<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI<div>RM<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">October 11, 2011 3:47:52 PM GMT-04:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">undisclosed-recipients:;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Fwd: This is what momentum looks like</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Fyi. Anyone thinking of going down to Washington DC around Nov 6? iso<br> <br> -------- Original Message -------- <table class="moz-email-headers-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Subject: </th> <td>This is what momentum looks like</td> </tr> <tr> <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th> <td>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:00:35 -0400 (EDT)</td> </tr> <tr> <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th> <td>Bill McKibben <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:info@tarsandsaction.org"><info@tarsandsaction.org></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Reply-To: </th> <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@tarsandsaction.org">info@tarsandsaction.org</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">To: </th> <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:isobelmcgregor@yahoo.com">isobelmcgregor@yahoo.com</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <img moz-do-not-send="true" alt="Tar Sands Action" id="banner" src="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/2133/images/tarsands_banner_3.gif"> <div id="content" style="padding:10px;"><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Dear friends--<br> <br> It’s been the most hectic stretch of my life--in fact, my (extremely patient and entirely wonderful) wife reminded me yesterday that I’d spent more time in jail than at home these past few months. <br> <br> That’s for the best of reasons: thanks to all of you, we’ve managed to turn this Keystone XL issue into the biggest environmental fight in a long, long time. And now it’s coming down to the wire. <b>In particular, it’s coming down to Nov. 6, which is going to be a very big day.</b></p><p>We need you and everyone you know at the White House that day--we’re going to circle it in people, exactly a year before the next election, to remind Barack Obama that he needs to live up to his 2008 promises and “end the tyranny of oil.”</p><p>We just had a great rally at the final State Department hearing in Washington DC, where I spoke to about 1000 of our friends who were out in force to ask the President to stop the pipeline. Our video team cut a video of my speech there, and it's a nice little summary of where we're at and where we need to be. <b>Take a look, and then pass it on to your friends who may be on the fence about coming - we'll need all of them: </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IlozrL1a0vuS5Du3tKuHMKnkdp7MQO1C"><img moz-do-not-send="true" alt="" src="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/2133/images/Screen%20shot%202011-10-11%20at%2012.50.33%20PM.png" height="244" width="400"></a><span style="font-size: smaller;"><br> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=175wcZ8O89fY3KRX3368MKnkdp7MQO1C"><span style="font-size: smaller;">Click here to watch the call to action</span></a></p><p>Here are a few of the key updates:<br> <br> 1-- <b>Maybe most importantly, in the last week a new front has opened in this battle.</b> A series of newspaper accounts and <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=d6dUfxmSaOifc%2FC9lTLpPKnkdp7MQO1C">email leaks</a> have made it clear that the pipeline is as filthy politically as it is environmentally. In particular: the State Department environmental review was rigged.</p><p>Transcanada was allowed to suggest a list of companies to conduct the review, and the state department helpfully selected the number one choice on their list, a firm called Cardno-Entrix. If you go the Cardno-Entrix website, you’ll see that they list Transcanada as one of their chief clients. <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bz9YdI4PRnEDwS0c8MhNvankdp7MQO1C">The New York Times story</a> uncovering this link said it was a “flouting of environmental law.” You can read the piece that Naomi Klein and I released today at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AvQ3Cnhy7tOfMRSPuFmZ2ankdp7MQO1C">the Daily Beast here</a>.<br> <br> <b>The bottom line is clear: this is a crime in progress, and far worse than any past scandal in the Obama administration.</b> It’s the kind of thing we expected from the Bush administration--but even Dick Cheney didn’t hire Halliburton to actually review his projects. All by itself this scandal is reason enough to tear up the environmental review and start over again, this time employing independent experts--like the 20 scientists who told President Obama earlier this year that the pipeline would be a disaster.<br> <br> <b>2-- You simply can’t believe how support has grown around the country</b>--right down to the football stadium at the University of Nebraska, where half the stadium stood to <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bxk1mNOe8vVXPeRq2bsmu6nkdp7MQO1C">boo a Transcanada ad</a> on the Jumbotron. In Parliament Hill in Ottawa, 217 of our Canadian allies were arrested in the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rqnK0lR8kybxUHK4AGxsfankdp7MQO1C">biggest civil disobedience action</a> there in years. We’ve got the Dalai Lama on our side now, not to mention the editorial page of the Lincoln, Nebraska newspaper. Senators from Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, to Mike Johanns, Republican of Nebraska, have called on the president to block the pipeline. <br> <br> You can read about the fight everywhere from <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=t38hZvnJRcbVD1Z0qLwIoankdp7MQO1C">Rolling Stone</a> to <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mWJkZIWiJMAxoyHNh9K2Zankdp7MQO1C">Christian Century</a>, from the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=V0mZv8MmZELn6%2FlqVIpN56nkdp7MQO1C">NewYork Times</a> to the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zDGTlpJMs7Z3b5AE5PPecankdp7MQO1C">LA Times</a> to the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gs%2Fjwzl58ASd0WYTd3nhC6nkdp7MQO1C">Washington Post</a>. You can watch your colleagues following the president around the country on one TV newscast after another. <b>This is what momentum looks like.</b><br> <br> Eventually, the buck stops with President Obama. That’s why we’re going to the White House on Nov 6. We’ll try to ring the president’s house in people--we haven't tried <br> anything this big before, and we’re not clear exactly how many people we need. But a lot, that’s for sure. <br> <br> Also, if you haven't yet: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Evwi53jzz6EIlIu8gPZlmKnkdp7MQO1C">sign up here</a>. If you'd like to get a busload of your friends and neighbors to come: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZuzNn9AXM23PT%2B%2BHjkStuqnkdp7MQO1C">let us know here</a>. <br> <br> It’s going to be a very beautiful day. We plan to entirely surround the President with his own words from the campaign trail - words that we badly need him to live up to. This is the natural endpoint of the 2008 campaign, the moment he can show us he meant it when he rallied so many of us to his vision. At times, I confess, it feels like a stunt double has taken his place, one who opened a huge swath of Wyoming to coal-mining earlier this year, and then junked the ozone rules. <br> <br> But if we show up in large enough numbers, maybe we can liberate that 2008 Obama, bring him out of hiding. I refuse to be a cynic until I have absolutely no choice--and I can’t wait to see you on the 6th in Washington!<br> <br> with all love,<br> <br> Bill McKibben</p> <!-- TemplateEndEditable --> </div><p><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mfdgeX7BHF0UdzJhCNpKQankdp7MQO1C">Click here to unsubscribe</a></p> <div style="text-align:center;"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.salsalabs.com/?email"><img moz-do-not-send="true" alt="empowered by Salsa" src="https://wfc2.salsalabs.com/salsa/images/empowered-by-salsa.gif" border="0"></a></div> <img moz-do-not-send="true" src="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/TrackImage?key=1767615687" height="1" width="1"><diaemailid='1767615687' thread="137"> </diaemailid='1767615687'> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>