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<P><B><SPAN class=919491704-24112008>Please come to Faneuil Hall on Tuesday
evening for an important event linking climate/energy conservation with economic
justice.</SPAN></B></P>
<P><B><A href="http://energyempowerment.wordpress.com/">Rally for an Energy
Empowerment Revolution</A></B></P>
<P><SPAN class=919491704-24112008>this </SPAN>Tuesday, November 25</P>
<P><SPAN class=919491704-24112008>from </SPAN>6 - 7:30pm</P>
<P><SPAN class=919491704-24112008>at </SPAN>Faneuil Hall, Boston</P></DIV>
<DIV>At a time of unstable energy prices, economic recession and the growing
climate crisis, there is a need for urgent investment in weatherization to help
families and businesses in Massachusetts break the cycle of winter energy
crisis.</DIV>
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<DIV>We are gathering at historic <STRONG>Faneuil Hall</STRONG> in Boston to
issue our Declaration of Energy Empowerment at a moment of fearful opportunity
requiring profound – indeed revolutionary – action on the moral, economic, and
environmental crisis that threatens the Commonwealth this winter.</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>The cost of food and fuel this winter will leave many of us
unable to heat our homes and feed our families adequately. We welcome the
important programs that provide fuel assistance to those who are most in need.
We also believe that we must act urgently to prevent those dollars from being
wasted forever on expensive fuels running through obsolete systems in leaky
buildings. Poor and middle-class families must not be held hostage year after
year to old technologies and to narrowly defined economic interests.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The continued waste of energy will lead inexorably to more
dangerous debt, more bankruptcies, more foreclosures, and more homelessness.
<STRONG>As many as 500,000 Massachusetts households – one in five – are at
risk.</STRONG></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Moreover, some of the earlier technologies which created the
modern world are now threatening our ability to maintain civilization as we know
it. Our national profligacy and inattention has contributed to emerging dangers
which, as always, will impose the heaviest burden on those least able to bear
it.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>As in other moments of our national history, this confluence
of threatening events – volatile and rising prices, slow innovation, unchecked
self-interest, and environmental degradation – can also offer us the historic
opportunity to unite for action. The problems we face – and the solutions those
problems require – are interdependent. The right thing to do has become not only
possible, but desirable and attainable.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Centaur"></SPAN></STRONG></P><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Sponsors:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Action for Regional Equity, Boston Climate
Action Network, Clean Water Action, Community Labor United, Environment
Massachusetts, Massachusetts Climate Action Network, and Massachusetts Council
of Churches</SPAN>
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<DIV>Info: Lilah Glick, 617-338-8131 ext. 202</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://energyempowerment.wordpress.com/"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2>http://energyempowerment.wordpress.com/</FONT></FONT></A></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>---<BR></FONT><FONT size=2>Loie Hayes<BR>C<SPAN
class=839115813-14062007>oordinator, Boston Climate Action
Network</SPAN><BR>Roxbury MA 02120<BR>617-278-1885<BR></FONT><FONT size=2>cell
857-544-6846<BR></FONT><SPAN class=577221102-21082007><FONT size=2><A
href="http://www.bostoncan.org/">www.bostoncan.org</A></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>