Occupy Koch town with Sierra Club: Wichita, KS February 17 - 19, 2012

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Occupy Koch Town, Wichita, KS
February 17 - 19, 2012
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Leading up to today's Occupy Koch Town event, James Hansen, leading global climate change scientist and head of NASA, provided a powerful testimony at: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2012/20120127_CowardsPart1.pdf.

See the Keystone Pipeline route and the Keystone Pipeline expansion route at http://www.transcanada.com

Click on the interactive map for details. (Source: State Impact, a reporting project of local public media and NPR):
http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/keystone-xl-pipeline/?gclid=CN6WmvjW_q0CFeJeTAodhWJ-kA

See images of the pipeline's environmental impact at http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201111/tar-sands/default.aspx

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Occupy Koch Town' will have a discussion-provoking 'teach-in' including speakers (electronic and/or in person) such as:

Bill McKibben of 350.org and Tar Sands Action, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and prolific environmental author;
Mike Elk, Washington D.C. based journalist with In These Times;
Richard Mabion, of "Race and Occupy Wall Street", member, Kansas chapter, Sierra Club; Building a Sustainable Earth Community;
Robin Mann, President of Sierra Club Board of Directors
Donna Buell, Board of Directors, Sierra Club
Dave Murphy from Food Democracy Now;
Mary Lindsay, a leader of Kansas City Move To Amend;
Richard Davies, author of 'Heirloom' and faculty member of Wichita State University;
Jim Turner, associate professor emeritus of Truman State University and current Missouri Chapter Chair, Sierra Club;
Yvonne Cather, Kansas Chapter Chair, Sierra Club;
Kent Rowe, Former Green party Mayor of Longton, Kansas, Ph.D. Industrial Engineering Wichita State University (WSU), Pipeline Safety Contractor, Wichita Occupy;
Charles Eisenstein, faculty of Goddard College, author of 'Ascent of Humanity' and soon to be released, 'Sacred Economics';
Representatives of Native American First Nations;
Representatives of Interfaith Community;
Monta Welch, President and Founder of Columbia Climate Change Coalition and also Interfaith Care for Creation and participant in Occupy CoMo.

Full details and website:

http://www.occupykochtown.org/

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