Green Job(s): Mariposa, CA - Stewardship & Education Assistant with Sierra Foothill Conservancy (AmeriCorps Position)

Written by: Susan Rowe on Oct 4, 2008 12:32 AM EDT

Linked to groups: DFA of Stanislaus County, DFA Job Board, DFA-CFD of Fresno & Madera Counties, Democracy for Environmental Awareness, California Draft Gore Ballot Initiative

The Sierra Nevada Alliance is currently taking the first round of applications.  We have a short time frame for this first application round (apps. Ideally submitted to SNAP by Oct 15th)

Stewardship & Education Assistant with Sierra Foothill Conservancy

Organization: Sierra Foothill Conservancy www.sierrafoothill.org

Location: Mariposa, CA

Site Supervisor: Bridget Fithian, Mariposa Program Manager

Sierra Foothill Conservancy: Sierra Foothill Conservancy (SFC), a local land trust serving the foothill portions of Fresno and Madera counties and all of Mariposa County, was founded in 1996 with the mission to conserve open space and protect wildlife, ranching, and natural beauty for present and future generations. In ts 13 years of service, SFC has protected over 16,000 acres of open space and working landscapes through the use of fee title purchases and conservation easements. SFC is a well known organization throughout the Sierra-Cascade Region for its significant land conservation achievements.

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“A World that Stands as One” - Remarks of Senator Barack Obama (as prepared for delivery)

Written by: Denise on Jul 24, 2008 6:00 PM EDT

Linked to groups: DFA-CFD of Fresno & Madera Counties, California for Democracy, Democracy for Riverside, DFA of Chowchilla, DFA-CFD of Mariposa and Tuolumne Counties

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama (as prepared for delivery)

“A World that Stands as One”

July 24th, 2008

Berlin, Germany

Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.

I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before.  Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.

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Al Gore: The Challenge

Written by: Susan Rowe on Jul 18, 2008 5:42 PM EDT

Linked to groups: DFA at Netroots Nation (formerly YearlyKos) July 17-20, DFA Delegates and Alternates to the Democratic Convention, Democracy for Environmental Awareness, blog for America Test and Poll Group, DFA Blog Network

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former United States Vice President Al Gore called Thursday (07.17.2008) for a "man on the moon" effort to switch all of the United States of America's electricity production to wind, solar and other carbon-free sources within 10 years.

To the draft-Gore diaspora ...

Written by: * rdorgan on Jun 17, 2008 9:27 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Blog For America, California Draft Gore Ballot Initiative

Linked to campaigns: Obama for America

... please consider this as an open invitation to all draft-Gore supporters, who largely lurk here or who have left BFA and randomly lurk, to listen to what Al has to say and decide for yourselves, if actively supporting the 2008 democratic nominee for president, is time well spent for you, in the coming months

http://www.algore.com/

http://blog.algore.com/2008/06/my_endorsement.html

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Will GORE Endorse?

Written by: Susan Rowe on Feb 4, 2008 8:21 PM EST

Linked to groups: California Draft Gore Ballot Initiative

Maybe.  Who?  It looks like it might be OBAMA!

The Man from Tennessee  http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=443

Al Gore's Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech December 10, 2007

Written by: Susan Rowe on Dec 10, 2007 5:11 PM EST

Linked to groups: California Draft Gore Ballot Initiative

SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE
OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
DECEMBER 10, 2007
OSLO, NORWAY

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen.

I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.

Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago, a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life’s work, unfairly labeling him “The Merchant of Death” because of his invention – dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation, the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace.

Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.

Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken – if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious if painful gift: an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.

Unexpectedly, that quest has brought me here. Even though I fear my words cannot match this moment, I pray what I am feeling in my heart will be communicated clearly enough that those who hear me will say, “We must act.”

...Al Gore's words continue below the fold.

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More California Draft Gore - Press Clippings

Written by: Susan Rowe on Nov 16, 2007 12:28 AM EST

Linked to groups: California Draft Gore Ballot Initiative

SACRAMENTO — Organizers of a grassroots statewide campaign to put former Vice President Al Gore’s name on the California presidential primary ballot announced today that it is halting its activities. ... http://www.vvdailypress.com/articles/gore_3677___article.html/ballot_name.html 

(Sacramento, CA) California Draft Gore Halts Activities

Written by: Susan Rowe on Nov 13, 2007 7:16 PM EST

Linked to groups: California Draft Gore Ballot Initiative

California Draft Gore Halts Activities 

Campaign to Put Al Gore on California Ballot Ends

SACRAMENTO, CA (PRNewswire) November 13, 2007 – Organizers of a California Draft Gore, a grassroots statewide campaign to put Al Gore’s name on the California presidential primary ballot announced today that it is halting its activities.  

“We have recently received a communication from a member of Al Gore’s staff discouraging any efforts to put Al Gore’s name on the primary ballot,” stated Roy Gayhart, organizer for the statewide campaign. “Accordingly, effectively immediately, we have ceased our signature collection and related fund raising activities.”

More than 1,000 Californians had volunteered to collect signatures ballot across the state to qualify Al Gore’s name to be placed on the February 5, 2008 presidential primary. The California Election Code allows for a candidate’s name to be placed on the ballot if at least 500 registered Democrats’ signatures are obtained from each of the state’s congressional districts during the period from October 8th until December 4th.

“We were doing well collecting signatures in the urban districts and were behind in some of the rural districts,” said Gayhart. “We had raised money to hire professional petition circulators to help us close out the rural districts when we received the communication. With three weeks to go, we were confident of succeeding.”

Many of the Gore volunteers spoke of the experience of finding so much support for Al Gore throughout California. "It was remarkable to watch hundreds of people smile and without saying a word sign a nomination paper to place Al Gore's name on our state's primary ballot,” stated Suzanne Harris, a campaign coordinator from Los Angeles. “They got it." 

Others shared the significance of what the California campaign has meant. Susan Rowe, a coordinator from Coarsegold perhaps said it best, “Over the past several months California Draft Gore and the national draft Gore movement has become a force to be reckoned with. The other presidential candidates need to shift their message on climate protection. None of them has yet come close to embracing the position that must be adopted in order to slow down global warming. We must preserve and protect our nation and our planet for the future generations to come.” Marta Jorgensen, a coordinator from Solvang added, “We have created the foundation for a new political movement, one that is not based on the old ideology of yesterday, but on how the world is today.” 

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About California Draft Gore:

California Draft Gore is a grassroots organization. The organization and its website is not affiliated with or authorized by Al Gore, any candidate or candidate’s committee.  

Contact: Roy Gayhart, (858) 581-1024, roy@california4gore.org                       

Thank YOU! California Draft Gore makes Act Blue HOT LIST!

Written by: Susan Rowe on Nov 10, 2007 11:14 AM EST

Linked to groups: California Draft Gore Ballot Initiative

California Draft Gore sends a BIG THANK YOU to all of you who have supported and continue to support our efforts.

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Al Gore on Leno Nov. 9th

Written by: Harold Fong on Nov 8, 2007 2:15 AM EST

Linked to groups: California Draft Gore Ballot Initiative

Al Gore is going to be on Jay Leno Show Thursday, Nov. 9th. Announcing?