Rallies to Crush Prop 23 Continue

Ryan Van Lenning Fri, 17 Sep at 8:17am
Rallies to Crush Prop 23 Continue

The first several rallies against Proposition 23 around the Bay Area have been great successes, raising awareness about one of the more deceptive propositions on California’s ballot this November.  The proposition would suspend AB 32 (Global Warming Solutions Act), the landmark greenhouse emission reduction law that was passed by the legislature and signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006.  The law is one of the most ambitious in the world and sends a strong message that California intends to be a world leader in emissions reductions, clean energy, and the green economy.

The Orwellian name given to it by oil-slick proponents is “California Jobs Initiative”, despite the fact that it would reduce state revenue and stall the growing clean energy job sector.  Opponents have dubbed it the “Dirty Energy Proposition“ because both Texas Oil companies and the billionaire Koch brothers have chipped in most of the millions behind this attempt to kill clean energy investments and green jobs creation in California.

Come out this weekend to show Texas oil companies that they have no business messing with California's global warming law!

We'll have NO on 23 signs, bumper stickers, our very own mini oil rig, and our theme song "Valero Oil of Texas" written by our volunteers Nancy Schimmel and Bonnie Lockhart.

Where: Outside Valero Station,  398 West MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94609 (Map)

When: Saturday, September 18, 11:00am

Host: Angela Boag

Status: Public, open for RSVP

There is also a rally in San Rafael on Saturday.

About Ryan Van Lenning
Ryan Van Lenning is a writer and organizer focusing on issues of social justice and sustainability. He is also passionate about food justice/urban ag, anti-militarism, and building alternative economies in resilient cities. His work appears in Ecolocalizer, Truthout, Huffington Post, Terrain: Northern California’s Environmental Magazine, and Matador Change. Prior to becoming caught in the web of Bay Area ink-slinging and activism, he taught in the Humanities Department at a community college in Ohio, where he created courses in Environmental Ethics and World Religions: Peace and Violence. He is both a hyper-localist and a globalist, a home-body and travel-addict, and a city explorer and nature aficionado, just a few of the many paradoxes with which he is afflicted. Contact him at ryan@oaklandlocal.com, follow him on twitter @vanlenning, and find more at his blogs Pull the Root, Travelin' Bones, and Rumi and the Cholo.