[Sustain] Meet To Plan Response To Industrial Desalination Plant!

[Eric Brooks]

Hi again all,

This is a follow up announcement for a POST-workshop strategy meeting 
for experienced environmental organizers. This strategy session is even 
more important than the workshop itself, so if you can, please attend. 
And please forward this to others who you feel should attend.

Meet With Other Organizers Following Sierra Club Workshop
To Plan Response To SF Bay Industrial Desalination Plant
Downtown Oakland, March 31, 1:30pm
Pre-Register on FaceBook at http://tinyurl.com/6vov72d

As you may know, on March 31st, the Sierra Club is holding a morning 
informational workshop on a proposed industrial desalination plant 
planned by Bay Area water agencies to deliver 20-70 million gallons per 
day of desalinated water to customers. The plant would have major 
environmental impacts on the San Francisco Bay and would be a high 
energy user and greenhouse gas emitter.

This alert is being sent to invite you to a brainstorming and strategy 
session immediately -following- the Sierra Club workshop in the same 
meeting room, which is being held to assess workshop presentations and 
implications of the desalination proposal, and then begin coordinating 
an organized Bay Area response to the water agencies' plans to move 
forward with the plant.

(Register for this post-workshop strategy session at 
http://tinyurl.com/6vov72d or by emailing brookse32 at earthlink.net )

Workshop & Strategy Session Details

The day's events will be held on Saturday, March 31, 2012, at:
CSU East Bay Oakland Conference Center
1000 Broadway, Suite 109 (1 block south of Oakland 12th St. BART)

The morning workshop will run from 8:30am to 1:15pm, and we will then 
break for 15 minutes and reconvene for the afternoon strategy session 
from roughly 1:30 to 3pm. (NOTE: Light food and beverages will be 
provided during both the morning workshop and afternoon strategy session.)

Afternoon Strategy Session

The post-workshop strategy session will be organized as a round table 
discussion via consensus meeting process. If strategy session attendance 
is high, we may break out into separate working groups to make the 
session more manageable, and convene at the end to share assessments and 
propose/coordinate next steps.

Strategy session facilitators will be Adam Scow (Food & Water Watch), 
Conner Everts (So Cal Watershed Alliance), Nancy Okada (Marin County 
Sierra Club), and Eric Brooks (Our City SF).

Strategy session topics will cover grassroots, legal, and media 
strategies for challenging and mitigating industrial desalination 
projects as well as potential points of unity and/or differences with 
upstream watershed protection organizers such as the Tuolumne River 
Trust. After general discussion we will seek consensus on organized action.

Space Is Limited - Please Register

If you wish to attend this post-workshop strategy session, please email 
Eric Brooks at brookse32 at earthlink.net and/or confirm through the 
FaceBook event page at http://tinyurl.com/6vov72d so that we know how 
many are showing up, and can better plan the session. All who confirm 
will receive an agenda via email in the week before the event.

NOTE: If you also plan to attend the Sierra Club informational workshop 
in the morning, remember to register separately for that section of the 
day's program at http://bayareadesalconference.eventbrite.com/

Please forward this alert to other water and environmental organizers 
who might be interested in the strategy session.

thanks!

Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City San Francisco
http://ourcitysf.org
brookse32 at earthlink.net
415-756-8844
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