Hands Around the #NoKXL Barn

Start: Saturday, May 17, 2014 1:00 PM

Say NO to dirty fuels and YES to clean energy!

On Saturday, May 17, join communities around the country to ask the president and local officials to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, offshore drilling, and other dirty fuel projects that threaten our communities and destabilize our climate.

We invite you to join us at the Build Our Energy Barn — a wind- and solar-powered barn paid for with small online donations and built by volunteers on land directly in the path of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. We will join hands and encircle the barn to send a powerful message that we want to protect this source of clean, renewable energy, and we reject the dirty tarsands and Keystone XL.

This National Day of Action is being jointly organized by the Tar Sands Coalition and Hands Across the Sand / Hands Across the Land. Hands, founded in 2010, grew into an international movement after the BP oil disaster in April of that year. People came together to join hands, forming symbolic barriers against spilled oil and the impact of other forms of extreme energy.

We invite activists across the nation to organize rallies, marches, and vigils that call on the president to reject KXL and other tar sands pipelines, while at the same time asking our state and local leaders to say no to the dirty fossil fuel projects that endanger our local communities. Whether it's Arctic drilling, mountaintop removal, dangerous tar sands pipelines, fracking, exporting liquid natural gas, or shipping crude by rail through our hometowns, we all have reason to be concerned -- for the health of our families, and the health of the planet.

Join hands! Join us!

Directions to the Build Our Energy Barn:

From the Harmony Nursery & Daylily Farm (705 Road 22, Bradshaw, NE):

Continue West on Road 22 for approximately 1.5 miles to the barn, which will be on your right (the one with solar panels on the roof!)