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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">On Saturday, July 11, 350 Waldo
County and SEEDs for Justice are hosting an event to commemorate the lives lost
in Lac Megantic and call for a halt to oil by rail in the US. We will gather at
the gazebo in the park (High and Lawrence Streets) across from the library in
Fairfield, Maine, which was the site of a train blockade 10 days prior to the
Lac Megantic disaster. We will hear a few speeches, learn about oil-by-rail
resistance in the US, and remember those who died as a result of corporate
greed and lax regulation. The event will take about an hour.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">If you can join us, please sign up
at the ForestEthics site so we know we can count on you! Sign up here:</span><a href="http://www.forestethics.org/action/sign-stopoiltrains-week-action-july-6-12th" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue">http://www.forestethics.org/action/sign-stopoiltrains-week-action-july-6-12th</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Let's stop these bomb trains and
keep the fossil fuels in the ground. We owe it to the communities that are
threatened by the shipments via rail; we owe it to the people of North Dakota
who are threatened by the extraction.<span style> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Our railways were built to connect population centers, not
carry hazardous materials. Decades of housing discrimination means that 60
percent of the 25 million Americans who live in the blast zone are people of
color</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Whether or not you can join us in
Fairfield, you can support this resistance by writing a letter to the editor of
your local newspaper. Remember that elected officials carefully read local
papers and news websites-–all papers will have instructions on how to submit an
op-ed and an email. <span style> </span>Use Blast-Zone.org
to highlight specific local places at risk, talk about rail crossings,
geographical features, waterways, parks, and places that people from your city
or town will know. Editors are looking for content that is personal and
specific to your place. Mainers are especially looking at the railroad
lines of Central Maine & Quebec (which has said that it is not interested
in carrying Bakken crude but might have to if enough pressure is put on it by
Irving or another customer) and Pan Am (which runs through the southern portion
of the state and then connects to an eastern section of track to New
Brunswick). Most coastal towns in midcoast Maine are not in immediate danger
from a bomb train; however, Pan Am runs through Portland, Lewiston-Auburn and
Waterville, some of our population-dense cities. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Thank you for whatever support you
can offer. Hope to see you in Fairfield on July 11!</span></p>
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