[P2P-F] Fwd: BREAKING: Bill McKibben sent to jail -- and how you can help.

Tue Aug 23 12:08:23 CEST 2011

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From: Will Bates - 350.org <organizers at 350.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:52 AM
Subject: BREAKING: Bill McKibben sent to jail -- and how you can help.
To: Bauwens Michel <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

  Dear friends,

*We thought you should know that as of today over 150 people, including
350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, have been arrested at the White House. *

Bill is just getting out of prison after spending 48 hours in a tiny cell --
and here in DC spirits are high and resolve is strengthening with each
passing hour. For the past three days, large groups of Americans have joined
a non-violent civil disobedience action at the White House. The goal is to
send President Obama a simple message: “Stop the Keystone XL Tar Sands
Pipeline.” These protests will continue over the next two weeks -- and what
the activists in DC need more than anything is the knowledge that there is a
massive global movement backing them up.

<http://act.350.org/go/127?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=1>

* <http://act.350.org/go/127?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=2>***

*There are three ways that you can stand in solidarity from wherever you
are:*

***1. Sign the petition to President Obama to reject the Keystone XL
Pipeline <http://act.350.org/go/127?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=3>* -- we’ve
already rocketed past our initial goal of 35,000 signatures and are hoping
to add as many names as possible before we deliver it to White House
officials on September 3rd.

*2. Send in a solidarity
message<http://act.350.org/go/248?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=4>
* or photo to the people taking action at the White House.

*3. Take part in Moving
Planet<http://act.350.org/go/77?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=5>
* -- a worldwide climate rally on September 24 -- and move beyond all fossil
fuels in the loudest, most beautiful way possible.

*You probably know that building the Keystone XL pipeline is a terrible
idea.* The oil it will carry from Canada’s tar sands will travel all the way
from northern Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. Think: oil spilling all over
America's heartland. Think: way more CO2 all over the atmosphere, since the
tar sands are among the most carbon-intensive of all the fossil fuels. With
so many strikes against the Keystone pipeline, it’s understandable that
folks are so fired up and willing to put their bodies on the line to stop
it. 350.org <http://act.350.org/go/19?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=6> isn’t
organizing the action in DC, but there’s a separate website to find out more
about the two weeks of daily sit-ins at the White
House<http://act.350.org/go/250?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=7>(today was
just day #3).

When nominated for President in 2008, Barack Obama promised that his
administration would ensure “the rise of the oceans began to slow and our
planet began to heal.” It’s not a protest I feel like I’ve been watching
unfold here in DC -- but a big and beautiful reminder of that vision.

With rising hope from DC,

Will Bates for the
350.org<http://act.350.org/go/19?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=8>Team

P.S. Our friends in DC just made an beautiful video about Day 1 of the
action in DC -- click here to watch
it<http://act.350.org/go/251?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=9>and be sure
to share it with your friends on
Twitter <http://act.350.org/go/252?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=10> and
Facebook <http://act.350.org/go/253?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=11>.

P.P.S. For an extra dose of inspiration, check out a few of my favorite
photos from the protest:

*Standing Strong on Day 3! (Photo Credit: Josh Lopez)*

*Youth Keep Spirits High as Arrests Begin (Photo Credit: Shadia Fayne Wood)*

*Bill Mckibben Speaks to Tar Sands Action Participants (Photo Credit: Shadia
Fayne Wood)*

*Media Take Opportunity To Capture A Piece of The Action at the White House
Protest of Keystone XL (Photo Credit: Josh Lopez)*
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crisis.* Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public
actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in
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to get below as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change. To get
there, we need a different kind of PPM–a "people powered movement" that is
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