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Tired of feeling like your voice isnt being heard? STEP IT UP!
this saturday has been proclaimed National Day of Climate Action. and a very grassroots movement called Step It Up 2007 is looking to turn this day in to the largest protest specifically against policies that are week on climate change EVER!

i just learned about this a few weeks ago when the amazing environmental writer bill mckibben spoke here in madison. this move started in vermont with bill and other vermonters getting tired and angry about not being able to "do anything"...so they walked from someplace in central vt to the capital and along the way started getting ideas that there needs to be a way to start mobilizing citizens to address climate change.

thus was born Step It Up 2007....basically via the web/emails and small gatherings of many concerned citizens, ever single state will have at least one demonstration concerning climate change and the desire to take real actions to address this very scary problem.

from people wearing blue shirts en masse in NYC to show where sea levels will rise thus flooding much of this beloved city to marches on various state capitols (including here in madison) to showings of an inconvenient truth...communities across the nation are taking action to show our officials and the world that there are americans who recongnize both the severity of the problem and that the time to act is now.

check it out, take a few hours and go be part of this historic event in american environmentalism...which apparently is not a movement of the past (despite the actions of this current administration)