Lots of protesting in Bellingham last Saturday, February 11. A protest in support of Planned Parenthood. Another protest, I guess unrelated, against the North Dakota Access Pipeline (Standing Rock). That protest blocked the freeway for a bit.
As for the pipeline, I hate to say it, but seems like it's construction could be inevitable. Especially if it's true that they only have the last 1000 feet to build plus the political situation, in Washington DC, weighing in. If they have to build it, too bad they wouldn't reroute that last part farther away from the Native Lands. The native people have had lots of stuff pushed down their throats over the centuries.
Even though that one symbolic battle has the whole nation talking; like big protests here in Bellingham, it still may be hard to win in the short run. Hope people don't burnout because of this one battle. In the long run, looking at the big picture, we should be switching away from fossil fuels. Then it wouldn't make sense to build fossil fuel infrastructure. In the short run, fossil fuel politics, economics and habits are hard to beat.
Saturday's protest, in Bellingham, blocked the freeway for about 1 hour. Since then, there has been lots of discussion about whether that protest was the right thing to do, or not. I haven't yet jumped into that fray of debate. As usual, there are plenty of folks discussing that. I just listened, at least, to a real good discussion of that topic and more on a new and local radio show. The February 15 episode of Cascadia News Now. Podcasts available. Show is produced by KMRE Radio, the station at the Spark Museum in Bellingham (formerly known as American Museum of Radio and Electricity).
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