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DESCRIPTION:Immediate Release:\nOctober 15, 2013\nContact: Donald Goldmacher: 
 Donald.goldmacher@gmail.com 510-527-1761   \n\nWHAT: Protest of Jerry Brown 
 receiving environmental award\n\nWHEN: Thursday, Oct. 17, 5:30-7 - 
 Speeches/Press Conference at 6\n\nWHERE: Le Parc Hotel, 55 Cyril Magnin St. 
 San Francisco \n\nCALIFORNIANS TO PROTEST GOV. BROWN’S ENVIRONMENTAL 
 AWARD\n\nOn Thursday, October 17, approximately 200 California residents 
 will be outside Le Parc Hotel at 55 Cyril Magnin Street in San Francisco 
 from 5:30 to 7 pm protesting the Blue Green Alliance’s honoring of 
 Governor Jerry Brown with its Right Stuff Award. In particular, the protest 
 will focus on Brown’s support for fracking, a massive twin tunnels 
 project and his emissions trading scheme. \n\nThe protest was organized by 
 a group of individuals unaffiliated with national environmental 
 organizations who were galvanized by Brown’s most recent assault on the 
 environment: the green lighting of fracking in California. \n\n“Jerry 
 Brown ignored the majority of Californians and the rank and file of the 
 Democratic Party who support a moratorium on fracking,” said organizer 
 Damien Luzzo. “He signaled that he would not sign any of the moratorium 
 bills and only signed the already weak SB4, after he gutted it at the 11th 
 hour at the behest of Big Oil.” \n\nAccording to organizer Lauren 
 Steiner, “When I worked on Jerry Brown’s presidential campaign in 1992, 
 he was an uncompromised environmentalist. Now he will support any industry, 
 including polluting ones, if he thinks it can bring jobs and tax revenues. 
 In 1992, the old Jerry Brown limited his campaign contributions to under 
 $100, so he wouldn’t be beholden to special interests. The new Jerry 
 Brown has accepted $2.5 million over the past few years from the oil and 
 gas industry.”\n\nAt the rally, Steve Ongerth, founder of the IWW 
 Environmental Caucus, will talk about how he and some Earth First!ers 
 founded what became the BGA in 1998 and how far the group has strayed from 
 its original purpose. \n\nPamela Zuppo, from the San Francisco chapter of 
 350.org, will speak on Brown’s support of fracking. \n\nMichael Preston, 
 from the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, will speak out against the peripheral 
 tunnels and Shasta dam raise that will cause massive fish extinction and 
 destroy the whole Bay Delta Estuary just to divert water to Big Ag and Big 
 Oil. \n\nTom Goldtooth, from the Indigenous Environmental Network, will 
 urge Brown to reject REDD+ carbon trading credits, which allow corporations 
 to grab huge swaths of land in developing countries in order to keep 
 polluting at home, usually in low income neighborhoods populated by people 
 of color. \n\nHezekiah Allen, former Executive Director of the Mattole 
 Restoration Council, an organization committed to community-based watershed 
 protection and restoration, forest protection, and water conservation, will 
 talk about how progress in renewable energy can get us off fossil fuels 
 today, if only political leaders like Jerry Brown had the will to do 
 so.\n\nThe final portion of the program will be the reading of a list of 
 groups and individuals who should have received an environmental award this 
 year instead of Jerry Brown. These include: \n• Holly Mitchell, who 
 introduced a strong fracking moratorium bill in the state legislature and 
 LA City Council members Paul Koretz and Mike Bonin, who recently introduced 
 a fracking moratorium motion in Los Angeles; \n• Mark Jacobson, from 
 Stanford University, who has developed a plan to power California with 100% 
 renewables by 2030; \n• The Center for Biological Diversity and 
 Earthjustice, whose lawsuit halted fracking in public lands in California; 
 \n• Truthout, the on-line publication whose investigative reporting 
 uncovered fracking off the California coast; \n• The Coalition to 
 Decommission San Onofre, whose tireless work led to the shutdown of this 
 dangerous nuclear power plant; \n• State Senator Lois Wolk, a tireless 
 opponent of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, whose recently signed bill 
 SB43 allows customers to get more than 20% of their power from renewables; 
 \n• The Klamath Justice Coalition, a coalition of members of Indian 
 Tribes and activists who have helped stop fish kills and fought for dam 
 removal on the Klamath River; \n• The California Sportfishing Protection 
 Alliance, which has filed hundreds of successful lawsuits and complaints 
 compelling industry, agribusiness, cities, counties and  water boards  to 
 comply with the Clean Water Act; and \n• Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, 
 who has waived residential solar permit fees, initiated a solar thermal 
 rebate policy and a green jobs training program, sponsored  Green Building 
 and Compostable Food Ware ordinances and helped negotiate a $114 million 
 settlement with Chevron.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/17/18744999.php
SUMMARY:Californians to Protest Governor Brown's Environmental Award
LOCATION:Le Parc Hotel, 55 Cyril Magnin St. San Francisco 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/17/18744999.php
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