Rallly for "Green Collar Jobs" Tues. morning at Oakland City Hall

Rally for "Green Collar Jobs"

Tuesday, June 12th at 10 am at Oakland City Hall, Ella Baker Center is organizing a rally at the steps of City Hall, prior to an Oakland Public Works Committee hearing discussing the budget that will fund training and incentives for creation of "Green Collar Jobs" - including discussion of CCA. Contact me or Ian Kim from EBC if you want to show up and need directions.

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update (6/13/07): I attended the rally and the subsequent hearing at Oakland Public Works Committee yesterday in City Hall. It was really impressive to see how the Ella Baker folks were able to rally so many activists together (they counted 150). I don't know if it's a Van Jones thing, or simply their email presence, or ? Our Sierra Club group could never garner that much enthusiasm. Anyways, we're completely different organizations. EBC seems to be advocating more for social (and environmental) justice, while S Club is the old-line traditional protector of wildlands. And that's fine.

In any case, the EBC rally, and other lobbying work of "green" advocates, seems to have had the desired effect: the committee voted to allocate most of the money from the Williams Reliant Energy settlement, to "green collar jobs" training programs, and renewable energy plans / subsidies (including CCA, which the Sierra Club is supporting). Hooray!