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The Blued Trees Defense

Support a bold, innovative strategy to legally protect nature with art!

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The Blued Trees Defense

The Blued Trees Defense

The Blued Trees Defense

The Blued Trees Defense

The Blued Trees Defense

Support a bold, innovative strategy to legally protect nature with art!

Support a bold, innovative strategy to legally protect nature with art!

Support a bold, innovative strategy to legally protect nature with art!

Support a bold, innovative strategy to legally protect nature with art!

Aviva Rahmani
Aviva Rahmani
Aviva Rahmani
Aviva Rahmani
3 Campaigns |
New York, United States
$1,253 USD 21 backers
1% of $80,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Blued Trees is an eco-art project to save beautiful places endangered by pipelines and related fossil fuel infrastructure by deliberately installing art installations in corridors projected for gas pipelines expansion.

It uses an innovative, creative legal approach, leveraging copyright and property law to protect art embedded in forests and soils—while simultaneously restoring control of beloved spaces and personal property to individuals living in harm’s way. Since June 21, 2014, several miles of art have been installed.

We need your support now to fight this legal battle against the powerful and wealthy Spectra corporation, which plans to install a pipeline it calls “Algonquin,” grossly misusing the name of Native American tribe even as it readies to destroy thousands of acres of Nature’s gifts.!

Eco-artist Aviva Rahmani has filed Federal copyright on the "Blued Trees" art installation that encompasses trees and forests on private lands threatened with  "condemnation" via eminent domain to enrich fossil fuel corporations.

Legal advisers have suggested that it could take years — and millions of dollars — to bring this suit all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States and internationally. The ideas are already capturing the imagination of threatened communities and activists around the globe.

Right now we need to raise $12,000 for the first stage of legal filings and actions. We filed a cease-and-desist order against Algonquin Spectra September 30, 2015, but do not expect the fossil-fuel corporation to comply. Our team of attorneys are integrating copyright, and real estate/property eminent domain strategy. The PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION (cease and desist demand) was filed in New York before October 1, 2015, the scheduled date Spectra corporation had designated to destroy the art, and the habitat to install the Algonquin pipeline.

Won’t YOU join this innovative campaign? 

Aviva Rahmani, the ecological artist who created "Blued Trees," has received much moral support for this project. She has spent thousands of dollars of her own money to bring it to this point, but she needs help from everyone who cares about nature, beauty, community and property rights to carry on the fight.

Please give as generously as you possibly can, and share this plea with everyone you know!

Aviva Rahmani, the ecological artist who created "Blued Trees," is recognized as a pioneer in the genre, with an extensive international exhibition and publication record (www.Ghostnets.com).

Read more: http://pushingrocks.blogspot.com/2015/09/blued-trees-fact-sheet.html

Read an interview with the artist: http://hyperallergic.com/235429/using-art-to-stop-a-pipeline/

Locate Greek Chorus sites: http://www.gulftogulf.org/project_item/blued_trees/ 

Learn how you can join the copyrighted action and be part of the Blued Trees Greek Chorus:http://pushingrocks.blogspot.com/2015/06/greek-chorus-for-blued-trees.html



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Blued Trees Postcard

$25 USD
Signed Blued Trees Postcard In addition to our deep appreciation, you will receive a postcard signed by the Eco-Artist Aviva Rahmani, which can be framed for display.
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5 Blued Trees Postcards

$50 USD
Set of 5 Blued Trees Postcards In addition to our deep appreciation you will receive 5 Blued Trees postcards (all the same image).
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November 2015
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Blued Trees Short Sleeve T-Shi

$75 USD
Blued Trees Short Sleeve T-Shirt In addition to our deep appreciation, you will receive your choice of a black or white short sleeved tee shirt (female version is more fitted, both are 100% cotton). Please specify size S, M, L, XL, or 2XL and whether it will be for a male or female. You can also choose which of the two designs you would like, the Blued Trees logo or the Blued Trees 1/3 mile measure.
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Blued Trees Long Sleeve T-Shir

$100 USD
Blued Trees Long Sleeve T-Shirt In addition to our deep appreciation, you will receive your choice of a black or white long sleeve tee shirt. Please specify size S, M, L, XL, or 2XL and whether you would like it to be the male or female version (female version is more fitted, both are 100% cotton). You can also choose which of the two designs you would like, the Blued Trees logo or the Blued Trees 1/3 mile measure.
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Signed Blued Trees

$150 USD
Signed Blued Trees DVD In addition to our deep appreciation you will receive a DVD of the Blued Trees overture video signed by Eco Artist Aviva Rahmani.
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Blued Trees photograph

$500 USD
Blued Trees photograph 8" x 11" In addition to our deep appreciation you will receive a photographic print suitable for framing, signed by Eco Artist Aviva Rahmani.
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Your name listed as a donor

$1,000 USD
Your name listed as a donor In addition to our deep appreciation, your name will appear in the credit roll of donors at the end of the longer video of the full Blued Trees symphony planned for September 28th, 2015.
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Gulf to Gulf Invitation

$5,000 USD
Invitation to join a Gulf to Gulf webcast conversation In addition to our deep appreciation you will be invited to join a Gulf to Gulf webcast conversion on-line with Eco Artist Aviva Rahmani.
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Four tickets to screening

$10,000 USD
Four tickets to the premiere screening of the full symphony film and dinner with the artist Eco-Artist Aviva Rahmani. In addition to our deep appreciation you will receive 4 tickets to attend the premier screening of the full Blued Trees symphony film and dinner with the Eco Artist Aviva Rahmani (details and location to be determined).
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