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Utah Tar Sands Resistance Shows Solidarity with Flood Wall Street and the People’s Climate March

This past weekend, people from various parts of Eastern Utah who are organizing to stop tar sands and oilshale development in the region came together to demonstrate their solidarity with Flood Wall Street and the People’s Climate March in New York City. The group, consisting of Uintah Basin oilfield residents, Moab community members living downstream from the proposed tar sands mine, and a handful of other folks from Utah and Colorado, marched to the site of the first commercial tar sands mine in the US, located at PR Spring on the Tavaputs Plateau. As the international movement for climate justice continues to grow, and as hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets to challenge the logic of unchecked industrial development and fossil fuels extraction, people on the front lines, like those in Eastern Utah, are strategizing, networking, and taking bold direct actions to defend their communities from the profit-driven belligerence of the oil and gas industry.