BREAKING: A declaration of war.
Sisters and Brothers,
Trump just signed a declaration of war.
The executive orders to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline is an assault on the planet and its livability now and for future generations.
Signing these orders just days after a report revealed that 2016 was the hottest year in recorded history, for the third year in a row, while filling his cabinet full of climate change deniers is a clear indication that his administration will remorselessly press forward with the destruction of the planet.
We need to respond in the streets with a powerful mass movement, prepared to disrupt business-as-usual and engage in mass civil disobedience.
We need to use every tool at our disposal to stop Trump’s attacks.
In Seattle, I’ve brought forward an ordinance to divest the city of Seattle from doing business with Wells Fargo for the bank's’ funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline. This would be a $3 billion dollar boycott by the City of Seattle!
To support this ordinance, which would strike a blow against the corporate forces exploiting our planet, Socialist Students, with Socialist Alternative and Movement for the 99%, are organizing a protest outside Wells Fargo in downtown Seattle on February 11th at 12 noon. We have joined forces with indigenous community leaders and 350.org to build this action. We strongly encourage other groups, activists, and everyday working people to take up this call to action and build protests in your city on that day.
Please contribute $15, $27, or $100 to the fight against the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
This past weekend, with millions taking to the streets to to say with one united voice that we reject Trump and his agenda of hate and division, showed the power we have when we come together in mass movements. We need to turn our energies to resisting Trump and the Republicans, the billionaires, the fossil fuel industry, and the banks funding these pipelines from despoiling our planet.
Through the heroic encampments, and in the face of violent oppression, we were able to force the temporary halting of construction of DAPL. Indigenous people, everyday working people from across the world, and activists from many organizations - including Movement for the 99% and Socialist Students who were able to send people to Standing Rock with supplies and medical expertise while building protests across the country at banks that funded the pipeline - showed the grassroots power of protest action! But the work is far from over.
The pipeline is financed by the world's largest banking institutions, including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, that stand to make millions off the extraction and transport of the world’s dirtiest oil. And they will do whatever’s necessary to get that oil flowing - from attacking protesters with dogs to having the governor call out the National Guard.
Unfortunately we cannot rely on the Democratic Party leadership to defend indigenous people’s rights or the environment. Obama only delayed construction in response to the national outrage at indigenous protesters facing down attack dogs and the threat of mass arrests.
It’s on us to build the movement capable of standing against Trump’s attacks on the environment and native people’s land and water rights.
Please take up the call and join or build a protest in your city! Please make a contribution of $25 to help build the protests at Wells Fargo and support the fight against Trump’s agenda to wage unmitigated war on the planet.
In solidarity,
Kshama Sawant
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