Re: [activists] (updated announcement) SF BAY CLIMATE ACTION DAY: Sat Oct 24, 3pm Embarc. BART (fwd)

[dorinda moreno]

On 10/22/09, Todd Davies <dav...@csli.stanford.edu> wrote:

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*SAT OCT. 24: *<http://west.actforclimatejustice.org/upcoming-events/international-day-of-climate-action-102409/>

*SF BAY AREA JOINS INT’L DAY OF CLIMATE
ACTION*<http://west.actforclimatejustice.org/upcoming-events/international-day-of-climate-action-102409/>

On Saturday, October 24th, the International Day of Climate Action, join
thousands around the world at over 4400 actions in 178 countries in calling
for climate justice at the Copenhagen climate talks. Join us as the Bay Area
converges next to Justin Herman Plaza  (Embarcadero BART) at 3pm to tell our
leaders that the world needs climate justice action now! Before that you can
join or initiate a public outreach event at one the Bay Area BART stations
or join the 2pm bike ride along the post-climate-changed future SF
shoreline

NOTE: The Surfrider Foundation Ocean Beach 350 Surfer event is cancelled—
instead surfers are asked to join us at 3pm (with surfboards).

*Bay Area Climate Action Mass Convergence: 3pm*

*South of Justin Herman Plaza at the foot of Market St (Embarcadero BART)*.

UPDATE: The event is NOT at Justin Herman Plaza, but is on the Plaza lawn a
few hundred feet to the south (toward Mission St), between Steuart St. and
The Embarcadero. Look for the yellow flags and banners!

*Read Out for Climate Justice: *Hear Bay Area Spoken word performers
from *Youth
Speaks* “Green Team,” writer *Rebecca Solnit* and one of America’s most
popular poets, *Jane Hirshfield*. Climate activist-analyst *Gopal
Dayaneni*of Movement Generation will break down climate crisis and
climate justice
solutions, SF Supervisor *Ross Mirkarimi* will join the call for climate
action and Greenpeace organizer *Lauren Thorpe* will tell us what other
around the world are doing simultaneously.

*Be part of a* *Human Billboard: *Join hundreds of people to create a giant
visual message, spelling "350" and holding a giant parachute banner. Aerial
pictures will be taken and the 350.org folks will in turn post them up on
the mega screens in Times Square in NYC on the same day and the photos will
be delivered to US and world government leaders.

*Action Station: *Sign a giant postcard or make a phone call to send a loud
message to your representatives and to Obama. Sign up to participate in
nonviolent civil disobedience and/or legal protest on Nov. 30, the final
Global Climate Justice Action Day before Copenhagen!

*SF Bike Action: 2pm*

Bike the SF Shoreline! Get your bikes ready for underwater pedaling! Pull
out your floaties and snorkel masks! Sign up to be one of 350 bicyclists to
ride along SF’s future post-climate-changed shoreline as part of this Global
Day of Climate Action. When you sign up, you’ll have the option of receiving
a number, being contacted with updates, and getting a “The Tide is Rising”
flag or Patch to keep.  This action will start at 2pm from Plaza lawn a few
hundred feet to the south of Justin Herman Plaza, at the foot of Market St.
between Steuart St. and The Embarcadero, on the south side (toward Mission
St). Look for the yellow flags and banners!

*Public Education Actions at Bay Area BART stations and transit
hubs: Morning/Early Afternoon*

Join or start an event at your local station! Pass out flyers on climate
justice, plan a guerrilla poetry reading, plan an art build…the
possibilities are endless.

*If you can volunteer to help*, please show up at 1:30



*Why now?*

From December 7-18, 2009, the world’s leaders will meet in Copenhagen to
decide what to do about climate change. Sadly, if these leaders reached an
agreement today, it wouldn’t be strong enough to do much good.

Scientists tell
us<http://safeco2.org/index.php/Science/humanitys-target-for-atmospheric-co2.html>
that
the maximum level of CO2 our atmosphere can safely bear is 350 parts per
million. Beyond that, our earth and its species are at imminent risk of
catastrophic changes we’ll never be able to stop — meaning billions of
people will die. Today, the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is already at 390
worldwide — and it’s rising at 2 parts per million per year. In order to
bring our climate back to the safe zone and avoid catastrophic consequences,
we need a global agreement to make massive emissions cuts now. But we can’t
wait for politicians to do the right thing. There’s only one way we can
achieve that: we need to turn the political heat way up — and push back the
corporate and big business lobbyists pushing false solutions (like clean
coal and carbon trading) so they can keep polluting and keep profiting.
Climate change is so serious, we can’t afford half measures or anything less
than addressing the root causes. Climate Justice means that those most
responsible for climate change (rich countries and climate polluting
industries) must be made to take responsibility and those least responsible
(developing countries and low income communities and communities of color)
must not be the most impacted.

The good news is “street heat”—public pressure and protest—works. Over 1500
actions are planned in over 110 countries for Oct. 24th.  Join the growing
global movement creating “street heat” for climate justice in the lead-up to
the Copenhagen climate talks.

* *

*Check the call-out rap from Alliance for Climate Education:*

*http://www.youtube.com/user/greendignews#p/a/u/0/ybv_p6JY_6o***

* *

*Global Action Day: **350.org*

*Bay Area Events:
**ActForClimateJustice.org/West<http://actforclimatejustice.org/West>
*
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