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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Over One Thousand Colleges to Participate in
Global Warming Day</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Berkeley, CA - January 24, 2008) While the ice caps
melt and the government stalls, campus organizers are putting together the
largest teach-in in U.S.<SPAN class=660101500-26012008> </SPAN>history - and
KPFA Radio will broadcast the event from the campus of San Francisco State
University.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>On January 30th and 31st, scholars, activists, and
policymakers will gather at SF State and over one thousand other colleges and
universities across the country to discuss the future of our planet. Expert
speakers will include Van Jones, Michael Glantz, and Dennis Martinez.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Focus the Nation is the largest grassroots effort to
date to energize the country to take urgent action to address climate change,"
says teach-in organizer and San Francisco State professor Carlos Davidson. "All
that we lack to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is political will."</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>KPFA Radio will broadcast the teach-in on Thursday,
January 31st from 10am to 6pm, anchored by Karolo Aparicio, Brian
Edwards-Tiekert, Michelle Chan-Fishell, Kris Welch, Davey D, and Nora
Barrows-Friedman.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Global warming presents the most important challenge
that people have ever faced," says Aparicio, co-host of KPFA's Terra Verde. "We
stand at the crossroads and have a choice between sustainability and renewable
energy or business as usual, sea levels, social upheaval, and mass
extinctions."</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>For more information, go to </FONT><A
href="outbind://82/www.kpfa.org"><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial
size=2>www.kpfa.org</FONT></U></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> <</FONT><A
href="http://www.kpfa.org/"><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.kpfa.org/</FONT></U></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>>
and bss.sfsu.edu/envstudies/schedule.html.</FONT></P>
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