Free food AND fighting global warming???
It’s true. Right now students all over the country are joining the effort to ReEnergizeUS by helping with recruitment for marches happening August 1-5 in New Hampshire and Iowa. Over 30 students have dedicated their summer to organizing across these two states and building towards the Marches to ReEnergizeUS. The goal is to raise the profile of global warming solutions in the national public debate by capitalizing on all the public attention focused on these two early primary/caucus states. We’re demanding our leaders at all levels take immediate action to reduce emissions 80% by 2050 by building a clean energy economy that would create 2 million new jobs for Americans.
The ReEnergize Iowa and ReEnergize New Hampshire student teams have worked their butts off, but now they need YOUR help for the final push to get people to turn out for these historic events. Students around the country are helping out by doing remote phone banks of residents of Iowa and New Hampshire who have signed our petition and said they’re interested in coming out. We need about 80 hours of committed remote phone banking – and that means you.
There are three ways to participate:
1. Phone bank on your own from home, preferably Wednesday 7/25 from 6:30-9pm EST during the group remote phone banks
2. Phone bank on your own at a different time – either Tues or Thursday evening around the same times
3. Get a group of friends together for a phone banking party with free pizza compliments of the SSC for any group that clocks a total of 10 hours! You can do this from home or a local Sierra Club or Energy Action Coalition partner office (i.e. Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Global Exchange, CCAN, etc.). Just let me know if you need help finding a space and see below for parties already happening in DC, MD, MI and Philly.
If you can help with this monumental effort to mobilize people in key areas in the fight to curb global warming and create jobs, let us know and we’ll hook you up with everything you need including scripts, training and call lists.
This truly is the challenge of our generation – so let’s work to tackle it together. Spend some time this week calling people who care about the issue and be part of the movement to protect humanity from the biggest threat we’ve ever faced. To help out, please contact Kim at 267.307.4707 or email kim@ssc.org – and do it now, because we don’t have much time.
Thanks,
The ReEnergizeUS Team
Scheduled Parties w/ FREE Pizza (contact Kim for more info and to sign up!):
Washington, D.C. Phone Bank
Wednesday 7/25 6:30-9pm
Sierra Club HQ
401 C St. NE
Philadelphia, PA Phone Bank
Wednesday 7/25 6:30-9pm
Sierra Club Manayunk Office
4100 Main St., Suite 405
Maryland (DC Area) Phone Bank
Thurs/Fri – contact Kim for more details
Michigan Phone Banks
Detroit and East Lansing
All Week
Contact: Brandon@globalexchange.org
Other parties in the works that need support:
Knoxville, NYC, Boston
