<strong><a href="http://350.ORG">350.ORG</a> is taking the same tactic as Camp Charlie - this is a one week "Occupation" and I think we should jump right in.  Hey, y'all - someone willing to do this as an SAA or GA proposal?  I can rally food support anyway.  Deb Sirotkin Butler</strong><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Aria Littlhous <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aria@littlhous.net" target="_blank">aria@littlhous.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br>Have you signed-up for the Vigil to End Climate Silence (in the Massachusetts Senate Race) that will take place round-the-clock in Boston from Tuesday, October 23 to 30th?  <br><br><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJadG9famJQRTJQOF9nSlZ2b0NKZlE6MQ#gid=0" target="_blank"><b>J</b></a></span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;TEXT-DECORATION:none"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;TEXT-DECORATION:none"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJadG9famJQRTJQOF9nSlZ2b0NKZlE6MQ#gid=0" target="_blank"><b>oin</b></a> the 50+ other folks who have already signed-up to stand up for a livable climate and future.  This event is an opp<font size="+0">ortunity</font><b><font size="+0"> </font></b><font size="+0">to</font><b><font size="+0"> help</font> build a climate movement that will demand that elected officials and the media recognize the climate crisis for the threat that it is.</b><br>
<br></span></span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;TEXT-DECORATION:none"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;TEXT-DECORATION:none">Thanks what you are already doing to address the climate crisis.  </span></span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;TEXT-DECORATION:none">Below is the rational for this Vigil.  <b>Please circulate widely, <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJadG9famJQRTJQOF9nSlZ2b0NKZlE6MQ#gid=0" target="_blank">sign-up</a></b> for a shift<b>, and ask your friends, neighbors, families, co-workers, to do so as well.</b></span></span></font><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman';FONT-SIZE:16px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;TEXT-DECORATION:none"><font size="+0"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
<br>Vanessa </span></font><br>--------------------------------------------<br>VIGIL TO END CLIMATE SILENCE</span><br><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">This is it. The time to break the silence on climate in the Massachusetts Senate Race is now.</span><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><br><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">As Bill McKibben, James Hansen, and many other respected climate scientists and leaders have made clear, </span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;TEXT-DECORATION:none">time is running out</span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"> to take action and preserve a livable climate.</span><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman';FONT-SIZE:16px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><br><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">Climate change is the biggest threat ever faced by human beings. Countless lives are at stake. Yet candidates and the media are skirting this indisputable fact -- or fail to mention it at all -- even as the climate crisis threatens to spin out of control.</span><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><br><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">From October 23rd through the 30th, at Government Center in Boston, Massachusetts residents will participate in a round-the-clock </span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;TEXT-DECORATION:none">Vigil to End Climate Silence</span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"> and call for building a just and livable future for all.  Rallies, with keynote speakers, will be held at strategic times to bring as many of your voices as possible to this call to action. </span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;TEXT-DECORATION:none">Click </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJadG9famJQRTJQOF9nSlZ2b0NKZlE6MQ#gid=0" target="_blank"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;COLOR:#1155cc;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;TEXT-DECORATION:underline">here</span></a><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;TEXT-DECORATION:none"> to take part in this vigil.  </span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">We want to support people who live far from Boston to organize vigils in their areas -- if interested, email </span><a href="mailto:vanessa@350ma.org" target="_blank"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;COLOR:#1155cc;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:underline">vanessa@350ma.org</span></a><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">.</span><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman';FONT-SIZE:16px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><br><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">We understand that every passing second without action is a step closer to robbing us of a livable future. We watched the Brown/Warren debates in Lowell and Springfield with a sense of overwhelming grief and disbelief. It was business-as-usual and politics-as-usual, with not a single mention of the climate catastrophe looming over us. Warren even ended the Springfield debate with an appeal to "our children's and grandchildren's future" -- but failed to say the word climate.</span><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman';FONT-SIZE:16px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><br><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">What we ask is that Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown spell out their positions on climate change between now and the election -- particularly at the October 30th debate -- even if the debate moderator or other journalists do not ask them about it.  We need to know whether they acknowledge the climate crisis as the biggest issue of our time. We need to know whether they will make climate change a top policy priority -- beginning with a vote to repeal the </span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;TEXT-DECORATION:none">billions of dollars in federal subsidies and giveaways to the fossil fuel industry</span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">, the very industry that is destroying our climate and our future.</span><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman';FONT-SIZE:16px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><br><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;TEXT-DECORATION:none">Politicians and the media need to wake up</span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"> -- and start addressing the single greatest threat to our future. Unless people across the United States stand up and provide a moral counter-weight to the money and power of the fossil fuel lobby, climate change will not be a top priority for elected officials or a central issue in political campaigns.  We’ve learned that we can't merely vote and then wait for politicians to lead us.  From women's suffrage to the civil rights and antiwar movements, we have seen that the people must lead them.  What better place to take this stand than in Massachusetts, where the U.S. Senate campaign is in the national spotlight?</span><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman';FONT-SIZE:16px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><br><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">Can you commit to attending a shift for this vigil? Sign up </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJadG9famJQRTJQOF9nSlZ2b0NKZlE6MQ#gid=0" target="_blank"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;COLOR:#1155cc;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:bold;TEXT-DECORATION:underline">here</span></a><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">.</span><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman';FONT-SIZE:16px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><br><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">Massachusetts is in the national spotlight. It’s time for us to put the climate crisis -- and politicians and the media’s silence on climate change -- in the spotlight too.</span><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman';FONT-SIZE:16px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none"></span><br><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;FONT-VARIANT:normal;FONT-STYLE:normal;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:15px;VERTICAL-ALIGN:baseline;FONT-WEIGHT:normal;TEXT-DECORATION:none">Onward,</span><br>
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