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Here's the details on tomorrow's rally -- if you translate into a blog post (AND PLEASE DO!), please let Jeff Mann <jeff@energyactioncoalition.org> know and tweet with #powershift / @PowerShift11

the press release will be up at http://www.powershift2011.org/media within minutes

 

April 18, 2011                                       Blair Fitzgibbon (202) 503-6141

  

**Press Event Monday at 10 am Lafayette Square Across From White House**

 

Trumka, McKibben, and Gulf Coast Leaders Join 5000 Young Obama Voters for Rally at White House – March to Protest BP and Chamber of Commerce – Massive Lobby Day on Capitol Hill

 

Richard Trumka, Bill McKibben, Rev. Yearwood, Courtney Hight, Cherri Foytlin from the Gulf Coast, Among Speakers

 

Take Action on Tax Day to Make Big Polluters Pay 

 

Washington, DC – AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Cherri Foytlin of Gulf Change, and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben will speak to more than 5,000 young voters, at a rally in front of the White House this Monday to demand that the President and Congress stand up to Big Polluters, protect the Clean Air Act, and make corporate polluters like BP pay for their pollution. They're calling on President Obama and Congress to end handouts to corporate polluters, make them pay their fair share, invest in a clean energy economy, and create good jobs. Rally participants will then move on to protest at the US Chamber of Commerce, which serves as a front group for Big Polluters, the DC headquarters of BP, and the headquarters of the electric utility Gen-On, which continues to burn coal in Virginia. Young people will then have hundreds ofvisits to Congressional offices to demand that Congress protect the Clean Air Act and stop taking money from corporate polluters.

 

The rally wraps up the 4-day Power Shift 2011 Conference where over 10,000 young people engaged in the largest grassroots organizing training in history.

 

Van Jones, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, and Bill McKibben were among the speakers at the conference that took place at the Washington, DC ConventionCenter. 

 

Power Shift is hosted by the Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of 50 youth-ledenvironmental and social justice organizations.

 

WHO: 5,000 Young, Forgotten Voters Protest at White House, then March to Chamber and BP

WHAT: Power Shift 2011 Rally

WHERE: White House Rally at Lafayette Square starts at 10am followed by a Chamber of Commerce rally at 11:45am. Then the group will march to BP offices at 12pm

WHEN: April 18, 2011 at 10am

 

Program for Power Shift Action, Lafayette Square

10:10-10:17 Rev Yearwood, Hip-Hop Caucus, welcomes everybody, intros Power Shift & Action

10:17-10:24 Bill McKibben, 350.org

10:24-10:31 Cherri Foytlin-Co-founder, Gulf Change

10:31-10:38 Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO

10:38-10:45 Courtney Hight, Co-Director of Energy Action Coalition and former Obama campaign staff

10:45-10:52 Rev. Yearwood closes

10:59-11:06 DJ plays, marches begin

11:30 Chamber of Commerce street theater kicks off Big Polluters march (map)

           Second March heads to the Capitol for Lobby Day 

 

 

 

People available to media on the BP disaster anniversary and their $10 billion tax refund for their "clean up" of the Gulf:

 

Press Contacts:

Ada McMahon: (617) 771-1492 <ada.mcmahon@gmail.com>
Karen Savage: (617) 784 0125

Cherri Foytlin is the mother of six and the wife of an oil worker in Rayne, Louisiana. She walked from New Orleans, over 1,243 miles, to D.C. to bring a message to President Obama and Congress: the oil disaster is not over!  A powerful speaker and moral voice of the Gulf Coast, Cherri has become an outspoken advocate for clean air, clean water, and clean energy since the disaster began.

Andre Gaines is at the frontline of cleaning up the worstenvironmental disaster in U.S. history.  The 27 year-old father from Lucedale, Mississippi put his schooling on hold when the BP disaster began to work clean-up jobs.  As a supervisor of 500 clean-up workers, he's seen workers without proper training and safety equipment fall ill.  He himself has been hospitalized for 2 weeks due to exposure to oil and dispersants.

Randy Mooreman is also from Lucedale, Mississippi, worked a clean-up job, and has fallen ill. 

Tony Nguyen is the son of Vietnamese immigrants in the seafood industry. Tony has felt firsthand the hardship that the BP oil disaster brought to Biloxi, Mississippi.  His Asian American youth group, Gulf Coast REACH, raised nearly $10,000 in relief funds for hurting fishermen.

Mickey Sou is a member of a Vietnamese American youth group Gulf Coast REACH, and has been photographing community responses to the BP disaster. Mickey works with Asian Americans for Change on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.



Derrick Evans of Turkey Creek, Mississippi, drove the Tarball Express, a toxic FEMA trailer turned mobile billboard for Gulf Coast recovery, to Power Shift 2011.  An advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health, Derrick can speak to the cultural, environmental, and political history of the Gulf Coast, that set the stage for the BP oil disaster.

 

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