[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”No Double DAPL” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:3em|text_align:left|color:%23c71782″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1583599683836{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” link=”|||”][vc_custom_heading text=”. March 5th” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:2em|text_align:left|color:%23232323″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1583599619727{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” link=”|||”][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]On Thursday, March 5, members of Extinction Rebellion and other allied groups combined forces to protest and bring attention to Energy Transfer Partners’ application, to the Illinois Commerce Commission, to double the capacity of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) by increasing the number of pumping stations along its route.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1569684292988{margin-right: -5% !important;margin-left: -5% !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #76d0f0 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]

no more fossil fuels

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a funeral for mother earth

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no double dapl, no more fossil fuels

 

Thursday, March 5th, 2020 a coalition of environmental groups combined forces to protest and bring attention to Energy Transfer Partners’ application to the Illinois Commerce Commission to double the capacity of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) by increasing the number of pumping stations along its route. Save Our Illinois Soil (SOIL), the Sierra Club, and other environmental groups have intervened against this request. Testimony by James Hansen and others has been presented detailing the risk of increasing surge pressures and the damage additional pipeline capacity does to the fight against global warming.

Extinction Rebellion rebels in Chicago, along with Rising Tide, SOIL, and the Sierra Club organized a press conference and theater action Funeral for Mother Earth. Susana Sandoval, of the Purepecha tribe, gave an offering and blessing  in solidarity with opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline expansion during the press conference. In the hearing room, all offered silent witness in support of SOIL and Sierra Club’s testimony. The hearing was standing room only. The press conference was well attended and provided coverage. The struggle continues![/vc_column_text][vc_media_grid gap=”10″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1583799438792-8785bd1d-9c7c-5″ include=”1500,1502,1496″][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” border_width=”2″ el_width=”60″ accent_color=”#76d0f0″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1569688555176{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1523″ img_size=”medium”][vc_single_image image=”1506″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]

read more . press coverage

 

Chicago Tribune coverage by Patrick O’Connell

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-dakota-access-pipeline-illinois-commerce-commission-20200305-ws6fukbvx5fgpinwmlpcudzqhy-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-viz-dakota-access-pipeline-expansion-protest-20200305-ibdpavebdzdgllpwjdzwaxjb5a-photogallery.html

WTTW coverage by Patti Wetli

https://news.wttw.com/2020/03/06/all-eyes-illinois-commerce-commission-pipeline-expansion-finally-gets-hearing

WBEZ coverage by Jerome McDonnell

https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/state-hearings-on-dakota-pipeline-expansion-draw-supporters-protesters/676bbc24-7064-44e4-827a-b239104b88a5

Images below from the Chicago Tribune’s slideshow, photographs by Jose M. Osorio.

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mourning, march, & die-in

 

After listening to speakers outside the Brazilian Embassy, XR proceeded to march in mourning as a group to BlackRock’s offices in the Loop. We were mostly silent and were led by six people dressed in black and wearing animal heads. They were honoring the animals who are losing their lives and their habitats due to the fires and all the natural world that is imperiled by the fossil fuel leviathan.

Arriving at BlackRock we were met by a Chicago police officer who had been waiting for us. The doors of the building were immediately locked to stop us from entering but Extinction Rebellion members planning a BlackRock action had already entered. While mourners continued to arrive at the BlackRock offices, Extinction Rebellion Chicago member Ellen McManus spread ash on in the lobby of BlackRock’s 227 West Monroe Street offices in mourning for the Amazon until stopped by the Chicago police. Other members held a banner proclaiming “BLACKROCK EARNS AMAZON BURNS.”[/vc_column_text][vc_media_grid gap=”10″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1583799438796-1a1c1371-35f4-8″ include=”420,1192,1188″][vc_separator color=”custom” align=”align_left” border_width=”2″ el_width=”60″ accent_color=”#76d0f0″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1583602573102{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1517″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]

learn more: #NODAPL

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