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Circle the Earth: Fundraising LetterDecember 2007 Your Tax Deductible Contributions are an investment in Circle the Earth’s important work supporting women working for change from the local grassroots to the United Nations! We live at a critical juncture in history. It is time to take action. Circle the Earth has been working at the grassroots to move forward policies and actions that support women working on environmental justice. I wish you were there with us at the United Nation’s Commission On Sustainable Development 15th Sessions (CSD-15) at U.N. Headquarters earlier this year to witness Indigenous Women from the Black Mesa Coalition (Arizona) give a powerful testimony to the gathered governmental diplomats from around the world. Their challenge to all of us was to listen to the needs of the earth and their community whose lands are being ravaged by corporate greed. Our Circle the Earth San Francisco Fundraiser, thanks to performances by Hali Hammer and Sharon Abreu & Michael Hurwicz helped with their expenses to travel to this important session of CSD-15. We also contributed to helping women from the Appalachian Coalition for Just and Sustainable Communities travel to the U. N. where they asked the UN Commission to embrace greater use of renewable energy, cuts in fossil fuel consumption and a shunning of liquid-coal and so-called clean coal technologies. http://www.stopmtr.org/photosinnewyork/ This past Thanksgiving morning the Berkeley’s local grandmothers brought their freshly baked pies that they placed on a beautiful table laid out under what is now called the “ Berkeley’s Guantanamo Fence”. I stood there with my Community in gratitude— gratitude that we have the courage to stand together as a community for what we deem as precious, our freedom for self determination and to protect our Memorial Oak Grove From U.C. Berkeley’s Ax! Reader Report: Grandmothers Break Oak Grove Siege By Matthew Taylor http://www.berkeleydaily.org/index1.cfm?issue=11-27-07 (Redwood Mary’s Op Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/12/14/EDM3TTDBA.DTL) Our successful participation as a major partner in organizing the 2007 Women’s Quality Day Parade and Celebrations resulted in hundreds of women converging at our State Capitol in Sacramento to highlight what it took for women to get the right to vote. Our theme – “Our Vote – Our Voice” resonates with the importance of women getting to the poles for the next crucial presidential election. Our CTE’s parade contingent “Vote for Mother Earth” equated the use of our voting privilege with voting for environmental friendly polices. We were a big hit and won first prize! Women are the glue to communities and households. have expertise and talents that are untapped and woman have the power to make changes that need to occur to mitigate climate change and environmental destruction that is already in process. The heart of Circle the Earth's (CTE) work for 2008 is to organize women in the San Francisco Bay Area to become Climate Change Makers and to continue our work at the United Nations in partnership with the Women’s Major Group. Addressing issues as they arise requires commitment and support. Supporting women doing this work depend on you! Can you be so kind to invest in our work with a donation of $150 or more or with whatever you are comfortable with? Can you be a monthly sustainer at $25 a month? Or $50 or $100 a month? Every bit helps! And here is how you can easily donate right now! Just go to: To donate by check, please make checks payable to Agape
Foundation and designate in memo area Circle The Earth Download this fundraising letter as a PDF (requires the free Acrobat Reader). |
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