Fwd: [Climate-action] via 350: Critical update on Keystone

[Erik Thorkildsen]

Forwarded from a member of Occupy Boston,
Erik



Hey Patriots & CASEJ,

I bet a lot of you got this message from Bill McK about 350's planned "media blitz" starting tomorrow, but if by chance you haven't, here's a heads up. The "biggest burst of environmental advocacy so far this millennia [millennium?]", he says - that's exciting.

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From: Bill McKibben <organ...@350.org>
Date: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:52 PM
Subject: Critical update on Keystone
To: Devyn Powell <songso...@gmail.com>

Friends, once more to the barricades.

Or, in this case, to Twitter, Facebook, and GMail.

You guys are the pioneers in the Keystone fight. When you came to Washington in August to get arrested no one had heard of the pipeline. When you came to Washington in November to encircle the White House, no one thought we had a real chance to defeat it.

But thanks to you President Obama killed Keystone. And it will stay dead unless the Congress revives it.  That’s a real danger, though—big oil never rests, and the Democratic majority in the Senate is not exactly a granite wall. In fact, there are signs those Senators are wobbling.

So: beginning noon tomorrow every environmental group in the country, along with allies like MoveOn.org and CREDO Action, are coalescing for a 24-hour email blitz of the Senate. If we do it right, it will be the biggest burst of environmental advocacy so far this millennia. But doing it right means you need to warm up your typing fingers. 

We need you not just to send a message yourself (expect an email about that tomorrow)—we need you to use every network you’ve got to round up hundreds of others to do the same. Think about your Facebook page, and think about your friends who have big lists of friends and followers -- think about the thousands of names in your email inbox. We need to demonstrate that the environment is not some fringe concern—that there are lots of us who care about the future. 

Duncan from our organizing team is convening a group of folks who are interested in doing a little bit more in the next 48 hours, so if you're able and willing to do a lot of sharing -- on Facebook and Twitter in particular -- then sign up to join Team #noKXL for the social media blitz.

Click here to join the online brigade: act.350.org/survey/team-noKXL/

This is lonelier work. We won’t get the same rush that came from joining together in the summer and fall. But if we do it right, then our next gathering will be a victory party.

Thanks. Thanks more than I can say. None of us had any idea what we were getting into when we started this -- but we will see it through.

-Bill

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Devyn Powell

Students for a Just and Stable Future
Tufts University Class of 2014
Environmental Programs Intern at Tufts Institute of the Environment

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