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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">350 Montana is sponsoring a party tomorrow evening to support
Leonard Higgins, who turned off a tar sands oil pipeline at Coal Banks Landing,
Montana, last October 11, one of five simultaneous acts of nonviolent disobedience
shutting down five separate pipelines.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">On <b>Saturday,
May 13, from 5 to 9 <span style="font-variant:small-caps">p.m</span>., at
Harmony Stables</b>, 3500 Duncan Drive in Missoula, 350 Montana will introduce
Leonard at an educational fundraiser to support his legal defense
through the Climate Disobedience Action Fund. All are welcome for a barbecue,
good local brews, music by “Ellie Nuno and the Tynellies,” and the story of
good people taking action to avert the climate crisis. </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Leonard
hopes to present to a jury of his peers at his trial in Fort Benton on
July 18 a "necessity defense," that, in a democracy, when our
representatives fail to act in the face of an impending disaster like
climate change, ordinary citizens have a duty to act, to save
themselves, their loved ones, and the general public.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As this article from Leonard's hometown newspaper -- <a href="http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/spinning-the-wheel-corvallis-valve-turner-gambles-climate-protests-will/article_7825862a-b2d5-5461-ba18-8a0e2c7c5d9f.html" target="_blank">http://www.gazettetimes.com/<wbr>news/local/spinning-the-wheel-<wbr>corvallis-valve-turner-<wbr>gambles-climate-protests-will/<wbr>article_7825862a-b2d5-5461-<wbr>ba18-8a0e2c7c5d9f.html</a>
-- suggests, he is a gentle, well-intentioned father and retired civil
servant who has put his future on the line to bring attention to our
climate crisis. <br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">350
Montana wants to bring folks together to learn about the moral grounds for
climate actions, pay tribute to their bravery, and raise money for their legal
defense. Because . . .</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Every
once in a while—not often enough—some very brave souls put themselves in harm's
way to right the wrongs of our time. They are our ordinary heroes. Sometimes
their bravery is rewarded by arrest, trial, and threats of jail. For more
information please visit: <a href="http://www.350montana.org"><span>www.350montana.org</span></a><span> or </span><a href="http://www.shutitdown.today"><span>www.shutitdown.today</span></a><span><span>
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thank you.</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jeff Smith</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">350 Montana</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">P.O. Box 7006</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Missoula, MT 59807</span></font></p>
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