[HCCN] Fwd: "Tar Sands Action - Rally at Michelle Obama Event in Maine" ,

[Larry Dansinger]

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> From: Nancy Galland <nangalland at fairpoint.net>
> Date: September 26, 2011 7:33:35 AM EDT
> Subject: "Tar Sands Action - Rally at Michelle Obama Event  in  
> Maine"  ,
>
> PLEASE PASS ALONG TO OTHERS IN YOUR GROUP OR AREA. THANKS, AND  
> APOLOGIES IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS.
>
>
> Dear Climate Change Activists,
>
> The First Lady Michelle Obama will be speaking at a fundraiser at  
> the Ocean Gateway in Portland,  ME on September 30. A group of   
> Mainers are planning to assemble outside the event to continue  
> focusing attention on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline issue,    
> and we would love company.  (For more info on the Keystone XL  
> issue, see below.)  The event begins at 2:30,  but doors open at   
> 1pm,  so we were thinking of gathering at noon.  Please contact us  
> for more details on where and when to meet.  We will be bringing  
> signs and banners,  but contributions are welcome.
>
>  Maintaining the  tone of the civil disobedience action in DC,  we  
> want to be respectful of the First Lady while still doing all we  
> can to encourage the President to deny the pipeline permit., For  
> those who can't make it to the action on Friday,  we are also  
> circulating a petition,  which we will be giving to the Maine Obama  
> campaign coordinator.  She has said she would be happy to pass it   
> on to the national staff.  The petition will include a space for  
> signers to make individual notes to let campaign staff know how  
> Obama's position on Keystone XL will impact their involvement in  
> the campaign.,
>
> Please contact Greg Kimber (gkimber33 at hotmail.com) for more details.
>
> From   http://www.tarsandsaction.org/press/releases/sep16/, Protest  
> Against Keystone XL Pipeline Spreads Across North America,  
> WASHINGTON,  DC —
>  The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has become the marquee  
> environmental bout of the 2012 election season,   with serious  
> implications for President Obama’s campaign and the future of the  
> North American environmental movement.  Obama has the power to act  
> independently to deny the permit for the proposed pipeline,   
> without interference from Congress., The proposed 1, 700 mile  
> Keystone XL pipeline would carry dirty,   tar sands oil from Canada  
> to the Gulf of Mexico. A rupture in the  pipeline could cause a BP  
> style oil spill in America’s heartland,  over the source of fresh  
> drinking water for 20 million people. NASA’s top climate scientist  
> says that fully developing the tar sands in Canada would mean  
> “essentially game over” for the climate., After a historic two- 
> weeks sit-in at the White House this August  that led to the arrest  
> of 1, 252 Americans and Canadians,  the group behind the protests,   
> Tar Sands Action,  is now taking its fight against Keystone XL  
> nationwide.

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