[CMI-CM] Earth day/week jazz

[michelle renee lupei]

hey kids~

we in Students for Environmental ConcernS were wondering if there would be a 
possibility that y'all might be 
able to help us throw together a critical mass on friday april 20th.  this is 
our global warming/energy efficiency 
day, and we were thinking that it would be awesome if we could have clean 
transportation too.  since this is a 
friday, it kind of fits into your pattern, even though it's not the last of 
the month.  also, i don't know if this is 
possible or not, but a couple of people suggested that we take a few spins 
around the quad before we left... we 
already have a guy who will be riding a big wheel around the quad all day, and 
we could get mad media 
coverage for something like that.  we'd help out with mad publicity if you so 
desired.  if y'all wanted to help 
organize this, call me, e-mail me, or drop by our Earth Week committee meeting 
thursday @ 8 in the basement 
of the University YMCA.  and if anybody wants to give ideas for or help out 
with any other aspects of the day 
or week, please feel free to let me know!  the plans for the week should be up 
on our web site sometime by the 
end of this week: http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/secs

one other thing we were thinking of was having some type of mass exodus to 
Springfield to lobby Senators 
fitzgerald, and Durbin as long as we were there, on bike to break that whole 
"environmentalists driving cars to 
lobby for not driving cars" thing, as well as lotsa press.  if you guys could 
lend some suggestions or a hand, i'd 
really appreciate it.

thanks,
~michelle

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" The meme is as strong today among us as it was among the stone-draggers of ancient Egypt:
      Civilization must continue at any cost and not be abandoned under any circumstance.
  We're making the world uninhabitable to our own species and rushing headlong toward extinction, but
      Civilization must continue at any cost and not be abandoned under any circumstance."
                                                                ~Daniel Quinn,  Beyond Civilization

michelle lupei    
director, Students for Environmental Concerns

home:  217.355.7016
mobile: 217.377.2729
fax:  217.337.1533
www.students.uiuc.edu/~mlupei
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