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@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@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@earthlink.net 415-756-8844