Rallies Against Global Warming in SF and Beyond

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Rallies against global warming in SF and beyond
Heidi Benson, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, November 3, 2007

(11-03) 17:32 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Anti-war politics and the environmental movement came together at a rally in San Francisco today. The event in United Nations Plaza was among 1,000 planned nationwide as part of Step It Up 2007, a national day of action against climate change. More than 40 rallies were scheduled to be held in California alone.

Serious topics were treated with typically antic San Francisco style. On the plaza, where the words of the UN charter are carved in stone, the master of ceremonies stood at a microphone - wearing a gorilla costume without the mask due to the unseasonably warm weather - near where the charter promises "...to promote social progress and better standards of life."

Rally participants carried colorful signage - "Draft Gore" and "No Nukes! No Coal! No Problem!" Booths were manned by representatives of Greenpeace - who distributed free fruit smoothies made in solar-powered blenders - and other environmental groups, while the plaza was ringed by an array of demonstrations of various forms of sustainable energy, from algae to solar panels to electric cars to a truck that runs on walnut shells.

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The first Step It Up 2007 rally campaign, held last spring, urged Congress to pass legislation to cut the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change 80 percent by 2050.

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