Friday, December 14, 2007
Now is the time to ACT!
This came to me this morning Rosmarie, another business owner that I respect very much. I signed the petition, and I spoke to my MP this morning to express my displeasure and disbelief at how far off track our government has become. As the mom of two small children, I feel an incredible sense of urgency toward the climate change issue, and I believe that most Canadians are taking every day steps to improve the situation in their own backyards, and it's time to take the politics out of this process and realize that more than just jobs and economies are at stake - we only have one planet!
Canada should be a world leader on the climate change issue!
"Dear friends, Wow - on Tuesday we aimed to get 25,000 Canadians to join the emergency call to Prime Minister Harper to stop blocking the crucial UN climate change talks in Bali - and we hit that target in just 18 hours!! In two days, 71,187 of us have signed the petition, and rising fast - one of the largest online petitions in Canadian history!
The petition ads are running in papers, including the Ottawa Citizen and the Calgary Sun. At the Bali summit, it is touch and go - with almost the entire world vs. Canada and the US over whether to accept targets on harmful carbon emissions. The draft agreement changes every hour, with carbon targets dropping in and out. We now have today left for an all-out push to get Harper to do the right thing.
Let's ramp it up and hit 100,000 voices! If you haven't yet, please click here to sign up, see our ad, and then forward this link to everyone you know!
Let's make sure that experts never again give Canada the "fossil" award for worst country in the world on climate change! If you've already told your friends and family about the petition, try calling Prime Minister Harper's office directly at 613 992 4211, or calling the House of Commons toll free on 1 (866) 599-4999 to talk to your MP about getting Parliament to act on this issue.
Harper leads a minority government, he shouldn't be able to get away with ignoring the large majority of us who want real action on climate change.
Our incredible momentum is a wonderful and powerful statement about the Canada we all love and want to see - one that does the right thing in the world, whose flag stands for people and principles -- not the short term profits of big oil corporations.
Let's forward this email round, blog this issue, talk about it at the dinner table and at work, and get an emergency people-powered movement going that reaches 100,000 today!
With hope,
Ricken and the Avaaz team
PS - here's some links to more info on this issue:
http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/285171
PSS - here's some info on Avaaz.org's work and campaigning:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/report_back_1/
ABOUT AVAAZ
Avaaz.org is an independent, not-for-profit global campaigning organization that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform global decision-making. (Avaaz means "voice" in many languages.) Avaaz receives no money from governments or corporations, and is staffed by a global team based in London, New York, Paris, Washington DC, Geneva, and Rio de Janeiro."
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