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  • Pauline Schneider

    okay, i’m all ready. :D

  • Dave

    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

  • Dave

    Since we are not demonstrating against an unjust law, is civil disobedience really an accurate term here?

  • Nils

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

  • Revjma

    Is Alberta Bishop Bouchard’s paper available in english? revjma@gmail.com

  • Anonymous

    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!

  • Patricia

    Did yesterday’s chat get recorded? I was late and it had finished by the time I checked in.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=662284223 Tyler Hess

      This will be the livestream for those arrested today! Watch b/w 11am & noon!

  • Jill

    Has there been any coordination with Occupy DC?

  • kelly

    I guess I missed it. No information on how long it would last but I had hoped at least for an hour.

  • Vfarley

    Oct 24 or Nov 1???

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jamie-Friend/1253311850 Jamie Friend

    I’m looking to catch a ride from South Florida to DC this weekend. Can anybody out there help me?

    • Susan

      Jamie I am renting an RV and driving up. I wish I could fit you in the RV but it’s already tight. Please go! I just want to encourage you to try to make it, even if you have to drive yourself.

  • Billwilson1804

    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.

  • teddy

    Sorry, but I have a five year old Mac and there is no flash player available for it. This is an economic justice issue. I do not see why you cannot have a video chat that is technically simple and inclusive of us poor folk who cannot afford a new computer every 5 years!

  • David Goodman

    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.

  • mary

    Hi,
    I was part of the march in DC on Nov 6th and found it exhilarating and encouraging.
    I think we, as a cohesive group, need to identify and promote candidates for office who will pledge to serve only one term and will use their time in office to serve the needs of our planet and our 1%.
    Those candidates will need to draft and support legislation that will jump start job-generating green energy technologies that use resources like algae, wind, water, sun, and geo-thermal.
    They should at the same time promote and support legislation that will give our government back to the people and out of the hands of greedy corporate America and the too big to fail military industrial complex.
    I truly believe that if we bring candidates to the fore that meet the criteria we will be able to make the government a government for the people.

  • Icfman

    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.

  • Karl Perrin

    Hello you movers and shakers! Yes, you. You’ve done some amazing things in Wash.D.C., as well as Ottawa, where our federal government hangs out. Unfortunately, our federal government (Steven Harper–Conservative Party) is owned by Tar Sands interests. That’s the bad news.

    The good news is that we have a lot of “greens” and one “Green” (Party leader: Elizabeth May) in our Parliament. The “greens” are mostly NDP (New Democratic Party, slightly left of the U.S. Democratic Party), plus a few Liberals (like Dems), who passed a bill in the House of Commons which banned oil tankers from British Columbia’s north coast (just south of the Alaska panhandle). But the bill died before it could go to our Senate (not worth explaining).

    So-o-o, we will need your help to keep Tar Sands Oil from going across B.C. to China. China wants it badly. California and Texas want it. We don’t want tankers messing up our Great Bear Rainforest or any part of our coast (or the Olympic Peninsula!). If Keystone XL is defeated, the pressure is even greater to push Tar Sands crude across the Rockies to our coast. There’s already a Kinder Morgan pipeline to Vancouver, which they want to double, and the proposed Enbridge pipeline to Kitimat.

    The First Nations (aboriginal) people of this coast and this region are leading the fight. We are guests on their land and sea. As guests, we must leave this place better than when we came. And that is possible. Stop the Tar Sands!

    Karl in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


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