction of the massive pipeline regardless of what the administration says.
"They'll try to block the EPA's climate change rules, end renewable energy tax credits, and circumvent the State Department's process evaluating the Keystone XL oil pipeline," the email reads. "This kind of backhanded environmental attack is what's broken in Washington — powerful special interests are calling the shots right now. If we want to start fixing it, we've all got to stand up and fight back."
The email goes on to call on OFA supporters lobby congress to stop "trying to load up the budget with anti-environment amendments."
when you have to lie and mislead to get your way, your way is obviously not the best way, now do you see why EPA was on Romney's list of extinction, no regulations no fresh air, water or food. deceit is their game it only works if we bite, don't bite, vote 2014.
