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Grassroots Activism: Green Transportation for Tampa Bay The Sierra Club's Green Transportation for Tampa Bay Campaign recently won a major victory when Pinellas County Commission voted 5-1 to place transit funding on next November's ballot. Grassroots Activism: Get Ready for PowerShift 2013 This fall, more than 10,000 youth leaders will converge on Pittsburgh for PowerShift 2013. They will build the movement to fight fracking, divest from fossil fuels, build a clean energy future, and stop the climate crisis. Learn more and RSVP today! Grassroots Activism: Latina Activist Stands up to Oil Industry Yudith Nieto is Houston activist who spends tireless hours fighting the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Nieto was arrested at the White House on February 13, along with Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune and close to 50 others protesting the pipeline. "I decided to show my solidarity and support to all of those who stand in resistance to the KXL pipeline, both at the extraction and refining points," says Nieto, whose Manchester neighborhood is one of the most polluted in Houston. Learn more about Yudith in this Huffington Post column by Sierra Club Columnist Javier Sierra. |