<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for A family sends firsthand accounts from the rally]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by DemDaily http://www.grist.org/article/dispatches-from-arctic-refuge-action-day/ Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:51:43 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/dispatches-from-arctic-refuge-action-day/1 John Kerry's speech at the event

John Kerry on ANWR: The Republican Party is Mortgaging America's Future

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=622

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John Kerry on ANWR: The Republican Party is Mortgaging America's Future

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=622

]]> Comment #2 by Japhet http://www.grist.org/article/dispatches-from-arctic-refuge-action-day/ Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:37:18 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/dispatches-from-arctic-refuge-action-day/2 Grassroots

Good stuff. Glad to see people in this country still do care about activism. One question for Brad and Alicia: Were there others like you out there? Did you meet fellow activists taking to the roads and neighborhoods of America?  

I couldn't agree more with the statement, "It is we the people who breathe life into this government."  Let's hope this ideal is passed down more and more throughout our lifetimes and not less and less.  

Kudos to Brad and Alicia for dropping everthing and making summer less about vacation and more about "what you can do for you country."  

Jay Els Educate, Motivate and Bring About Change. http://www.ran.org

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Good stuff. Glad to see people in this country still do care about activism. One question for Brad and Alicia: Were there others like you out there? Did you meet fellow activists taking to the roads and neighborhoods of America?  

I couldn't agree more with the statement, "It is we the people who breathe life into this government."  Let's hope this ideal is passed down more and more throughout our lifetimes and not less and less.  

Kudos to Brad and Alicia for dropping everthing and making summer less about vacation and more about "what you can do for you country."  

Jay Els Educate, Motivate and Bring About Change. http://www.ran.org

]]> Comment #3 by kaganove http://www.grist.org/article/dispatches-from-arctic-refuge-action-day/ Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:16:41 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/dispatches-from-arctic-refuge-action-day/3 Why Not More Publicity?

I was pleased to have the opportunity to attend the Arctic Refuge Action Day yesterday.  It felt great to be able to do some "hands on" lobbying with our legislators.  However, I do have a complaint:  why was there so little advance notice and publicity for this event, including on the Daily Grist website?  If not for a heads-up from a friend who belongs to Defenders of Wildlife, I would have never heard about the event.  A link to it only appeared on the Sierra Club website a scant few days before the event.  This is no way to organize on critically important issues!  If you want people to show up to rallies, you've got to let them know about it weeks, if not months in advance!  Having a few thousand dedicated souls show up was nice, but the number could have easily been 10 to 50 times that amount if the environmental community had seriously worked together.  As Senator Clinton said yesterday, we can (and must) do better!

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I was pleased to have the opportunity to attend the Arctic Refuge Action Day yesterday.  It felt great to be able to do some "hands on" lobbying with our legislators.  However, I do have a complaint:  why was there so little advance notice and publicity for this event, including on the Daily Grist website?  If not for a heads-up from a friend who belongs to Defenders of Wildlife, I would have never heard about the event.  A link to it only appeared on the Sierra Club website a scant few days before the event.  This is no way to organize on critically important issues!  If you want people to show up to rallies, you've got to let them know about it weeks, if not months in advance!  Having a few thousand dedicated souls show up was nice, but the number could have easily been 10 to 50 times that amount if the environmental community had seriously worked together.  As Senator Clinton said yesterday, we can (and must) do better!

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