Free The Planet(!) at OSU

Hello Everyone
Thanks for all those who helped out with the Earth Day event, and to all those who were able to track us down with the threatening rain/rain location changes!
To those who are interested in becoming involved with FTP!, please read more about our current AMP-Ohio campaign and contact us if you'd like to get involved. We are planning to relay our concerns of the proposed coal-fired power plant for Meigs County, OH. to American Municipal Power (AMP) sometime in the near future!

Sarah

Earth Day Celebration 2009!
Join us in celebrating our Mother Earth as well as get to know people within the community.

There will be a keynote speaker, on-going public artworks, bands, vegan food and pizza, yoga, tabling from groups, poetry/open mic, and more. Stayed tuned for more detailed time line of events.

The keynote speaker will be Elisa Young from Meigs County, Ohio at 2:30 (in Women's Field House) who will give a presentation titled, “The Myth of Clean Coal.” Her community is directly impacted by 4 up and running coal-fired power plants. American Municipal Power-Ohio is planning to build another plant there. Come out and hear her story and what is being done in reaction to coal, the community, and the environment.

Bands include: The Timeless Bandits, Red Sun, Stringpocalypse, Jimmy and the Life Scouts, Fo Mo Deep

Bands and on-going public art project will begin at 4:30

Yoga will be held outdoors at 6:30 in the South Oval and will be a mixed class for all levels and experience.

hi yall I'm Bridget. This is my campaign to free the freakin' planet

Our group is organizing to prevent a proposed, additional AMP-Ohio coal-fired power plant from being constructed. Why? Many reasons, but here are a few: This would be the FIFTH plant within an 11.5 mile radius; the cost estimate has skyrocketed from $1.2 billion in 2005 to $3.4 billion-plus in 2008 (this is not a final estimate, and does not include the cost of financing); it would lock member communities into a 50-year contract to buy coal-fired power, at a time when alternatives are becoming more and more attainable--and alternatives would create significantly better jobs in greater quantity; the negative health effects of Orwellian "clean coal" on local people and our Planet are staggering; and all taxpayers in Ohio could be paying for this plan, because they've admitted they need state & local subsidies to build it. Talk about a dirty deal! (Especially during this time of recession.)

For more information:

The Ohio Student Environmental Coalition
Website: http://oh-sec.org/
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=7461526853

Ohio Citizen Action
Website: http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/coal/amp_ohio.html
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=65410845659
Office: 513-221-2100

Are you interested in making a difference?

Then come to FTP's weekly meeting & join our Facebook group below. Our newly-approved campaign focuses on how Ohio State's community can directly advocate for specific, responsible choices from governmental decision makers--and illuminate Big Coal's wanton cycle of oppression for Ohio, disenfranchised communities, future generations, and our warming Planet.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=62367277775&ref=mf#/group.php?gid=...

Its time to be the change.

~Glenn