![July 21, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Opponents to enforce shutdown of tar sands mine today PR SPRINGS, Utah–About 80 climate justice land defenders right now are using their bodies to […]](http://www.peacefuluprising.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bs3IoC0CIAACgHx-195x110.jpg "PRESS RELEASE: Opponents to enforce shutdown of tar sands mine today")
![by Jill Jones Grass roots on-site protests actually work, according to blogger Jason Koebler in a recent post on MOTHERBOARD. This is good news for Utah Tar Sand Resistance, Peaceful […]](http://www.peacefuluprising.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DSC07853-195x110.jpg "Grass Roots On-Site Protests Actually Work! (So Come and Join Us)")
![By Sassy-Frass On June 16, five women marched onto the site where U.S. Oil Sands, a tar sands mining company, was bulldozing a forested ridgeline into a flat parking lot. […]](http://www.peacefuluprising.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/DEKFinal-195x110.jpg "The Violence of Tar Sands Extraction: WAAVE Speaks")
![In May, news erupted about a startling number of dying babies in Utah’s Uintah Basin, (what should be Ute territory, actually) where fossil fuel development is the center of the […]](http://www.peacefuluprising.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DSC08151-1024x685-195x110.jpg "Honk if you ❤ Babies! Dirty Energy Kills!")
![The weekend of June 20th, 2014, an intergenerational gathering brought together children, guardians, teachers and land defenders at PR Springs, site of the nation’s first commercial fuel tar sands strip […]](http://www.peacefuluprising.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_0035-1024x764-195x110.jpg "Utah Children say, “Oil Shale Puts Our Future on the Line.”")
![Canadian company U.S Oil Sands has paid their reclamation bond of $2.2 million and has now begun major construction at their second tar sands strip mine in the Book Cliffs […]](http://www.peacefuluprising.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/beforeafter-US-Oil-Sands-photo-195x110.jpg "IT’S ON: Major Tar Sands Construction Underway in Utah")
![As protestors gather at PR Springs, site of the first tar sands mine in the United States, for a permanent protest vigil, they are poised not only to observe the […]](http://www.peacefuluprising.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Screen-shot-2014-06-17-at-7.19.24-PM-195x110.png "VIDEO: Watching U.S. Oil Sands")
![Last weekend, tar sands resistLast weekend, tar sands resisters new and old gathered in the Book Cliffs of so-called Eastern Utah, at PR Springs, site of the first proposed tar […]](http://www.peacefuluprising.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DSC07794-195x110.jpg "Storm Brewing: Permanent protest setup at proposed tar sands strip mine")
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After a massive direct action protest today at the site of U.S. Oil Sands’ tar sands strip-mining site, a total of 21 were arrested and are currently awaiting charges at […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Opponents to enforce shutdown of tar sands mine today
July 21, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Opponents to enforce shutdown of tar sands mine today PR SPRINGS, Utah–About 80 climate justice land defenders right now are using their bodies to […]
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Grass Roots On-Site Protests Actually Work! (So Come and Join Us)
by Jill Jones Grass roots on-site protests actually work, according to blogger Jason Koebler in a recent post on MOTHERBOARD. This is good news for Utah Tar Sand Resistance, Peaceful […]
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The Violence of Tar Sands Extraction: WAAVE Speaks
By Sassy-Frass On June 16, five women marched onto the site where U.S. Oil Sands, a tar sands mining company, was bulldozing a forested ridgeline into a flat parking lot. […]
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Honk if you ❤ Babies! Dirty Energy Kills!
In May, news erupted about a startling number of dying babies in Utah’s Uintah Basin, (what should be Ute territory, actually) where fossil fuel development is the center of the […]
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Utah Children say, “Oil Shale Puts Our Future on the Line.”
The weekend of June 20th, 2014, an intergenerational gathering brought together children, guardians, teachers and land defenders at PR Springs, site of the nation’s first commercial fuel tar sands strip […]
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IT’S ON: Major Tar Sands Construction Underway in Utah
Canadian company U.S Oil Sands has paid their reclamation bond of $2.2 million and has now begun major construction at their second tar sands strip mine in the Book Cliffs […]
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Women of Action Against Violent Extraction shuts down tar sands mine construction
Women of Action Against Violent Extraction (WAAVE) joined the fight against tar sands development on the Colorado Plateau. The group used direct action June 16 to stop the lone bulldozer […]
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VIDEO: Watching U.S. Oil Sands
As protestors gather at PR Springs, site of the first tar sands mine in the United States, for a permanent protest vigil, they are poised not only to observe the […]
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Storm Brewing: Permanent protest setup at proposed tar sands strip mine
Last weekend, tar sands resistLast weekend, tar sands resisters new and old gathered in the Book Cliffs of so-called Eastern Utah, at PR Springs, site of the first proposed tar […]
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