Organize a climate-change march in your community for April 14, 2007

24 Jan 2007

The Step It Up 2007 campaign is calling for people all across the U.S. to organize rallies in their communities on April 14, 2007, to demand action against climate change.

The goal is to have gatherings in all kinds of different places, in every state: outside churches, along shorelines and riverbanks, in cornfields, in forests, on statehouse steps, on the levees in New Orleans, on the melting glaciers of Mt. Rainier, even underwater on the endangered coral reefs off Key West. Altogether, these rallies will add up to the largest demonstration against climate change ever seen in the U.S.

Every group will be saying the same thing: Step it up, Congress! Enact immediate cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, and pledge an 80 percent reduction by 2050. No half measures, no easy compromises. The time has come to take the real actions that can stabilize our climate.

Organize an Event

Bill McKibben.

So what are you waiting for? Step up to host an action in your community, or find an action that's already being planned.

Read all about Step It Up in dispatches from Bill McKibben, who's spearheading the campaign:

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My Rally

My "Climate Rally" will be a Bacchanalian Mardi Gras with dancing and singing about the greatness of Global Heating.

In the forefront, microbikini clad marching girls with tans singing "Heatwave" by Martha and the Vandellas.

I follow that up with a tribute to polar bears -- in ice sculptures that melt as the parade progresses.

Next is a giant float in the shape of Al Gore's head. Through the nostrils it breathes in Globally Heated air to help its hydrogen powered fuel cell...and it's gassed up at one of the many Hydrogen Fueling stations championed by Republican Governor Schwarzenegger and President Bush.

by jabailo at 9:16 AM on 20 Feb 2007

How to "fix" Global Warming!

If I can prove to you how to significantly reduce emissions on all fossil fuel burning devices, including CO2, would you agree that would help Global Warming? Email me at bobmueller1@aol.com and I'll prove it to you or just go on another "march" to "talk" about it like everyone else. Soon I'll even have Scientific proof from a major Midwestern University.

Bob Mueller

by Bob Mueller at 4:21 PM on 27 Mar 2007

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