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<p><font size="4"><strong>AmeriCAN or AmeriCAN'T? Contractors Dance Their Answer</strong><br />
<span style="font-size:14px;">Security bigwigs applaud plan for renewable energy revolution <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fyeslab.org%2Fsecondthanks&via=TheYesMen&text=Contractors%20dance%20for%20renewables%20revolution&hashtags=YesLab,RejectandProtect,350org&related=TheYesMen" style="color:#FC0;" target="_blank" title="share via Twitter"><img alt="Twitter" src="http://asb.yeslab.org/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/images/icon_twitter.png" /></a></span></font></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">Contractors and officials attending the Homeland Security Congress in Washington DC yesterday did a "traditional" Native American circle dance to celebrate a fictitious new US government plan, the "American Renewable Clean-Energy Network" (AmeriCAN), to convert the US to 100% renewable energy by 2030. (<a href="http://yeslab.org/secondthanks-photos">Photos here</a>; <a href="http://yeslab.org/secondthanks">other material here</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">The conference attendees—including a retired Navy Admiral, a retired USAF General, a former Seal Team Seven leader, an aspiring Republican Congressman, the Sheriff of Houston, and many homeland security contractors—applauded frequently during the <a href="http://yeslab.org/secondthanks-doespeech">stirring announcement</a> by the US Department of Energy's "Benedict Waterman" (actually Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men), </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">as well as the </span><a href="http://yeslab.org/secondthanks-banaspeech" style="font-size: 12px; ">eloquent speech</a><span style="font-size: 12px; "> by "Bana Slowhorse" of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (actually Gitz
Crazyboy, a youth worker from the Athabascan Chippewyan First Nations, whose land includes the Alberta Tar Sands). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">"Bana's" speech concluded: "We are <em>all</em> the Department of Energy." </span><span style="font-size: 12px; ">All attendees then danced a "celebratory circle dance" to the singing of "Drum Chief Four Feathers" (actually </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TitoComedy" style="font-size: 12px;">Tito Ybarra</a><span style="font-size: 12px; ">, an Ojibwe comedian and singer). After the event, two dozen contractors lined up to hand "Waterman" and "Slowhorse" their cards and offer their services in carrying out the conversion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">"Waterman's" energy plan would redirect oil company tax breaks and subsidies to support renewables instead; commit "Manhattan Project-level" Defense spending to renewables in order to prevent future climate-change-related conflicts; and partner with Native American nations whose lands could provide all of our renewable energy needs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">The plan, based on a number of sources including Stanford's </span><a href="http://thesolutionsproject.org/" style="font-size: 12px;">Solutions Project</a><span style="font-size: 12px;"> (</span><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/FAQsUSStates.pdf" style="font-size: 12px;">FAQ here</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">),</span><span style="font-size:12px;"> would produce nearly 8 million jobs; save $530 billion per year in health-care costs alone; result in much lower eventual fuel costs and greater price stability; and provide much greater energy security. It would also reduce the risk of the climate change effects that are projected to cost the US
at least $2 trillion per year by 2100 if nothing is done to address it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">Best of all, "Waterman" said, the plan would make a survivable future more likely. He also said that the government was enacting this plan because people are increasingly upset about climate change, and that if we don't take revolutionary action today, there could be a real revolution tomorrow. The conference attendees applauded this statement too.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">The action was intended to spread two messages: first, that a complete renewables conversion is indeed possible today, with our current technology; and second, that <strong>it will only happen if millions of people take action to force our leaders to truly represent us</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">Besides the Yes Men, Crazyboy, and Ybarra, participants in this project included members of </span><a href="http://www.idlenomore.ca/" style="font-size: 12px;">Idle No More</a>,<span style="font-size:12px;"> <a href="http://www.ivaw.org/">Iraq Veterans Against the War</a>, and several other groups. The action occurred just a few days after the "<a href="http://rejectandprotect.org/">Cowboys and Indians Alliance</a>" rally against the Keystone XL pipeline.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">"Waterman's" wig was made by RuPaul's wig designer for the occasion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">Contacts:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:12px;">Mike Bonanno, The Yes Men, <a href="mailto:mike@theyesmen.org">mike@theyesmen.org</a>, 917-209-3282</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12px;">Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men, <a href="mailto:andy@theyesmen.org">andy@theyesmen.org</a>, 718-208-0684</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12px;">​Gitz Crazyboy, <a href="mailto:0ogitzo0@gmail.com">0ogitzo0@gmail.com</a></span></li>
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