*UPDATE: Thanks to our amazing community of supporters, we've officially passed our original goal of $10,000! That's double great news because it means we now qualify for an extension to keep this page up for longer. Help us reach $15,000 so we can fight even harder in 2020!
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We just blocked a ship full of tar sands pipe, and we need your help to keep fighting!
In the early morning hours of November 5th, we took to the frigid waters of the Columbia River under the cover of darkness, blocking the arrival of a 24,000 ton ship carrying pipe for construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion. Joined by our allies, we shut down the Port of Vancouver, WA for the better part of a day with a team of 25 kayakers, several small craft, and 7 brave climbers who chained themselves to the pier, forcing the ship to temporarily dock elsewhere, causing major subsequent delays for the shipment. 5 activists were eventually arrested.
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This fight is far from over. That’s why we need your support so we can continue taking action. As a grassroots organization, it took nearly all the resources we had to make this action happen, but we refuse to stop!
The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion is a blatant violation of indigenous sovereignty, directly threatening coastal communities and the stability of our global climate. If completed, the project would move an additional 590,000 barrels of tar sands crude every day, increasing oil tanker traffic in the Salish Sea by 700% and emitting 15 billion metric tons of climate pollution every year. Put simply: TMX must be stopped.
Help us reach and exceed our goal of $10,000 so we can keep escalating the fight against Trans Mountain, and continue working to build a powerful grassroots movement for climate justice.
Who We Are
The Mosquito Fleet is a regional network of activists fighting for climate justice and a fossil-free Salish Sea through creative on-water direct action and grassroots movement building. We're working to build a broad-based international resistance movement by directly confronting business as usual and supporting frontline communities with the tools to take action.
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What We Need
As a grassroots volunteer network, we do what we can with very limited resources, all of which go directly into our work. We put nearly all our resources into making this action happen, and we're currently stretched too thin to do all we're determined to accomplish in the coming months. In addition to paying for jail support expenses for the Patagonia 5 (arrested at our latest action), we need to repair boats, replace and repair lost and damaged equipment, winterize the Fleet with cold-weather safety gear, train new activists, and build our organizing capacity on the ground for upcoming actions. And remember, your donation is tax-deductible, so please give generously!
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