Thom Yorke backs the White House sit-ins against Keystone XL

Thom Yorke has posted on Dead Air Space, the band's blog, in support of the sit-ins against the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House. Under the heading “doing something” is one line, linked to Tar Sands Action, the campaign behind them. Peaceful Protest Against Tar Sands in front of the White House.. Free Arrest no extra cost¹

The sit-ins began on Saturday and are planned to run for two weeks. On the first day 70 people from the US and Canada were arrested.

Yorke first wrote about the pipeline on 11 August, in a post headed “Real vs Astroturf?”. President Obama has to decide whether to grant a permit for Keystone XL, about 1,700 miles of pipe from the Alberta tar sands to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, and Yorke wrote that President Obama is soon to make a decision on whether to press one of THE big red climate self destruct buttons..¹

He said Obama was under heavy pressure from a fake grassroots campaign paid for by interested parties, the astroturf of his title, and pointed readers to a 350.org post on that campaign and to the civil disobedience planned for Washington.