On KQED they had an hour talking about how Obama was going to be at this cyber security summit at Stanford on Friday the 13th. In my email was an invitation to a protest outside the venue to let it be known that we want Obama to veto the KXL pipeline. I dug out my "TIME TO CUT CARBON" sign and camera and headed up there.

  

I think this "free America from the tyranny of oil" idea sounds really good!

  

If you didn't bring one of your own or make one, they had a bunch if you just wanted to grab one of those.

  

I don't know who the other Texans for Climate justice are, but for sure she is one! The N stands for Nebraska.

  

For a while people just milled around talking about the signs and this and that. Soon enough we posed for a group shot and then started marching.

  

     

The Native speaker introduced himself as Stanford Senior in Mechanical Engineering and a Navajo from a reservation in Arizona. He read us a statement from the President of the Lakota Nation. I remember the gist of it being something like "If you build a pipeline across our land we're going to treat it like an act of war."

The next speaker told us of working to get Stanford to divest from fossil fuel companies.

The presentation was ended by that other woman leading us in a bunch of chanting of "VETO KXL NOW!" and similar ideas.