So would this...
Posted on 11/29/2017 4:10:06 PM PST by upchuck
Full article title: Anti-fracking activists and anarchists are blocking rail tracks in Olympia, Wash. They don’t plan on leaving.
The encampment went up on Nov. 17. In just a few hours, the intersection at Jefferson Street SE and Seventh Avenue in downtown Olympia, Wash., was transformed from a drab piece of asphalt into a hulking structure, somewhere between a refugee camp and a carnival tent.
This was contested turf. Two sets of train tracks snaked north from the intersection. The encampment covered both rails, planting the makeshift site directly in the path of any engines heading in or out of the port.
“We assumed another raid would be coming instantly,” one participant, who declined to give her name, told The Washington Post this week. But when the sun climbed up the next morning, the camp was still there. “This year it’s much larger,” Kyle Taylor Lucas, an indigenous rights activist involved in the protest, told The Post. “Last year we only covered one of the tracks.”
Lucas said the attitude in the camp is hopeful. “What we are trying to do is resist the forced complicity in this brutal practice to devastate the earth,” she said. “The various affinity groups here bring their own specific messages and commitments and specific reasons for being here. But we came together for the common demands.”
The stand is a window into protest in the age of President Trump, a time when longtime activists find themselves fortifying the barricades with a younger breed galvanized into action by Trump’s election and other high-profile protests.
“We have more anarchists,” Lucas told The Post. “And I suppose last year we did have more mainstream activists there, folks who are doing climate change work but on a more mainstream level.”
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Slowly put up fencing around the entire neighborhood. Nothing too obvious until it is too late. Then let in a bunch of pipe hitting home boys with a grudge against the anarchists. Go at them with a blow torch and a pair of plyers.
With our lib judges? You’re serious? They’re certain to win in court.
I say mow down the insignificant crazies.
This is about imported Chinese ceramic proppant. Cheaper than our guys can produce, but an inferior product.
As a fracker and domestic sand producer, I’m just happy they’re on the west coast rather than our Midwest sand mines!
Worthless scumbags.
I live in Olympia and drove by the area this morning. Police holding all protestors about a block away from the intersection while they clean it up. Lots of young, very ragged looking idiots all around the area outside the police cordon.
Derail concrete barriers? Attempted murder.
Full throttle!!!
a snowplow blade on the front of the train at track level .....moving very slowly, would clear the area in a hurry
So would this...
“a snowplow blade on the front of the train at track level .....moving very slowly, would clear the area in a hurry”
Needs to barrel down the track like old 97.
Update the trains with the old wood-burning engine’s “cow catchers”. Then just proceed at about ten MPH. If they don’t move they’ll be swept aside or Rachel Corried.
Better yet: the railroad should mount bulldozer blades on front of their locomotives..
That would put an end to this nonsense real quick.
I prefer a shotgund and birdshot!
I prefer a shotgund and birdshot!
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