ChangeFest: A Climate Mobilization

Start: Saturday, January 21, 201711:00 AM

End: Saturday, January 21, 2017 3:00 PM

Host Contact Info: info@sacclimate.org

Dear Climate Activist,

[Please Note: This event was scheduled before the election, and we are cooperating and coordinating with the Women's March which will also be at the Capitol on the 21st]

After the stunning unanimous vote in Benicia denying Valero a permit to build an expansion for explosive crude oil, the West Coast has seen three rapid victories follow. Two of these, the Valero permit,and the phillips 66 denial by the San Luis Obispo County Planning Commision saved Sacramentans fro exposure to hundreds of rail cars a week.

The Sacramento Stop Oil Trains Coailiton worked wth STAND.Earth on both these fights. read their blog on the context of our recent victories:
West Coast Deals Four Major Blows to Big Oil.

Building on our success, members of the Sacramento Stop Oil Trains Coalition joined with the Climate Mobilization this summer to begin planning the first ever public mobilization for the climate in Sacramento. The theme of climate mobilization was launched in 2014 in New York and has been adopted around the world. It calls on our creativity and fortitude as humans to work together to rapidly change our economy and lifestyles to reduce our use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions. Climate Mobilization has developed a pledge which we can make to show we are committed to these changes, and we can demand our political leaders make, so that we can achieve the needed changes.

Here are links to the pledge, and to an article explaining the need for a global mobilization.
 
On Saturday, January 21 from 11am to 3pm, the Sacramento Climate Coalition will host the ChangeFest: a fun public event to introduce the pledge and to begin to focus our local campaign on the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), headquartered here in Sacramento, who are the biggest supporters of fossil fuels by far.

We are proud to announce that the Mayor of Benicia, Elizabeth Patterson, will be our keynote speaker. Other speakers will share with us the key climate campaigns facing Californians as we go to the polls, and begin our work in 2017. Expect to hear about NoDaPL, Fracking, next steps on stopping oil trains, and how we can build a broad movement for the climate, civil rights and justice in the years ahead.

Musical acts include the Raging Grannies, Sacramento Labor Chorus, Cresca (rock), Ajman (hip-hop) and .

We'll have teach-ins on permaculture, effective lobbying, climate reality, and vegan cooking! We'll have a kids table so the young folk can have some fun making art.  

The event will end with a march from Capitol  Steps to the WSPA building. So bring your signs and banners. We'll also have sign-making materials available there.

Please sign in so we know you're coming, and if you can volunteer, please let us know:

The event is free, but we have some costs, so donations are welcome.

We hope to see you there!

Saturday, January 21 for
ChangeFest: A Climate Mobilization
North Steps of the Capitol, on L at 11th Street,
11am to 3pm.

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Chris Brown
916-391-1436

Coalition partners include: 350Sacramento; ANSWER; Citizen’s Climate Lobby - Sacramento Chapter; Climate Mobilization; the Sacramento Stop Oil Trains Coalition, Sierra Club, Sacramento Chapter, and STAND.Earth.