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<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Nancy Galland <<a href="mailto:nangalland@fairpoint.net">nangalland@fairpoint.net</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">September 26, 2011 7:33:35 AM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>"Tar Sands Action - Rally at Michelle Obama Event in Maine" , </b></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PLEASE PASS ALONG TO OTHERS IN YOUR GROUP OR AREA. THANKS, AND APOLOGIES IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear Climate Change Activists,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The First Lady Michelle Obama will be speaking at a fundraiser at the Ocean Gateway in Portland,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ME on September 30. A group of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mainers are planning to assemble outside the event to continue focusing attention on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline issue, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and we would love company.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(For more info on the Keystone XL issue, see below.)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The event begins at 2:30,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but doors open at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>1pm,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>so we were thinking of gathering at noon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Please contact us for more details on where and when to meet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We will be bringing signs and banners,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but contributions are welcome.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Maintaining the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>tone of the civil disobedience action in DC,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>we are also circulating a petition,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which we will be giving to the Maine Obama campaign coordinator.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She has said she would be happy to pass it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on to the national staff.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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.,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please contact Greg Kimber (<a href="mailto:gkimber33@hotmail.com">gkimber33@hotmail.com</a>) for more details.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.tarsandsaction.org/press/releases/sep16/">http://www.tarsandsaction.org/press/releases/sep16/</a>, Protest Against Keystone XL Pipeline Spreads Across North America, WASHINGTON,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>DC —</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has become the marquee environmental bout of the 2012 election season, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with serious implications for President Obama’s campaign and the future of the North American environmental movement.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Obama has the power to act independently to deny the permit for the proposed pipeline,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>without interference from Congress., The proposed 1, 700 mile Keystone XL pipeline would carry dirty, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. A rupture in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pipeline could cause a BP style oil spill in America’s heartland,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that led to the arrest of 1, 252 Americans and Canadians,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the group behind the protests,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tar Sands Action,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is now taking its fight against Keystone XL nationwide.</div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>