Thursday, April 22, 2010

Some last thoughts

What is hard to convey are the tears. The tears of Susanna, an Athabascan from Alberta Province in Canada, who lost 13 family members in one month. Multinational corporations such as BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil and even the Norwegian government produce oil from tar sands from mines covering an area as large as New York State and pollute the native lands causing countless cancers and poisoning the fish. One 8 year old boy is afraid to eat the food or drink the water. The land is crying along with the people.

The tears of participants in our session on building a movement. The tears on an Oneida from New York who does not know how to stop the proposed drilling of the shale for oil. Should she stand at the site and say drill me?

Tears, courage and determination. I hope these will in the end be enough to save us all.

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