Anybody know how to fight the oil companies? Central Coasters pay attention to this in California

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17. Big Oil can afford to tell the Big Lie.

The only thing We got is Truth. That's why the spying etc.

Coal, Oil, Gas: None Shall Pass

A growing movement across the Pacific Northwest is gumming up the fossil-fuel works.

byDaphne Wysham
OtherWords, Wednesday, August 05, 2015

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According to the Department of Interior, there’s a 75 percent chance of a spill once Arctic drilling commences. Though Shell claims otherwise, a spill there could be impossible to contain.

Moreover, drilling in the virgin Arctic means tapping into oil reserves that scientists say we must leave in the ground to avoid irreversible climate change.

Rappaport did pull it together. His spectacular photos ended up on the Rachel Maddow Show and elsewhere. But he was a changed man.

The Fennica fight was only the latest in a growing movement across the Northwest. With little to no activist experience, people like Rappaport are stepping forward to block new gas pipelines, along with coal, oil, and gas export terminals. They’re even attempting to stop the accident-prone trains hauling thousands of barrels of fracked crude oil across vast distances in their tracks.

We call this emerging people-powered resistance movement “Blockadia.” A well-known banner hung from another Portland bridge sums it up: “Coal, Oil, Gas: None shall pass.”

The reason for this blockade is clear. The Sightline Institute has identified 28 new fossil fuel export projects slated for the Pacific Northwest whose collective carbon load would be five times greater than the infamous Keystone XL pipeline — the ill-fated piece of oil infrastructure that former NASA climate scientist James Hansen said would be “game over” for the planet all on its own.

Though we lost this round with the Fennica fight, we Blockadians have discovered that together, we’re quite powerful.

For example, after months of campaigning beginning last fall, the Climate Action Coalition persuaded Portland Mayor Charlie Hales to pull his support from the single largest business investment in our city’s history: a propane export facility that would have brought mile-long propane trains to town every day from Alberta.

CONTINUED with links for inspiration...

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/08/05/coal-oil-gas-none-shall-pass

I should say something about staying anonymous, given the FBI's track record. BWTF, Uncle Sam will know who's who based on the say-so of Booz Allen Carlyle Group Blackwater chums' say-so.