| Where: 211 West 6th Street (corner of 6th and Lavaca Streets in downtown Austin)
When: 5:30 to about 7:00 PM
Who: MoveOn members and any like-minded individuals who are tired of the same tripe from conservative talking heads and their supportive media. Kids are welcome! This is a great opportunity to show them what activism really means.
Agenda: we will be gathering near Senator Cornyn's office, using the intersection of two one-way streets and a busy sidewalk at getting-out-of-work time to educate the public on the myths being propagated by those opposed to a green energy economy. We will have several visuals to include large signs depicting 100 new coal-fired energy generation plants allowed by the recently-passed American Clean Air and Security (ACES) Act. It passed the House by a vote of 219 to 212, but was so watered down by both Democratic and Republican Congressmen, that it barely defends our environment and hardly makes a dent into the joblessness in Texas and the country.
One particularly onerous provision is that this bill allows the construction of up to 100 new coal-fired energy plants in the future. There is no such thing as "clean coal," and these plants will only contribute to the environmental mess we are presently in.
You can also help by handing out our recently-developed informational flyers to passersby and motorists. These flyers take the more in-your-face, false statements that attempt to convince people that a green energy economy is too costly and counter-productive for our country and present the truth from past studies and scientists and economists about what the real effect will be if we don't do anything.
Please join us. We are inviting the press to a release of this document and want Austin to understand the stakes in not doing anything. We can't allow Texas' and our country's economy and environmental future to be determined by Big oil, Dirty coal and the Senators and Representatives they buy with their political contributions.
Please sign up using the following link:
http://pol.moveon.org/event/ev...
Thanks so much for your support, and we'll see you out on Thursday.
Bill Hamm
Austin MoveOn Council Coordinator |
