Re: [Tim's ClChGrp: 298] Climate Change - Fw: Have you seen our latest ad?

[Karen Large]

Hi Chris
Thanks for that Ive donated to the ad!
karen


> Chris Clarke <lizan...@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>
> Clean Coal?
>
> Check out the message from Get Up and the ad to counter the massive coal
> lobby.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Clarke
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: GetUp
> To: lizan...@netspace.net.au
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:31 PM
> Subject: Have you seen our latest ad?
>
>
> Our latest TV ad is quickly becoming a hit - have you seen it?
>
> Funded by everyday Australians, it has the nation's media in a spin. On
> Monday it featured as the lead story on ABC 7pm TV News. Now we've
> learned that it will be shown and discussed on this Sunday's Meet the
> Press - and all this coverage before the ad has even gone to air.
>
> What makes this a story is thousands of everyday Australians, like you,
> making small donations to put an ad on the air that challenges the
> bloated marketing budget of the coal lobby. If you haven't already seen
> it, you can check it out here:
>
> www.getup.org.au/campaign/NewNameSameOldCoal
>
> Every dollar we raise above our targets will mean more Australians, and
> politicians, will see the coal lobby efforts for what they are:
> high-priced spin. Check out our original email below, and chip in before
> Parliament resumes next week to decide how many more handouts the
> polluters are given.
>
> Thanks for all that you do,
> The GetUp team
>
> ----- Original email -----
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Have you seen what the coal lobby is up to? Right now they're blanketing
> the airwaves in coal country marginal seats with a new ad campaign, in
> an attempt to undermine our transition to a clean-energy economy and
> strong-arm politicians into giving them extra handouts.
>
> We need to expose their ad campaign for what it is: a highly-paid
> rebranding exercise. The good news is we have just the ad to do it. Once
> people see it, every time they see the coal lobby's ad they'll think of
> our parody. That means you could make every marketing dollar the coal
> lobby spends work against them.
>
> In just weeks the Government will decide how much extra tax-payer
> assistance the coal industry will get - can you chip in to get this ad
> on air before Parliament resumes next week?
>
> www.getup.org.au/campaign/NewNameSameOldCoal
>
> The coal lobby has brought out the big guns - the same man behind
> 'Kevin07' is running their campaign. And there are already signs it may
> be working - with key politicians dancing to the coal lobby's tune. They
> want to further weaken the Government's woefully inadequate emissions
> trading scheme with even more exemptions for the coal lobby.
>
> You can show Labor and Liberal leaders alike that there's something more
> powerful than the polluting lobby: everyday Australians, like yourself,
> who are fed up with weak action on climate change and are willing to do
> something about it.
>
> If we can raise enough in the next 24 hours we'll buy ads on TV spots
> like Meet the Press and Sky News, as well as in the areas that the coal
> lobby are running their ads, so that Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull can
> see that Australians are not buying the coal lobby's line:
>
> www.getup.org.au/campaign/NewNameSameOldCoal
>
> As part of our ReEnergise Australia campaign, GetUp members have been
> going door by door, block by block in targeted marginal seats across the
> country. They've been telling their friends and neighbours about the
> importance of renewable energy to Australia's environmental and economic
> future.
>
> Don't let the coal lobby undermine the grassroots efforts of your fellow
> GetUp members and volunteers with their slick marketing tricks. Watch
> this ad and donate to stop the coal lobby in its tracks.
>
> Thanks for being a part of the solution,
> The GetUp Team
>
> PS - GetUp members are taking the story of clean-energy jobs to
> Australia's doorsteps. But in order to get that message out, we have to
> counter the marketing ploys of well-resourced lobby groups like the
> Australian Coal Association. Watch our ad and donate to send the message
> that cutting emissions creates jobs.
>
>
> __________________________
>
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>
Karen Large
karen...@optusnet.com.au