[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Fwd: "Silicon Valley against KXL" Protest Vigil - Monday evening, Lytton Plaza

[Caroline Yacoub]

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From: Pierre Delforge <pedelforge at gmail.com>
To: Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net> 
Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2014 10:34 PM
Subject: Fwd: "Silicon Valley against KXL" Protest Vigil - Monday evening, Lytton Plaza
  


Hi Caroline,

I trust you're already planning to do it, but could you invite your Greens to these two events?

Thanks and hope to see you there (I'm going to the Palo Alto one). 

Pierre



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From: Pierre Delforge <pedelforge at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:26 PM
Subject: "Silicon Valley against KXL" Protest Vigil - Monday evening, Lytton Plaza
To: 350siliconvalley at googlegroups.com



Hi all,
It's really important to send a strong message to the White House that we stand united against the KXL tar sands pipeline. 350.org, CREDO, Sierra Club and other partner organizations are organizing hundreds of events around the country to show President Obama our determination.

We're planning two events in Silicon Valley, both on Monday evening, 6 pm for 1 hour:
	* Palo Alto: Lytton Plaza, 6 - 7 pm: Details and RSVP here: http://www.350siliconvalley.org/kxl_protest_vigil. We'll have candles, short statements, and perhaps even live songs by our star author-performer Deborah!  

	* San Jose: Federal Building, 280 S. 1st. St., 6 - 7 pm: Details and RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/san-jose-nokxl-vigil. Join Andrew Bear, the leader of the San Jose Sit-In event planned later in the Spring when the draft National Interest Determination is published.

Keystone XL is a crucial fight between us, the people concerned about climate change, and Big Oil. It is being watched nationally and internationally to see if we can start winning against the fossil fuel industry and start curbing climate change. Will you join us?


Let's make history and make President Obama reject KXL!!!

Pierre


http://www.350siliconvalley.org/www.facebook.com/350SiliconValley http://www.meetup.com/350SiliconValley/
 



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From: Duncan Meisel - 350.org <350 at 350.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:04 PM
Subject: BREAKING: Update on Keystone XL
To: Pierre Delforge <pedelforge at gmail.com>



Friends, 
Below is a crucial note about the future of Keystone XL that we’re sending out to our entire email list. (Short version: today the State Department released its flawed environmental report, setting in motion the countdown to the final decision by President Obama. So… it’s game time.) 
Since I know you’ve hosted an event with 350 before, I wanted to make a special request to see if you were able to help pull together a local event to mark the occasion and show our resolve on Monday evening. If you can host, click here to sign up: actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/kxl-fseis?referrer=350-org&zip=95070
 
Here’s what you’ll need for an event: 
	* A big, powerful visual and some way to make it look good at night. Perhaps this is a banner, illuminated by flashlights. Or a message in tea lights you lay out on the ground. However you want to approach it, let’s light the night with our energy. 
	* A good place to gather. This could be the place you gathered at your last event, or another central, iconic location that is easy for people to meet you at after work. 
	* A team to help bring it together. As with every event, you’ll need a few folks to take on different roles. Here are a few to keep in mind: an MC, photographer, someone in charge of the visual, and a point of contact for the press.  
The rest of the story is below. I hope to be able to step back into action with you soon. 
-Duncan 

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Friends, 
Today the State Department released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on Keystone XL, starting the official countdown to a final decision by President Obama on the pipeline. 
Big oil hand-picked the reviewers of the pipeline, which means the report avoids taking a stand on the pipeline’s climate impacts -- leaving the ball entirely in President Obama’s court. As always, he has all the evidence he needs to reject the pipeline. 
The last time State released an FEIS about Keystone XL in 2011, 59 people were arrested that same day just outside the White House in what was just day 6 of a two week sit-in to stop the pipeline. Those sit-ins grew to actions across the country, which grew to a historic rally that surrounded the White House and forced President Obama to delay the pipeline, keeping millions of barrels of oil in the ground and millions of dollars out of the hands of big oil. 
In other words, today is just the starting point for the next crucial phase of this fight. Together, I believe we can once more stop the pipeline. 
We won’t do it by relying on the State Department, whose process has been riddled with conflicts of interest and big oil’s money. Nor by relying on the President’s good intentions — his lofty rhetoric about climate change has been betrayed too many times by weak action and backtracking. 
As we showed in 2011, the only time you can count on the President is when you have him completely surrounded. And so it’s up to us to mobilize again, and put the pressure on from all sides. 
Step one is to show our resolve and disappointment in this broken process. On Monday night, all across the country, people will be gathering to mark this moment together at protest vigils, where we will light the night with our resolve to keep fighting. We need to show the media, big oil and the President that this movement is mobilized and unafraid. Can you be there? 
Click here to look for an event near you, and sign up to host if there isn't one near you: actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/kxl-fseis?referrer=350-org&zip=95070 
Step two is to set some firm plans. Next Tuesday, Feb 4th, the night after the protest vigils, 350 will host an online video chat to lay out some ideas for what we can do to put the pressure on President Obama over the coming months. Click here to RSVP, and we’ll send you a reminder when it happens. 
Keystone XL is a critical piece in big oil’s plan to dig up and burn all of the tar sands. We’ll continue to face them down on other fronts too -- East, West, South; by rail or pipe -- to keep this oil in the ground. 
Big oil wants you to believe that today’s report means this fight is over. And that’s the difference between us and them. 
Where they see a finish line, we see the starting blocks. Where they see a pipeline route, we see homes, and farmland. Where they see an export facility, we see a community struggling to breathe. Where they see an oil patch, we see a boreal forest and the violation of treaties. 
Where they see a bottom line, we see our future on the line. 
And that’s why this is just another beginning. Let’s roll, 
Duncan 

 
   

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