Great Plains Tarsands Resistance: Action Camp Day 1

Action Camp Update: Day 1

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March 19, 2013 by Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance

Yesterday was the opening day of Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance’s first action camp—and we’re incredibly thankful to the folks who have thrown their weight behind this struggle and whose history of resistance continues to provide inspiration and context.
The camp began with an opening ceremony led by Carter Camp (below, front right), and Casey Camp (in blue, left), with singing and drumming by Oglalla Lakota folks from Pine Ridge. Casey introduced folks, who came from all over the “United States,” to the region now known as Oklahoma and a myriad of the health and environmental problems caused by exploitative industry in Ponca territory-by-treaty.

Dwane and Carter Camp are both long time AIM (American Indian Movement) veterans.

The Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance is holding the action camp in response to the deadly infrastructure projects that are causing environmental genocide, and specifically the Keystone XL Pipeline being built through Oklahoma and carrying toxic tar sands that create more carbon emissions when refined than standard oil. MORE: http://gptarsandsresistance.org/