FOR CORNELL ALUMNI. Highlights mine---Jeanne ____________________________________ From: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: 6/13/2016 9:19:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: [ROUSE] Push Cornell - write in candidates for CLIMATE CHANGE
Would you like to push the Cornell Board of Trustees toward faster and stronger actions regarding climate change? Here's a great opportunity that will lead not only to an outpouring of public pressure, but also has the potential for real policy shifting. If you are an alumna of CU, you can sign a petition to put 2 strong candidates on the ballot for the 2017 election for the Board of Trustees. See the message below for who the candidates are and how to do it. It just takes 2 steps, or 3 if you have to research your Cornell ID # (which I did.) Joe Rowland and Linda Copman need 400 signatures to get on the ballot, but wouldn't it have much greater impact if they collected 4,000 or even more? Between now and August 1, we could send a strong message to the Board of Trustees that their climate action plan should be put on a fast track. Please, think about who else you know who are CU alumni, and pass this message on. - Sara "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." -Arundhati Roy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joe Rowland <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > Date: Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 10:45 PM Subject: Carbon Neutral @ Cornell? Alumni Trustee Aspirants’ Petition Drive for 2017 Election Starts Now!! To: Joe Rowland <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > If strong measures to combat climate change sound like a good idea to you, Linda Copman and Joe Rowland need your assistance as we each gather 400 alumni signatures so that we will be officially sanctioned write-in candidates in the 2017 Cornell Alumni Trustee elections. Although the election will not occur until March 2017, the petitions must be in by August 1st this year. If both of us are elected, it would signal to the Board of Trustees that Cornell alumni stand with all 5 of the university governance groups in their overwhelming support of Cornell’s goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2035, and that the endowment should divest itself from fossil fuels in a timely manner. I believe this is not only an ethical and environmental imperative, but also sound fiscal planning for the university’s endowment going forward into the 21st century. Nearly 4 trillion dollars of institutional investment funds have publicly committed to divestment from fossil fuels in the past two years including a partial divestment by Yale, one of our peers. Go to _www.chaincampaign.org_ (http://www.chaincampaign.org/) where you will find statements from Joe and Linda as well as petition forms, instructions, background information, a divestment resolution, and some financial analysis used during campus-wide discussions regarding divestment. Help us seek to address these matters with other trustees. The chain campaign to fight climate change cannot succeed without your engagement. Don’t break the chain. Please pass this on to other Cornellians. Tag, your IT! Thanks, Joe Rowland (Class of ’73) P.S. Some of you may recall that I tried to be a write-in candidate in 2015 but I was declared ineligible because I lacked the petition signatures. I was unaware of this regulation. Usually, electoral law allows write-in candidates without prior approval. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Residents Opposed to Unsafe Shale-Gas Extraction (ROUSE)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) . To post to this group, send email to [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) . Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/t-rouse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at [email protected].
