[Sustain] [SFGP-A] Join Vital Rally To Stop Polluting Power Plants In SF! Next Mon, May 5, 9-10am, SF City Hall (Polk St. Steps)

[Eric Brooks]

No worries.

It's my job. ;)

cheers

Eric

pamndave at speakeasy.net wrote:
> I second Rita's remarks.
>  
> Eric: Thank you for being out there on the front lines & for alerting 
> the rest of us to what's important.
>  
> David
>  
>
> On Mon Apr 28 14:29 , Rita Goldberger  sent:
>
>   
>> Hi Eric,  Â   This email prompted me to tell you what I've been 
>>     
> thinking  some time, which is to thank you for keeping us current  
> with San Francisco political activity.  I am so busy with  my work and 
> church that I don't often have time to attend  these events, but I am 
> so grateful that you, and a handful  of others, keep us posted.  We're 
> going to start building an  infrastructure in the Sunset to respond to 
> this kind of  activity, and we will depend on you, and others like 
> you,  to warn us when we need to activate it.  Â   Rita Goldberger  Â   
> Rita Goldberger
>   
>> Eric Brooks <brookse32 at aim.com> wrote:  Hi all,
>>
>> This is an urgent moment in San Francisco and
>> world history.
>>
>> Though nearly every major environmental and social justice group has 
>>     
> voiced strong opposition to the building of new fossil fuel power 
> plants in San Francisco, next Monday, May 5th, our Public Utilities 
> Commission (SFPUC) will outrageously seek permission to build a 
> polluting natural gas power plant in San Francisco within the next 
> year. Worse still, if approved, this plant will be built in our most 
> environmentally damaged and vulnerable neighborhood, the Bayview 
> Hunters Point. Meanwhile, new reports surface nearly every week that 
> the Global Warming crisis is becoming much more serious, much more 
> rapidly than previously believed, and our entire planet is in danger.
>   
>> Unfortunately, Mayor Gavin Newsom and our Board of Supervisors are 
>>     
> wavering, and have still not come out in majority opposition to this 
> disastrous power plant! This means that the plant construction could 
> be approved as early as next week.
>   
>> It is absolutely critical that we
>> turn out in huge numbers on the City Hall Polk Street steps next 
>>     
> Monday May 5, from 9-10am, to show the Mayor and Board of Supervisors 
> that San Franciscans will not tolerate further inaction, and that we 
> demand that this unacceptable power plant project be stopped 
> immediately. We must send a message to the world that San Francisco 
> has decided to lead the planet to a clean energy future by permanently 
> halting all plans to build fossil fuel power plants.
>   
>> COME TO THE RALLY!
>>
>> WHERE: San Francisco City Hall, Polk Street steps, (from Civic Center 
>>     
> BART/MUNI at 8th and Market, cross United Nations Plaza to the City 
> Hall steps)
>   
>> WHEN: Monday, May 5, 9-10am
>>
>> WHO: Join Our City, Sierra Club, The Ella Baker Center For Human 
>>     
> Rights, Greenaction, The San Francisco Green Party, Brightline 
> Defense, EDF, SPUR, The San Francisco Bayview, and many other groups, 
> to demand an end to fossil fuel plants in San Francisco.
>   
>> BRING SIGNS!: If you can take a moment,
>> also make your own sign that expresses how you feel about this 
>>     
> alarming power plant project and its potentially terrible impact on 
> our community and the world.
>   
>> BRING FRIENDS!: Bring everyone you know who cares about the future of 
>>     
> San Francisco and the planet!
>   
>> ATTEND THE HEARING: Directly following the rally, a City Hall 
>>     
> committee will likely vote on the power plant contract. Join other 
> ralliers to attend this hearing and voice your opinion to the Board of 
> Supervisors. (The hearing location and agenda will be announced at the 
> end of the rally.)
>   
>> For more information, see http://our-city.org/campaigns/index.html
>>
>> Thanks for your action and support!
>>
>> Eric Brooks
>> Campaign Coordinator
>> Our City
>> This alert sent by:    Our City  1028-A Howard St.  San Francisco, 
>>     
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>>     
> liberate themselves." Â-- Che 
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