[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: A once in a generation opportunity.]

[agnes at mcn.org]

Let's create a flash mob on main Street , F.B. Feb 13  at Safeway or Chase
Bank-National Divestment day!
Agnes

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Subject: A once in a generation opportunity.
From:    "May Boeve - 350.org" <350 at 350.org>
Date:    Sat, January 31, 2015 11:42 am
To:      "Agnes S. Woolsey" <agnes at mcn.org>
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   Dear friends,

   We are standing in a window of opportunity -- a once-in-a-generation
   opportunity to totally overhaul our energy system.

   The climate movement is on the rise, people power is beating back extreme
   energy from New York to Scotland, and renewable energy is cheaper than
   ever before. At the same time, tumbling oil prices -- which conventional
   wisdom says is bad news for the climate -- mean that the vast profits that
   underpin the fossil fuel industry's power are on unusually shaky ground.

   Suddenly fossil fuels are on the defensive. Suddenly tar sands and
   fracking don't look like such hot investments anymore. Respectable,
   prudent fund managers are seriously considering taking their money out of
   fossil fuels, and many of them have already done so.

   Will you help us seize the moment? In less than two weeks, fossil fuel
   divestment supporters from around the world will come together with a
   single message: Fossil fuels are history, and renewable energy is our
   future.

    [1]Global Divestment Day is February 13th, and it's not too late to host
                            your own simple action.

   All you need to lead a photo action is a camera, some home-made signs, and
   a group of friends and neighbors. [2]Click here for more creative ideas on
   how you can add your voice to the call for a fossil free future.

   [3]Click here to add a Global Divestment Day event to the map.

   If enough of us take action on Global Divestment Day, we can shift public
   opinion and open up the political space to radically transform both our
   energy systems and our climate policies. Whether you're reading this on an
   island in the Pacific, a small town in Canada, or in London, together we
   can send a powerful and united global message.

   I know this because every single week this January I've seen divestment
   campaign victories spread this message across the world: the first Swedish
   University to divest, an Australian city council, the United Methodist
   Church, and New York's New School to name just a few. Earlier this month,
   victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines even organized actions urging
   the Pope to divest the Vatican from fossil fuels.

   Windows like this can and do pass. Let's not let this one pass us by.

   [4]I hope you'll join me on Global Divestment Day. Click here to create an
   event.

   Onward,

   May

   P.S. Don't take that "once in a generation" stuff from me -- [5]the
   Economist said the same thing earlier this month.

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   2. http://act.350.org/go/6591?t=1002&akid=6003.913946.VOeNx4
   3. http://act.350.org/go/6574?t=1003&akid=6003.913946.VOeNx4
   4. http://act.350.org/go/6574?t=1004&akid=6003.913946.VOeNx4
   5. http://act.350.org/go/6894?t=1005&akid=6003.913946.VOeNx4


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