<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Will Bates - <a href="http://350.org">350.org</a></b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:organizers@350.org">organizers@350.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:52 AM<br>Subject: BREAKING: Bill McKibben sent to jail -- and how you can help.<br>To: Bauwens Michel <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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</p><p>Dear friends,<br><br><b>We thought you should know that as of today over 150 people, including <a href="http://350.org" target="_blank">350.org</a> co-founder Bill McKibben, have been arrested at the White House. </b></p>
<p>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.�<span>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</span>�what the activists in DC need more than anything is the knowledge that there is a massive global movement backing them up.�</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://act.350.org/go/127?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=1" target="_blank"><img src="" alt=""></a></p>
<p><b><a href="http://act.350.org/go/127?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=2" target="_blank"><img src="" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" alt=""></a></b><b></b></p>
<p><b>There are three ways that you can stand in solidarity from wherever you are:</b></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><b></b><b><a href="http://act.350.org/go/127?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=3" target="_blank">1. Sign the petition to President Obama to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline</a></b> -- 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.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><b><a href="http://act.350.org/go/248?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=4" target="_blank">2. Send in a solidarity message</a></b> or photo to the people taking action at the White House.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span><b><a href="http://act.350.org/go/77?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=5" target="_blank">3. Take part in Moving Planet</a></b> -- a worldwide climate rally on September 24 -- and move beyond </span><span>all</span><span> fossil fuels in the loudest, most beautiful way possible.�</span></p>
<p><span><b>You probably know that building the Keystone XL pipeline is a terrible idea.</b> 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 CO</span><span>2</span><span> all over the atmosphere, since the tar sands are among the most carbon-intensive of all the fossil fuels. </span><span>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.�</span><a href="http://act.350.org/go/19?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=6" target="_blank"></span><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "act.350.org" claiming to be</b></font> <span>350.org</a><span> isn�t organizing the action in DC, but there�s <a href="http://act.350.org/go/250?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=7" target="_blank">a separate website to find out more about the two weeks of daily sit-ins at the White House</a> (today was just day #3).</span></p>
<p>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.�</p>
<p>With rising hope from DC,�</p>
<p><span>Will Bates for the </span><a href="http://act.350.org/go/19?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=8" target="_blank"></span><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "act.350.org" claiming to be</b></font> <span>350.org</a><span> Team</span></p>
<p><span>P.S.�</span><span>Our friends in DC just made an beautiful video about Day 1 of the action in DC -- <a href="http://act.350.org/go/251?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=9" target="_blank">click here to watch it</a> and be sure to share it with your friends on </span><a href="http://act.350.org/go/252?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=10" target="_blank"></span><span>Twitter</a><span> and </span><a href="http://act.350.org/go/253?akid=1200.360134.P-EW5M&t=11" target="_blank"></span><span>Facebook</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>P.P.S. For an extra dose of inspiration, check out a few of my favorite photos from the protest:</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span><i>Standing Strong on Day 3! (Photo Credit: Josh Lopez)</i>�</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><i><i>Youth Keep Spirits High as Arrests Begin (Photo Credit: Shadia Fayne Wood)</i></i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">�<img src="" alt="" height="427" width="640"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Bill Mckibben Speaks to Tar Sands Action Participants (Photo Credit: Shadia Fayne Wood)</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">�<img src="" alt="" height="427" width="640">�</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Media Take Opportunity To Capture A Piece of The Action at the White House Protest of Keystone XL (Photo Credit: Josh Lopez)</i></p>
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