On Saturday, August 27th, a number of activists and organizers took
part in a blockade that lasted over 10 hours. This action continues
the recent wave of community resistance to fossil fuels, specifically
coal and oil trains, in the Pacific Northwest.
These brave individuals have taken a stand in the fight against
the destruction of the planet, but they need your help to continue!
Legal fees resulting from their work protecting our communities are a
serious roadblock on the way to a fossil-fuel free future. Your
donations will go directly to help cover such costs and get our
activists back onto the front lines where they can keep organizing
against the coal trains. Our initial oal is to raise these funds, but
more will be needed and any additional donations will be spent on
continuing resistance efforts.
Donations of any amount will be accepted. Show the world
that you stand with the thousands of individuals who are fighting back
against big oil and gas for a cleaner, safer community.
In the past year we have been seeing more and more communities
rise up in resistance through direct action against fossil fuels. One
example of this kind of direct action is the blockade that occurred
last month in Vancouver, WA. This blockade was in response to past
train derailments, which have resulted in multiple deaths. Just before
that action, hundreds of activists participating in Break Free We
Pacific Northwest came together to block the transportation of oil and
natural gas in Anacortes, Washington, and before that kayaktavists
took to the water to blockade Shell's oil rig bound for Arctic
drilling. We applaud activists taking direct action where the legal
framework has failed to stop the dangerous train derailments and go a
step further to suggest that even if trains never derailed, we oppose
fossil fuel extraction on the basis of stopping climate change. No
amount of fossil fuels being extracted and burned for energy is safe,
because climate change threatens the very existence of life on this
planet. Thank you for your support!
Funds from this campaign will be used for legal support for those arrested at the action, and
