You may not be familiar with the notion of “Blockadia.” It’s an umbrella term for the loosely connected ‘web of campaigns standing up to the fossil fuel’ industry. The protesters getting arrested daily on Burnaby Mountain, standing in defiance of Kinder Morgan – that’s an example of Blockadia. It’s an idea captured in the documentary, “Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade.“
It seems to be disproportionately a battle that pits old versus young. It’s old white men like Stephen Harper, Mitch McConnell, Leatherback Joe Oliver, in pursuit of the maximum extraction of fossil (Read more…)