Yesterday Lucy Emerson-Bell and Sarah Davidson published an open letter to President Barack Obama on the Huffington Post. Their powerful appeal to the President asked him to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and start to live up to …

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Randy Thompson is a landowner from Merrick County:

I want to thank all of my fellow Nebraskans who are in DC protesting the pipeline, and I want all of you to know that I respect and admire …

Gus Speth passed along this statement from jail through the his wife:

“We the prisoners being held in the Central Cell Block of the D.C. Jail need company and encourage the continuation of the protests against the tar sands pipeline. …

Gus Speth passed along this statement from jail through the his wife:

“We the prisoners being held in the Central Cell Block of the D.C. Jail need company and encourage the continuation of the protests against the tar sands pipeline. …

‘Gasland’ Director Josh Fox calls for Fracktivists everywhere to join the Tar Sands Action in Washington DC with this moving video.

Thanks, Josh!…

Thom Yorke of the band Radiohead wrote a very nice note about the action on the band’s website. Here’s a bit of what he said:

“if you don’t know anything about the Tar Sands have a quick google… as seems

Actor Mark Ruffalo, who has been an outspoken activist on fracking in his home state of New York and across the country, is lending his support to the Tar Sands Action in Washington, DC this August. To join the action, …

The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20050

August 3, 2011

President Obama:

We are researchers at work on the science of climate change and allied fields. We are …

This post from Rose Marie Berger originally appeared at the Sojourners Blog.

Rose is a Catholic poet and peace activist who writes about empire, art, social justice and activism. She is organizing a contingent of faith leaders to participate in …

We’re honored to post a letter from the executive directors, coordinators, presidents and other organizational leaders of the nation’s leading environmental and allied groups, writing in their capacity as individual citizens, encouraging us all to take part in the sit-ins …