On May 3, Joe and I got up at 5 am, and drove from Loveland, Co to Cheyenne, WY.
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From Jeremy Nichols Flicker site:
Protestors today called on the Obama Administration to protect our climate and keep our oil and gas in the ground. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management today moved to auction off more than 100,000 acres of public lands in Wyoming for fracking. Outside the sale, a coalition of citizens called on the agency to abandon its plans. In spite of pleas otherwise, the agency went through with its auction.
Inside at the auction, the Bureau of Land Management kept protestors behind the bidders. We witnessed the auction unfold as thousands of acres were bid on for as low as $2.00 per acre.
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Photo of me below with tallit (prayer shawl) shows me chanting...
Sha a a lom, Sha a a lom
Peace to the coastal inhabitants
Peace to the parched land inhabitants
Peace to those battling hurricanes
Peace to those battling forest fires
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At this point in my chanting, I was stopped by a policeman, and the auction lease sales of our public lands began, with the bidders you see behind me. Fellow protesters, maybe 10 to 12, including Joe, were with me in the back of the auditorium. Rev. Jackie Zeigler of the Unitarian Universalist Church was on my left. We were all officially signed in as protesters.
Not chanted was this...
Peace to the elderly dying in heat waves
Peace to the homeless dying in the streets
Peace to the children inheriting a broken climate
Peace to the grandchildren
(Thanks to Peter Molof for Tallit photo of me, and to Jeremy Nichols for the others.)
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