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lang="x-unicode">Hi again all,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Meet With Other Organizers Following Sierra Club Workshop
<br>
To Plan Response To SF Bay Industrial Desalination Plant
<br>
Downtown Oakland, March 31, 1:30pm
<br>
Pre-Register on FaceBook at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://tinyurl.com/6vov72d">http://tinyurl.com/6vov72d</a>
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
(Register for this post-workshop strategy session at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/6vov72d">http://tinyurl.com/6vov72d</a>
or by emailing <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:brookse32@earthlink.net">brookse32@earthlink.net</a>
)
<br>
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Workshop & Strategy Session Details
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<br>
The day's events will be held on Saturday, March 31, 2012, at:
<br>
CSU East Bay Oakland Conference Center
<br>
1000 Broadway, Suite 109 (1 block south of Oakland 12th St. BART)
<br>
<br>
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.)
<br>
<br>
Afternoon Strategy Session
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
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).
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
Space Is Limited - Please Register
<br>
<br>
If you wish to attend this post-workshop strategy session, please
email Eric Brooks at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:brookse32@earthlink.net">brookse32@earthlink.net</a>
and/or confirm through the FaceBook event page at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/6vov72d">http://tinyurl.com/6vov72d</a>
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.
<br>
<br>
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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bayareadesalconference.eventbrite.com/">http://bayareadesalconference.eventbrite.com/</a>
<br>
<br>
Please forward this alert to other water and environmental
organizers who might be interested in the strategy session.
<br>
<br>
thanks!
<br>
<br>
Eric Brooks
<br>
Campaign Coordinator
<br>
Our City San Francisco
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ourcitysf.org">http://ourcitysf.org</a>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:brookse32@earthlink.net">brookse32@earthlink.net</a>
<br>
415-756-8844
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