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Urgent: Call your Senators Now!

Posted by Julian McQueen at Feb 03, 2009 01:33 PM |

Urgent: Call your Senators Now!

We need your help right now, to save Obama's visionary green Recovery Plan in the U.S. Senate.

Americans widely support the Recovery Package, but the right wing is mobilizing to kill it. Your Senators are voting on the bill in the next few days.

THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO ACT. Please call right now:

1. Call 1-866-544-7573 - This will take you to the Congressional switchboard, toll-free. Ask for your Senators' offices. If you don't know who your two Senators are, simply tell them which state you live in.

IMPORTANT: Lines may be clogged. Please keep calling back to get through to your two Senators' offices.

2. What to say: Please pass President Obama's Recovery Plan, with $500 million in funding for the Green Jobs Act. Thank you!

3. Forward this email to 10 friends.

4. Tell us how it went: Email [email protected].

Right now, Senators' offices are counting every single call that comes in either for or against the Recovery Plan. Even if you just leave your zip code and stammer out a line of support for the act, it could have a major impact on how your Senators vote.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your quick action.


Julian Mocine-McQueen
Field Organizer

Green For All

P.S., Almost 20,000 of you have emailed your elected officials about the Recovery so far. If you haven't already, take action online.

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Please ask legislators to OPPOSE "clean coal" funding

Posted by Melissa at Feb 03, 2009 03:59 PM
Suggest adding opposition to "clean coal" funding in the stimulus, as this has been incorporated by the Senate. Funding coal goes against what Green for All stands for....it is pollution for all...especially those facing the greatest adversity. Below is what I inserted in my email:

"I also urge you to ask for the removal of any funding for new coal plants in the recovery package. 'Clean coal' is a complete misnomer. Funding coal plant development harms communities and the environment - especially in the poorest communities with limited access to health care or remediation, and is something we cannot afford to fund. Fund Gree Jobs, not 'clean' coal."

bipartisan

Posted by Tom at Feb 05, 2009 04:38 PM
I am all for funding the greening of government buildings in this recovery package, and I am for investing money in green energy. But I would like to remind everyone that along with promising to fix the problems of our nation, President Obama also promised to work across the aisle to produce bipartisan legislation. That means listening to and incorporating the ideas of others.
I have and will continue to contact my representatives and support portions of the bill but I won't push them to pass it as it is. Each and every senator and congressperson has the right and responsibility to question all aspects of the bill and suggest changes based on what they believe is in the best interest of their constituents.
As for coal, it may not be green, but it can be greener. We should work for the long term replacement of coal but for the time being, coal still supplies almost half of our energy and the coal industry employees many of our fellow citizens. With unemployment rising I do not think you want to tear down that industry over the next few years.

Remember, we're all still in this together, Democrats and Republicans, progressives and conservatives, young and old.

NUCLEAR $$$

Posted by Tom Conroy at Feb 05, 2009 06:42 PM
DONT FORGET NUCLEAR THEY HAVE ALREADY GOT THIER PUPPETS IN REPUBLICAN PARTY TO ADD 50 BILLION IN LOAN GUARANTEES TO BUILD MORE CANCER MACHINES WITH OUR MONEY.NUCLEAR BUYS POLITICIANS BY THE DOZEN. THEY ARE ATTACHING NUCLEAR TO THE GREEN MOVEMENT AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT. PLEASE SPEAK UP!!!

Nuclear power

Posted by Gary Piazzon at Feb 11, 2009 12:37 AM
Thank-you for bringing this up. I too feared and fought against nuclear power with its visions of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl and 3 Mile Island. I have since discovered that we in environmental community have been reactionary considering this alternative. The technology that led to Chernobyl is not the design used in the western nuclear power industry. Right now at this point in history the threat of radioactivity from non-militarized nuclear power is magnitudes less then that posed by burning fossil fuels, especially coal. Consider that 1 pound of enriched uranium can supply the equivalent of 100,000 box cars of coal and you see the potential saving in GHGs. It is safe and the waste products can be almost infinitely recycled. France derives 75%its electrical energy from this source. Heard of any problems there? We have been dominated by fear not reason on this subject. Its time to reconsider. We are not going to break the US's long addiction to energy easily. We need to consider all alternatives. The numbers favor nuclear. Don't take my word for it as a physical therapist and environmental acitivist, do your own research. Thanks.

Say NO to Halliburton and toxic natural gas drilling

Posted by Diane at Feb 09, 2009 01:39 PM
How do we make sure that NO money goes for natural gas development?

The rush to become “energy independent “ seems to be embracing natural gas, yet the technology used to drill deep into areas like the Marcellus shale is ten times more toxic than oil drilling, uses more energy to develop than we will gain, and will deplete and contaminate our most precious resource: water.

Colorado and New Mexico are already reeling from the onslaught, and the Final Draft Scope for permitting in 1/3 of New York State just came out. If nothing is done to stop it, drilling will begin in June affecting the Delaware River Basin watershed, the Susquehanna River watershed, reservoirs for New York City and Philadelphia. Drilling has already started in some of the other states in the Marcellus shale formation: Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland.

The mainstream media appear to be avoiding this issue. What can your organization do to bring light to this damaging horizontal hydraulic fracturing technology, developed by Halliburton which endangers public health and safety by drilling into the radioactive Marcellus Shale, wasting 3-9 million gallons of water per well and producing as much toxic waste?

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