[Sosfbay-discuss] [G-C-F] Step it up/Mitchell Park Palo Alto event/are we tabling at this event?

[Gerry Gras]

I will be there.  I can table.  But I have no materials.
Who will bring materials to and from the event?

Gerry


MKmusic03 at aol.com wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> The Step It Up event this Saturday (4/14) at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto 
> is the event we said we would table.   Are we still going to table at 
> it?  The 4/5 business meeting agenda has the date for this event as 
> 4/18.  The correct date is Saturday 4/14.
> 
> Tian are you planning to table or just attend?  Who else is going to 
> table.  I can only
> be there from 1pm - 2pm.  I thought I could be there til 3pm but I have 
> to be back at San Jose for an important meeting.
> 
> Merriam
> 
> Subj: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] [G-C-F] Step it up 
> Date: 4/11/2007 10:36:04 AM Pacific Standard Time
> From: tnharter at ispwest.com
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Sent from the Internet (Details)
> 
> 
> 
> This Saturday in Palo Alto there is a Step It Up event
> in Mitchell Park, 1 PM to 3 PM. I plan to be there.
> 
> Wes Rolley wrote:
> 
>  >The following was copied from Carl Pope's blog, where today, Bill
>  >McKibbon was the "guest blogger."
>  >It sounds like good news, especially if they meet their grassroots
>  >goal.  Funny, a grassroots effort run by the Green Group right from the
>  >beltway.  But hey, if it work....
>  >__
>  >
>  >It's looking increasingly likely that Congress will finally do something
>  >about global warming. The question is, how much and how fast?
>  >
>  >The science, by now, is uncomfortably clear. Only really dramatic
>  >action, beginning now and lasting long into the future, has any hope of
>  >making enough difference. If we'd started taking action as soon as we
>  >found out about climate change twenty years ago, we'd be halfway there
>  >by now and able to take gradual and measured action. But instead we've
>  >had a twenty-year bipartisan effort to do nothing, and hence our backs
>  >are against the wall. NASA scientist James Hansen has told us we need to
>  >reverse the flow of carbon into the atmosphere in the next decade, a
>  >tall order here and a much taller one abroad. But our only hope of
>  >persuading China and India to think in new directions is if we start
>  >taking credible action ourselves.
>  >
>  >When we started Stepitup07.org <http://www.stepitup07.org> in January,
>  >some people said our goal of 80 percent cuts by 2050 was too stiff, that
>  >it would scare people off. Instead, it seems to have drawn them in --
>  >the total number of rallies is now nearing 1,350 -- by far the largest
>  >day of grassroots environmental action since Earth Day 1970. And what
>  >seemed radical eleven weeks ago seems more and more mainstream all the
>  >time -- last week, for instance, John Edwards became the first of the
>  >Democratic presidential candidates to release a comprehensive energy
>  >plan, and it called for: 80 percent cuts in carbon emissions by 2050. We
>  >sent up a cheer at our small HQ when we heard the news, and we're
>  >confident others will follow.
>  >
>  >We're equally glad that the environmental community -- the big
>  >organizations that join together in the Beltway's Green Group to work on
>  >policy initiatives -- seem to be holding firm for the same size targets.
>  >Sometimes in the past, one or two have peeled away and reached separate
>  >deals with special interests to water down environmental demands. But,
>  >if all those rallies on April 14 mean anything, that won't happen this
>  >time. We'll stick to the fight for real action.
>  >
>  >Because it's what the science demands, and because it's what the people
>  >want.
>  >
>  > 
>  >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tian
> http://tian.greens.org
> According to pg. 3 of the New York Times for 4/8/07, a durian is a
> smelly fruit. We import 1000 metric tons of durians, all from Thailand.
> The USDA estimates the value of those imported fruit at $1.7 million.
> 
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