WHEN: Tuesday, September 13, 12:45pm—3pm.
WHERE: Entrance to the Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School, 546 Jack Gibbs Boulevard
Columbus, OH 43215.
WHAT: When President Obama arrives at the Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School tomorrow, he will be greeted by several dozen student and community activists with signs and a giant banner that reads: “Pres. Obama: Yes You Can, Stop the XL Pipeline.”
The rally comes on the heels of a two-week sit-in at the White House over the proposed pipeline that led to the arrest of 1,252 Americans from nearly all 50 states.
The controversial 1,700-mile pipeline project would carry tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. and has become the most important environmental decision facing President Obama before the 2012 election.
WHY: President Obama will decide later this year on TransCanada’s permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which will send 900,000 barrels a day of the world’s dirtiest oil to U.S. refineries, allowing further development of the Alberta tar sands. Mining oil from tar sands creates three times more carbon emissions than conventional oil extraction.
“It will be increasingly difficult to mobilize the environmental base and to mobilize in particular young people to volunteer, to knock on thousands of doors, to put in 16-hour days, to donate money if they don’t think the president is showing the courage to stand up to big polluters,” Mike Brune, the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, told the New York Times.
For more information about the pipeline and protests, visit: Tar Sands Action
LOCAL CONTACTS
For Columbus Action in front of Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School:
Alec Johnson, 419-512-4718, hedgerowteacher@gmail.com
Danny Berchenko, 513-417-2562, danny.berchenko@gmail.com





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