pete our people fighting against you if you recall that we had on this program
bill mckibben who was uh...
was on tour with is do the math to war
specifically targeting universities
uh... and college students because they're the ones are gonna have to deal
with this uh... with the implications of are non action now
encouraging a movement to divest
from
institutions particularly higher education institutions to begin with
from their holdings in
big oil companies
and uh... carbon producing companies that are
essentially
for lack of a better term poisoning
uh... are worlds climate
and uh... i don't know if this is directly related to but i imagine it is
yesterday
in westborough massachusetts right on route nine
not far from my home town worcester
college students activists
occupied the trans canada offices these are this is the company that is uh...
pushing the keystone
excel pipeline
which as you know as we speak
the state's of texas and i believe oklahoma
are
grabbing land the a_t_m_ that domain
claiming that there's a uh... common carrier protection for the trans canada
at keystone excel pipeline
it's carrying
or will they hope
this uh... very viscous tar sands
oil if you could call it that
basically down to the gulf of mexico
to be refined and then shipped other places so i don't know how this is uh...
somehow follows the comic carrier laws of the the states but
they've managed to make alot there building the second half of the pipeline
waiting for a federal approval of the first half of the spectrum
that would cross the canadian uh... u_s_ borders
so uh... these a college students
to show solidarity with protesters in houston texas amongst other places
members of a uh... climate action network including three fifty dot org as
bill mckibben za organization
and students for justin stable future
they come from universes brandeis tufts at the harvard university hampshire in b
u
they launch the website in tandem with today's actual put a link to that under
majority dot f_m_
these apes college students
entered in packs of two in three just after two p m yesterday
in westborough
it's at a circle of formation with a backstage in
they began to click in
they put themselves in now by clocks and glues their hands together with
with crazy glue
by two ten the crew members were fully changing glued to one another with
faster i need he said dripping from their hands and thereby clocks
they were alternately removed from the transkei that offices and taken to the
west broke police station about four hours later
and uh... coming up
jen or twenty thirteen twenty six coalition of act is known as the tar
sands free northeast are preparing
to block a plants transport arsons oil through new england canadian activist
with the i don't know more movement
a protest to keystone excel pipeline
uh... and three-fifty dot org is announced a two twenty percent person
rally against anneke stone excel to be held on fairway seventeenth at the white
house
so uh... there are members of our community who are fighting against its
uses those students are to be applauded
help more of them are joint will put up by uh... a link a to their site into
these other actions that are taking place
at their majority dot after but um...
this goes out to the