[Cja] Fwd: Need Support! Save the Int'l Tar Sands Resistance Summit

[Adrian Wilson]

Please help if you can, and please forward!


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From: Scott Parkin <sparkin at ran.org>
Date: Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:41 AM
Subject: Need Support! Save the Int'l Tar Sands Resistance Summit
To:


hey all-- My friends at Northern Rockies Rising Tide, IEN, Peaceful
Uprising and others of us have been involved in organizing an anti-Tar
Sands

Action Camp and Action in Montana.  A new wave of grassroots
resistance and direct action campaigning is emerging in Idaho, Montana
and Utah to extractive industry like tar sands and coal.  This camp is
part that emerging wave.



*BUT on Friday (the very last minute), the funding for the camp has
become no longer available!*  *To make the camp happen, we need to
raise $6000 by Monday evening.*



Can you donate $5,$10 or $50?  Please check out the letter from
Northern Rockies RT below.  The donate link is here--

http://bit.ly/dCdeVE



peace, Scott



http://www.peacefuluprising.org/save-the-international-tar-sands-resistance-summit



Dear community,



We at Northern Rockies Rising Tide have been involved in organizing an

International TarSands Resistance Summit to take place just outside of

Missoula, Montana from November 19 – 22. To promote this event we were

working in collaboration with the Indigenous Environmental Network, local

community groups, and national environmental organizations. The notion of

the camp is to bring together communities directly impacted by Tar Sands

development and related infrastructure projects to learn from each other,

strategize, and take action against what some have characterized as the

most devastating industrial project on the planet. To this end, we have

invited organizers and engaged citizens from communities impacted by the

XL Energy Pipeline, the Alberta Tar Sands, the Utah Tar Sands (which would

be the first Tar Sands surface mining operation in the United States), and

the mega-load shipments to attend the Summit. The response we have

received in support of this summit has been amazing.



    When we began organizing this event, we were promised a budget of

$20,000. The intended use of the funds was to provide free food,

lodging, trainings, and some transportation for attendees. Plane

tickets for trainers were purchased with the intention of

reimbursement, the site for the summit was visited and reserved.

Friday evening we received word from our sole sponsoring organization

that the funds specifically promised to us for the camp were no longer

available. The reason for this was not political, the sponsor is still

in great support of the camp. Rather, they had expected funds that

they did not receive, and helped plan a summit they found out that

they could not pay for.



    The International Tar Sands Resistance Summit is being organized by

Montana-based grassroots organizations. Our working fund is minimal

and we simply do not have the money in hand to put on this event.



    So, we are turning to you, the community of supporters who have given

so much to the movement, to ask you to give a little more.



    The minimum amount we must raise by Monday night is $6,000.



    The camp is in one week.



    Please help us further the fight against the Tar Sands.



    Sincerely,



    Northern Rockies Rising Tide (via Peaceful Uprising)







Thanks, Scott Parkin

Rainforest Action Network

Senior Organizer, Coal Finance

sparkin at ran.org



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San Francisco, CA 94104 USA

415-659-0524 office

415-398-2732 fax

415-235-0596 cell

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