{"id":33659,"date":"2018-04-23T07:10:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T12:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33659"},"modified":"2018-04-23T07:10:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T12:10:35","slug":"on-earth-day-environmenal-activism-is-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33659","title":{"rendered":"On Earth Day: Environmenal Activism is Spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/04\/22\/on-earth-day-environmenal-activism-is-spreading\/\">On Earth Day: Environmenal Activism is Spreading<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Across America environmental activism is growing, and government and the fossil fuel industry are taking notice, say Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers<span id=\"more-27144\"><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/maxresdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27146\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/maxresdefault-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"127\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a>T<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/resistance-against-the-mountain-valley-pipeline-grows\/\">ree-sits are growing<\/a>\u00a0in West Virginia where people are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/tree-sitters-in-west-virginia-arent-leaving-theyre-expanding\/\">putting their bodies on the line<\/a>\u00a0to stop the destruction of the natural habitat that would result from building the Mountain Valley pipeline for fracked gas. In Virginia,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/red-terry-takes-a-stand-i-will-come-out-of-the-tree-when-these-people-get-off-my-land\/\">Red Terry<\/a>\u00a0started\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/landowner-launches-new-pipeline-protest-in-roanoke-county-tree\/\">a tree-sit on Easter weekend<\/a>\u00a0to protect her land from destruction. She remains, despite the company, with law enforcement support, denying her food and water \u2014 something illegal against prisoners or during war. As trees are felled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/as-tree-cutting-continues-for-the-mountain-valley-pipeline-so-do-the-protests\/\">she remains,<\/a>\u00a0as do<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/energy-transfer-partners-cuts-trees-resisters-continue-struggle\/\">\u00a0protesters<\/a> in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>In Louisiana,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/lockdown-to-stop-the-bayou-bridge-pipeline\/\">a water protector locked herself into a cement-filled barrel<\/a>\u00a0placed in the trench of a horizontal directional drill to block construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/battle-in-the-bayou\/\">Eleanor Goldfield reports<\/a>\u00a0this is part of the Battle of the Bayou, a coalition of groups and individuals standing against the destruction of a fragile environment,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/bayou-bridge-protesters-arrested-as-louisiana-advances-bill-toughening-penalties-for-pipeline-protests\/\">facing arrest<\/a>\u00a0and creating a future together.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/largest-oil-by-rail-terminal-in-u-s-defeated-by-tribal-and-environmental-coalition\/\">Washington State activists defeated the largest oil-train terminal<\/a>\u00a0in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>In Maryland, people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/protesters-block-dominion-energys-tree-felling-before-permits\/\">blocked construction<\/a>\u00a0then escalated to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/tractor-blockade-shuts-down-clear-cutting-at-dominion-compressor-site\/\">a tractor blockade<\/a>to prevent the construction of a compressor station that will bring fracked gas from the Mid-Atlantic to the Dominion export terminal in southern Maryland. People who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearecovepoint.org\/\">fought the export terminal for years<\/a>\u00a0are now joining with neighboring counties fighting gas infrastructure and mounting a campaign against the Maryland Department of the Environment as Governor Hogan pushes $100 million in gas infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Message is Getting Through<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Many political and economic elites want people to believe the environmental crisis doesn\u2019t exist or is exaggerated. But these acts of civil disobedience is starting to get the message to people in high place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Earth Day: Environmenal Activism is Spreading Across America environmental activism is growing, and government and the fossil fuel industry are taking notice, say Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Tree-sits are growing\u00a0in West Virginia where people are\u00a0putting their bodies on the line\u00a0to stop the destruction of the natural habitat that would result from building the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[1852,1337,17009,17010],"class_list":["post-33659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-earth-day","tag-environmental-activism","tag-kevin-zeese","tag-margaret-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33660,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33659\/revisions\/33660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}