Posted 2 Mar 2009 · Report post The Nazis had the Brownshirts; the Italians had the Blackshirts. America has the Greenshirts.Thousands of young people, many of them emboldened by the 2008 presidential contest, will descend on the Capitol tomorrow to urge the government to take radical action to stem climate change and plant the seeds of a green economy.Arriving Friday from every state in the union -- as well as every Canadian province and more than a dozen countries -- about 12,000 people, most between 18 and 26 years old, are in the District this weekend for Power Shift '09, a summit aimed at raising environmental awareness and lobbying leaders on green issues.The four-day convention will culminate tomorrow with a rally at 11:30 a.m. on the Capitol's west lawn and meetings all day with members of Congress and their aides to press them for immediate action."We want to make sure our new president and new Congress pass bold federal energy and climate legislation in 2009 that dramatically reduces emissions and creates millions of green jobs," said Brianna Cayo Cotter, communications director for the convention's organizer, the Energy Action Coalition, a network of 50 national organizations that advocate for clean energy.12,000 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 2 Mar 2009 · Report post Is there a link that doesn't require me to register? Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 2 Mar 2009 · Report post "We want to make sure our new president and new Congress pass bold federal energy and climate legislation in 2009 that dramatically reduces emissions and creates millions of green jobs," said Brianna Cayo Cotter, communications director for the convention's organizer, the Energy Action Coalition, a network of 50 national organizations that advocate for clean energy.Could have been taken straight off a viro poster in the DC metro. The most transparently socialist thing about the whole scam is how they keep referring to the number of jobs this will create, but never what those jobs will produce. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 2 Mar 2009 · Report post Is there a link that doesn't require me to register? Thanks!Try this: http://www.voteforbusiness.com/newsArticle...11fc094ff4c0612 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 2 Mar 2009 · Report post "We want to make sure our new president and new Congress pass bold federal energy and climate legislation in 2009 that dramatically reduces emissions and creates millions of green jobs," said Brianna Cayo Cotter, communications director for the convention's organizer, the Energy Action Coalition, a network of 50 national organizations that advocate for clean energy.Could have been taken straight off a viro poster in the DC metro. The most transparently socialist thing about the whole scam is how they keep referring to the number of jobs this will create, but never what those jobs will produce.Isn't it obvious? It will produce jobs that depend upon having Democrats in office!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 2 Mar 2009 · Report post Thanks for the link!This convention is pretty heavily advertised here at Virginia Tech every year. However, like many conventions, there are options to go at little to no cost. Students generally don't have the type of cash to spare for a trip across country. Environmental activists are very well funded and DC is pretty. A lot of what I see in the green movement in school is the interest in massive public works projects. I don't think it means a damn to anyone whether it's new energy forms (hydro, solar, wind, nuclear, etc) or new infrastructure for transportation and communication, or who-knows-what-else. All of these projects are (at least) neat in the oooh-look-what-I-can-do way and are all extremely expensive. Public works projects appear to diffuse that cost and guarantee work for engineers.... a civil engineering student at the University of Virginia ...Well, there's your problem! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 2 Mar 2009 · Report post Climate change struck the DC area with about 3 to 6 inches of snow. So let's hope that puts a damper on their enthusiasm. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 2 Mar 2009 · Report post Climate change struck the DC area with about 3 to 6 inches of snow. So let's hope that puts a damper on their enthusiasm."We have to take action n-n-now! Because of our selfish behavior we're dooming the earth to catastrophic w-w-warming!" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 2 Mar 2009 · Report post Climate change struck the DC area with about 3 to 6 inches of snow. So let's hope that puts a damper on their enthusiasm."We have to take action n-n-now! Because of our selfish behavior we're dooming the earth to catastrophic w-w-warming!"Definitely. Look at the effect it is having on your speech! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 4 Mar 2009 · Report post Climate change struck the DC area with about 3 to 6 inches of snow. So let's hope that puts a damper on their enthusiasm.It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!!!Global warming activists stormed Washington Monday for what was billed as the nation's largest act of civil disobedience to fight climate change -- only to see the nation's capital virtually shut down by a major winter storm.----------------It spelled about six inches of trouble for global warming activists who had hoped to swarm the Capitol by the thousands in an effort to force the government to close the Capitol Power Plant, which heats and cools a number of government buildings, including the Supreme Court and the Capitol.The snowy scene, with temperatures in the mid-20s, was reminiscent of a day in January 2004, when Al Gore made a major address on global warming in New York -- on one of the coldest days in the city's history.Protest organizers said about 2,500 people braved the blizzard to oppose greenhouse gas emissions, but the shroud of snow wasn't the only wet blanket in the nation's capital Monday.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called on the architect of the Capitol to stop burning coal at the power plant last week, cancelled her appearance at the rally because her flight to Washington was cancelled.Michelle Obama canned a public "Read Across America" event and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan canceled a meeting with the Democratic Caucus because the members of Congress couldn't get to D.C. An honor cordon at the Pentagon for Afghanistan's defense minister also had to be called off.Some protesters couldn't make it as dozens of flights in the area were delayed or called off, and some couldn't face the dangerous roads or blustery weather, leaving hundreds safe, if sorry, back at home. One protester named Kat had planned to get arrested and be bailed out Monday but decided to stay put and donate her money to a good cause instead."I don't want to travel in the snow today. However, I am donating my bail money to fight mountaintop removal," she wrote to the Climate Action Web site.-------------------In a press release supporting the protest, Greenpeace wrote that "coal is the country's biggest source of global warming pollution" and that "burning coal cuts short at least 24,000 lives in the U.S. annually."On a blustery, frigid day, it might be worth noting the government's own stark numbers: pneumonia kills twice as many each year.Shiver me timbers!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
