[Platform] [GRP-Announcements] Green-Rainbow Presence at Global Warming Day of Action - tomorrow!

[Mike Heichman]

Hi Members of the Platform Comm:

I find it disturbing that no one active on this issue even bothered to 
send this to the Platform Comm. I have consistently been calling a 
meeting of the Platform Comm without any success for months. The work of 
the Platform Comm. goes forward without participation and information.

At the StateCom meeting, I had a proposal which called on the State 
Party to encourage the working committees to meet and do the work. 
Unfortunately, for other reasons, I was one of 6 delegates who walked 
out of the meeting. An unfortuante consequence is I was not there, and 
no one stepped forward, to encourage the StateCom to take up this question.

Once again, I respectfully request that the "leaders" of the Platform 
Comm. call a meeting of our Committee.

Mike Heichman


Announcements from the GRP wrote:

>The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed the Code Green Declaration
>of a State of Emergency, calling for a reduction of greenhouse gas
>emissions 80% by 2020, and has initiated a Secure Green Future
>ballot question that calls for these reductions in the state of
>Massachusetts.
>
>Meanwhile, the GRP Fossil Fuels Subcommittee has endorsed -- as a small
>step in the right direction -- the Global Warming Solutions Act which
>calls for 20% reductions by 2020 and 80% by 2050.
>
>We now hear that the Patrick Administration is trying to negotiate the 2020
>goal from 20% to 10%. And the legislation is currently stalled on Beacon
>Hill.
>
>At a Global Warming Rally planned to support passage of the Global
>Warming Solutions Act tomorrow -- Wednesday, July 2 -- the GRP has an
>opportunity to distinguish itself as standing for the urgent, transformative
>action necessary to stop the slide into the climate change abyss, instead
>of what's politically feasible.
>
>There are two things you can do:
>
>1) Come out to the State House with signs that call for 80% by 2020, that
>call for getting dirty money out of the political process, and that call for
>the secure green future we need to build from the ground up.
>
>2) Put the Secure Green Future question on the ballot in your community.
>Send out a message to climate activists and concerned planetary citizens
>in your community, invite them to this day of action, and see if they'll
>help you collect 200 valid signatures in your state rep. district to put
>a Secure Green Future on the ballot in November. Show up to the rally with
>a legal-sized clipboard and look for a sign that says "Stand for the Secure
>Green Future NOW!" to get petitions from Eli (or call 617-821-1453).
>
>For more information visit the Secure Green Future website:
>http://www.masschc.org/Secure_Green_Future.php
>
>
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>
>>From Boston Climate Action Network
>
>Hi there,
>
>You're invited to join a 350 action tomorrow at the Global Warming Solutions
>Act rally at the State House at noon. Wear blue and bring snorkels and masks
>and help us draw the links between the near-term goal of passing this bill
>and our 2009 goal of an international treaty based on 350 ppm. And if you
>can't attend, take a couple of minutes to call Governor Patrick, Secretary
>of Energy and Environment Ian Bowles, and Speaker DiMasi need to hear your
>voices calling for action on this bill now.
>
>Call let them know you're hoping that they will endorse the Global Warming
>Solutions Act at the rally.
>
>Governor Patrick 617-725-4005
>Sec't Bowles 617-626-1000
>Speaker DiMasi 617-722-2500
>
>"Global Warming Day of Action"
>Date: Wednesday, July 2nd
>Time: noon rally followed by lobbying
>Location: In front of the State House
>
>Description: A gathering of concerned citizens to demand that Massachusetts
>make a commitment to reducing our carbon emissions by passing a Global
>Warming Solutions Act that reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020
>and 80% by 2050.   The MA Senate has already passed this bill and we have
>the votes to pass it in the House but political leaders are blocking it from
>coming up for a vote. They say, it's too ambitious! We say, whose profits
>are you protecting? Whose children are you neglecting?
>
>This week climatologist James Hansen, head of Nasa's Goddard Institute for
>Space Studies, told the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and
>Climate Change that the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies
>should be put on trial for crimes against humanity and nature. He also
>asserted that because we haven't done anything yet to curb our emissions, he
>is certain that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is already beyond
>the safe level – we're already at 385 parts per million of carbon dioxide,
>and it's increasing at a rate of 2ppm a year. The "safe" level, according to
>Hansen, is 350. (Read excerpts from his testimony at
>http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/6/23/164650/123?source=daily)
>
>Twenty years after James Hansen first testified about the dangers of global
>warming, we are still waiting for federal legislation.  Massachusetts can
>help lead the way and join states like California and Connecticut in passing
>a Global Warming bill.  We have until the end of July to pass this bill
>before the legislative session is adjourned and we're forced back to square
>one.
>
>Time is running out to pass this monumental bill for the commonwealth.  Show
>your support and come on out to fight global warming and support a clean
>energy revolution!
>---
>Loie Hayes
>Coordinator, Boston Climate Action Network
>Roxbury MA 02120
>617-278-1885
>www.bostoncan.org
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