Post PeaceUp Action Camp Video

from Peaceful Uprising

Video from DAM Collective (not the identically acronymed Direct Action Manual Collective) of Monday’s action in which about 40 people shut down work at the US Oil Sands tar sands mine in Eastern Utah. The action was retaliation against the mining industry for the recent poisoning of the Animas River and to call attention to the long-lasting ecological disasters that mining presents.

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Four land defenders were arrested and later released after shutting down operations at the first tar sands mine in the U.S. after dozens of allies stormed an open pit mine site in the Book Cliffs of so-called “Utah” on stolen Ute land. If built the mine will destroy untouched wilderness that is home to bears, deer, eagles, hawks and countless other lives. The land is a watershed for the Green River which feeds into the Colorado River and all poison released from the mine will run downhill threatening the lives of millions of humans and animals. Water is life. Protect the sacred. Visit http://www.peacefuluprising.org/ACA2015 for more info.

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