the time has come. The world needs to be involved more than ever. The children of North America needs the world to gather and let the western world know now that the crimes have to end.The aboriginal people have been on the front line long enough. We have evolved to become aware of humanity at its worst, when any group of a nation where the young and old are placed in harm all for the profits of Industrial Development its time has come to exposé it and remove the powers that have executed it .Canada has broken every rio statement and stripped the land , forest , they have stripped the rights of first nations and tactfully placed racism to distract the issues of planned ignorance. The Un has placed these humanities as a priority in third world countries and cowardly turned a cheek away from this developed in Canada at a price of accepting the Prime Minister declining clean water rights as human right. The world is knowing that communities have already been effected , My question to the world is does it make a difference what nationality has been effected by the devastation of the Alberta Tar sands . We leave a special thank you to Madeline of Wisconsin that says enough is enough, and we pray that her conviction to end this notorieties of Prime Minister Harper is accountable , while he detaches his own accountabilities of poisoning the water and placing chemical warfare in the river and water of the first nations people of Canada and sits playing a humanitarian in the Syrian conflicts with Russia . I hope the world trolls him out . ~M Dallaire Madeleine is a teacher in Madison Wisconsin who took part in the historic people-powered resistance to attacks on worker’s rights this spring. But now she’s coming to Washington DC for the Tar Sands Action, to risk arrest to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Recently she spoke with the action organizers about why she’s making the trip, and how the Wisconsin labor fight is connected to the struggle to stop global warming. The Wisconsin uprising was my first personal experience with the power of collective disobedience in a fight for survival. My teacher’s union was the first to stage a sick-in when the bill stripping away our right to collective bargaining was introduced by Gov. Walker. I will never forget sitting in a restaurant after the first after-school rally with my fellow teachers and deciding together that we would call in sick. We were scared that we would be alone and we were scared about what would happen to us, but ultimately we felt we had to do it. The next day so many teachers joined us from around the state that dozens of school districts had to shut down—the school closings scrolled across the TV screen just like there was a snow day. It was truly a storm of protest. Since that day I am much less afraid to stand up for what I believe in and I can face the possibility of getting arrested for those beliefs. When tens of thousands of teachers filled the cavernous state capitol building from wall to wall and up every stairway, it gave the 14 Democratic Senators the courage to take action on our behalf, and they blocked the passage of the bill by leaving the state. I hope to see storms of protest arise over the tar sands and on the need to cut carbon emissions. I hope that just as a group of university students delivering valentines to the heartless state legislators was the spark that set Wisconsin on fire, so too the tar sands action will be a spark that inspires people everywhere to demand that we stop burning fossil fuels. I hope that President Obama will draw strength and courage like the “Fab 14” in Wisconsin to do what I’m sure he knows is the right thing–stop the Keystone pipeline. One of the lessons I’ve learned is that people will get up and protest when they fully understand that something large and important is at stake and when they have good leadership that they trust in their union or other organization. I never dreamed my mostly apolitical coworkers would call in sick and sing “Solidarity Forever” in the capitol with me. We are much closer to each other because of it. If we could do it, then lots more people can, too, because we are truly just ordinary people trying to save what is important to us. I also learned that the struggle is long and in the middle of it you don’t know how it is going to turn out, and you have to just keep going. The support that we’ve received from around the country and around the world has been so heartening. We’ve lost a lot of battles here in Wisconsin but the fight is not over and the recalls are going well. The tar sands action came to my attention when I received an email from Bill McKibben titled “The time has come.” And that’s exactly what I was thinking—as an activist on climate change I’ve been working through the system writing letters, organizing rallies and educational events, and talking to my legislators. But these efforts, while essential, don’t convey the urgency I feel as I read every new report from the climatologists, or see the heartbreak of people in communities that have been destroyed by floods and wildfires, or see the forests destroyed by tar sands operations. In particular, I want to bring a message to President Obama that he can’t over look because we will be at his doorstep. Most of the people I talk to here in Wisconsin thank me and some tell me they wish they could come with me to the action in DC. In general people respect that I am acting on my beliefs. I will be bringing along pictures of people who can’t go so that they can be there with me symbolically. I want people in my community to know that there are Madisonians who are willing to risk arrest because feel so strongly about stopping the extraction of oil from the tar sands. I want them to ask me why I did it so that we will talk about it. I want them to feel inspired to find their own way to communicate with our national leaders and their friends about the need to put the survival of our ecosystem first above all other considerations. For myself, I know that I will come back inspired by the people around me in DC and by the bonds that we form as we stand together in front of the White House. It is not a big leap from the capitol of Wisconsin to the capitol of the United States. The people behind the laws and policies that I oppose, such as the Koch brothers, are the same in both places. It’s up to us to make the leap, and like Bill said: the time has come. Thanks Madeline Admin
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