[Iowa-dx] National Coordinator of U.S. Emergency Climate Council to Speak in Iowa City

[hhart@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu]

EVENT:  Ted Glick, National Coordinator of the U.S. Climate Emergency =20
Council and the Climate Crisis Coalition =20
(http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/),  will present a talk on =20
"Addressing Climate Change as Social Justice:  How We Can Make A Clean =20
Energy Revolution Happen"

DATE:  Tuesday, September 26, 2007

TIME:  7:00 p.m.

LOCATION:  Wesley Foundation Auditorium, 120 N. Dubuque Street, Iowa City
Admission Free

His talk Tuesday night is sponsored by the Johnson County Green Party.

On Wednesday, September 27, he will be one of the keynote speakers for =20
the University of Iowa's Sustainable Energy Expo.
(http://energy.uiowa.edu/2006/index.htm)

TED GLICK BIO
Ted Glick has devoted 38 years of his life to the progressive social =20
change movement.  After a year of student activism as a sophomore at =20
Grinnell College in Iowa, he left college in 1969 to work full time =20
against the Vietnam War.
As a Selective Service draft resister, he spent 11 months in prison. =20
In 1973 he
co-founded the National Committee to Impeach Nixon and worked as a =20
national coordinator on grassroots street actions around the country, =20
keeping the
heat on Nixon until his August, 1974 resignation.

For the last two years Ted has played a national leadership role in =20
the effort to stabilize our climate and for a clean energy revolution. =20
He was a co-founder in 2004 of the Climate Crisis Coalition and in =20
2005 coordinated the USA Join the World effort leading up to December =20
3rd actions during the United Nations Climate Change conference in =20
Montreal. 70 organizations endorsed this effort, and there were 40 =20
local actions around the United States. He was on the core committee =20
for the massive April 29th March for Peace, Justice and Democracy in =20
NYC which included the climate crisis as one of its major issues.  In =20
May he became the National Coordinator of the U.S. Climate Emergency =20
Council.

Between the mid-70's and 2005, Ted was actively involved in community =20
organizing efforts around environmental, tenant rights, community =20
development and racial justice issues in Brooklyn, N.Y. and northern =20
New Jersey.  On a national scale he has been a leader in =20
coalition-building and independent politics efforts.  From 1995 to =20
2005, he was the National Coordinator of the Independent Progressive =20
Politics Network.

He has participated in and led hundreds of actions. He has been =20
arrested ten times for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience.  As the =20
national coordinator of the People's Alliance, he helped to organize =20
the 1980 People's Convention
of several thousand people on the devastated Charlotte St. area in the =20
South Bronx and a march of 15,000 people to Madison Square Garden just =20
before the Democratic Convention. In 2002 he was a primary organizer =20
of the April 20th,
80,000-person march in Washington, D.C. against the militaristic and =20
repressive response of the Bus administration to 9/11. Also in 2002, =20
he was a Green Party
of New Jersey candidate for U.S. Senate.  Over the years, Ted's =20
commitment to social justice has led him to partake in 17 extended =20
fasts, 3 of which were for more than a month.