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Inter Press Service: On the tenth day of a protest wave that has been gaining momentum since Aug. 20 and will continue until Sep. 3, nearly 300 people gathered in Lafayette Park directly across from the White House in Washington D.C., chanting, “When I say ‘tar sands’, you say ‘no!’ When I say ‘action’, you say ‘go!’” The protest – a sustained effort against the building of a new oil pipeline connecting the tar sands of Canada’s southwestern province to several refineries around the Gulf of Mexico – is the most recent… Continue reading →