WHY? TO HIGHLIGHT THE GRAVE AND PREVENTABLE NATURE OF OUR CURRENT SITUATION & TO INSPIRE DECISIVE ACTION FROM OUR NATIONAL REPS I will be doing a liquid, not total fast, hope you can join me CHECK OUT WWW.CLIMATEEMERGENCY.ORG Elan
1,000 People in all 50 States to Fast on Sept. 4th to End Global Warming Religious, Student, Climate Leaders to Convene on Capitol Hill, Call on Congress to Pass Meaningful Climate Legislation On the first day of Congress's fall session, national religious, student, and climate leaders will join together on Capitol Hill to explain why they and a thousand other people from every state in the nation are fasting on this day, and why some will not be eating for weeks. The Climate Emergency Fast is the first-ever national action of this kind. It was initiated and is being coordinated by the U.S. Climate Emergency Council (<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qUAvosLH5TSBTyIacIU3qD5JVPGfOy%2B2>http://www.climateemergency.org). Fasters are calling upon the U.S. Congress to pass strong climate legislation this fall which would include a moratorium on any new coal plants, a freeze and major reductions of carbon emissions, and a $25 billion down payment in fiscal year 2008 for conservation, efficiency and renewables. Those fasting around the country include author and activist Bill McKibben, Rev. Bob Edgar, former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches, Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Rev. Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus, Rt. Rev. Chilton Knudsen, Episcopal Bishop of Maine, Rabbi Warren Stone, Environmental Chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Brent Blackwelder, President of Friends of the Earth, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and Ilyse Hogue of MoveOn. WHAT: Participants will explain why they and a thousand others around the USA and in at least fourteen other countries around the world are not eating on the first day the U.S. Congress returns from its summer recess, and why some intend to fast for weeks. WHERE: Lower Senate Park, U.S. Capitol grounds, corner of Louisiana Ave. and D St. NW WHEN: Tuesday, September 4th, 1:00 p.m. SPEAKERS: Rev. Bob Edgar, Former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches Ibrahim Ramey, Director, Human and Civil Rights Division, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation Rabbi Warren Stone, Environmental Chair, Central Conference of American Rabbis Jim Lyons, Vice President for Policy & Communications, Oxfam America Jessy Tolkan, Co-coordinator of Energy Action Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Founder of the Hip Hop Caucus Jean Stokan, Policy Director of Pax Christi, USA Ted Glick, Coordinator, U.S. Climate Emergency Council VISUALS: Attendees will be holding up pictures of impacts of climate change with the U.S. Capitol in the background. <http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yuRtlDKc0z7XTJXrkUZHXT5JVPGfOy%2B2>Privacy Statement | <http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qGkZvMj2dWQOCniynnsEOz5JVPGfOy%2B2>Terms of Use | <http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=u1Mg6R3ffa4I5J0Z8Ysq7T5JVPGfOy%2B2>Menu by Milonic.com | Copyright 2005, N Street Village, All Rights Reserved. -- Elan Shapiro Sustainable Tompkins Program Co-Chair Sustainable Living Associates, Principal Frog's Way B&B 211 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607-275-0249 "We must be the change we want to see in the world" Mohandas Gandhi _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
