Something big is happening. It may prove to be a game changer in the fight against climate change. A turning point. Something your grandchildren will read about in history books. And you have an opportunity to help lead it.
I'm talking about the nearly 66,000 people who have pledged to engage in civil disobedience to stop the Keystone XL pipeline from being built. That's the pipeline that would carry tar sands oil, some of the most carbon-intensive fuel on the planet, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. In the words of top climatologist James Hansen, if those tar sands are burned it will mean "game over" for the climate.
Those 66,000 people are ready to act to make sure this doesn't happen. Imagine regular people - grandmothers, office workers, homemakers - standing up together across the nation, peacefully but firmly, risking arrest to to save our future. This will be like nothing this country has ever seen. And it has the potential to change not only the mind of the President, but the national conversation on climate change.
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