Hello All:
The annual Roslindale Day Parade is scheduled for next Sunday, October 5th, 2008. Its’ “theme” is Roslindale Goes Green. Roslindale has over 38,000 residents and no significant renewable energy generation. Mayor Menino, several other politicians and Senator Kerry are scheduled to attend.
I would like to picket this event but I currently only have four to six volunteers. I will be glad to make up signs and will organize the event if I can get more people to assist me as a protest with six people will not mean much and will look like not many people care about this important issue. If anyone is interested in helping in this effort, please email me at waynejwilsonjr@yahoo.com. Thank you.
Respectfully Submitted,
Sincerely,
Wayne J. Wilson, Jr.
Roslindale
I live in Roslindale. I’m curious what you have in mind: wind turbines? Solar panels? More specifics, please.
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I don’t understand exactly what you are protesting for (more green energy?) or whom you are protesting against (something a specific politician has done?).
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p>Is the parade (or maybe the schoolkids, or the stepdancers, or the cool car guys) to blame for this specifically?
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p>I don’t think protesting/picketing a small, home-grown-and-produced community event is the way to make your point.
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p>(Sidenote — Adam Gaffin Assignment Desk — take it away!)
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p> This picketing is not meant for school kids or marching bands, it will be meant to show the politicians who talk about breaking our dependency on foreign oil and green development to reduce global warming that people actually care about the issue and are sick of lip service. A group of people on the parade route with signs saying, “Renewable energy for Roslindale NOW!” might show them that their constituents are serious and demand action.
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p> To my neighbor in Roslindale, any renewable energy generation project would be preferable to the number of projects in our neighborhood that happened this year, which was zero. The City Council budgeted over six million dollars for the George Wright Golf Course in 2008, and Roslindale got a substantial amount less. I would suggest that the Council makes a million dollars available in grants for solar electricity projects in Roslindale in the next fiscal year, but anything would be nice to show commitment to being socially responsible. Thank you.
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p>Respectfully Submitted,
Sincerely,
Wayne Wilson
Roslindale
Of course you should do this if you want to- green energy is very important. I’ll be on the “other side”, of course, as a “Division 3 Coordinator”, but I sympathize with your cause. Picket signs never hurt anyone.
Rather than simply milling about in Roslindale Square, where nobody’s going to pay you any more attention than they pay to the pro-lifers who march in the parade every year?
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p>That guy who wants to build a windmill up at Millennium Park got a very favorable review at a community meeting last week, so now he’s looking for volunteers. Seems like building an actual energy-producing wind turbine will be a lot more effective at making your case in the long run.
Hi:
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p> The West Roxbury Neighborhood Council approved a study for the feasibility of wind power generation at Millenium Park. Roslindale, as it was never allowed have a neighborhood development council and has no elected officials who live here doesn’t have any proposals for renewable energy pending at all. The West Roxbury project if completed will create energy for West Roxbury and not Roslindale.
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p> Again, the theme of the entire parade is “Roslindale Goes Green”, I want it not to be just a hollow statement with no action. The time for inaction has passed, we as the stewards of this planet must stand and be counted if we ever want any substantial change to occur. Time is wasting and I don’t want to leave the planet a worse place for my children. How about you?
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p>Sincerely,
Wayne Wilson
Roslindale
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