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Ken Butigan

Fracking Opponents Create Sandstorm In Minnesota

If the Sandman’s job, as legend has it, is to put us to sleep, a growing movement in Minnesota and Wisconsin has taken up the opposite task: wiping the sleep from our eyes.

February 21st, 2014

By Ken Butigan

Fracking Opponents Create Sandstorm In Minnesota

First it was tea. Then it was salt. Now it’s sand. Successful nonviolent action often hinges on fusing the transcendent with the everyday. While it frames the struggle in visionary terms like “justice,” it does so in ways that we can touch, feel, see and experience up close. So, for example, the civil rights movement’s lunch counter sit-ins in

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