We are offering a very limited number of Pipeline Fighter Patron ticket packages to the sold-out "Harvest the Hope" benefit concert on Sept. 27 featuring Willie Nelson and Neil Young. The concert will take place on the Tanderup farm near Neligh, Nebraska, on land that lies on the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that also crosses the historic Ponca Trail of Tears.
Pipeline Fighter Patron packages include:
Proceeds from your Pipeline Fighter ticket purchase will go to Bold Nebraska, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Cowboy & Indian Alliance, to fund the ongoing fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, as well as several small, community-based clean energy projects on farms and tribal lands.
Our hosts at the farm — Art and Helen Tanderup — are part of the "Cowboy & Indian Alliance," a group of farmers, ranchers and tribal members united in their desire to protect land and water, and in their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. This spring, the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma partnered with the "CIA" to hand-plant several acres of sacred Ponca corn on the Tanderup farm — the tribe's ancestral homeland — where it will be harvested this fall for the first time since the Ponca people were forced out of Nebraska 137 years ago.
Last fall, the same land also became home to the world's largest living crop art installation, when artist John Quigley collaborated with Art Tanderup to create an image the size of 80 football fields featuring the Cowboy & Indian Alliance icon along with the words "Heartland #No KXL."
Additional details on the "Harvest the Hope" concert and Tanderup farm: http://boldnebraska.org/concert