Environment/Food/Health

On the 6th of November, President Obama formally rejected TransCanada's permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to cross the US-Canada border. After 7 years of struggle, the resistance is catching fire, and pipeline after pipeline is being rejected. With other pipelines in Canada also being stopped and oil prices plunging, tar sands projects are being cancelled and investment funds for "unconventional oil" are drying up. Protest WORKS, and on the evening of Nov 6 activists gathered in front of the White House to celebrate victory in what has been a long and difficult battle.

On the 4th of November, activists from multipe groups "swarmed" into an Ace and a True Value hardware store asking that both chains stop selling neo-nicotinoid pesticides. Some were dressed as bees and one of them was a beekeeper and wore beekeeping gear. They delivered letters and petitions to both stores concerning the neo-nicotinoid pesticides and plants containing them, both of which have been implicated in colony collapse disorder and the massive die-offs of honeybees

Video highlights of the Ace action