[Occupymendocino] Fw: Tell Wells Fargo to stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline

Mon Feb 20 09:59:43 PST 2017

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From: Lena Moffitt, Sierra Club <reply at emails.sierraclub.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 5:01 AM
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: Tell Wells Fargo to stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline

Wells Fargo provided DAPL with $120 million in funding
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Take action: Tell Wells Fargo to divest from the dangerous Dakota Access Pipeline:

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Dear Ann,

The CEO of Wells Fargo bank recently said: "my number one priority is rebuilding trust." 1 But it's hard to trust a company that not only deceives its customers but publicly claims it's committed to addressing climate change and protecting human rights while backing the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Actions speak louder than words.

Take action: Tell Wells Fargo to divest from the dangerous Dakota Access Pipeline:

  *   If you are a Wells Fargo customer, go here to send a customized letter.<http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=483693dc31731cfc13bb0025b21f852d355c4e929e80bf128eea0c6eac89fb46db40d3858c77195b41c81544985078f7a23c4f06faaa311e>
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Wells Fargo, the second biggest bank in America, is providing $120 million in direct project-level financing for the Dakota Access Pipeline.

DAPL tramples on the rights of Native Americans by eschewing their clearly stated concerns and putting corporate polluter's interests above Tribal treaty rights and access to clean water. The pipeline was originally proposed to cross the Missouri River just above Bismarck, ND, but after concerns from that community, it was rerouted to cross the river along sacred Tribal grounds, less than a mile from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, where a spill would pose a serious threat to the Tribe's sole source of drinking water. The people of Bismarck were right to call for the pipeline to move, and so are the Standing Rock Sioux.

Tell Wells Fargo to stop financing the continued violation of the rights of Indigenous people:

  *   If you are a Wells Fargo customer, go here to send a customized letter.<http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=483693dc31731cfca318630d26ab07ea1a141caea656e651963823405b699b059a9f540536a367ca07b004ba1a86d4008cc90aeabaa27b9e>
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The Dakota Access Pipeline also serves as yet another example of our nation's long history of violence against Native Americans.  In response to peaceful protest and prayer, hundreds of Water Protectors at Standing Rock were injured when police fired rubber bullets, stinger grenades, sonic weapons, and water cannons in below freezing temperatures. The injuries to peaceful protesters were downright inhumane: Numerous people were knocked unconscious, a member of the International Indigenous Youth Council suffered a seizure because of a flash grenade, a young man had internal bleeding, a young woman nearly lost her arm, and countless people had to be treated for hypothermia, tear gas exposure, and blunt trauma. In fact, the injury count was so high, the local community of Cannonball turned their school gymnasium into an emergency response center.

It should be easy for Wells Fargo do the right thing, but a spokesperson for Wells Fargo recently said "our businesses will continue to support our customers on both sides of the issue -- in this particular case, the pipeline owners and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe." 2

Tell Wells Fargo that it's impossible to support both Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline -- it is time for them to choose the right side of history and divest:

  *   If you are a Wells Fargo customer, go here to send a customized letter.<http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=483693dc31731cfc13bb0025b21f852d355c4e929e80bf128eea0c6eac89fb46db40d3858c77195b41c81544985078f7a23c4f06faaa311e>
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Thank you for showing your support,

Lena Moffitt
Director, Sierra Club Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign

1) Wells Fargo Twitter<http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=483693dc31731cfc8376136eac60b49ecc16be020e04fbbc0704227f1d945543b69c7dbc383a812782ce9b4a9be45e7c829ea7c2685a5673> February 9, 2017

2) "Our involvement in the Dakota Access Pipeline<http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=483693dc31731cfc79a3e027cb9b919601d11eeb692b4da398fe5baac1585300a4219e2a77ef38bcb095bc971f9b27b1198e0a52bba7ecec>" Wells Fargo. February 8, 2017

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