Thank You!!

[G_j]

hey, it's Big Ed, thanks guy!

Cowboy & Indian Alliance Gifts Tipi to Pres. Obama: Rally & March

On Saturday, April 26, the Cowboy and Indian Alliance — along with several thousand allies — rallied at the tipi encampment on the National Mall. Featured speakers included legendary musician Neil Young, actress Daryl Hannah, Jane Kleeb of Bold Nebraska, Dallas Goldtooth of the Lower Sioux Dakota Nation, Chief Rueben George, and Nebraska rancher Meghan Hammond.

After the rally, the Cowboy and Indian Alliance led a march through the streets of D.C. to the National Museum of the American Indian, where a ceremony was held to gift a tipi in honor of Pres. Obama. We are asking the President to REJECT the Keystone XL pipeline, and PROTECT our land, water and climate for future generations. #NoKXL

More details: http://rejectandprotect.org/

Neil Young: Reject & Protect Rally, Washington, DC - April 26, 2014

Thank You!!

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

"With the power of soul, anything is possible; with the power of you, anything we want to do."
-- Jimi Hendrix

[lillypaddle]

2. Great pics

k&r

[niyad]

3. k and r--thank you for sharing those great pics

[Bobbie Jo]

4. K&R

Thanks for sharing this!

[corkhead]

5. Isn't that Neil Young in the 6th pic?

[Omaha Steve]

7. YES it is

The same star that recorded "Let's impeach the President" when W was in office!

K&R!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. ...

Neil!

[G_j]

10. Daryl Hannah also,

(There is a video of Neil's speech a little further down.)

[calimary]

23. He's just wonderful! He was touring with biodiesel fuel in his tour bus

LONG before almost anyone else. AND he was spreading the word about it to anyone who would listen.

Always appreciated him. Still do!

And it's nice to see Big Ed there. Originally he was in favor of the pipeline. By now, though, he's seen and heard enough evidence to change his mind. I can appreciate that.

[KoKo]

6. Huge K&R...Inspiring Photos!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. seriously choked up, here.

wow. so powerful.

[stonecutter357]

11. K&R

[ErikJ]

12. NY's Pocahontas

[passiveporcupine]

13. that would be awesome to participate in n/t

[Jim__]

14. Where's Hannity?

[lame54]

15. We love Neil Young...

That is why Unapatriciated and I chose this for our wedding song...

[stage left]

16. K&R

Wonderful!

[hopemountain]

17. hope our president

also feels the truth & power of the peoples' plea to stop the keystone pipeline from further damaging the land and our children's future.

i am also very moved by the generosity of their gift of the tipi to president obama.

thank you for posting. i hope you got to be there.

[Cha]

18. A wonderful OP.. thank you, Gj and to all those who came out

against the pipeline.

[countryjake]

19. A Kick for Reject & Protect!

[Hutzpa]

20. Marvelous

K&R

[Coventina]

21. K & R!!!!

[99Forever]

22. K&R

[Auntie Bush]

24. Thank you Ed, Indians & cowboys and all those consceientious people who care about our invironment

and take the time and expense to do something about it. This should get the Presidents attention.

[alp227]

25. Ed Schultz is the ONLY media figure to cover this!

No other show on MSNBC has covered this, and this protest got ZERO airtime elsewhere on MSNBC or ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FNC, or PBS. MAYBE I heard this on NPR's hourly news brief over the weekend. But those channels sure as hell had time to go full TMZ on the LA Clippers owner.

[mountain grammy]

26. Indeed! Thank you!

and where is the media coverage? Except for Ed Schultz and a few others, no corporate media here.

[G_j]

27. Native Americans, Ranchers Take to National Mall to Protest Keystone Pipeline

http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/28/native-americans-ranchers-take-to-national-mall-to-protest-keystone-pipeline/

Over the past five days, seven Native American tribes have joined ranchers and farmers from the Great Plains to stage a protest on the National Mall in Washington, DC, against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.


The theme of the week was “Cowboys and Indians” — a tongue-in-cheek reference to classic, if politically incorrect, westerns and kids’ games of shoot-’em-up. Today the two groups stand united in opposition to the pipeline; in coming to DC, they hoped to make President Obama and the US Department of State aware that the project could have devastating effects on the lives and livelihoods of all who were present.

“We’re here to show the very faces of the people that a decision on the KXL pipeline represents,” Dallas Goldtooth of the Lower Sioux Nation told the crowd. “These people represent families, they represent communities, they represent entire nations, so [they]… bring their stories here to say no to the Keystone XL pipeline and to all pipelines.”

On April 22, the first day of the protest, members of the group rode on horseback from the reflecting pool in front of the capitol to a camp on the National Mall, where they erected teepees, one of which will remain on display in the National Museum of the American Indian.

Native Americans in Canada oppose tapping the Alberta tar sands for fossil fuels, citing the local environmental implications as well as their contribution to global warming. In the US, First Nations say the State Department has not adequately evaluated the effects the pipeline will have on their communities and sacred spaces. Ranchers and farmers spoke out against their land being confiscated under eminent domain to make way for the pipeline, and environmental problems the pipeline could cause once built.

The protest followed on the heels of an announcement by the State Department that the Obama administration would put off making a final decision on the pipeline until after the November midterm elections. Meanwhile, the battle over the pipeline’s path through the midwest is being fought in state courts.