Bill,
Will you folks have banners and signs available for participants or do we need to bring our own? Also, will small back-packs or fanny-packs be “allowed” at the demo site?
Dave

You mentioned Canadians might see travel restrictions after being arrested. So can I assume that there’d be pretty inconvenient repercussions for Europeans?

Did anybody copy the Obama quote that was in the chat column? Bill agreed it would be fitting to include in a letter to the editor. Duncan, would you post it here or possibly include it in a summary of what was discussed (transcript?) Thank you all … it was great!

It would be great to connect our goal to curtail global warming with the goal of saving lives that would register in peoples consciousness how destructive our driving habits and dependence on oil are. Would be very difficult and maybe not feasible but could bring in a great number of groups and would resonate with most people. Slowing our cars down in National time of slowdown would save lives, save oil, give people chance to reflect that we may be driving around like chickens with our heads off for the benefit of a narrow industry holding progress back. Did this while working for the airlines as ramp person and union organized. It was extremely rewarding and I did not want to stop the slowdown. Helping people connect the lives saved and health to our planet could help solidify support. Madd for one might understand that driving while tired is worse than driving while drinking. We become more tired as our air becomes more polluted and carbon monoxide is hundreds of times more likely to bond with our blood hemoglobin than oxygen. And with religious groups who could understand how we support life by saving lives and making our driving experience more connected to other drivers in slower and safer way. Government should help as it could coincide with keeping our oil reserves kept for an emergency. Feasible i don’t really know but if enough effort on front end it could pay huge dividend in turning our frantic driving around like chickens with our heads off to more human and enjoyable reconnection to an industry that would build cruisers again etc. etc. Just an idea.

Great work, and I was glad to see everyone on Sunday, Nov. 6 in DC to walk the pipe around the White Hosue. Big crowds make big impressions…..How about considering raising a big pot of money to build a solar power plant in Ohio, the most important swing state, and donate it to a college, or hospital. Then donate an electric plug in car to be charged by the solar power plant to demonstrate we don’t need all that tar sands oil. We have an alternative. Should get a lot of press, and we would be giving Light & Power to the people, rather than digging up tar sands darkness and adding profits to the Koch Brothers Keyston Pipeline.

This may be the best piece of environmental work I’ve seen and proud to be part of. Little does perhaps anyone realize that wetland draining in the midwest has accelerated dramatically and has become as great of a threat to climate as Tarsands and rainforest destruction. The scale of this is unbelievable. It is the result of subsidizing corn and ethanol. The price has gotten so high, all wetlands are targeted for destruction and going fast. I hope this can add to the momentum.