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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClimate Activist Buries Arm in Concrete Block to Halt Keystone XL
An innovative climate activist in Oklahoma temporarily shut down construction on the Keystone XL pipeline on Thursday morning after locking his arm into a concrete capsule buried directly in the pipelines path, according to the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance.
The man, 42-year-old Fitzgerald Scott, was extracted by emergency crews and taken into police custody.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/25-3
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Climate Activist Buries Arm in Concrete Block to Halt Keystone XL (Original Post)
ashling
Apr 2013
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NoMoreWarNow
(1,259 posts)1. Now THAT is dedication
I could not imagine doing that... my leg maybe, but not my arm.
CaliforniaPeggy
(156,301 posts)2. What a brave man.
And how wrong it is that actions like his are necessary to stop something that any sane, rational person can see should never have been undertaken in the first place.
We Are Fucked.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)3. Go "Occupy Everything" Scott!!!!
