where the west had huge investments in mining interests. to use that influence to free him and fight apartheid. that didn t happen. years passed. decades passed. an international movement sprung to boycott business, to di vest from them. to impose, to try to get governments to impose formal sanctions on that regime. it took hold here in the united states in the 1980s a. young student in los angeles asked his school s administration to stop investing in south african companies. that student s name was barak obama. free mandela became a popular rallying cry. not everyone in america was on board with freeing mandela and fighting the apartheid regime a. bill was introduced in congress. the anti-apartheid act of 19 necks would require the complete withdrawal.
with that. reporter: good morning to you john. the man at the center of all of this is tom stier, billionair bill hedge fund person and top donor to barack obama. he has launched a social media campaign to try to kill the pipeline. we really cannot afford 40 to 50 years of development of a humongous oil reserve that is twice as bad. teier may stand to gain financially. i founded and still has investments with a company that has major positions in oil, including a company that is trying to expand a competing pipeline in canada from to export oil from canada s west coast. lee terry says stier is trying to have it both ways. there is a lot of hints of hypocrisy here. he has offshore oil, mining
sounds like it means. it literally blows up the top of mountains to make it easier to reach. blown apart, it gets dumped into rivers and streams. that sounds ghastly? wait. it gets worse. mountain top removal is a system that means mining company a doesn t mean to employ as many to do the mining you can even call it job-killing mountain top removal. bad for the environment and public health and bad for jobs a no brainer for a politician except that it has been common wisdom that mining is the undisputed third royal of politics. republicans and democrats vote for mining interests as residents of wisconsin cheer for the green bay packers. that is why he announced as the first piece of legislation and
clear cut. the bureau of land management is charged with caring for and manage nearly 40,000 horses and burrows roaming on 26 million acres of the west. but while this federal land was set aside for the horses, they don t have free reign. the land is considered multiuse. life stock, recreationists, mining interests, whatever. reporter: the blm insists it must reduce herd sizes because the land can t support the numbers. this ain t kentucky blue grass. reporter: so it holds roundups. last year the goal, remove 12,000 horses. that s right, 12,000. and take them to holding pens. this is our land. we want the horses on here most of us. reporter: armed with cameras and recorders, the activists document what they see as brutal round ups. here a helicopter chases one single burrow.
roaming on 26 million acres of the west. while this federal land, your land, was set aside for the horses they don t have free reign. the land is considered multi-use. wildlife, life stock, recreationists, mining interests, whatever. reporter: the blm insists it must reduce herd sizes because the land can t support the numbers. this ain t kentucky bluegrass. reporter: so it holds round-ups. this year, the goal, remove 12,000 horses. that s right. 12,000. and take them to holding pens. this is our land. we want the horses on here, most of us. reporter: armed with cameras and recorders, the activists document what they see as brutal round-ups. here, a helicopters chases one single borrow, eventually knocking it over. it staggers off. here you re looking at steam rising from the backs of chased down, exhausted horses. the blm says less than 1% of the