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Elisabeth Leja: nonviolent direct action against Keystone XL pipeline in Oklahoma - 2014 june trial Okemah
Tar sands resistance in Oklahoma.
Trial in Okemah, 26th June 2014, @ 2pm for tar sands oil pipeline resister Elisabeth Leja. Starts at 2pm, if you can be there.
If you would like to carpool, let Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance know here or call (405) 283-6140. As always, your support is greatly appreciated. Please consider making a generous donation to help cover Elisabeth’s fines, court costs, and travel expenses.
Supporting resisters like Elisabeth through the court process is an essential part of building a nonviolent direct action movement in the Great Plains.
Elisabeth is a 75-year-old, retired math teacher from Norman, Oklahoma. Elisabeth was the first person to risk arrest opposing KXL in Oklahoma when she locked herself to construction equipment with a bike lock in the whee hours of Feb. 4th, 2013.
Citing exponential theory to illustrate the rapid rise of carbon emissions from tar sands exploitation, Elisabeth explains that the Keystone XL just doesn’t add up. “I have nothing to lose personally if the pipeline is completed and used incessantly by Trans Canada. If there were to be a spill, I wouldn’t be directly affected. I live too far away. So why protest? Because I love the earth, our planet. I live on it, and we need to take care of it. Why sit back and let greed run the world?” Determined to put the KXL and the whole tar sands industry on trial, Elisabeth has taken a No Compromise stance in her ongoing legal defense. She is facing a charge of trespass. She would love to have community support as she defends herself and individuals’ rights to raise their voices through nonviolent acts of civil disobedience.
Also see Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance:
http://gptarsandsresistance.org/elisabeth-is-going-to-trial-this-thursday/
http://gptarsandsresistance.org/keystone-xl-resisters-headed-to-trial/
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Albums: Environmental Issues in Oklahoma
Location: Okemah, Oklahoma
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Comment by Tony Nuspl on July 2, 2014 at 4:20pm
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Ten minutes before trial, Leja was informed that the case against her had been dismissed. Likely, the state prosecutor was told by other politicians not to allow her grievances against the oil and gas industry to get a higher profile than they already had. See photo of her supporters at the court house on the day:
http://gptarsandsresistance.org/
Elisabeth put a lot of time and work into preparing her statement. You can read the full statement here. Elisabeth’s statement is a glaring example of the reality that resisting resource extraction is not a wild idea, rather resisting resource extraction is an act of basic human decency
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