Cherry Hill, NJ – On Monday August 12th at noon, area residents concerned about climate change’s impacts on the Philadelphia region and on southern New Jersey will gather to peacefully protest in front of the TD Bank headquarters along Route 70. The protesters are pushing for TD Bank to stop its funding of tar sands petroleum extraction in Alberta, Canada, because of the threat this practice presents to the global climate and to First Nation peoples in Alberta. TD Bank is also a major funder of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands petroleum from Alberta to Texas to be refined and exported. “We want TD Bank to immediately withdraw its funding from both the KXL pipeline and from tar sands extraction,” Rising Tide Philly organizer Kevin Starbard summed up the demands. The Monday action is organized in solidarity with a simultaneous large action on Monday mobilized by CREDO, Rainforest Action Network and the Other 98% who will sit-in at the State Department in Washington, D.C. in order to hold political leaders accountable for their complicity with and inaction on climate change. The Rising Tide Philly protest in Cherry Hill was planned with help from organizers in Texas and Oklahoma who are fighting the pipeline as part of the Tar Sands Blockade. protectingourwaters.wordpress/2013/08/09/rising-tide-philly-confronts-td-banks-cherry-hill-headquarters-over-tar-sands-kxl-funding/
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:58:08 +0000
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