<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_2926">From Paul Wood's N-G summary:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3084"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3085">"State Rep. Carol Ammons, D-Urbana, who has formed a committee to explore
taking on Davis in the next election, also blasted Trump."</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_2908"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_2906"><span>"</span>State Sen. Scott Bennett, D-Champaign, summed up much of the
conversation when he said that politicians should not be deciding issues
dealing with the environment based on information from lobbyists and
special interests.
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_2896" dir="ltr">It "shouldn't be politicians, it should be scientists" who are the leading force in deciding climate issues, he said."</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_2907" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_2905" dir="ltr">I would suggest that both of these comments were misdirected and self-serving. I would also suggest that the organizers should not have allowed this to become an opportunity for political self-promotion by Democratic Party operatives. A politically honest event would have been a panel with all parties represented, under the conditions that they propose a serious program that they plan to advocate within their party and in their party's campaigns.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3019" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3020" dir="ltr">I would suggest that Bennett's comments regarding scientists and politicians is an evasion of an evasion.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3724" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3709" dir="ltr">I would suggest that the goal of the organizers should have been to enlist the attendees in a movement to promote specific approaches to addressing climate change at fundamental political and economic levels, in a committed fashion that would involve a coalition of groups, including antiwar. Perhaps this aspect of the event was unreported by Paul Wood. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3118" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3119" dir="ltr">I would suggest that a constructive Green Party position is being suggested by Gar Alperovitz; it includes both environmental and economic perspectives:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3173" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3174" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3476" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/the-policy-weapon-climate-activists-need/">https://www.thenation.com/article/the-policy-weapon-climate-activists-need/</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3722"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3546">Transcripts are not yet posted for the videos below, but should be within days:<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3428" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3429" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3220" href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=18959">http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=18959</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3297" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3298" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3350" href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=18960">http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=18960</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3877" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Respectfully,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">David Green</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3424"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3425"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3256"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3296"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3147" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493567742214_3145" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></body></html>