This is what Thoreau was writing about! In the largest civil disobedience protest in recent environmental history, 56 people – including activist and Thoreau Farm Trust Honorary Board member Bill McKibben – were arrested and jailed for 3 days during a protest at the White House opposing a proposed pipeline that would connect tar sands in Alberta to oil refineries in Texas. Read more at The Burlington Free Press.
Leaders of the nation’s largest environmental organizations released a letter calling on President Obama to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Read the letter at: Stop the Pipeline.
Watch Bill McKibben speak with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman at our Video page.