We're Pleased to Welcome Gloria Reuben as our Keynote, Featured Speaker!

Sunday April 19, 2009

• 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.:  Non-violent Civil Disobedience Training
• 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.:  Detailed Action Plan Presentation
• 6:00 p.m.: Vegetarian Pot-Luck Supper – RSVP for the Pot-Luck

Dinner Music provided by Harry Taylor
Dinner Speaker: Grant Smith – Executive Director, Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana

• 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.: Evening Program - Music and Featured Speakers NOW CONFIRMED!
  
  • June Blotnick – Executive Director, Carolinas Clean Air Coalition
  • Rev. John Rausch - Catholic Committee of Appalachia
  • Russ Anderson - NC Organizer for Southern Energy Network
  • Larry Gibson – Mountainkeepers 

Evening Music by Jeannie Waite

Sunday Events Location:
Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, 234 North Sharon Amity Road, Charlotte, 28211

Monday April 20, 2009

• 10:00 a.m.: Peaceful Rally with guest speakers assemble at Marshall Park   (E. 3rd St. & S. McDowell St.) in uptown Charlotte. SPEAKERS NOW CONFIRMED!
  
  
  • Welcome from local city official
    
  • Opening Prayer: Reverend Carrie Bolton
  • FEATURED SPEAKER! Gloria Reuben – Renowned Actress and Trustee Board Member of the Waterkeeper Alliance
  • Richard Fireman – Retired Emergency Room Physician
    
  • Jane Branham – Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards
  • Pat Moore - native of Charlotte, local citizen
  • Lisa Finaldi - National Campaigns Director, Greenpeace
    

• 11:00 a.m.: March begins to Duke Energy Headquarters
• Don DeBona – Rutherford County native and longtime activist

• 12:00 noon: March arrives at Duke Energy Headquarters - Rally Leaders JUST ANNOUNCED!
  
  • Reverend Nelson Johnson
  • Bo Webb - Coal River Mountain Watch
    
  • Featuring: Mike Roselle - founder of Earth First, Rainforest Action Network, and the Ruckus Society
  • Mickey McCoy - Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

Housing

If you have indicated that you need local housing, our housing team will be in touch with you soon.  You can also search Couch Surfing for available housing in the Charlotte area.

Charlotte Area Hotels

Parking Availability in Uptown Charlotte

Name	Type and Fees	Address
Government Center	Parking Deck - Handicap Available; $4-10 a day	3rd & Davidson
4th Street Parking	Parking Deck - $4-10 a day	4th St. & S. McDowell St.
Blake Hotel	Parking Deck - $2 for first .5 hour; $1 for each additional hour; $10 max	555 S. McDowell St.
Crowne Plaza Hotel	Parking Deck - $6.00 a day	3rd St. & S. McDowell St.
Little Rock AME Zion Church	$5	7th St. & McDowell St.

Public Transportation

Bus and Vanpool

Lynx Light Rail

Lynx Blue Line Park and Ride Lots -- $1.50 each way -- Catch the Lynx at any one of these locations, head inbound and get off at the "3rd & Convention Center" Stop, and walk to Marshall Park.

Name	Parking Spaces	Address
Scaleybark Lot	3750	3750 South Blvd.
Woodlawn Lot	spaces available	4756 Old Pineville Rd.
Tyvola Lot	465	5703 Old Pineville Rd.
Archdale Lot	432	6230 South Blvd.

** Please note, the surface parking lot closest to Marshall Park (to the left, when facing the park from 3rd Street) is NOT public
parking and the Cliffside Climate Action organizers strongly recommend NOT parking there.

The Message

The Cliffside Climate Action will march to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Building and then on to Duke Energy Headquarters to deliver messages to NC Governor Beverly Perdue and Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers.  The focus is on opposition to coal and mountaintop removal and support for a new clean energy economy that will bring green jobs to North Carolina and to the rest of the country.  This will be a very well organized and peaceful march.  Following in the steps of the successful Capitol Climate Action in early March, we will present ourselves as a mainstream movement and we plan to "dress to impress" the public and the media.  All efforts at cooperation are being pursued between local police, civil authorities and the organizers of the Cliffside Climate Action.  A peaceful, solemn and moving event that will send a powerful message around the world is anticipated.

You do not have to risk arrest

Please take note that you do not have to risk arrest to be a part of the Cliffside Climate Action on April 20.  If you are willing to risk arrest during this action or are still unsure and would like to learn more, we ask that you plan to attend the Non-violent Civil Disobedience Training on Sunday, April 19.  You should also bring AT LEAST $100 in cash. Some people, including several celebrities, plan to risk arrest through acts of non-violent civil disobedience, in a symbolic act to show the depth of their commitment toward stopping Cliffside and beginning a new era of responsible energy policies in North Carolina, the United States and the world.

To ensure the safety of all participants, to encourage the broadest and most diverse involvement possible, and to respect the important issues and communities we are supporting, we ask everyone taking part in the Cliffside Climate Action to respect the following agreements:

• We will promote a tone of respect, honesty, transparency, and accountability in our actions.
• We will use no violence (physical or verbal) towards any person.
• We will not destroy or damage property.
• We will not carry anything that can be construed as a weapon, nor possess (or consume) any alcohol or drugs.
• We will all hold each other accountable to respecting these agreements.

Legal support will be organized for those in need who adhere to the above nonviolence agreement.