Devil is in the Details – Monday March 13 Oil Train HEARING
information from
Charles (Surfrider), Ethan (Stand), Mary (ECOSLO), Valerie (Ctr Bio Diversity), Andrew (Sierra Club)
Ph 805.459.6698
A week from yesterday, March 13, Monday The SLO County Supervisors will begin hearings on the Phillips 66 crude oil train terminal project. Also, at high noon in the County Plaza across from the hearings (1000 block of Monterrey St) we will have a huge “SLO Clean Energy Crossroads Rally” to not only encourage denial of the Phillips 66 project but to also assert our support for clean energy alternatives to dirty fossil and nuclear fuels. We have cancelled our plans to have a permitted march due to logistical and cost requirements imposed by SLO City (freedom of assembly is not free in SLO). The Rally will be permitted.
We want more speakers at the hearing You will also have the option of choosing a one minute, two minute, or three minute speaking length–with one minute speakers going first, two minute speakers going second, and three minute speakers going last. You can track the progress of speaker numbers on line at the Board of Supervisors webpage if you so desire. It only takes a minute to state your name, where you live and tell your Supervisor you want them to deny the project because (fill in here your top concern). We especially need people living in Lynn Compton’s or Debbie Arnold’s Districts to give them this message.
The 12 noon rally will feature keynote speakers SLO Mayor Heidi Harmon and our Congressman Salud Carbajal, along with local activists working with issues of offshore oil and gas development, community based clean energy, expanded oil drilling and contaminated groundwater, and the Phillips 66 project. And most important, this is a time to stand in solidarity for our support of the transition to a new clean energy economy and a healing of the atmosphere, starting right here, right now.
We need volunteers to help with set-up/takedown of the rally, staffing information tables, providing traffic control if needed, and to participate in the San Jose oil train street theater (no experience necessary), clean up during and after rally, etc.
Below are outreach and posting resources you can use to disseminate word of March 13 to your contacts. PLEASE HELP US
Charles (Surfrider), Ethan (Stand), Mary (ECOSLO), Valerie (Ctr Bio Diversity), Andrew (Sierra Club)
Signers are from one end of the State to the other. Keep it up. Our voice gets louder and louder with every signature.
Tomorrow
WEDNESDAY Global DAY WITHOUT A WOMAN MARCH
10-2 Start @ Meadow Park
March downtown to Mission
International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is celebrated on March 8 every year.[2] It commemorates the struggle for women’s rights.
The earliest Women’s Day observance was held on February 28, 1909, in New York and organized by the Socialist Party of America.[3] A Women’s Day demonstration on March 8, 1917 in Petrograd sparked the Russian Revolution.[4]
Whoaa.
So, if you can’t make the march make your absence felt by not spending any money (except perhaps @ local woman owned business) And if you must work wear RED in solidarity with women everywhere.
SLO Clean Water 