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Courting Delirium: Max Talley and his Dark Zeitgeist
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Seventh Generation: The Voice and Leadership of Indigenous Youth
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Amazon Defenders Part Three: Fires, Corruption, and Resistance in Brazil
Posted on December 17, 2020 | 2 Comments -
A Farm Grows in LA: Urban Farming with Avenue 33
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Amazon Defenders Part Two: Criminalizing Activism – The Steven Donziger Case
Posted on December 3, 2020 | 2 Comments
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
oil sands Archive
Tar Sands Oil “Bomb” Trains Proposed for California
Posted on February 2, 2016 | 1 CommentWe must find cleaner, safer alternatives to these ecosystem-fouling, climate-disrupting extreme fossil fuels like tar sands and fracked oil shale, and their exploding oil trains, bursting pipelines, and accident-prone refineries.
Santa Barbara Oil Spill Spreading: Big Oil Plans for More Tar Sands
Posted on June 3, 2015 | 1 CommentThe most recent oil spill on the Santa Barbara coast that has decimated wildlife and soiled California beaches with tar over a 350-mile area has been an unmitigated disaster. It illustrates weaknesses in basic safety measures for pipelines and crude by rail, as well as risks associated with industry plans to expand tar sands and other extreme drilling infrastructure on the West Coast.
Clayton Thomas-Muller: Walking and Praying to Heal Canada’s Tar Sands
Posted on July 25, 2013 | 1 CommentAs we walked, I pondered all of the battlefields that the emerging international movement to stop the tar sands and its associated infrastructure of pipelines, refineries, and shipping lanes is engaged with. I was overcome by the magnitude of our undertaking, picking a fight with the most inhumane and wealthiest corporations on the planet.
Tantoo Cardinal on Tar Sands: No Energy More Powerful than Natural Force
Posted on July 7, 2012 | 1 CommentThe Earth has a voice. And the fact that any native people have survived on the planet should be a clue that there's a way that does not include money and politics. We have survived by our relationship with natural force. Water is sacred. Air is sacred. If the tar sands isn't stopped, we are going to have a whole new set of problems.
Obama For America: LA Demands a Sustainable Energy Policy
Posted on December 5, 2011 | 1 CommentPresident Obama: We citizens for Tar Sands Action in Los Angeles laud your decision to send the Keystone XL Pipeline back to the State Department for re-review. Yet, ensuring climate stability, protecting land and water resources, and launching an alternative clean energy economy will take much more work.
Pipeline Delay: Sustainability Threat from Tar Sands Oil Remains
Posted on November 14, 2011 | 4 CommentsPlanned expansion of mining the Florida-sized Alberta Boreal Forest for tar sands bitumen crude oil, destroying habitats and indigenous societies, will continue despite the delay in the Keystone XL pipeline.
Winona LaDuke – The Pipeline for the One Percent
Posted on November 14, 2011 | 1 CommentKeystone XL, touted to bring jobs and energy security, will do neither. Even if the pipeline never spilled, even if the tar sands weren’t an environmental atrocity, this would still be a bad deal for the US public.
Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: Climate Game Over
Posted on November 7, 2011 | 7 CommentsWhile thousands surrounded the White House, a hundred people marched through downtown Los Angeles in solidarity calling for Obama to reject the 1,700-mile tar sands oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast.
Tar Sands Documentary: White Water, Black Gold
Posted on October 27, 2011 | 4 CommentsCanada is the number one oil supplier to the US and is pushing to increase that role using the Alberta Tar Sands, slated to mine and strip an area of Boreal Forest the size of Florida, impacting land resources and indigenous communities, producing bitumen-crude that will foul the global climate.
World’s Dirtiest Oil – Alberta Tar Sands
Posted on March 8, 2011 | 12 CommentsThe world's dirtiest oil is produced by strip mining the Athabascan Tar Sands of Alberta, Canada, destroying an area of Northern Boreal forest and wetlands the size of Florida, with toxic settling ponds that pollute rivers fished by First Nations people, requiring pipelines to the Gulf Coast and hauling routes through the Northern Rocky Mountains.
