[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Info on Mountain View Rally on 10/14

[Caroline Yacoub]

      On Friday, September 25, 2015 9:41 PM, Stew Plock <stewplock at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 
Hello, from Stew.
Here's a message from Vrinda Manglik from the Sierra Club's staff in San Francisco. She's the organizer for an event team that has been very recently launched and they are planning for October 14, the People's Climate Movement's National Day of Action.

We in 350 Silicon Valley think that this rally focused on high tech corporations and their employees could be a great warmup to the NorCal Climate Mobilization in the East Bay...we're making the announcement about the 11/21 rally at this10/14 event. 

Please let your memberships know about this 10/14 event, which may be especially attractive to any who live or work near Google in Mountain View.
Traffic can be pretty tough near Google around that time so carpools and biking where possible is suggested.

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from Vrinda...
We're organizing a small rally on Wednesday October 14th, at 4 pm, calling on Silicon Valley tech firms to engage more robustly with the climate movement, as part of the People's Climate Movement National Day of Action and in the lead up to the Paris Climate talks in December.  The planned location is Charleston Park Plaza in Mountain View, next door to the Googleplex.  
It's being led by environmental, faith, labor, and youth, with an invitation/opportunity for employees of tech firms (esp. Google, Facebook, and Apple) to participate as well.  Groups committed so far include the Sierra Club, SEIU, Alliance for Climate Education, and TransForm, and we're reaching out to many more. We expect buses to bring students from local schools including Stanford, Santa Clara University, De Anza college and high schools.
The general message, aligned with the People's Climate Movement, is that "to change everything, you need everyone, everywhere" and this means we need tech companies on-board to go beyond greening their operations and join us in advocating for urgent action on the climate challenge.  
As with the People's Climate March, our topline message is intended to be "big tent" with a positive tone and call for tech companies like Google to do more to take action on climate change (along the lines of the PCM's motto: "to change everything, we need everyone, everywhere").  This will be the kind of framing we'll do for publicity and in reaching out to reporters.  We also will likely invite speakers from Facebook, Apple and Google to talk about some of what they're doing on climate change (such as signing onto this White House climate pledge this past summer).  We are also inviting all participating groups to feel free bring their own messages.

           We would love for your group to be involved.  Do you think you would be   
           able to help spread the word and encourage members to attend?  

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Facebook Page for the event..
https://www.facebook.com/events/1499862160310914/

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Stew Plock
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