Cross Posted from Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance

UPDATE: 9:16am- Holly and Bailey have been extracted and are now in police custody. Show Holly and Bailey some love by donating to our bail fund.
UPDATE: 8:42am-Holly and Bailey are still locked down, despite dangerous attempts to remove them by the Houghes Co Sheriffs and the Holdenville Fire Department. Show Holly and Bailey some love by Donating to our bail fund.
UPDATE: 8:30am-A Deputy from the Hughes Co Sheriffs department is full-force swinging a sledgehammer at one of Holly and Bailey’s lockdown devices. This is VERY dangerous. They are also now using a Jack Hammer. Call the Hughes Co Sheriffs and tell them this behavior is unacceptable. Phone Number: (405) 379-2203
UPDATE: 8:03am: The Fire Department is shielding their activities by holding up a tarp to block the view.
Call the Holdenville Fire Department and tell them their job is not to hurt people!
Phone Number: (405) 379-2413
UPDATE: 8:01am-Holdenville, OK Fire Department is on scene and wielding axes.
UPDATE: 7:52am-Two Hughes Co. Sheriffs vehicles have arrived on scene
UPDATE: 7:00am-Work trucks arrive and then leave
Hughes County, OK, May 14th, 7 am
Early this morning Bailey and Holly, both of whom are local Oklahomans and with Cross Timbers Earth First!ers, walked onto an Keystone XL active construction site in Hughes County, Oklahoma and locked themselves to concrete filled barrels obstructing the use of heavy machinery used in the construction of the pipeline.
Bailey and Holly are part of Cross Timbers Earth First! , a regional chapter of the Earth First! movement, which has been carrying out ecological direct actions for over 30 years. According to its members, Cross Timbers Earth First! also endorses Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, a growing coalition of groups and individuals dedicated to stopping the expansion of tar sands infrastructure throughout the Great Plains.
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Tags: construction, Cross Timbers, Great Plains, lockdown, tar sands