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Posted on: Oct 15, 2012, Source: Truthout

As the Texas tar sands tree-sit enters its fourth week, activists re-enter the tree village to supply and defend members of the Tar Sands Blockade. The arrests continue.

Posted on: Oct 6, 2012, Source: Truthout

So far the jar of "tainted" TransCanada bills she buried in the rich earth of her 60-acre farm has yielded only heavy machinery and a troop of activists from the Tar Sands Blockade.

Posted on: Sep 27, 2012, Source: Truthout

A tree-sit continues in Texas despite an unprecedented escalation in police and industry violence toward peaceful blockaders working to prevent construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Posted on: Sep 11, 2012, Source: Truthout

The Tar Sands Blockade is coordinating a series of rolling protests along the proposed southern route through Texas and Oklahoma.

Posted on: Aug 17, 2012, Source: Occupy.com

TransCanada broke ground on the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, bucking more than four years of opposition to the project from farmers, ranchers and thousands affected across Texas and Oklahoma.

Posted on: Jun 2, 2012, Source: Campus Progress

Posted on: Jul 15, 2011, Source: In These Times

Despite a loss at the Supreme Court, Wal-Mart workers continue to fight for better treatment and equality for women in the workplace.