[SustainableTompkins] Please join me in Climate Emergency Fast on Tue Sept 4

[Elan Shapiro]

WHY? TO HIGHLIGHT THE GRAVE AND PREVENTABLE NATURE  OF OUR CURRENT 
SITUATION & TO INSPIRE DECISIVE ACTION FROM OUR NATIONAL REPS
  I will be doing a liquid, not total fast, hope you can join me
CHECK OUT WWW.CLIMATEEMERGENCY.ORG
Elan

1,000 People in all 50 States to Fast on Sept. 4th to End Global Warming

Religious, Student, Climate Leaders to Convene on Capitol Hill,
Call on Congress to Pass Meaningful Climate Legislation

On the first day of Congress's fall session, national religious, 
student, and climate leaders will join together on Capitol Hill to 
explain why they and a thousand other people from every state in the 
nation are fasting on this day, and why some will not be eating for 
weeks.

The Climate Emergency Fast is the first-ever national action of this 
kind. It was initiated and is being coordinated by the U.S. Climate 
Emergency Council 
(<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qUAvosLH5TSBTyIacIU3qD5JVPGfOy%2B2>http://www.climateemergency.org).

Fasters are calling upon the U.S. Congress to pass strong climate 
legislation this fall which would include a moratorium on any new 
coal plants, a freeze and major reductions of carbon emissions, and a 
$25 billion down payment in fiscal year 2008 for conservation, 
efficiency and renewables.

Those fasting around the country include author and activist Bill 
McKibben, Rev. Bob Edgar, former General Secretary of the National 
Council of Churches, Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Rev. Lennox 
Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus, Rt. Rev. Chilton Knudsen, Episcopal 
Bishop of Maine, Rabbi Warren Stone, Environmental Chair of the 
Central Conference of American Rabbis, Brent Blackwelder, President 
of Friends of the Earth, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, Van Jones of 
the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Mike Tidwell of the 
Chesapeake Climate Action Network and Ilyse Hogue of MoveOn.

WHAT: Participants will explain why they and a thousand others around 
the USA and in at least fourteen other countries around the world are 
not eating on the first day the U.S. Congress returns from its summer 
recess, and why some intend to fast for weeks.

WHERE: Lower Senate Park, U.S. Capitol grounds, corner of Louisiana 
Ave. and D St. NW

WHEN: Tuesday, September 4th, 1:00 p.m.

SPEAKERS:
Rev. Bob Edgar, Former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches
Ibrahim Ramey, Director, Human and Civil Rights Division, Muslim 
American Society Freedom Foundation
Rabbi Warren Stone, Environmental Chair, Central Conference of American Rabbis
Jim Lyons, Vice President for Policy & Communications, Oxfam America
Jessy Tolkan, Co-coordinator of Energy Action
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Founder of the Hip Hop Caucus
Jean Stokan, Policy Director of Pax Christi, USA
Ted Glick, Coordinator, U.S. Climate Emergency Council

VISUALS: Attendees will be holding up pictures of impacts of climate 
change with the U.S. Capitol in the background.




 
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Elan Shapiro
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Sustainable Living Associates, Principal
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