Step It Up 2007 – Worcester

STEP IT UP!

What: Rally Against Global Climate Change

Bands, Speakers, Info, Food and Fun

When: April 14th

Where: Elm Park, Worcester

(and hundreds of other cities)

Why: To mobilize the masses and let our voices be heard, with the goal of making Worcester an example of how a city can reduce greenhouse emissions on a local level.

It’s time for a mobilization effort the likes of which has not been seen since WWII. Changing light bulbs and buying hybrids just isn’t enough. But things are looking up. The subject of climate change is becoming a hot topic (no pun intended). It’s time to facilitate the growing momentum and to put real pressure on our elected representatives.

We will be gathering in Elm Park on April 14th to let our voices be heard. Individually we are weak, but the combined power of the environmentally-aware is a force to be reckoned with, certainly one that cannot go unheard.

Please join us.

There will be bands, speakers, info sessions and local organizations explaining how they are involved in the greening of Worcester. It will be a chance for us to jump start and solidify our local movement, with the goal of making Worcester an example to other cities in MA of how we can reduce greenhouse emissions on a local level.

Hence, Bill McKibben’s call to organize a nationwide day of thousands of rallies on April 14th. Every group will be saying the same thing: STEP IT UP, EVERYONE! In Congress, we need to enact immediate cuts in carbon emissions, and pledge an 80% reduction by 2050. No half measures, no easy compromises-the time has come to take the real actions that can stabilize our climate. In Worcester, we want to be more than half way to oil independence by 2020.

The best science tells us we have ten years to fundamentally transform our economy and lead the world in the same direction or else, in the words of NASA’s Jim Hansen, we will face a “totally different planet,” one infinitely sadder and less flourishing.

Polling shows most Americans know there’s a problem. But the forces of inertia and business-as-usual are still in control, and only our voices, united and loud, joyful and determined, can change that reality.

“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.”

-Winston Churchill

STEP IT UP, WORCESTER!

STEP IT UP, EVERYONE!

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE