Idle No More DFW: Tar Sands Teach-In - Dallas

Idle No More DFW is sponsoring the Teach-In. Aly Tharp, an activist and community organizer with a degree in environmental studies, will be putting together a presentation and facilitating a group discussion on: 

•  basics of the tar sands mining process 
• the costs of tar sands mining to indigenous communities and the environment 
• "bitumen" and tar sands pipeline transport; the Keystone XL and other local tar sands pipelines 
• what happens when tar sands bitumen spills? 
• the financial and political BS that is pushing the KXL and other mega projects forward 
• unified indigenous resistance 
• political and grassroots methods of resistance