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Activists Call For Clean Energy Revolution
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 5:53PM
As the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day approaches, representatives from leading environmental and progressive organizations took to Capitol Hill Thursday to demand a clean energy revolution.
“I take the words revolution very seriously,” said Reverend Lennox Yearwood, the president of political organization the Hip Hop Caucus. “I understand that it is a very serious claim to make, but unfortunately, one that we must make today.”
Yearwood was joined by, among others, Sierra Club President Allison Chin, Rock the Vote’s Executive Director Heather Smith and environmental pioneer Denis Hayes, who was the national coordinator for the first Earth Day.
The participants signed a declaration calling for the Senate to hasten their action on climate change legislation.
“I take the words revolution very seriously,” said Reverend Lennox Yearwood, the president of political organization the Hip Hop Caucus. “I understand that it is a very serious claim to make, but unfortunately, one that we must make today.”
Yearwood was joined by, among others, Sierra Club President Allison Chin, Rock the Vote’s Executive Director Heather Smith and environmental pioneer Denis Hayes, who was the national coordinator for the first Earth Day.
The participants signed a declaration calling for the Senate to hasten their action on climate change legislation.
Reader Comments (1)
Meanwhile, the SUVs and rapper HipHop bling bling hummers line up on the curb side waiting to carry them back to their oil and gas infused lives. What hypocrites! The world is not black or white, either/or. The world is 6 billion people who need to eat, be housed, schooled, transported, and buried. That number is growing not shrinking. Energy demand will increase not decrease, wind/solar and their 100% subsidized existence cannot supply all our energy needs. We need nuclear, oil gas, and coal to keep the lights on and living in our modern world. What do we do for plastic, paint, synthetic resin, steel, etc. etc., can they be made from wind and solar? NO! They can only be made from oil gas and coal! Hip Hop away on your CD made of resin plastic polycarbonate and aluminum would you please, you would be listening to silence if it weren't for oil!