info courtesy of sierra club:
23 October 1997
With just four percent of the world's population, the US emits a quarter
of the world's global warming pollution.
On 22 October, Clinton proposed a modest plan to "stabilize emissions
at 1990 levels in the 2008-2012 time period and over the following five
years make further reductions."
*** PLEASE CALL THE WHITE HOUSE!!! PLEASE CALL:
Vice-President Al Gore
Todd Stern, Assistant to the President
The TOLL FREE Capital Switchboard # is: 1-888-723-5246
Tell the White House:
* We must have substantial reductions below 1990 levels BEFORE 2010!
* The proposed plan will not protect our kids!
Clinton's proposal, WHICH WILL SERVE AS THE U.S. POSITION AT
NEGOTIATIONS IN KYOTO THIS DECEMBER, calls for industrial nations to
stabilize emissions at 1990 levels in the 2008-2012 time period and over
the following five years make further reductions. It relies heavily on
a risky international pollution trading scheme that would allow more
pollution here in the US in exchange for reduction projects in
developing countries.
It also would:
* Create a $5 billion package of tax breaks to spur energy efficiency
and development of new energy technologies.
* Provide "pollution credits" for industries that make early emission
reductions.
* Calls for an agreement among industrial nations to stabilize
greenhouse gases over five years beginning in 2008 followed by
unspecified reductions between 2012 and 2017. Countries would be able to
average annual emissions within the five-year periods, allowing them to
postpone reductions in some cases ("borrowing from the future").
President Clinton has issued grave warnings about the threats
global warming poses to our children.
"The problem is real,� he says, �and if we do not change our course now,
the consequences -- sooner or later -- will be destructive.�
However, the plan he announced on 22 October fails to protect our
children.
With just four percent of the world's population, the US emits a
quarter of the world's global warming pollution. America clearly has a
responsibility to take a leadership role. We can do so by taking strong
actions here at home to reduce emissions -- actions that can also
strengthen our economy and create jobs. The President can take steps to
increase our reliance on clean renewable energy, increase efficiency
standards for home appliances, and strengthen fuel economy standards for
cars and trucks -- the biggest single step we can take to curb global
warming.
thanks!,
gwendolyn
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:08:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Constance Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ECOFEM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trans/forms - OISE/UT Grad Student Journal (fwd)
Hello all:
A call for papers for graduate students. Although the connections
between environmental justice and social justice are not made explicit in
this call, I presume that such papers would be welcomed.
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Constance L. Russell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6 CANADA
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Date: Mon, 27 OCT 1997 14:58:53 GMT
From: Sheryl Nestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newgroups: oise.cfp
Subject: trans/forms - OISE/UT Grad Student Journal
Call for Papers:
trans/forms
Insurgent Voices in Education
Submissions are now being solicited for issue number four of trans/forms,
"Competing Discourses/Conflicting Entitlements," to be published in
1999. The issue will examine how discourses (for example, regarding
race, gender, class, age, sexuality, ability, nationality, etc.) compete
for legitimacy in different historical moments and in public/private
spaces. A particular focus will be on how conflicts among these
discourses shape and are shaped by socio-political relations and everyday
practices. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following:
� strategies of resistance and strategies of negotiation
� conflicting/competing memories, histories and autobiographies
� the politics of migration and immigration
� representing oppression without reproducing violence
We welcome submissions, including essays, short fiction, poetry, book/art
reviews, autobiography, and visual works (maximum 5,000 words). Please
submit 4 copies of work, double-spaced. Work must submitted in APA format
to be considered. Name/affiliation should appear on a cover sheet only.
Please include e-mail, mailing address and telephone numbers with
submission. Submissions should be addressed to:
trans/forms
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Suite 8-138
252 Bloor St. West.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 1998
trans/forms is a graduate student journal issue out of the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto,
publishing original, refereed works on a broad range of issues in the
area of transformative education. It provides a forum for addressing
relations of social difference as they inform educational theory and
practice. trans/forms publishes articles which deal with all areas of
education for social and global justice including: First Nations
politics, feminism, post-colonialism, anti-racism, Afrocentrism,
anti-ableism, class politics, lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender/transsexual politics, community activism, popular education,
media and cultural studies, critical global education, and critical pedagogy.
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SHERYL A NESTEL
Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
OISE/University of Toronto
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~snestel/index.html
