CT Congressman Joe Courtney supporting Dirty Energy

Event and Contact information  below.

Truly disappointing!

10,000,000 Strong for Comprehensive Climate Legislation shared 350 Connecticut's event.

Tomorrow, January 28th, Connecticut Congressperson Joe Courtney will be at a pro-tar sands summit in Hartford. It's very last minute but we are trying to get as many people as possible to contact Joe via social media to tell him that supporting tar sands is not okay.

Please 'attend' this Facebook event and share it with as many people as possible. Also, make sure you read the event description because it gives you all the ways to actually contact Joe.

Please share this 'event' as WIDELY as possible!

As you may know, on Monday Connecticut is hosting a pro-tar sands business summit in Hartford [http://export.gov/connecticut/Events/index.asp]. To add insult to injury, we recently found out that Connecticut's Representative in the 2nd District, Joe Courtney, will be the opening speaker at this appalling event [http://bit.ly/TarSandsCT]. Since Courtney's lifetime environmental score in Congress is 98% (according to the League of Conservation Voters...) his implicit support of tar sands exploitation feels like a betrayal, especially because he originally voted against legislation to expedite a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline.

Considering the enormous magnitude of the threat tar sands development poses, members of 350 Connecticut, Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice, Interreligious Eco-Justice Network, Vermont Rising Tide, Green Mountain Earth First, Connecticut’s Capitalism versus the Climate, and Occupy New England will be there protesting. You can see the Facebook 'event' here: https://www.facebook.com/events/120596471445490/.

In the meantime, we are calling on everyone that opposes tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline to contact Joe Courtney immediately and ask why he has turned is back on us. We want the outcry to be as public as possible so we need people to use Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and any other social media outlets available. We need to show Joe Courtney and everyone else that tar sands are not an option!

Below are several messages that you can send out using social media; please post them early and often. Of course, you personalize them however you'd like, just please make them as visible as possible. And if you don't use social media, Joe Courtney's contact information is included too; please email him and call his office.

After you contact Representative Courtney please let us know so we can keep track.

If you have any questions, about this social media campaign please contact Colin Bennett at colinthegreat@gmail.com. And again, please forward this message WIDELY. If you have questions about the protest please contact Sophie at 802-291-3634.

Colin Bennett
Coordinator with 350 Connecticut


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Facebook

Join this Facebook 'event' and invite everyone you know:

https://www.facebook.com/events/137492346413784/

Share this status on your profile:

Why does Joe Courtney* support tar sands exploitation? We need climate justice, not corporate greed that is destroying our planet.

You can also tag Joe Courtney is posts on other people's profiles. Raise awareness by directly reaching out to your Facebook friends. Remember, we are trying to make this as visible as possible.

*To tag Joe Courtney you have to type @ immediately followed by Joe. At this point a drop down menu should appear. Type Courtney and his name should appear and you can select it. He is labeled as a Government Official. If in doubt you can see his page here: https://www.facebook.com/joecourtney. Unfortunately he does allow you to post questions on his wall but you can send him messages or you can comment on anything he posts.


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Twitter

If you have Twitter, here are two tweets that you can copy and paste, each exactly 140 characters:

Why is @RepJoeCourtney supporting tar sands (http://bit.ly/TarSandsCT)? Join @350CT in Hartford on Monday #notarsands #nokxl #climatejusticenow!

@RepJoeCourtney's LCV score = 98% (http://bit.ly/LCVscore) but he supports tar sands (http://bit.ly/TarSandsCT)!?! Join @350CT in Hartford! #NoKXL

Feel free to write your own, just be sure to include @RepJoeCourtney.

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Tumblr

Like and reblog this page!
http://colinforcongress.tumblr.com/post/41630638862/urgent-time-sensitive-online-action-alert-no-kxl

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Email and Phone

Here is a link to his online contact form: http://forms.house.gov/courtney/webforms/contact-form.shtml

Here are his phone numbers:

Washington Office: 202-225-2076
Norwich Office: 860-886-0139
Enfield Office: 860-741-6011

Leave a message saying something along these lines:

We need climate justice, not corporate greed that is destroying our planet: do the right thing! Reject the Keystone XL pipeline, tar sands, mountaintop removal, fracking, and all forms of extreme energy!

Call all of them!

 

350 Connecticut

Please invite as many people as possible to this event! Also, please be sure to read the whole event description as it lists all the ways to contact Joe Courtney. He needs to know that it's not okay to support tar sands.

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