HANSEN IN THE STREET
JAMES HANSEN WANTS YOU TO JOIN IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AT THE U.S. CAPITOL COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT
By Kate Sheppard
Grist
February 18, 2009
Original LinkSome 10,000 young people will be descending on Washington, D.C., from Feb. 27 to March 2 for the
Power Shift 2009 conference, where they'll be organizing to put pressure on political leaders to take action on climate change.
On the last day of the event, they're the
Chesapeake Climate Action Network, the
Rainforest Action Network and
Greenpeace are planning a massive protest at the coal-fired plant that provides power to the U.S. Capitol, and organizers are hoping it will be the largest display of civil disobedience against global warming in United States history.
To promote the action, Greenpeace and James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, have put out this video:
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MAKE HISTORY MARCH 2, 2009 IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
http://capitalclimateaction.org/Be part of the largest mass civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history.
You know there is a climate crisis. You know we have to solve it. It’s time to take our action to the next level.
With a new administration and a new Congress, we have a window of opportunity. But we have to open it — together.
On March 2, join thousands of people in a multi-generational act of civil disobedience at the Capitol Power Plant — a plant that powers Congress with dirty energy and symbolizes a past that cannot be our future. Let’s use this as a rallying cry for a clean energy economy that will protect the health of our families, our climate, and our future.
This will be a peaceful demonstration, carried out in a spirit of hope and not rancor. We will be there in our dress clothes, and ask the same of you.
It’s time to take a stand on global warming. We can’t wait any longer for the changes we KNOW we can, and must, make today.
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