Presentation on I-69 and How to Stop it

Event Description:

What: Presentation on I-69 and how to stop it;
Who: RoadBlock Earth First;
When: Sunday Feb. 18 at 5:30 P.M.;
Where: The Artery 5401 Jackson at Prospect

ROADBLOCK ROADSHOW 2007!!!
There is a terrible concrete monster yearning to burst forth from
its slumber. It will be a leviathan feeding on corrupt
construction contracts, sweatshops, hydroelectric dams, big-box
stores, and resource extraction. It's shit will be free trade,
environmental devastation, and human suffering.

It is named I-69. While it currently sleeping between Canada's
industrial heartland and Indianapolis, it is dreaming of the coming
day (fast approaching in 2008) that it can grow, devastating all of
the land between central Indiana and the Texas-Mexico border.
There it will connect with the horrifying infrastructure projects
of the Plan Puebla Panama.

In order to slay this beast, people are organizing up and down the
middle of the United States, as well as across Central America. As
I-69 approaches the point of construction in our state, we want to
begin the vital work of developing networks of resistance with
other communities threatened by this road's projected route. From
Bloomington, IN to Central Texas, we want to talk about this road and
resistance to it, share inspiration with other activists, as well
as spread knowledge of direct action and diy skills.

We want to build the kind of lasting ties that will sustain us all
through a successful campaign to shut down the insane plans to let
the I-69 monster hatch and reproduce. In this, we are inspired by
resistance to the PPP in Central America, the self-organization of
farmers along the route all ready underway and by Earth First!'s
long history of successful fights to slay the road monster. We are
also motivated by the knowledge that we can't afford to fail- the
cost will be too high: the destruction of tens of thousands of
acres of forests, wetlands, and farms; increased oil consumption at
a time when we are facing catastrophic climate change; and the
elimination of hundreds of human communities along with the further
spread of suburban sprawl, convenience stores, and retail giants.

Features of the roadshow will include:
Plays!
Music!
Slideshows!
Puppets!
Skillshares!

Event Fee:
Free