This is a guest post by Monica Christoffels, cross-posted from Coalexportaction.org
Our Climate Summer of Solidarity (ClimateSOS) is off to a great start!
Yesterday the Coal Export Action team watched as our friends from Frack Action, Stop the Frack Attack andRAMPS (Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival) took action against fracking and mountaintop removal, respectively. We were inspired to see that about 50 people were able to shut down one of the largest mining sites on the East Coast (as covered here in the Huffington Post!); and that as many as 5,000 stormed the streets of NYC and DC, the latter rally stopping at the offices of America’s Natural Gas Alliance and the American Petroleum Institute, to send a strong message of opposition to the industry.
We were also overjoyed to see our allies at the Tar Sands Blockade in Texas begin training for their massive nonviolent direct action against the Keystone XL Pipeline, which will take place later this summer. The Blockadelive-tweeted its training, and even sent out a message of support to West Virginia, DC and NYC.
(Photo credit: Tar Sands Blockade on Facebook)
The movement literally grew before our eyes; we couldn’t be more proud to be a part of it. Now it’s our turn to take action.
This Tuesday, July 31, Coal Export Action will kick off a social media blast day to amp up the volume on our actions to stop coal mining in Otter Creek next month.
We hope a surge in tweets and Facebook posts will alert people to the action, increase support (both in donations and new participants) and, most importantly, send a strong message to Arch Coal and the Montana State Lands Board that we’re ready to act on behalf of Otter Creek, the state of Montana and our global community.
Make sure you follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook – we’ll be blasting our tweets and posts from those accounts on Tuesday. We’ll hope you join us online as we continue on the road to Coal Export Action this August!
Hello from the Tehachapi Pass. Your generation is our future and we support you against fracking. The corporate vendors pushing coal and oil into the market don’t care if we live or die. All they want to do is get rich even if they heat the atmosphere until life on earth ceases to exist. Develop your skills in manufacturing and start making products that can be manufactured reducing raw coal or oil use by 75%. Every single item we put into our trash each day is recyclable and can be made into something new. Nothing should be wasted whether post consumer or commercial material. Screw big coal and gas and reduce the use of their product. Fight against our government giving jobs to foreign students because what they’re doing is training future Osama bin Ladins.