Neil Young Continues Social Media Assault On Oilsands, Harper Government

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Source: Huffington Post

On his Honour The Treaties tour bus "rolling west," Neil Young has continued to fire off tweets and Facebook posts in defence of his anti-oilsands stance and benefit tour.

At 4 p.m. on January 15, Neil Young posted this on his Facebook page.

Breaking Ancient Canadian Treaties with First Nations and defying scientific reason, in an odd twist that could have come out of a science fiction book. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Canada, while harvesting the dirtiest oil on the planet and acting without due consultation on First Nation lands, has closed several scientific research facilites and destroyed the scientific writings done at those facilities in an effort to save $431,000 in wasted money annually. Coincidentally some of the thousands of papers and books being destroyed and burned may contradict the path forward that the government has taken with tar sands oil extraction and development. http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/534063/20140113/canada-libraries-books.htm #honourthetreaties.

Reclamation: the way forward for peace in the Alberta Tar Sands region.
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It followed a post, earlier this afternoon, addressing the backlash he's received in some parts.

Stew 15/01/14

The Chief’s making stew in the crock pot on the bus. Smells fantastic. We’re rolling west after a night of cold clean air and good sleep in Thunder Bay. Nobody’s tired, nobody’s complaining, no downers on this ride – there is a lot of love in the camp. That’s what happens when music and cause come together.

It confuses me to hear people shouting at us that musicians should just shut up and entertain. Where the hell did that lame-ass idea come from? Music was, is and always will be about social condition and cause and change. Music speaks for the oppressed and downtrodden. Music launches revolution. Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams and Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and Johnny Cash and Joni Mitchell and Willie Nelson and John Lennon and Eddie Vedder and Neil Young and all the giants of the art know this. What the fuck kind of music and musicians are these boneheads actually listening to?

Just wonderin'.
Onward
The Passenger

Young also posted an article called "The Indians Are Here" that his father, late sportswriter Scott Young, wrote in the Globe & Mail back in 1965! The article concludes: "What they want, they say, is a return to the Indian of the dignity and the independence, financial and legal, that Canadians owe them. What they will get is your guess or mine."

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These posts follow a series of strong statements Young made regarding the oilsands as his "Honour The Treaties" benefit trek commenced at Toronto's Massey Hall Sunday evening. The Prime Minister's Office replied on Monday to Young's remarks which said Canada was trading "integrity for money."

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Young replied with a statement of his own: "If rock stars need oil is an official response, how does that affect the treaties Mr. Harper's government of Canada is breaking."

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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/15/neil-young-tweets-tour-oilsands-harper_n_4602514.html

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1. Canada Closes Ecological Libraries, Burns Thousands Of Books As Part Of Cost-Cutting Measures

The link Neil Young posted on his Facebook page:

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/534063/20140113/canada-libraries-books.htm

Canada Closes Ecological Libraries, Burns Thousands Of Books As Part Of Cost-Cutting Measures

By Esther Tanquintic-Misa | January 13, 2014 5:18 PM EST

Amid cost-cutting measures, Canada has closed seven of its 11 Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries across the country. Around 1,000 scientists lost their jobs in the process. But what's saddening were the books which observers claimed never got digitized. They believed the books have been all together damaged and burned.

Sylvain Guimont, an official with one of the unions representing federal environment workers, personally saw how a dumpster was being filled up with hundreds of destroyed research books and periodicals.

"A lot of employees were really shocked," Guimont told Toronto Star. "There's a concern that research will be lost forever."

Postmedia News, citing a classified document that it was able to obtain, confirmed the "culling of materials" would be the main activity to reduce the number of libraries.

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2. The Indians Are Here, and a comment by someone who knew Neil's father.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153693157605317&set=a.10150642634135317.691677.21931600316&type=1&stream_ref=10



Neil Young

The Indians are here, said my father in 1965.
#honourthetreaties. ny

Someone who knew Neils father replied:

Jack Stuart Yes, Scott was a newspaper reporter. I met Scott in Winnipeg and was invited to his home on Ash Street when Neil was very young. I was in the Printing and Publishing business and owner of The Albion Press Publishing and Stuart Printing on Princess Street.
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[another_liberal]

3. "I was lying in a burned-out basement with the full moon in my eyes . . ."

We should all be there to help. At the very least, we should give our support.

[adirondacker]

6. If I had the cash I'd be at Massey Hall.

Neil's '96 concert at the Gorge in WA was my absolute lifetime favorite, and I've been to a lot of concerts.

[another_liberal]

7. No weather for hitch-hiking.

That's for sure.

[adirondacker]

8. Hitchhiker...I'm a bit too old and frail for that...

"I wish I was an Aztec or a runner in Peru
I could build such beautiful buildings to house the chosen few
Like an Inca from Peru.

Many years have come and gone
Like friends and enemies I tried to leave my past behind
But it's catching up with me."

Neil Young, Hitchhiker, Le Noise 2010

[another_liberal]

9. I have not thumbed a ride in years.

Once I thought little of hitching coast-to-coast, but never in January.

[adirondacker]

10. It's been over 35 years for me. I've driven coast to coast 3 times now, and while some of the stops

are interesting and I had a chance to see old friends, it's a lot of time in the car seat and not my idea of fun. If I were younger, I might contemplate doing a rideshare through craigslist, but I'd want to know who I'm getting in the car with beforehand. North Dakota is presently hosting some pretty sketchy characters and traffic to and fro.

I used to hitchhike as a young teen locally. Everyone knows everyone, so it's fairly safe with the exception of riding with someone that just finished up a 12 pack :/

Better to catch a train or bus IMHO.

[chuckstevens]

4. Keep on Rockin in the Free World

Give em hell, Neil! Conservatives will have all the $ when we can't sustain life on planet earth. Way to fucking go!

[Scuba]

5. Neil's really stepping up and I'm glad to see it ...

VIDEO! - Neil Young Plays Solo Set at Farm Aid 2013

Neil's solo performance at Farm Aid this in September, 2013. Excellent performance, high def sound- and a wonderful rant by Neil. Don't miss!

http://www.jtmp.org/jtmp/node/649

[Indyfan53]

11. I want tickets!

[azurnoir]

12. Wonder if he'll be going on about Indiginous or minority rights when he plays Israel on 7/17/14?

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4477055,00.html

[olddad56]

14. wonder why you want to negate what he is doing right now, today, not 6 months from now.

[azurnoir]

16. why so defensive?

unless of course you think it negates what he's doing now? However I mentioned it because

Native American-Studies Group’s Leadership Supports Israel Boycott

The leadership council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association has voted unanimously to support a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, joining two other scholarly groups—the American Studies Association and the Association of Asian American Studies—that have endorsed such a boycott this year.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/native-american-studies-groups-leadership-supports-israel-boycott/70673

[Enthusiast]

13. Kicked and Recommended!

[2banon]

15. Thanks for posting this.. K&R'd