Announcing Atlanta Action's Participation in the Fight Against Climate Change

Hello and thank you to everyone that's been able to check out Atlanta Action!

This week we've formally announced our support and participation in the fight against climate change. We are working on becoming sponsors/participating organizations with the 1Sky and Power Shift 2009 campaigns.

1Sky is hosting a direct action on November 18, 2008 called, "Climate Leadership Now." We look forward to participating with this nation-wide movement, and hope that you'll check out their website at http://www.1sky.org, or visit the "Climate Leadership Now" site at http://action.1sky.org/t/1981/signUp.jsp?key=473.

Since November 18 is less than a week away, we will begin a large effort to recruit as many participants as possible to gather at our representatives' local offices to call for their support in fighting climate change. Please, if you're interested in participating in a global campaign to fight climate change please email Michael at atlaxn@gmail.com, or sign up for updates by texting "follow atlaxn" to 32075.

Farther into the future, we also look forward to participating with Power Shift 2009, organized by the Energy Action Coalition and scheduled to take place from February 27-March 1, 2009. This will be a massive gathering of youths from around the country to call on our lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to act to stop climate change.

The next action planned to fight climate change is the Focus the Nation campaign, which some of you may remember got its start this past January. The Focus the Nation action is scheduled to take place on April 18, 2009, so we won't try to get ahead of ourselves by detailing our participation just yet. Be sure to check back to find progress on the action.

SO, where does this leave us? Atlanta Action! is currently involved with 4 movements, and luckily they are all evenly spaced, thus allowing us to appropriately allocate our resources. Our campaigns are...

1. Jim Martin Election Campaign: Our action will end after Jim Martin is elected to the US Senate in the runoff election to be held on December 2, 2008.
2. Stop Troy Davis' Execution: Our action will be put on hold after the court (hopefully) grants Troy Davis a new trial. The court's decision is expected NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 24, 2008.
3. Save Darfur!: Expect to see more about this in the next few weeks, but we are working closely with the Darfur Urgent Action Coalition of Georgia to bring peace to the Darfur region.
4. Stop Climate Change: Look for Atlanta Action to be assiting 1Sky and the Energy Action Coalition on both the local and national levels to help fight global climate change.

Thanks again for checking in. Again, please email us at ATLAXN@gmail.com or text "follow atlaxn" to 32075 to keep updated.