Tar Sands Blockade Solidarity Event 3/19

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Tar Sands Blockade Solidarity Event

Date:	Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Time:	5:00 PM to 6:15 PM
Presented by:	Delaware Chapter
Leader:	Stephanie Herron - 302-468-4550 stephanie.herron@sierraclub.org
Location:	Newark Amtrak, Newark, DE 19713, USA

Join us on Tuesday in Newark for a Delaware anti-tarsands action during the national Tar Sands Blockade week of action!  We'll hold our tar sands banner and signs in front of the very place where the toxic tar sands are being held in rail cars as they wait to be unloaded and processed at the Delaware City refinery.  
Delaware is getting railroaded by tar sands which are are not only 3x worse for our warming climate but much more carcinogenic and polluting to refine.  As you know, the last thing Delaware needs is more cancer-causing air pollution.  Join us on Tuesday to take a stand against tar sands in our state and be a part of the growing international movement to keep dirty tar sands in the ground! 
You can park in the Amtrak parking lot near the bottom of the bridge and we'll meet up at the base of the bridge at 5pm.  If you need an address for a GPS, you can use 429 South College Avenue, Newark, DE to get in the right general area.

Keystone XL Pipeline News

We were going to send you an inspiring video of last weekend’s Forward on Climate rally, but breaking news just intervened:

Reporters this morning uncovered the fact that while 40,000 or more people were outside the White House asking for his attention about Keystone XL, President Obama was playing golf with oil and pipeline executives in Florida.

His staff didn't allow any pictures at the outing -- likely because it’s an embarrassing spectacle for a President who promised to “end business as usual in Washington” and “respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.”

We need to show the White House they can't get away with doing special favors for Big Oil. It’s fine to take a day off every now and then, but it’s just plain wrong to play footsie with the oil industry. Please click here to read and share the whole story, and make a call to the President: act.350.org/call/obama-golf/

Tar Sands Protest Arrests

February 13, 2013

Contacts:
Eddie Scher, Sierra Club, 415-815-7027
Maggie Kao, Sierra Club, 202-675-2384
Daniel Kessler, 350.org, 510-501-1779

JULIAN BOND, BILL MCKIBBEN, MICHAEL BRUNE, AND OTHERS ARRESTED IN FRONT OF WHITE HOUSE IN CALL FOR ACTION ON CLIMATE

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This morning, 48 environmental, civil rights, and community leaders from across the country joined together for a historic display of civil disobedience at the White House where they demanded that President Obama deny the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and address the climate crisis.

http://www.tarsandsaction.org/