Northeast N30 Climate Actions
(Maine, Boston, New York City, Burlington, VT)
MAINE ACTIONS:
There are currently three actions planned in Maine:
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Portland, Maine: An action focusing on false solutions (specifically industrial wind and biomass) including a rally downtown with street theatre including puppets, stilt walkers, etc.
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Bangor, Maine: The Maine Fair Trade Coalition is planning a rally and march in Bangor visiting several government offices.
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The third action would be further in northern Maine and concentrate on industrial wind, but the details of that have yet to be fully worked out.
Maine actions contact: Meg: luna_tic@riseup.net
BOSTON, MASS. ACTION:
We will begin on the evening of Sunday Nov 29th with a sleep out in front of the State House on Boston Commons, fortifying the student-led "The Leadership Campaign" demanding 100% clean electricity in 10 years in MA, by refusing to sleep in buildings powered by dirty energy. We will have music, dance and poetry, with possible distinguished speakers!
On the morning of Monday Nov 30th, we will join the students for some lobbying at City Hall Plaza for the above target, followed by a rally targeted at the federal and international level, focused on demanding real climate solutions, climate justice, and exposing false solutions including cap and trade. An exciting and informative array of speakers will be featured!
We then march to the office(s) of John Kerry and possibly also Paul Kirk (Kennedy replacement, also a
co-sponsor of the terrible Boxer-Kerry US climate bill) for some non-violent direct action. Details will be finalized shortly.
All activists in the area are called to join. Spread the word!
Boston Actions Contacts:
Maggie Zhou, maggie@securegreenfuture.org 781-316-8283
Lindsay Shade, lshade@gmail.com 857-294-2015
Beth Adams, eadams333@gmail.com 413-522-7505
BURLINGTON, VERMONT ACTION:
Greenpeace and Global Justice Ecology Project are organizing a climate justice rally and march in Burlington on November 30.
Events will begin at 3pm with a rally on the green next to the Davis Student Center at UVM. At 3:30 the group will march down the hill to the Federal Building on the corner of Elmwood and Pearl to demand the Obama Administration commit to real and just action on climate change. The march will be followed by a second rally at 4:30 adjacent to the Federal Building.
Speakers will address the Copenhagen climate talks, and debunk corporate-led false solutions to climate change.
Burlington Actions Contacts:
Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project, anne@globaljusticeecology.org, 802-578-0477
Jarred Cobb, Greenpeace, jcobb@greenpeace.org, 603-770-8679
NEW YORK CITY ACTION:
We're very excited about all the interest over the last two weeks in
various N30 solidarity actions in New York City. So we hope you'll
join us as we organize mass action on climate change on November 30,
2009! November 30 (N30) is significant both because it immediately
precedes the upcoming UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen and is the
ten-year anniversary of the protests that shut down of the World Trade
Organization meetings in Seattle, demonstrating the incredible power
of collective action.
As the President of the Maldives recently declared in a statement
which could have been made by any dedicated climate activist aware of
what life on the planet faces:
"We will not die quietly."
So we're going to help push for system change not climate change
through our solidarity actions here in NYC.
New York Actions contact: Robert Jereski, nyc@climatesos.org |
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