Our amazing experience hosting a LiveEarth Party - wow!

[Liberty Belle]

We had 80 people at our LiveEarth party in a local bar & grill, and asked our mayors to sign the climate protection pledge. It was a truly amazing experience.

The Republican mayor of my hometown, who is one of 650 U.S. mayors who signed the mayors' climate protection pledge, actually showed up to speak and urge all citizens to get involved in the global warming issue!

We had petitions calling on mayors of 3 neighoring communities to sign as well. (Ask your mayors to sign, too. Get the pledge at www.seattle.gov/mayor/climate/ )

We had lots of speakers, including a PBS host, a UCSD professor, a Methodist minister, an environmentalist running for Mayor of San Diego, a Supervisorial candidate speaking on "green jobs", a solar energy company owner, an engineer talking about green design, and a resident of Potrero announcing a recall election to oust planners who voted to allow Blackwater to open a private military training camp - posing a wildfire danger heightened by global warming.

The crowd was mostly people we hadn't seen before. Some heard about it through newspapers or radio (we promoted this heavily and got lots of free PR). Others came because we passed out flyers at a free concert in the park the night before. (The restaurant where we held the event helped out a lot, offering "Happy Hour All Day" specials.)

For many, this was their first exposure to political activism, and their enthusiasm was contagious. We learned that in our conservative town, global warming is NOT a partisan issue (even though the GOP leadership nationally has stonewalled signing the Kyoto accord). We had Democrats, Republicans, Greens, Libertarians, and one newcomer who stayed the entire 6 hours, listened attentively and asked lots of questions, then handed us a membership application with a note reading "Republican, soon to be independent."

It was truly a pleasure to help wake up Americans and unite people in our community on this enormously important issue. We look forward to hosting more community forums like this - next time, healthcare!

[Kurovski]

1. K&R. (nt)

[Liberty Belle]

2. Thanks for the kicks! Anyone else here host a party? I'd love to hear how yours went, too.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Wow! Sounds very uplifting. How's the woman who ran the write-in campaign doing?

I sent her a few bucks during her fight to get her votes counted. She seemed pretty cool.

All issues in the end boil down to who decides.

Is it the coal mining coal using companies or is it the humans who have to live with coal mining and using?

Who makes health care decisions? Is it you and your doctor or is it the Insurance industry?


Maybe you could do a sceening of Sicko.

[Liberty Belle]

5. Donna Frye was elected mayor here twice...never got seated

thanks to Diebold and the crooks running the ROV. She's still on the City Council, though and is our watchdog there.

Glad you sent her money - it did help fund court battles for a while; maybe one of these days the people will win a case here in SD.

[John Q. Citizen]

6. Yep that's her. I still occasionally get an invite to a meeting or event in my email

so I guess I'm still on her contact list, even though I'm far away.

The voters there really got screwed when the city wouldn't count their ballots. I was glad she had the guts to push it and take it as far as she did. It really exposed the election fraud the local right wing mafia was using to stay in power.

It also showed that progressives are very electable in San Diego, in a fair fight.

I grew up in Sta. Cruz and started longboard surfing when I was 11, (it was a few years before short boards came in) so I also had that tie-in as well as being interested in the election integrity movement.

[rufus dog]

4. good job Liberty

Being a neighbor in OC I know it is an uphill battle to win the majority in our counties but your efforts are making it possible.

p.s. I am hoping the O.C. can flip a house seat to the D column! There is an Ass in Huntington Beach that would great to send off to retirement. A long shot I know, but we got rid of B1 Bob so we have to have hope.

[donsu]

7. great, thanks for the report

nt

[DeepModem Mom]

8. K&R!