[HCCN] Fwd: Calling all Occupiers to a day of action in Augusta

[Larry Dansinger]

Occupiers, please come if you can support this action against ALEC  
and the proposed East-West Highway on Thursday.

Please pass this along to others who might also be interested. Thanks.

Larry Dansinger

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Kelly Kingsbury <kingsburyk at hotmail.com>
> Date: April 8, 2012 8:26:06 AM EDT
>
> Subject: Calling all Occupiers to a day of action in Augusta
>
> Calling all Occupiers
> The legislative session is coming to a close on 4/18/12. The time  
> remaining to influence our legislators this session is short.  
> Occupy Augusta is calling on all Occupiers to join us in a day of  
> protest on Thursday, April 12, 2012, against the corporate  
> interests that are taking over our state.
>
> At 3:00 we will be gathering on the sidewalks outside the lobbyist  
> Preti Flaherty located on State street at the western rotary to  
> again protest against the influence of the corporate lobby, the  
> American Legislative Exchange Council (ALECexposed.org) and its  
> dirty lobby money. ALEC model laws have invaded our legislature  
> this session and ALEC money perverting the political process in  
> Maine with its far right agenda. One of the ALEC/NRA originated  
> laws, the stand your ground law, was implemented in Florida and is  
> responsible for the murder of Trayvon Martin. We hope that you wear  
> a hoodie to honor his passing.
>
> At 4:15 we will move to the Senator Inn on Western Avenue to  
> protest a meeting of the corporate interests responsible for  
> pushing the privately funded East / West highway. This private toll  
> road will bisect our state and serves no purpose for our citizens.  
> It will only serve the interests of Canada by providing them with  
> direct access to a year round deep water Atlantic seaboard port and  
> a utility corridor for tar sands oil and LNG gas pipelines and  
> nuclear power transmission. We must stop this assault on Maine's  
> sovereignty and demand a stop to its investigation and construction.
>
> Please forward this call to action email to all of your activist  
> contacts.
>
> We expect that the weather will be challenging so dress appropriately.
>
> In solidarity
> Lew Kingsbury
> Occupy Augusta organizer
> Chris Buchanan
> Defending Water organizer

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