Butterflies.
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‘Environmental genocide’: Native Americans quit talks over Keystone XL pipeline.
Leaders from 11 Native American tribes stormed out of a meeting with US federal officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which they say will lead to ‘environmental genocide.’
Native Americans are opposed to the 1,179-mile (1,897km) Keystone XL project, a system to transport tar sands oil from Canada and the northern United States to refineries in Texas for various reasons, including possible damage to sacred sites, pollution, and water contamination.
Although the planned pipeline would not pass directly through any Native American reservation, tribes in proximity to the proposed system say it will violate their traditional lands and that the environmental risks of the project are simply too great.
Russ Girling, CEO of TransCanada, the company that hopes to build the pipeline, has promised in the past that Keystone XL will be “the safest pipeline ever built.”
The Indian groups, as well as other activist organizations, doubt the claim, saying the risks involved in the project are too high.
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Charles LoneChief, vice president of the Pawnee Business Council, headquartered in Oklahoma, said the public was misinformed about the pipeline’s environmental risks.
Unlike a traditional crude oil pipeline, Keystone XL will pump oil that is collected from tar sands. To turn this substance into a transportable liquid, oil companies must add chemicals that environmental groups warn are highly toxic.
“That gets into our waterways, our water tables, our aquifers, then we have problems,” LoneChief said.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has estimated that the Keystone XL pipeline will increase annual US carbon pollution emissions by up to 27.6 million metric tons – the impact of adding nearly 6 million cars on the road, according to the Environment News Service.
![Geraldine Thomas-Flurer of the Yinke Dene Alliance, a coalition of tribes from British Columbia that formed in opposition to Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline, says that the widespread push against exploitative resource extraction in North America— such as the Tar Sands Blockade, protests against the Keystone XL Pipeline, and movements to stop fracking—has forged collaborations unlike anything that had existed before.
“[The majority of] British Columbia is opposed to the pipeline—indigenous and non-indigenous together,” she said, citing a February poll by Insights West that found 61 percent of adults oppose the project.
“It’s the first time in my history that I’ve seen these communities working side by side, and I’m happy about that—we’re not alone in this.” What’s happening in British Columbia is unprecedented, she says, and bodes well for other parts of the world where similar clashes are taking place.
“It’s clear that to fight these industries, everyone needs to speak up and support the movement. It’s not a First Nations issue. It’s a human issue.”
Kari Matsko, director of a grassroots initiative in Ohio called the People’s Oil and Gas Collaborative, agrees. The more people who are directly affected by fracking, she says, the stronger the resistance becomes.
“Regardless of status or demographic, people are experiencing firsthand the effects of this industry,” Matsko says.
“All it’s going to take is for the energy companies to pick on the wrong person.” (via Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/15f7e4e0578766462de4c0947c3fd794/tumblr_mn0fyvRFUT1qax8tqo1_400.jpg)
Geraldine Thomas-Flurer of the Yinke Dene Alliance, a coalition of tribes from British Columbia that formed in opposition to Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline, says that the widespread push against exploitative resource extraction in North America— such as the Tar Sands Blockade, protests against the Keystone XL Pipeline, and movements to stop fracking—has forged collaborations unlike anything that had existed before.
“[The majority of] British Columbia is opposed to the pipeline—indigenous and non-indigenous together,” she said, citing a February poll by Insights West that found 61 percent of adults oppose the project.
“It’s the first time in my history that I’ve seen these communities working side by side, and I’m happy about that—we’re not alone in this.” What’s happening in British Columbia is unprecedented, she says, and bodes well for other parts of the world where similar clashes are taking place.
“It’s clear that to fight these industries, everyone needs to speak up and support the movement. It’s not a First Nations issue. It’s a human issue.”
Kari Matsko, director of a grassroots initiative in Ohio called the People’s Oil and Gas Collaborative, agrees. The more people who are directly affected by fracking, she says, the stronger the resistance becomes.
“Regardless of status or demographic, people are experiencing firsthand the effects of this industry,” Matsko says.
“All it’s going to take is for the energy companies to pick on the wrong person.” (via Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?)
Strax Field Report: A Glorious Day - The Name of the Doctor - Doctor Who Series 7 Part 2
Strax delivers a field report about events that will unfold in The Name of the Doctor…
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Oh gosh, thank you so much for prompting us to post tune in information!
Watch The Name of the Doctor, the season finale, on…
Saturday 18th May
BBC One — 7p
BBC America — 8/7c
Space (Canada) — 8/5e
Sunday 19th May
ABC (Australia) — 7.30pm
BBC Entertainment (South Africa) — 7pm
BBC Entertainment (Poland) — 6pmWe’ll have our livetumblring announcement up in a bit.
Also IT’S DOCTOR WHO DAY!
Let’s start by posting a pic of your season finale set up!
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LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 is a new biopic from Comanche filmmaker Julianna Brannum. The film chronicles the life of Comanche activist and national civil rights leader LaDonna Harris and the role that she has played in Native and mainstream American history.
The “Indian 101” part of the film title is a reference to the course that Harris developed, at the request of President Lyndon Johnson, to help educate the people in the United States executive branch about tribal sovereignty and the unique relationship American Indian Tribes have with the federal government. The course was later picked up by the legislative branch where LaDonna’s husband Fred Harris served as a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma. “Indian 101” would be taught to members of Congress and the Senate for next four decades.
In addition to her work in educating Washington on Tribal rights, LaDonna Harris worked in other areas to advance civil and women’s rights, and to promote responsible environmental stewardship and world peace.
In 1993, Harris began the American Indian Ambassador’s program to help pass down the knowledge of current Native leaders to the next generation of Tribal, national and international Indigenous leaders. Brannum is working on a short companion piece about the ambassadors program that she hopes will be screened at colleges and universities and also have a life online.
In 2007, Brannum became a member of elite group herself, when she was selected as a Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation Fellow. Brannum has produced films for the Discovery Channel, A&E, Bravo and PBS, including The Creek Runs Red and the Wounded Knee episode of the five-part series We Shall Remain.
LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 is slated to be completed and broadcast in 2013. A four-minute trailer for the film as well as additional information about LaDonna Harris and the people behind the film can be found at indian101themovie.com.
Go to the Producer Profile.
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I wish you could have been there for the sun & the rain & the long, hard hills. For the sound of a thousand conversations scattered along the road. For the people laughing & crying & remembering at the end. But, mainly, I wish you could have been there.
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The Doctor’s name…..
My prediction for Doctor Who is that it will be super emotional and then:
D: “My name is John Smith”
C: “What?”
D: “John Smith!”
C: “But that’s your fake name”
D: “No my fake name is John Smith!”
C: “Which is what you just said!”
D: “No it isn’t! I said John Smith!”
And it turns out the TARDIS won’t translate his name properly because it’s her job to stop him doing stupid shit like that.
ha ha ha ha.
I like it.
“Every single time. Seven hundred years, police box doors open out the way.”
