Inter Press Service: More than 200 Canadians engaged in civil disobedience, with 117 arrested in Canada's quiet capital city on Monday. The reason? To protest the Stephen Harper right-wing government's open support for the oil industry and expanding production in the climate-disrupting tar sands.
The normally placid and polite Canadians shouted, waved banners and demanded the closure of the multi-billion-dollar tar sands oil extraction projects in northern Alberta to protect the global climate and the health of local......
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Jail Before Climate-Wrecking Tar Sands, Canadians Say
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 27th, 2011
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