2011 Earth First! Round River Rendezvous Defend the Rockies! Shut Down the Tar Sands!

In the Wild Rockies of western Montana and northern Idaho, a battle is being waged by a small group of committed citizens against one of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world–and the people are winning. ExxonMobile and other international criminal organizations are attempting to transform the Hyw. 12 National Scenic Byway–a breathtaking, mountainous corridor that slithers along the Clearwater and Lochsa Rivers–into a “high and wide” industrial shipping corridor that would be used to transport strip mining equipment to the Alberta tar sands, one of the most destructive industrial projects on Earth.

What began as a small grassroots campaign spearheaded by Northern Rockies Rising Tide has evolved into a regional movement which has successfully halted the contruction of Exxon’s proposed Kearl tar sands mine in northern Alberta for over a year by means of public demonstrations and litigation. As the proposed tar sands corridor remains stalled in the courts, activists in Montana and Idaho are hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

This July, environmental justice advocates and impacted community members from around the country will converge for the 2011 Earth First! Round River Rendezvous, a week of education and action focused around issues of resource extraction and environmental injustice in the Intermountain West, and we would like to invite you to join us.

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Rondy Color Poster .PDF
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Rondy Black & White Poster .PDF
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Rondy Quarter Sheets
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Resisting The Tar Sands Part 1
http://2011rrr.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/resisting-the-tar-sands_1.pdf

Resisting The Tar Sands Part 2
http://2011rrr.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/resisting-the-tar-sands_2.pdf