Gulf Coast Resistance and the Southern Leg of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Part II: Communities and Resistance
From: A Line in the Tar Sands
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In Chapter 17 the authors examine the scope and breadth of resistance across the Gulf Region of the United States, including the Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, Tar Sands Blockade, Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition, BridgetheGulfProject.org, NacSTOP, and individual landowners.
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Contributors
Cherri Foytlin
Cherri Foytlin is a freelance journalist, author, advocate, speaker, and mother of six who lives in South Louisiana—an area inundated with industrial pollution. She is the co-author of the e-book Spill It! The Truth About the Deep Water Horizon Oil Rig Explosion, and regularly contributes to www.BridgetheGulfProject.org, the Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and several local newspapers.
Yudith Nieto
Yudith Nieto was born in Mexico and grew up in the fence-line refining community of Manchester in Houston, Texas, which helped inspire her to become involved in the environmental justice movement. Yudith has worked with Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, and has also been involved in organizing direct actions with the Tar Sands Blockade.
Kerry Lemon
Kerry Lemon raised two children with her husband in their off-the-grid home in East Texas. Kerry is committed to social justice and communitybuilding, and her involvement with grassroots organizing is fuelled by her family’s personal experience with the detrimental impacts of petroleum extraction practices.
Will Wooten
Will Wooten is an online organizer with the Tar Sands Blockade, a progressive political activist, and a freelance writer based in Texas.
