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Locking Down on Keystone XL: A Night with Tim DeChristopher and the Westborough 8

GET TICKETS FOR THE EVENT HERE: http://westborough8.eventbrite.com/


What role will you play, as the time we have left to prevent society
from being locked into climate disaster diminishes? And what role is it
that these times demand?

After two years in jail for disrupting an oil and gas auction, Tim DeChristopher (http://www.bidder70.org/)
has arrived in Boston. On September 29th, Tim will host a fundraiser
and movement-building event with the Westborough 8, eight youth who
chained and superglued themselves
earlier this year into the MA office of TransCanada to protest the
company locking their generation into climate disaster by building the
Keystone XL pipeline (http://www.january7th.wordpress.com/).


Tim and the Westborough 8 will reflect on the role of civil
disobedience in the climate justice movement and the choice facing each
and every one of us as Obama’s moment of decision on the Keystone XL
pipeline quickly approaches.

**Tickets for the event will be
$25 for the general community and $10 for students, and can be purchased
at the door or on Eventbrite (http://westborough8.eventbrite.com/).
If you would like to attend the event but the price of the tickets
presents a serious hardship, please email us at info@justandstable.org.


Proceeds from the event will go to covering the legal and action costs
for the Westborough 8, which total $5190. Any additional funds will be
donated to the four activists with Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands
facing felony charges for their lock-down against the expansion of
Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline, which in 2010 spilled more than 1 million
gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River.

**If you can't attend the event but still want to help out the Westborough 8, please visit our donation page at https://www.wepay.com/donations/ma-tar-sands-solidarity—thank you!

***Co-sponsored by the Environmental Justice Task Force of First Parish Cambridge.

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