Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement
The “clean coal” industry was at it again Friday at the first Presidential debate- bribing people with fans and hats at Ole Miss.
Our Power Vote truth squad had some fun with them and caught it on tape.
Check out the short, fun video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufQZf7aBEbU
Brianna spends her days (and many nights) using media and communications to amplify the voices and demands of people fighting for a more sustainable and equitable future. She's works with Energy Action Coalition, Rainforest Action Network, International youth climate movement, and many others. For the UN Climate Negotations (COP 15) Brianna is working with the Avaaz action factory. Woohoo!
Great Job! I had fun at the DNC, myself, following the fan distributors around. Two blond women were handing out clean coal fans and water bottles that read “soon coal will be as clean as this water.” We should fill some of those bottles with tap from coal river area and redistribute them!
I asked one of the girls, so how do they make coal clean? Her answer? one word, “technology.” I asked, do you know where they get the coal? Umm, no? She then referred me to her boss or whatever, and needless to say, we had an interesting and infuriating conversation. He said, what we have is a difference of opinion. He asked me if the anti-coal activists would stop if they stopped using MTR coal. I said, of course not.
we got lots of work to do!