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FYI.

Alan, please add to the meeting agenda, 5 minutes.

Thanks

-Greg

-----Forwarded Message-----
>From: Steve Miller <miller48 at comcast.net>
>Sent: Feb 13, 2007 2:18 PM
>To: SM <miller48 at comcast.net>
>Subject: Help Lead a Bike Brigade down the Minuteman Path on "Day of Climate Rescue" -- March 24
>
>Dear Bike-world Friends:
>
>Yesterday, I sent out the letter (below) to a number of people seeking their
>support for a Walk for Climate Rescue.  I am sending this follow-up to you
>because I'd like to also organize a Bicycle Brigade on the same day that the
>state-wide walk enters Boston.  My current thought (totally open to
>revision) is that people would meet at Lexington Green about noon and then
>ride down the Minuteman path, then through Somerville and Cambridge, to join
>the Rally/Concert at Copley Square at 3 PM.
>
>To make this happen, we need a group of 3 to 10 people to act as organizers.
>In fact, there isn't a lot to do -- most of the work organizing the
>rally/concert is already being done by the Walk team.  The Bike Brigade
>group would help nail down the route, to spread the word (mostly by email),
>act as a contact person (by email or phone for the "for more information
>contact..."), and serve as Ride Leader (or Rear Guard) on the day of the
>ride.
>
>One point -- I've already gotten some questions about the Walk for Climate
>Rescue's connection with religious groups.  The group that initiated the
>effort is called the Religious Witness for the Earth.  It's leadership
>includes a Unitarian Minister, a Reconstructionist Rabbi, and a
>Congregational Pastor -- they are all good people (I've known several of
>them for decades) who have all been active in progressive causes for many,
>many years.  However, coalition organizing the state-wide Walk includes a
>lot of secular advocacy and community groups.  And the culminating Rally in
>Copley Square is quite deliberately non-religious.
>
>Interested?
>
>Steve
>
>Steven E. Miller
>92 Henry St.
>Cambridge, MA  02139
>p.617-686-1050
>
>
>THE "JOIN US ON THE WALK" LETTER I SENT YESTERDAY
>-----------------------------------
>Dear Friends:
>
>Like many of you, I have become increasingly worried about climate change
>over the past several years.  The rising number of violent hurricanes, the
>bizarre weather and expanding droughts, the melting ice caps and encroaching
>sea level.  It has felt overwhelming, almost too big to deal with.
>
>But this winter I decided that I had to do something.  I've become convinced
>that while we face a crisis of world-threatening proportions, and that some
>bad impacts are already unavoidable, the technology exists to prevent it
>from getting totally  out of control -- if we generate the political will to
>start positive action starting RIGHT NOW.
>
>And, if the radical right has taught us anything over the past years, its
>been that we need to build broad, value-based coalitions if we hope to build
>a mass movement for progressive change.
>
>So I have joined up with a group organizing an Interfaith Walk for Climate
>Rescue (http://climatewalk.org) that will leave Northampton on March 16
>and arrive in Boston on Saturday, March 24.  The walk will end with a
>rally/concert in Copley Square at 3 PM.  The culminating rally is being
>organized by a broad coalition of faith-based, advocacy, student, and
>professional groups.  Our demand is simply that our political leaders take
>immediate action to put our city, state, region, and nation on the path to
>reduce global warming emissions by 80% by 2050.  We will be inviting the
>Governor, our Senators, and other political leaders to come and publicly
>commit themselves to action.
>
>I am working to make the last leg of their march (from Cambridge to Boston)
>and the Copley Square rally as big as possible.
>
>-->I am writing to ask that you, as an individual, commit to join us for
>that final walk (leaving the Episcopal Seminary in Harvard Square at 11:30)
>and/or join us at the Copley Square Rally at 3 PM.
>
>-->I am writing to ask that you ask any organization you belong to let its
>members know about the walk and rally.  And you ask that organization to
>endorse the rally's demand of an 80% reduction in carbon emissions, starting
>now.
>
>I'm attaching a short flyer that we've put together about the rally:  feel
>free to pass it on to others you think might be interested!  And I'd be
>happy to answer any questions you, or your organization's leaders, may have.
>
>Thanks for your time.
>
>Steve
>
>Steven E. Miller
>92 Henry St.
>Cambridge, MA  02139
>p.617-686-1050
>
>
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