<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">350 Montana is sponsoring a party today 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><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> This is an educational fundraiser to support his legal defense
through the Climate Disobedience Action Fund. </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">The weather report says it will be cloudy, with a 10 percent chance of rain. Dave Harmon has an indoor area ready to go if it gets dicey, </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">there's wood gathered for the fire pit, </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">but the weather looks like it's going to hold. There are games planned. Kids are welcome. Good local brews and burgers, lots of fresh salad (some from my son's farm up the Bitterroot. Thanks Max) </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Music by “Ellie Nuno and the Tynellies,” and the story of
good people taking action to avert the climate crisis. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">So c'mon. We'll see you at 3500 Duncan Drive in Missoula, starting at 5 p.m. <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"><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/ne<wbr>ws/local/spinning-the-wheel-co<wbr>rvallis-valve-turner-gambles-<wbr>climate-protests-will/article_<wbr>7825862a-b2d5-5461-ba18-<wbr>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 the valve-turners' bravery, and raise money for their legal
defense. Because . . .</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</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. For more
information please visit: <a href="http://www.350montana.org" target="_blank"><span>www.350montana.org</span></a><span> or </span><a href="http://www.shutitdown.today" target="_blank"><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></div>