pipelines

Deia Schlosberg, the producer of my new climate change documentary, How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change, was arrested Tuesday in Walhalla, North Dakota, for filming a protest action against a pipeline bringing Canadian tar sands oil into the U.S. 5 #climate activists shut down 5 tar […]

Caught live on video, an 18-year old male driver plowed his pickup into a crowd of about 40 Native American protestors in Reno following an angry exchange of words. One woman was hospitalized. Quanah Brighten, executive director of United Native Americans Inc., called it a hate crime. An 18-year old male driver plowed his pickup […]

Activists successfully shut down five pipelines today across the U.S. that deliver tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada. The pipelines targeted were Enbridge line 4 and 67 in Leonard, Minnesota; TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline in Walhalla, North Dakota; Spectra Energy’s Express pipeline at Coal Banks Landing, Montana; and Kinder-Morgan’s Trans-Mountain pipeline in Anacortes, Washington. “We did […]

Shailene Woodley, star of The Fault in Our Stars and the Divergent series, was arrested Monday morning while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in Sioux County, North Dakota. Screenshot from Shailene Woodley Facebook page. Woodley was streaming live on her Facebook page Monday during a peaceful protest at Standing Rock. The protest was in response […]

By Sara Stidstone Gronim On Aug. 29, 2015, I was getting ready for another semester of teaching at Long Island University Post. One year later, I was in jail. On Aug. 29, 2016, I was arrested for a peaceful protest in front of National Grid’s Brooklyn headquarters. How does one go from the Ivory Tower […]

The Morton County Sheriff’s Department, whose officers used mace and unleashed dogs on Dakota Access Pipeline protestors earlier this month, sent in armored vehicles and arrested 21 people Wednesday at two sites. But a video released by those at the Sacred Ground Camp shows unarmed protestors conducting a prayer ceremony involving the planting of willow […]

By Ryan Schleeter From Hillary Clinton’s viral “shimmy” to Donald Trump’s expansive vocabulary, we all just processed a lot. Let’s break it down. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton faced off in their first presidential debate on Sept 27 at Hofstra University.Michael Vadon, Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons The Bonkers 1. That time that Trump essentially […]

Most Americans live far from the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline—they won’t be able to visit the encampments on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation where representatives of more than 200 tribes have come together in the most dramatic show of force of this environmental moment. They won’t be able to participate in the daily […]