[GPSCC-chat] Fw: NTS team meeting this Saturday and KXL Pledge of Resistance Sit-In in San Jose

[Caroline Yacoub]

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From: Pierre Delforge <pedelforge at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: NTS team meeting this Saturday and KXL Pledge of Resistance Sit-In in San Jose
  
 
Thank you for RSVP'ing for the No Tar Sands meeting tomorrow, I look forward to seeing you at 3pm at:

Coffee & More, Sunnyvale  100 S Murphy Ave  Sunnyvale, CA 94304 
Best,
Pierre

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Pierre Delforge <pedelforge at gmail.com> wrote:
All,
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>The No Tar Sands team is meeting this Saturday in Sunnyvale (Coffee & More, 3-5pm, click this link for details and RSVP). Please join us to plan our next steps and win the fight against the KXL tar sands pipeline! 
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>One of the topics for discussion will be this email below that you may have received from CREDO about the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance: 75,000 people around the country have pledged to take part in civil disobedience actions, in case the State Department approves the KXL tar sands pipeline. These actions will consist of sit-ins at federal buildings and other locations related to Keystone XL, similar to the 2011 sit-in at the White House where 1,200 protesters were arrested and which sparked the KXL opposition movement. 
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>These actions will only take place if and when the State Department approves the pipeline, but planning for this situation shows our determination and acts as a deterrent for the Administration who will want to avoid this type of turmoil. So our friends at CREDO are planning actions across the country, and providing training on how to engage in them. One of these actions is being planned locally at a San Jose Federal Building. Come on Saturday to discuss 350SV's participation in this action. Note that this does not commit anyone to do civil disobedience, this is just to learn about it and you can make up your own mind if and when the moment comes. In addition, we need a lot of help plan the event, recruit etc, whether you participate in it or not. 
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>Any other Keystone XL and tar sands-related topics are also welcome.
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>See you Saturday!
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>Pierre  
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>From:Elijah Zarlin, CREDO Action [mailto:act at credoaction.com] 
>Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 10:16 AM
>To: Pierre Delforge
>Subject: This is it
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>Where will you be if the Obama Administration recommends approval of Keystone XL? Here's your local Pledge of Resistance sit-in.  
>The Keystone XL decision still hangs in the balance. You've signed the pledge, now build pressure on President Obama by signing up for your nearest Pledge of Resistance sit-in action -- to be deployed when and if the Obama Administration recommends approval of Keystone XL.  
>Click below to RSVP:   
>Dear Pierre, 
>The Pledge of Resistance has worked so far -- because you sent a strong message to the White House by signing it.  
>When you and more than 75,000 other people committed to risk arrest if necessary to stop Keystone XL, President Obama felt pressure in a way he never had before. He was forced to take note. In fact, CREDO’s Michael Kieschnick, who has also taken the pledge, informed the president about your promise in a face-to-face meeting.  
>But that's not enough. The Keystone XL decision still hangs in the balance. Now, we have to win - and that means we need to take the next step. 
>After months of hard work and organizing, after training over 400 volunteer action leaders in 25 cities nationwide, we're ready to announce the second phase of the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance: The local sit-in actions that are being planned by our volunteers across the country, to be deployed when and if the Obama Administration recommends approval of Keystone XL.  
>Chances are there's one near you. To stop Keystone XL we need you to take the next step and sign up with your local pledge action. 
>Find your nearest Pledge of Resistance action and sign up to be part of it.  
>These actions came together as a result of months of work by literally hundreds of people. A group of seasoned direct action organizers built a curriculum, trainers traveled to 25 cities around the country to teach it, and of course, hundreds of activists stepped up to attend a rigorous two-day weekend training, learning how to plan a sit-in in their community, and then going back and putting that training into action.  
>Now, we know where the actions will be: Administration buildings like State Department, EPA and Federal offices, oil industry contractor ERM offices, and branches of TD Bank a major investor in tar sands development. All that's missing is you.  
>Preparing every action to be ready for when the National Interest Determination finally comes down on Keystone XL will be a lot of work.There are vital roles both for people who will be risking arrest, and for people not risking arrest.  
>Soon after you sign up for an action, you'll be contacted by your local action leader, who will send out a time for the group to meet in person, complete the Pledge of Resistance action training together, and move forward to put together everything you will need for the local sit-in action.  
>The most important thing you can do right now is to sign up for your local action. (Even if you can't attend the training session, you'll want to sign up so your local action leader can let you know what's happening.)  
>Between dragging this decision out as long as possible, and making some positive statements about Keystone XL which might cause many in the movement to let their guard down, President Obama is clearly hoping our pressure will go away.  
>We simply can't let that happen. Direct pressure on the President has been the most effective tool to stop Keystone XL so far. 
>The President was right to say he'll decide Keystone XL based on its climate impact. But we cannot forget that the State Department's first evaluation of Keystone XL said, incredibly, that it won't have a climate impact. And the final evaluation of Keystone XL is still in the hands of the same shame process, and the same oil industry, which can just as easily claim that Keystone XL doesn't have an impact, and passes the climate test. Then it's: Boom. Approved. "Game Over."  
>The 75,000 people who signed the Pledge of Resistance was the first act. The second act must be tens of thousands of people taking the next step in that commitment, and coming together in their local communities to prepare for peaceful, dignified sit-in actions if the Obama Administration recommends approval of Keystone XL.  
>The third act will be up to the President. Tens of thousands of people are prepared to celebrate stopping Keystone XL, or to unleash a massive nationwide wave of civil-disobedience to block the pipeline that will come to define President Obama's legacy.  
>Sign up to be part of your local Pledge of Resistance action now. 
>Thanks for everything you are doing to keep pressure on President Obama to reject Keystone XL.  
>Elijah Zarlin, CREDO Action
>Amanda Starbuck, Rainforest Action Network
>John Sellers, the Other 98% 
>Click below to RSVP:    
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