'Extraordinary': Three Weeks Later, Keystone Blockaders Still in Texas Jail [View all]

[cory777]

Source: Common Dreams

Nearly three weeks after they were arrested on misdemeanor charges, activists who barricaded themselves inside a portion of pipe to protest the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline remain in a Texas jail, each held on $65,000 bail.

Activists Matthew Almonte and Glen Collins. (Photo: Tar Sands Blockade) Mathew Almonte and Glen Collins were arrested Dec. 3 in Winona, Texas after chaining their arms to two 600-pound concrete barrels they had maneuvered inside a section of pipe. They hoped to block construction of the TransCanada KXL pipeline, which if completed will carry highly toxic tar sands from Alberta, Canada, to Gulf Coast refineries.

Also arrested was Isabel Brooks, who was filming the protest.

Part of the coalition Tar Sands Blockade, Collins said at the time that he was barricading the pipe "to say loud and clear to the extraction industry that our communities and the resources we depend on for survival are not collateral damage."

Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/21-4

---

Breaking Activist News http://activistnews.org/