<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">***Action Alert, please share widely***<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><font><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<br>Friends,<br><br>Senator
Brown has recently co-sponsored a bill meant to push through the
construction of the highly controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
and take away regulating powers from federal agencies. A coalition of
concerned Massachusetts residents has been trying to work with the
Senator to have him protect the interests of the people, but he’s made
it clear which side he’s on. Brown has received $1.9 Million from
fossil fuel corporations and their front line groups and has
consistently voted in the interest of those corporations. </span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">It’s
time for the people to call “foul!” on Scott Brown, remind him that
he’s sitting in the people’s seat, and call him out for pushing the
interest of the people aside while the oil and coal industries buy the
votes. </span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Please
join a coalition of concerned residents and members of Occupy Boston
this Thursday to throw down the penalty flags and highlight the
injustice and unfairness of the corporate influence on legislators. </span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">What: Calling “Foul!” on Scott Brown, rally and march to his downtown office</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">When:</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Thursday Feb 9, 12:00PM, 12:30 march to office, till 1:30p</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Where: Meet to “suit up” in referee stripes at Park Street Station, 12:30 march to Sen. Brown’s office, JFK Federal Building</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">What
to Bring: There will be lots of referee shirts for you to wear, but
feel free to come dressed as a referee or otherwise. You can also
bring signs, whistles, penalty flags, positive attitudes, and all your
friends!</span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Who: A coalition of Massachusetts residents, the Occupy Boston Climate Action, </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Sustainability and Environmental Justice working group, Boston Occupiers and you!</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Contact: <a href="mailto:occupyboston.climate.action@gmail.com" target="_blank">occupyboston.climate.action@gmail.com</a> </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">If you use facebook, please RSVP and share: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/133982553388870" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/133982553388870</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Why:</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Scott
Brown and a cohort of elected officials who have received large
campaign contributions from fossil fuel interests have introduced</span><a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s2041pcs/pdf/BILLS-112s2041pcs.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Bill S.2041</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
to push through approval for the Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline. If
built the 1,700 mile pipeline will transport the dirty oil product from
the point of </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaF5NfCjWHs" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">destruction</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> in the Boreal forests of Alberta, through fragile watersheds in the U.S. and to tax havens in the Gulf of Mexico for </span><a href="http://www.tarsandsaction.org/spread-the-word/key-facts-keystone-xl/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">export</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
to world markets. The project has already been denied a permit by the
President due to potential environmental impacts. Occupy Boston recently
passed a </span><a href="http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/02/06/occupy-boston-supports-fossil-fuel-nuclear-subsidies/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">resolution</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
calling for an end to all government subsidies to fossil fuel
interests, an end to energy industry influence on the political process,
and the rejection of this catastrophic Keystone XL mistake. Senator
Brown’s latest move has proven that he is beholden to the desires of the
fossil fuel interests and the people of Massachusetts are going to
remind him who’s seat he’s sitting in. (“Who’s seat? Our seat!”)</span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Resources:</span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Facts on the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline </span><a href="http://www.tarsandsaction.org/spread-the-word/key-facts-keystone-xl/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.tarsandsaction.org/spread-the-word/key-facts-keystone-xl/</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Infograph: Keystone Pipeline - Built to Spill</span><br>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/keystone-pipeline-infographic_n_941069.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/keystone-pipeline-infographic_n_941069.html</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Recent Reuters articles on this bill and other maneuvers to push through pipeline</span><br>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/keystone-xl-approval-bill-support_n_1241563.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/keystone-xl-approval-bill-support_n_1241563.html</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/294033/20120206/house-republicans-try-again-force-keystone-xl.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/294033/20120206/house-republicans-try-again-force-keystone-xl.htm</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Oil Change International: Dirty Energy Money Campaign</span><br>
<a href="http://www.dirtyenergymoney.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.dirtyenergymoney.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">OpenSecrets.org</span><br>
<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/races/indexp.php?cycle=2010&id=MAS1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.opensecrets.org/races/indexp.php?cycle=2010&id=MAS1</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font><div style="display:inline">
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