<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://194/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0" offset="0" style="width: 991px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="backgroundTable" style="height: 1885px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 991px; background-color: rgb(84, 19, 111); "><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templatePreheader" style="background-color: rgb(18, 85, 26); "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="preheaderContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; text-align: left; "><div class="quotes-quote" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Because a sustainable future depends on the people willing to see the truth for what it is, and for those to stand up in unison in order to make a difference.</div></div><div class="quotes-author" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; text-align: left; padding: 0px 1em 0px 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative; float: left; "><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">— Jake Edward Keli'i Eakin</div></div><br><br></div></td><td valign="top" width="190" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; text-align: right; "><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=850569f7c7&e=b11150e190" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; "><img src="http://october2011.org/sites/default/files/images/smallfist.png" alt="Stop the Machine! 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And Obama has made it clear that he is reaching out to the right to work together. But just as happened over the past 4 years, there will be no compromise just a steady shift towards corporate power and away from the needs of the people. Occupy and allies can and are taking action to fill these needs, most noticeably right now through the amazing efforts of<a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=06a35b7831&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">Occupy Sandy</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=782c0def3f&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">provide relief for those devastated by the superstorm</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and yesterday's snow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Please support them.</strong><br><br>We have much work to do, and here are several ways that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>we can have a great impact</strong>. We hope that you will join efforts of at least one.<br><br><strong><img align="left" height="180" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413/images/texas_police.jpg" width="120" style="border: 0px; height: 180px; line-height: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: inline; width: 120px; ">1. Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>- this pipeline, being built by TransCanada to ship sludge from the Alberta Tar Sands to the oil refineries for export, is a game changer for the climate. James Hansen has written that if it is built, the carbon and destruction from the Tar Sands will tip us into irreversible climate chaos.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=3b555a09e9&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">Courageous protesters have been taking action in Texas</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for weeks now and they need your help. If<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=a2df10045f&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">more people can join them</a>, that would mean success. If you can't join them physically, please send donations to keep them going. The pipeline must be stopped!<br><br><strong>2. Flush the TPP!</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- the TransPacific Partnership is being negotiated in secret by the White House with their 600 corporate advisers. This trade agreement, the largest in history, will effectively create a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=6af8ff7c21&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">global corporate coup</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in which corporations have greater power than individual nations and will undermine environmental, labor and consumer protection laws. It is being done in secret because if people knew what was in it, they would be in the streets.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=343696c970&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">Take time now to learn more about it</a>, let people around you know about it and prepare to mobilize when it is brought to Congress for a vote.<br><br><strong>3. Say no to Austerity</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- the same agenda that has created major street protests in Europe is coming to the US. Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, appointed in 2010 to head the Deficit Commission, have now created the "Fix the Debt" group - over 80 CEOs who are going to push for austerity measures to address the so-called 'deficit crisis,' which wouldn't exist if we increased taxes on the wealthy, cut military spending and passed Medicare for all.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=d9a6273dff&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">National</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=20031b84e8&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">international</a> anti-austerity mobilizations are occurring. You can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>join them as an individual or with a group</strong>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=358a8f8b00&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">Listen to this interview</a>with anti-austerity organizers.<br><br><strong><img align="right" height="121" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413/images/debt_ball.jpg" width="180" style="border: 0px; height: 121px; line-height: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: inline; width: 180px; ">4. End student debt</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- the student debt crisis is similar to the subprime mortgage crisis. And<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=31b7ba32b0&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">students are increasingly taking a stand</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to end student debt and call for free higher education. An investment in education will bring much more in return of value to the nation's wellbeing and economy. There is an effort to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=b9478f2733&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">destroy higher education in the US</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as these centers of learning in the past have been places where people think freely and organize for peace and justice. Protect education and protect our people by joining activity to end student debt.<br><br>These are important tasks. And of course there are more. But a success in any or all of the above will create tremendous shifts away from corporate greed to human need. Please support these efforts however you can.<br><br><img align="right" height="120" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413/images/walmart_550.png" width="180" style="border: 0px; height: 120px; line-height: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: inline; width: 180px; ">And please prepare now to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://october2011.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=7406f7b125&e=b11150e190" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(84, 19, 111); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">support the Walmart workers</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>if they choose to strike on Black Friday. 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