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Out, Take Action!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Capitals; color: black;">Thursday, October 20,
2011</span></p><br>Please join Bill McKibben and Tar Sands Action in Boston this Thursday, October 20th at 5:15pm for a climate teach-in with Occupy Boston. Then travel with allies via the T to Harvard Square where we'll rally some more and hear from Wendell Berry as he receives the Howard Zinn "People Speak" Award for his work as a poet to defend people and the planet! <div class="gmail_quote">
<div><br></div><div>The Occupy movement is focusing powerful and constructive energy in favor of justice for people and planet and in opposition to corporate greed and corruption. The Tar Sands campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline offers us an opportunity to score a tangible win against fossil fuel profiteers! So, bring your signs, your props, your friends, and your own shining faces! See you Thursday at Dewey Square!<br>
<br><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;">5:15pm Bill McKibben Occupy
Boston Teach-In, Dewey Square, Boston’s South Station</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;"><br><br>6:15pm Occupy Boston<span> "T" </span>Party! Join McKibben and other Tar Sands Patriots to say “no” to the
Keystone XL pipeline and big oil’s resistance to building a clean, fair
economy! Rolling Rally on the Red Line to Harvard Square!</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;"><br><br>6:30pm Tar Sands Action Rally
continues in Harvard Square</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;"><br><br>7:00pm Howard Zinn “People
Speak” Award & Discussion, First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street,
Harvard Square</span><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 30pt; font-family: Capitals; color: black;">#OccupyLiterature</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Black"; color: black;">The
Howard Zinn "People Speak" Award</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;">PEN New
England honors</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Black"; color: black;">Poet
& Activist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Black"; color: black;">Wendell
Berry</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Black"; color: black;">WENDELL
BERRY will discuss civil disobedience</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;">in defense of the
environment and read from his poetry. </span><span style="font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Black"; color: black;">BERRY</span><span style="font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;"> will be joined by grassroots climate movement leader, </span><span style="font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Black"; color: black;">BILL MCKIBBEN</span><span style="font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;">, to talk about their
recent arrests for opposing fossil fuel interests:<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Black"; color: black;">MCKIBBEN</span><span style="font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;"> in D.C. protesting big
oil’s proposed 1,700 mile Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;">and </span><span style="font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Black"; color: black;">BERRY</span><span style="font-family: "Bell Gothic Std Bold"; color: black;"> protesting Kentucky
mountain top removal.</span></p>
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</span></p></div><div><br><div>for more info:<br clear="all">Marla Marcum<br><font size="1">Director, <a href="http://www.newenglandclimatesummer.org/" target="_blank">New England Climate Summer </a><br>
Director of Christian Education, Lexington United Methodist Church<br>Th.D. Candidate, Ecological Ethics, Boston University School of Theology<br>Chair, Climate Change Task Force, New England Conference, United Methodist Church<br>
<a href="tel:%28781%29%20475-0996" value="+17814750996" target="_blank">(781) 475-0996</a></font><br><div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">New England Climate Summer is a program of the Better Future Project. BFP is fiscally sponsored by the Open Space Institute, Inc., as part of their Citizen Action Program. OSI is a nonprofit public charity exempt from federal income tax under Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code.</span></div>
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