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!
