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The Time is Now To Stop Global Warming!-International Solidarity Day of Action!
A coalition of environmental and social justice groups from around the Bay Area--and a contingent of dancing giant Redwood trees--will converge on the offices of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, on Wed., Dec. 7, 2005, at 1:00 PM, to urge immediate action on the global warming crisis. Local petitioners are acting in coordination with the international Climate Crisis Coalition, at the United Nations Climate Summit in Montreal (Nov. 28-Dec. 9),
The Time is Now To Stop Global Warming!
International Solidarity Day of Action with Climate Activist in Montreal and Around the World!
• 1:00 PM, Wed. Dec. 7, 2005, City Hall Steps, San Francisco (Polk Street)
• Press conference--groups seek urgent action on global warming: alternative energy, energy-independence, pro-active local/federal energy & forest policy <br /> • Speakers: Group reps* and SF Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Tom Ammi
• Gigantic dancing redwood trees pledge to heal earth with the song "Give trees a chance"
• March of Trees and Humans from City Hall (Newsom) to the Federal Building (Pelosi).
On the heels of several new scientific reports on the serious impacts of global warming--including the fast melting of the Greenland ice caps, and the prevalence of man-made hothouse gasses in earth's atmosphere--a coalition of environmental and social justice groups from around the Bay Area--and a contingent of dancing giant Redwood trees--will converge on the offices of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, on Wed., Dec. 7, 2005, at 1:00 PM, to urge immediate action on the global warming crisis. Local petitioners are acting in coordination with the international Climate Crisis Coalition, at the United Nations Climate Summit in Montreal (Nov. 28-Dec. 9), where 10,000 delegates from 189 nations are meeting to address the global warming crisis. <br /><br /> At the local level in San Francisco, petitioners are urging Mayor Newsom to make San Francisco the world leader in sustainable energy by immediately implementing the Community Choice Energy plan (which will create 360 megawatts from solar, wind and conservation, and allow the city to choose its energy provider), shutting down the 'dirty' power plants, and promoting forest protection. At the federal level, petitioners are urging Congressional leader Pelosi to take a proactive approach to energy policy--on the Kyoto Protocol, funding for alternative energy, forest protection, gas mileage standards, and elimination of subsidies for polluting industries.
The gigantic, towering redwood puppets that will lead the march to the Federal Building will pledge to continue restoring the earth, with the song "Give trees a chance" and their chant, "Ask not what the earth can do for you--ask what you can do for the earth."
*San Francisco Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Tom Ammiano will speak at the press conference. Participating groups include Global Exchange, Rainforest Action Network, Local Power, Energy Action, Community First Coalition, Greenaction, Our City, Huntersview community organizers, Gray Panthers-San Francisco, Pacific Environment, and Greenwood Earth Alliance, among others.
People, puppets and press: Meet on City Hall Steps at 1:00 PM. (Polk Street, between McAllister and Grove.) • • •
International Solidarity Day of Action with Climate Activist in Montreal and Around the World!
• 1:00 PM, Wed. Dec. 7, 2005, City Hall Steps, San Francisco (Polk Street)
• Press conference--groups seek urgent action on global warming: alternative energy, energy-independence, pro-active local/federal energy & forest policy <br /> • Speakers: Group reps* and SF Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Tom Ammi
• Gigantic dancing redwood trees pledge to heal earth with the song "Give trees a chance"
• March of Trees and Humans from City Hall (Newsom) to the Federal Building (Pelosi).
On the heels of several new scientific reports on the serious impacts of global warming--including the fast melting of the Greenland ice caps, and the prevalence of man-made hothouse gasses in earth's atmosphere--a coalition of environmental and social justice groups from around the Bay Area--and a contingent of dancing giant Redwood trees--will converge on the offices of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, on Wed., Dec. 7, 2005, at 1:00 PM, to urge immediate action on the global warming crisis. Local petitioners are acting in coordination with the international Climate Crisis Coalition, at the United Nations Climate Summit in Montreal (Nov. 28-Dec. 9), where 10,000 delegates from 189 nations are meeting to address the global warming crisis. <br /><br /> At the local level in San Francisco, petitioners are urging Mayor Newsom to make San Francisco the world leader in sustainable energy by immediately implementing the Community Choice Energy plan (which will create 360 megawatts from solar, wind and conservation, and allow the city to choose its energy provider), shutting down the 'dirty' power plants, and promoting forest protection. At the federal level, petitioners are urging Congressional leader Pelosi to take a proactive approach to energy policy--on the Kyoto Protocol, funding for alternative energy, forest protection, gas mileage standards, and elimination of subsidies for polluting industries.
The gigantic, towering redwood puppets that will lead the march to the Federal Building will pledge to continue restoring the earth, with the song "Give trees a chance" and their chant, "Ask not what the earth can do for you--ask what you can do for the earth."
*San Francisco Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Tom Ammiano will speak at the press conference. Participating groups include Global Exchange, Rainforest Action Network, Local Power, Energy Action, Community First Coalition, Greenaction, Our City, Huntersview community organizers, Gray Panthers-San Francisco, Pacific Environment, and Greenwood Earth Alliance, among others.
People, puppets and press: Meet on City Hall Steps at 1:00 PM. (Polk Street, between McAllister and Grove.) • • •
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For Immediate Release
For more information:
Nov. 28, 2005
Ted Glick, 973-338-5398
Barbara Lerman,
609-203-1842
Grassroots Mobilizing to Demand Action on Climate Crisis
From Eastport, Maine to Los Angeles, California, North Americans concerned about
global warming are holding events later this week to demand action by the federal
government and the thousands of delegates at the United Nations Climate Conference
meeting in Montreal this week and next.
In Washington, DC, hybrid cars will ring the White House while fiddlers liken
President Bush to Nero, fiddling while the world burns. True to its festive
traditions, New Orleans, drawing attention to their unenviable title as 'most
vulnerable city in North America', according to the International Panel on Climate
Change, will host a "Save New Orleans, Stop Global Warming" party in the French
Quarter. In Los Angeles local activists plan to individually reach at least 10,000
people by organizing directly in the streets and city buses in inner city Black,
Latino, and Asian LA neighborhoods with the message, "Stop Hurricane USA!"
In arid Arizona, on the Hopi Nation, the newly elected Hopi Tribal Chair Ivan Sidney
will be attending a community forum, "Coal, Water, Wind, and Sun" focused on the
effects of the closing of the Mojave (coal-fired) Generating Station and Black Mesa
Mine at the end of this year. In Madison, Wisconsin there will be a two-hour
Critical Mass bike ride on the University of Wisconsin campus. In St. Paul,
Minnesota activists will gather outside the residence of Governor Tim Pawlenty for a
noontime picket calling for a reduction of Minnesota's greenhouse gas emissions and
that his colleague President Bush help solve the climate crisis.
Students will be active around the country, including at Penn State in State
College, Pa., where they will dump coal on the campus green at a demonstration
protesting the school president's refusal to meet with them about reducing
greenhouse gases. Also in Pennsylvania, several Native American groups will be
rallying in Doylestown and Harrisburg, drumming, praying and singing, calling for
U.S. ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.
Altogether, actions are expected in over 25 states. A fuller listing, including
contact information, can be accessed at http://www.climatecrisis.us.
These actions will be part of the International Day of Action to Stop Global
Warming, participated in by groups in 31 countries
(http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org).
The world's largest demonstration will be taking place on the afternoon of December
3rd in Montreal (http://www.3dec2005.org). Hundreds of U.S. citizens will be heading
north to participate in this action. Smaller actions will be taking place in
Montreal throughout the time of the United Nations conference, from November 28th to
December 9th.
One such action will take place on the morning of December 3rd in front of the U.S.
Consulate in Montreal at the corner of Rue Saint-Alexandre and Ave. Rene-Levesque.
At 10:30 am Energy Action, Environmental Defense, Greenpeace, Kyoto and Beyond and
other groups will present close to 2/3 of a million signatures of U.S. citizens on
petitions calling for action by the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Barbara Lerman, spokesperson for Climate Crisis, USA Join the World!, urged U.S.
government leaders to catch up with popular opinion on this urgent issue. "The world
scientific community is in agreement," Lerman stated. "Global warming is real, it is
accelerating, and the time is now to get serious about substantial reductions in
greenhouse gases caused by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. According to
Fox News, 60% of the American people agree that this is a major issue. U.S.
government delegates in Montreal and members of Congress should represent this
sentiment and act accordingly."
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For Immediate Release
For more information:
November 17, 2005
Ted Glick, 973-338-5398
Barbara Lerman, 609-203-1842
Climate Crisis Coalition Calls for Urgent Action
by Delegates at United Nations Climate Conference in Montreal
Climate Crisis, USA Join the World! (http://www.climatecrisis.us), a growing network of 55
U.S. organizations, today challenged the delegates and other participants at the
upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in Montreal from November 28 to December
9, calling for support of action that is commensurate with the urgency of the
deepening climate crisis.
"It is rapidly becoming apparent that the issue of climate change overshadows all
the great problems facing humanity: war and peace, poverty, hunger, disease," said
spokesperson Father Paul Mayer. "In fact, it is inextricably intertwined with all of
these. The time for action is right now. Government leaders must recognize the
importance of what will be happening in Montreal, all over the USA and around the
world on December 3rd, an International Day of Action to Stop Global Warming."
The Climate Crisis group is demanding that the U.S. government join the world by
ratifying the Kyoto Protocol and then take action to achieve the 70% reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions which credible scientists agree is necessary to stabilize
the climate. It calls on the federal government to withdraw its annual $25 billion
in subsidies for coal and oil and create equivalent subsidies for clean, safe,
non-nuclear energy alternatives; to dramatically strengthen energy conservation and
fuel efficiency standards; to plan for a just transition for workers, Indigenous
communities and others affected by a change to clean energy; and to actively defend
the world's forests and support community-run tree planting campaigns.
Climate Crisis also proposes that the U.S. government enact tax-shifting legislation
to decrease the amount of taxes taken from a worker's salary and to raise the same
amount via a tax on the use of carbon-based fuels--oil, coal and natural gas--which
cause global warming.
The Climate Crisis program, moreover, urges that the international community
establish a fund, of about $300 billion a year for about a decade, to jump-start
renewable energy infrastructures in developing countries. That fund could be
financed by a tax on international airline travel or by a miniscule tax (0.025
percent) on international currency transactions -- in other words, a tax on global
commerce to fund the transfer of clean energy to poor and developing countries.
Finally, Climate Crisis endorses the proposal made by, among others, Margot
Wallstrom, former Environmental Commissioner of the European Union, and Sir Crispin
Tickell, former British Ambassador to the United Nations, for a 5% Progressive
Fossil Fuel Efficiency Standard and urges delegates and climate activists in
Montreal to publicly support this approach. Under this mechanism, every country
would start at its current baseline of energy use and increase its energy efficiency
by 5% every year until the necessary 70% reduction of greenhouse gases is attained.
Ross Gelbspan, author of The Heat Is On (1997) and Boiling Point (2004), said of
these proposals, "They are ideas whose time has to come, and that time is now. The
world scientific community is in agreement that the climate crisis is real, it is
accelerating, and there is an urgent need to take action today."
-30-
Advisory Appendix
The Progressive Fossil Fuel Efficiency Standard, if incorporated into the Kyoto
Protocol, would harmonize and guide a global energy transition in a way that
emissions trading cannot, according to Ross Gelbspan.
Once this mechanism is enacted, most countries would likely meet the 5% energy
efficiency goal in the first few years by implementing low-cost or even profitable
efficiencies. After a few years, however, as those efficiencies became more
expensive, countries would meet the 5%-per-year standard by drawing more and more
energy from clean energy sources. That in turn would create the mass markets and
economies of scale for renewables that would bring down their price and make them
competitive with coal and oil.
The fact that every country would begin at its current baseline would eliminate the
injustices inherent in the "cap-and-trade" system, and would, in tandem with the
$300 billion-per-year fund, assure the participation of developing countries.
It would be far easier to monitor and enforce than the current Protocol, with its
morass of details involving emissions trading, reviews of countries' success in
complying, and varying targets, country by country, for greenhouse gas reductions.
Under this plan a nation's compliance would be measured simply by calculating the
annual change in the ratio of its carbon fuel use to its gross domestic product.
For more information on the 5% Fuel Efficiency Standard, go to the "SOLUTIONS" page
at http://www.heatisonline.org (http://www.heatisonline.org/solutions.cfm). The "solutions"
package is also detailed in the last chapter of Boiling Point, which is on sale in
bookstores.
For more information:
November 17, 2005
Ted Glick, 973-338-5398
Barbara Lerman, 609-203-1842
Climate Crisis Coalition Calls for Urgent Action
by Delegates at United Nations Climate Conference in Montreal
Climate Crisis, USA Join the World! (http://www.climatecrisis.us), a growing network of 55
U.S. organizations, today challenged the delegates and other participants at the
upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in Montreal from November 28 to December
9, calling for support of action that is commensurate with the urgency of the
deepening climate crisis.
"It is rapidly becoming apparent that the issue of climate change overshadows all
the great problems facing humanity: war and peace, poverty, hunger, disease," said
spokesperson Father Paul Mayer. "In fact, it is inextricably intertwined with all of
these. The time for action is right now. Government leaders must recognize the
importance of what will be happening in Montreal, all over the USA and around the
world on December 3rd, an International Day of Action to Stop Global Warming."
The Climate Crisis group is demanding that the U.S. government join the world by
ratifying the Kyoto Protocol and then take action to achieve the 70% reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions which credible scientists agree is necessary to stabilize
the climate. It calls on the federal government to withdraw its annual $25 billion
in subsidies for coal and oil and create equivalent subsidies for clean, safe,
non-nuclear energy alternatives; to dramatically strengthen energy conservation and
fuel efficiency standards; to plan for a just transition for workers, Indigenous
communities and others affected by a change to clean energy; and to actively defend
the world's forests and support community-run tree planting campaigns.
Climate Crisis also proposes that the U.S. government enact tax-shifting legislation
to decrease the amount of taxes taken from a worker's salary and to raise the same
amount via a tax on the use of carbon-based fuels--oil, coal and natural gas--which
cause global warming.
The Climate Crisis program, moreover, urges that the international community
establish a fund, of about $300 billion a year for about a decade, to jump-start
renewable energy infrastructures in developing countries. That fund could be
financed by a tax on international airline travel or by a miniscule tax (0.025
percent) on international currency transactions -- in other words, a tax on global
commerce to fund the transfer of clean energy to poor and developing countries.
Finally, Climate Crisis endorses the proposal made by, among others, Margot
Wallstrom, former Environmental Commissioner of the European Union, and Sir Crispin
Tickell, former British Ambassador to the United Nations, for a 5% Progressive
Fossil Fuel Efficiency Standard and urges delegates and climate activists in
Montreal to publicly support this approach. Under this mechanism, every country
would start at its current baseline of energy use and increase its energy efficiency
by 5% every year until the necessary 70% reduction of greenhouse gases is attained.
Ross Gelbspan, author of The Heat Is On (1997) and Boiling Point (2004), said of
these proposals, "They are ideas whose time has to come, and that time is now. The
world scientific community is in agreement that the climate crisis is real, it is
accelerating, and there is an urgent need to take action today."
-30-
Advisory Appendix
The Progressive Fossil Fuel Efficiency Standard, if incorporated into the Kyoto
Protocol, would harmonize and guide a global energy transition in a way that
emissions trading cannot, according to Ross Gelbspan.
Once this mechanism is enacted, most countries would likely meet the 5% energy
efficiency goal in the first few years by implementing low-cost or even profitable
efficiencies. After a few years, however, as those efficiencies became more
expensive, countries would meet the 5%-per-year standard by drawing more and more
energy from clean energy sources. That in turn would create the mass markets and
economies of scale for renewables that would bring down their price and make them
competitive with coal and oil.
The fact that every country would begin at its current baseline would eliminate the
injustices inherent in the "cap-and-trade" system, and would, in tandem with the
$300 billion-per-year fund, assure the participation of developing countries.
It would be far easier to monitor and enforce than the current Protocol, with its
morass of details involving emissions trading, reviews of countries' success in
complying, and varying targets, country by country, for greenhouse gas reductions.
Under this plan a nation's compliance would be measured simply by calculating the
annual change in the ratio of its carbon fuel use to its gross domestic product.
For more information on the 5% Fuel Efficiency Standard, go to the "SOLUTIONS" page
at http://www.heatisonline.org (http://www.heatisonline.org/solutions.cfm). The "solutions"
package is also detailed in the last chapter of Boiling Point, which is on sale in
bookstores.
also don't forget the new Climate IMC, http://www.climateimc.org
For more information:
http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/loca...
SHORT ACTION ALERT & URLS
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The Bay Area Says Stop Global Warming NOW!!! 1pm, Wednesday, December 7, 2005, SF
City Hall Steps (Polk & Grove). Bay Area environmental and social justice groups,
San Francisco Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Tom Ammiano, concerned residents, and a
GROVE of GIANT CALIFORNIA REDWOOD TREES join in spirit 10,000 delegates from 189
countries, THOUSANDS of activists in the streets of Montreal, and hundreds of
solidarity actions around the globe to say NO TO GLOBAL WARMING and what we can do
about it!! As the first UN Climate Summit since KYOTO unfolds in Montreal (Nov
28--Dec 9), Global Exchange, Rainforest Action Network, and many others, invite you
to a PRESS CONFERENCE and SHORT MARCH from San Francisco City Hall to the Federal
Building to demonstrate broad support for immediate implementation of local, state,
and federal policies that stop global warming, fast becoming the overarching issue
facing the planet today! For more information, to volunteer, or to endorse, please
contact chalicenew [at] earthlink.net 415-731-7924.
To automatically send a fax to the President and sign the People's Ratification of
the Kyoto Protocol, go to
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actnow/copmop.html
To support the Community Choice Energy Plan that will make San Francisco THE WORLD
LEADER in renewable energy and expedite the shutdown of SF's dirty power plants, go
to http://our-city.org/campaigns/index.html
***************************************
The Bay Area Says Stop Global Warming NOW!!! 1pm, Wednesday, December 7, 2005, SF
City Hall Steps (Polk & Grove). Bay Area environmental and social justice groups,
San Francisco Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Tom Ammiano, concerned residents, and a
GROVE of GIANT CALIFORNIA REDWOOD TREES join in spirit 10,000 delegates from 189
countries, THOUSANDS of activists in the streets of Montreal, and hundreds of
solidarity actions around the globe to say NO TO GLOBAL WARMING and what we can do
about it!! As the first UN Climate Summit since KYOTO unfolds in Montreal (Nov
28--Dec 9), Global Exchange, Rainforest Action Network, and many others, invite you
to a PRESS CONFERENCE and SHORT MARCH from San Francisco City Hall to the Federal
Building to demonstrate broad support for immediate implementation of local, state,
and federal policies that stop global warming, fast becoming the overarching issue
facing the planet today! For more information, to volunteer, or to endorse, please
contact chalicenew [at] earthlink.net 415-731-7924.
To automatically send a fax to the President and sign the People's Ratification of
the Kyoto Protocol, go to
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actnow/copmop.html
To support the Community Choice Energy Plan that will make San Francisco THE WORLD
LEADER in renewable energy and expedite the shutdown of SF's dirty power plants, go
to http://our-city.org/campaigns/index.html
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