Nader Comments on: Tar Sands Arrests, Obama, Environmentalists, Green Party, etc.
Thursday, September 1st, 2011Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States with the Green Party, and more recently, as an independent candidate. Nader recently posted an excellent piece of commentary on the Tar Sands Arrests at The White House…
Tar Sands Arrests on Obama’s Doorstep
by Ralph Nader, Reader Supported News / August 30, 2011
his is the second week of protests, led by Bill McKibben, in front of the White House demanding that President Barack Obama reject a proposed 1700 mile pipeline transporting the dirtiest oil from Alberta, Canada through fragile ecologies down to the Gulf Coast refineries. One thousand people will be arrested there from all fifty states before their demonstration is over [including, actress Daryl Hannah, on Tuesday, August 30th]. The vast majority voted for Obama and they are plenty angry with his brittleness on environmental issues in general…
Were Obama to look out his White House window and see the arrested and handcuffed demonstrators against this billion Keystone XL pipeline, he might think: “This will upset my environmental supporters, but heck, where can they go in November 2012?”
He is right. No matter what Mr. Obama does to surrender environmental health and safety to corporatist demands, they will vote for him. They certainly won’t vote for the Republican corporate mascots. They wouldn’t vote for a Green Party candidate either. This is not only the environmentalists’ dilemma, it is the liberal/progressive/labor union dilemma as well. They have no bargaining power with Obama…
Above article via FOCUS: Tar Sands Arrests on Obama’s Doorstep.
Another opinion piece on The Tar Sands at theenergycollective.com: here.