“Mobilized and unafraid,” thousands of demonstrators from Anchorage, Alaska to Belfast, Maine are expected to rally in over two hundred vigils across the country Monday evening, adding their voices to the growing chorus urging President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
Following the Friday release of the State Department’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, environmental groups have issued a rallying cry for concerned citizens across the country to tell President Obama to be a climate champion and reject the pipeline.
“It takes a movement,” 350.org founder Bill McKibben tweeted, adding, “please attend one of the vigils tonite.”
“What counts in moments like these are not the words in Washington’s reports, but rather the voices of people in the streets—that’s what changes the equation for the President,” writes 350.org online organizer Duncan Meisel.
“Today is just the starting point for the next crucial phase of this fight,” Meisel continues in an email promoting the day of action. “We will light the night with our resolve to keep fighting. We need to show the media, big oil and the President that this movement is mobilized and unafraid.”
Ahead of the vigils, organizers and attendees promoted local actions on Twitter.
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