John --

When farmers, ranchers, Tribal Nations, and climate advocates took on the fight to stop the Keystone XL pipeline over a decade ago, Big Oil had an established playbook on how they pushed through risky projects while frontline communities had to learn along the way critical legal, organizing, communications, and political strategies that could match the millions fossil fuel groups had to spend.

After over a decade collectively fighting Keystone XL and other pipelines, we have developed a playbook of our own. Today, we're proud to launch the Pipeline Fighters Hub, a new project of Bold Alliance that offers legal, technical, and organizing assistance to local groups working to end fossil fuel projects, and connect them to each other and national organizations.

Pipeline Fighters Hub programs and services:

Experts: A panel of hand-picked experts with years of experience who can train local landowners, pipeline fighters and water protectors, and connect them to lawyers who can take on legal cases. A Pipeline Fighters Hub webinar series will feature Experts from the panel along with frontline leaders from local fights discussing current and lingering common issues.
- Jane Kleeb, Founder & President, Bold Alliance
- Dallas Goldtooth, Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network
- Anthony Swift, Director, Canada Project, International Program, NRDC
- Joye Braun, Wanbli Wiyan Ka’win, Frontline Community Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network
- Faith Spotted Eagle, Founder, Brave Heart Society
- Kenny Bruno, Donor Advisor, Cloud Mountain Foundation
- Brian Jorde, Managing Lawyer, Domina Law Group
- Mark Hefflinger, Digital & Communications Director, Bold Alliance; editor of "Extracted" Daily News Clips
- Paul Blackburn, Attorney, Honor The Earth
- Tom Genung, Landowner Organizer, Bold Alliance

Pipeline Fights: Featuring maps and overviews of key pipeline fights across North America, including: Atlantic Coast, Byhalia, Coastal GasLink, Dakota Access, Jordan Cove, Keystone XL, Line 3, Line 5, Mariner East 2, Mountain Valley, PennEast and TransMountain pipelines.
Actions: Direct links to support local grassroots groups so Water Protectors and Land Defenders know where and how to help local pipeline fights -- from signing petitions or submitting testimony, to supporting folks taking direct action on the frontlines, when called by local leaders.
Resource Library: Easement contracts, local zoning, public comments, and action ideas.
Ongoing Campaigns: Creative strategies incorporating politics and grassroots organizing to protect the land and water, such as: ending eminent domain for private gain; creating clean energy with everyone at the table; Ponca Sacred Corn planted as medicine for the Earth; and "Stop Trump Pipelines" -- a new effort asking President Biden to make Keystone XL the first not the last pipeline he rejects.
"Extracted" Daily News Clips Email Newsletter: A daily email newsletter featuring curated energy, climate, and environmental news headlines, and reports from the frontlines for Pipeline Fighters, Water Protectors, Land Defenders, attorneys, legislators, climate activists, journalists, and folks who care about protecting our land, water, and climate for the generations that come after us.

Take Action and Stay Connected to the Pipeline Fighters Hub:

Sign up to get the "Extracted" Daily News Clips email newsletter in your morning inbox daily M-F, via Substack.
Join only the Pipeline Fighters Hub email list (*not daily): You'll receive periodic updates from the Pipeline Fighters Hub, with national and local campaigns, actions to support, and details on upcoming calls and trainings with experts.
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Follow the new Pipeline Fighters Hub page on Facebook.

The Pipeline Fighters Hub is committed to ending all proposed fossil fuel pipelines, and creating a transition plan to decommission pipelines that puts the financial responsibility clearly on oil and gas corporations' bottom line -- versus shifting these costs to landowners, Tribal Nations, and local governments.

We believe that if we are going to meet President Biden’s and the planet’s critical climate targets by 2030, we simply cannot build any more fossil fuel pipelines.

Thanks for joining the Pipeline Fighters Hub today to stand with all the Pipeline Fighters, Water Protectors, Land Defenders, and Climate Warriors!

Jane Kleeb, Mark Hefflinger, and Tom Genung (the Bold team)

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