Monday Montana Megaload Uprising!

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11.8.13 — Wild Ida­ho Ris­ing Tide (WIRT) offers its hum­ble grat­i­tude for all of the coura­geous Nez Perce trib­al mem­bers and region­al sup­port­ers who so suc­cess­ful­ly block­ad­ed and scut­tled the Omega Mor­gan plan to move a 644,000-pound evap­o­ra­tor to Alber­ta tar sands oper­a­tions through the wild rivers, forests, and canyons of the Nez Perce home­land.  After cross­ing Ida­ho over four nights and meet­ing the most pas­sion­ate resis­tance ever wit­nessed by such an indus­tri­al con­voy, the mega­load reached High­way 12 mile­post 4, just over Lolo Pass in Mon­tana, at 5:30 am on Fri­day morn­ing, August 8.  Ide­al­ly, the Ida­ho Rivers United/Nez Perce injunc­tion request­ed on Thurs­day may take effect this week for the Lochsa-Clear­wa­ter wild and scenic riv­er cor­ri­dor in Ida­ho.  We have heard that anoth­er eight loads are now head­ed down the Wash­ing­ton coast toward the Port of Wilma, so we are call­ing on all West Coast/Columbia Riv­er activists to report their obser­va­tions of these ship­ments.

Accord­ing to the Mon­tana Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion and its issued mega­load per­mit, the mod­ule can­not trav­el in the state on Fri­days or Sat­ur­days and will move from its cur­rent loca­tion to the Bon­ner truck stop on Mon­day night, August 12.  North­ern Rock­ies Ris­ing Tide (NRRT), No Ship­ments Net­work, All Against the Haul, and oth­er anti-mega­load activists sent an alert and are orga­niz­ing a Mon­day night sol­i­dar­i­ty protest.  They coor­di­nat­ed an action plan­ning meet­ing on Sat­ur­day after­noon and are ask­ing that, if you can help with orga­niz­ing or par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Mon­day action, please con­tact NRRT as soon as pos­si­ble by email at northernrockiesrisingtide@gmail.com or through the phone num­ber post­ed in the con­tact sec­tion of the NRRT web­site.

Thanks to every­one in Ida­ho and Mon­tana for your ongo­ing cli­mate, tar sands, and indige­nous rights activism.  We urge brave, fel­low activists in Mon­tana to rise up against this esca­lat­ing Big Oil inva­sion.  WIRT will send you mega­load issue updates as time­ly as pos­si­ble from the road.

Wild Ida­ho Ris­ing Tide

P.O. Box 9817, Moscow, Ida­ho 83843

WildIdahoRisingTide.org & on face­book and Twit­ter

208–301-8039