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<p>Dear Friends,</p>
<p>Late last week, I got the interesting news that right wing operatives from the fossil fuel industry are mounting an impressive campaign against me (as well as a handful of other high-profile climate activists).</p>
<p>Apparently I’ll now have video trackers following me wherever I go; hired researchers are digging through fifty cartons of my papers at the university where they’re housed; and they’ll be running a six-figure digital advertising campaign to smear my reputation.</p>
<p>I have three takeaways from this:</p>
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<li><strong>It’s not me they’re after, it’s you.</strong> I’ve been writing and speaking for the better part of forty years, and never attracted this kind of notice before. But you’ve built a movement that’s starting to inflict real pain on the industry: Just in the last couple weeks, the Constitution and NED pipelines were both blocked in the northeast; ditto the Tongue River coal train in Montana; over sixty students have been arrested occupying the offices of universities to call for fossil fuel divestment; and on and on. </li>
<li>No need to waste sympathy on me. It’s not fun being in their crosshairs -- and I don’t look forward to see how they twist my words -- but it’s not the end of the world. Right now, we should be keeping in mind the people who are taking real risks every day to take a stand -- people like Berta Cáceres, who was murdered for her activism two months ago in Honduras, or the farmers in the Philippines recently killed in a brutal police crackdown at a protest, or the thousands of people around the world who will be risking arrest as part of the Break Free mobilization these next couple weeks.</li>
<li>Above all, let's not be distracted. That’s their goal -- to get folks thinking about absolutely anything except the climate crisis, the greatest challenge humans have ever faced. February and March were record-hot months in the history of our planet, but May is going to be a record-hot political month for the fossil fuel industry.</li>
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<p><strong>Look, what we’re learning is this: <em>When we fight, we win.</em> It’s working. They’re fighting back. Let’s not back down.</strong></p>
<p>If you haven’t already signed up to be part of one of the Break Free actions around the country, <a href="http://act.350.org/go/9478?t=1&utm_medium=email&akid=13115.313989.XGyJ1R">you can do that here</a>.</p>
<p>And if you can’t make it to an action in person, <a href="https://act.350.org/go/11051?t=2&utm_medium=email&akid=13115.313989.XGyJ1R">sign up to help keep tabs on what’s going on around the world -- so that we can turn all this watching around, and help keep each other safe</a>.</p>
<p>With great thanks for the solidarity near and far,</p>
<p>Bill McKibben for 350.org</p>
<p>P.S. I’ve been hearing from friends all day who are worried that I’ll be daunted by the attack dogs of the fossil fuel industry. To reassure you, I thought I’d show you the brand new attack dog that arrived in the McKibben household last week. Her name is Birke, and she can nip with the best of them.</p>
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