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World Alert! GreenPeace Activists Need Your Help To Fight Tar Sands Polluters In Court!

Joseph Raglione
November 18, 2009
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November 17, 2009

A Message from Bruce Cox, Greenpeace Executive Director

I am writing to ask for your help.

A few weeks ago, nearly 40 Greenpeace activists were arrested in the Alberta tar sands, including me. In our most ambitious campaign ever, we carried out a number of peaceful direct actions against the oil industry, sparking an international conversation on the tar sands.

The activists arrested are facing fines and even prison for their peaceful acts of civil disobedience. We risked arrest because time is growing short and we needed to send a message to world leaders: it´s time to end the global addiction to dirty fuel and embrace a clean energy revolution.

We´re facing thousands of dollars in fines, court costs, research and legal fees and a $1.5 million civil suit. We´re committed to continue our fight for sane climate policies and an end to the destruction of Alberta´s pristine wilderness but we need your help. I'm asking you to make a special donation TODAY, so we can continue to fight big oil and complacent governments.

With their deep pockets, the powerful oil interests have unleashed the full force of their legal teams upon us. Greenpeace has reason to be concerned that the Premier of Alberta has chosen to criminalize the deeds of activists participating in our democratic system by labeling us as terrorists, vowing to punish us to the full extent of the law. This is a chilling illustration of just how close government and industry are in the province.


It´s said that in a time of need, people turn to their friends for help. I´m calling on you – those who have shown your support of Greenpeace by giving generously to our campaigns – to dig a little deeper and help us fight these charges in the courts. Now, more than ever, we need your support. I urge you to make a special donation today.

Thank you so much,

Bruce Cox

Executive Director, Greenpeace Canada

PS Greenpeace will be in Copenhagen for the UN climate talks in December with our best scientists, strategists and climate change campaigners. Your donation today will ensure we have the resources to campaign on many fronts. Please give generously.

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!

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