Subject: [ACTION ALERT]: Oil Train Halted - Mother suspended above tracks!
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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:43:12 -0400

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Rising Tide Seattle along with participants who attended Backbone Campaign's Localize This! Action Camp launched a technical blockade action early this morning effectively halting both Oil and Coal Trains!!Tired of inaction by politicians? 
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***Demand Govenor Inslee Stops Stalling and Declares a Moratorium on all Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Projects - 360-902-4111
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              <div id="id_540606e126fe18037937394" class="text_exposed_root text_exposed">RIGHT NOW,
                  suspended above oil-by-rail train tracks, this
                  courageous mother and climate justice activist is
                  compelled to risk life and limb to protect our
                  communities' and our children's future. Her righteous
                  actions offers a stark contrast to the reckless
                  actions by bill<span class="text_exposed_show">ionaires
                    Warren Buffett and transnational corporations whose
                    only allegiance is to profit.

                  <span class="text_exposed_show">It is
                    the fearless defense of what we love by ordinary
                    people that will bend our society towards justice,
                    not the inaction of politicians embedded in the
                    establishment.

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                  The blockade continues strong! #noneshallpass

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        EVERETT: Five local residents have stopped work at a Burlington
        Northern Santa-Fe Rail Yard in Everett by erecting a tripod
        structure on the outbound railroad tracks, directly in front of
        both a mile-long oil train and a coal train. Seattle
        resident Abby Brockway - a small business owner and mother - is
        suspended from the structure 18 feet above the tracks while four
        other residents are locked to the legs of the tripod. The group
        is demanding an immediate halt to all shipments of fossil fuels
        through the Northwest and calling on Governor Inslee to reject
        permits for all new fossil fuel projects in Washington,
        including proposed coal and oil terminals.

        "People in the Pacific Northwest are forming a thin green line
        that will keep oil, coal and gas in the ground," said Brockway,
        "Just one of these proposed terminals would process enough
        carbon to push us past the global warming tipping point - we
        won't let that happen."

        Today's protest has shut down work at BNSF's Delta Rail Yard in
        Everett. With the increase of fossil fuel transport in recent
        years the yard has become a crucial staging ground for coal
        trains headed to Canadian export terminals and oil trains bound
        for Washington refineries. An oil train carrying explosive
        bakken crude oil sat stalled while the protest continued.

        "Exploding oil trains running through my town are just a
        reminder of how out of control the fossil fuel industry really
        is," said Jackie Minchew an Everett resident and retired
        educator locked to one of the tripod's poles.

        In a controversial move, Burlington Northern Santa Fe recently
        announced a tentative deal with union leaders to reduce train
        crews from an engineer and conductor to a single engineer. The
        oil train that derailed and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec was
        crewed by a single engineer. BNSF claims that oil trains will
        continue to have two-person crews, but critics point out that
        nothing in the proposed contract binds the company to that
        statement. Under the proposed deal, coal trains would be
        operated by a single crew-member.

         (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001HxLaY6-fEJMN0YkseEJNLMeYISXIOkX7ij7dirwYVu3Puh4Xn_CKwFZ-nZmrgoC_pUetjMCfXVZMhJyS5yJZvVMuFce46-FoVFZrenTRLHc6styHMNiG3Lc1pVBcS2LhEqQD72ACCATrUsHX3F-QQN7Bdc_nWh8Qxs2HHMVil8g4dFTK6Wb-bBwEsZ-77fHGm2M7uXeNezUyjKQ-TP2NOhlcm3NRKuOV&c=vwT0x3py5WlhpnYFa1avFUBl5oqqq6_YXGMsbTrZIaNGJlhjEW9iDg==&ch=KB722PnbprhiDpydNbrjYDYiatg8Fg4uHdst0KSL1MgafmP9FDecXQ==)"BNSF is endangering workers, communities and
        our environment. They should keep the conductors and lose the
        oil trains," said Brockway.

        The surge in oil train traffic is already impacting passenger
        rail and agricultural shipments. Farmers from the Midwest to
        Washington State have faced what they call "unprecedented"
        delays in moving Wheat and other products to West Coast ports.
        Amtrak service through fossil-fuel train corridors has also
        suffered significant disruption, and officials have expressed
        concern that the problem will only get worse as more terminals
        come online.

        "Railroads can be part of the solution, transporting crops and
        people or part of the problem with coal and oil. We should make
        that decision, not the fossil fuel companies," Said Patrick
        Mazza, a longtime climate activist also locked to the tracks.

        Mazza says he is taking this action for his daughter, who will
        turn 18 tomorrow.

        "My last act as a father before my daughter reaches full
        adulthood tomorrow is to put my body on the line today," Said
        Mazza, "It is up to us of the parental generation to do our
        absolute best to leave the least climate disrupted world we can,
        to put our bodies on the line to give our kids a fighting chance
        to deal with what we have left them."

        Development of extreme energy projects--like the Alberta tar
        sands, Bakken Shale oil and coal from the Powder River
        Basin--has fueled an explosion in proposed fossil fuel
        infrastructure in the Northwest. More than twenty new or
        expanded coal, oil, and gas terminals are proposed between
        British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. In both states and
        British Columbia, these proposals have been met with fierce
        local resistance. Local communities have challenged both the
        safety of transporting coal, oil, and volatile gas through their
        communities and the role of fossil fuel export in fueling
        catastrophic climate disruption. Proposed coal terminals in
        Longview and Bellingham, and oil terminals in Vancouver and
        Gray's Harbor, would lead to more carbon emissions than produced
        in the state of Washington each year.

        "We could pass every climate initiative proposed by Governor
        Inslee, but if we let these terminals be built our future is on
        the chopping block," said Liz Spoerri a Seattle middle school
        teacher also locked on the tracks.

        While proposed coal and oil terminals have been controversial
        for years, climate activists in the Northwest have significantly
        intensified their tactics this summer. In Montana, residents sat
        on the tracks to block a coal train last April, and again on
        August 16,. In early July a woman locked herself to a 55-gallon
        barrel filled with concrete, blocking oil-trains at a Portland
        facility. In a similar action on July 28, three people blocked
        oil-trains at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes by locking
        themselves to concrete filled barrels. Most recently, three
        Seattle residents, including state legislative candidate Jess
        Spear, were arrested blocking oil and coal trains near the
        Seattle Waterfront.

         (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001HxLaY6-fEJMN0YkseEJNLMeYISXIOkX7ij7dirwYVu3Puh4Xn_CKwFZ-nZmrgoC_r7t35qRtDEFdAOT0VHoucizhKidWuyW8EldOINajHSTA9OPCAzrc755DI338Me2pwAJW-3mIXu19H_Mf8ABJZbbC-J3109culAtOWRnv1JaMjk-5AnOp5yGG9maqXMJPeow3WsApJFBCvqGHE5L6jikIbPCYP8Qb&c=vwT0x3py5WlhpnYFa1avFUBl5oqqq6_YXGMsbTrZIaNGJlhjEW9iDg==&ch=KB722PnbprhiDpydNbrjYDYiatg8Fg4uHdst0KSL1MgafmP9FDecXQ==)"People in the Northwest are not going to
        allow this region to become a fossil fuel superhighway," said
        Mike LaPoint, an Everett small business owner locked on the
        tracks. "This is just a sample of the resistance that will
        happen if any large fossil fuel project is permitted."

        Despite controversy, the number of fossil fuel trains on
        Washington's rails continues to rise. While larger coal and oil
        terminals are undergoing lengthy environmental reviews, projects
        at Washington's refineries have brought approximately two oil
        trains per day to communities like Seattle and Everett. While
        the Department of Ecology conducts a study on the safety of
        oil-by-rail construction continues on a new terminal at the
        Phillips 66 refinery in Ferndale, and local officials are
        attempting to fast-track an oil train terminal at Shell's Puget
        Sound Refinery without environmental review. Each of these
        projects could add up to six oil trains per week to the rails.
        Expansions at the Fraser Surrey Docks coal export facility in
        Vancouver, Canada, would increase the number of coal trains
        moving through Washington. Activists are demanding an immediate
        moratorium on all new fossil fuel terminals.

        "Politicians play a blame game and talk about safety, but new
        terminals keep getting rubber stamped and built," said LaPoint,
        "If elected officials won't stop the fossil fuel takeover, we'll
        have to do it for them."

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