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Dear Friends,
This will be a slightly longer letter than common for the internet age–it’s serious stuff.
The short version is we want you to consider doing something hard: coming to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and engaging in civil disobedience that will likely get you arrested.
The full version goes like this:
As you know, the planet is steadily warming: 2010 was the warmest year on record, and we’ve seen the resulting chaos in almost every corner of the earth.
And as you also know, our democracy is increasingly controlled by special interests interested only in their short-term profit.
These two trends collide this summer in Washington, where the State Department and the White House have to decide whether to grant a certificate of ‘national interest’ to some of the biggest fossil fuel players on earth. These corporations want to build the so-called ‘Keystone XL Pipeline‘ from Canada’s tar sands to Texas refineries.
To call this project a horror is serious understatement. The tar sands have wrecked huge parts of Alberta, disrupting ways of life in indigenous communities–First Nations communities in Canada, and tribes along the pipeline route in the U.S. have
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CO2-FREE fuel already exists!
stop tar sands insanity
A CO2-free fuel already exists..-Green Gas NH3, and is being suppressed by Big Oil…
Pushing the climate over the edge to make more and more money for power mad corporations.
Act NOW OR NEVER!!
SEE DETAILS OF CO2-FREE fuel HERE
https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/green-gas-still-ignored-in-rush-for-profits/
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