Big Crowds at our final kick offs, an incredible week of activism:

What a week for clean, safe and affordable power in Vermont!

Monday night saw a gathering of 50 in Brattleboro. Members of CAN, Nuclear Free Vermont and VPIRG turned out for a kick off meeting on how to shut down Vermont Yankee and replace it with clean local power. Not only was attendance high, but folks got right into action: volunteering to call their elected representatives and tell them to support H.127 and it’s call for 80% clean power by 2018. You can make that call too through our online action center here.

We spent Tuesday night calling VPIRG members to invite them to Citizen Action Day, so many volunteers turned out that we ran out of phones here at VPIRG HQ and had to borrow one from our neighbors. Thanks to all who showed up to call, including our newest VPIRG employee Natalia Fajardo (say hi and welcome here). Great turnout lead to great results again and we are now at more than 150 RSVPs for the day and counting. Keep ‘em coming though, we won’t be happy until citizens outnumber legislators next Thursday. If you haven’t yet, consider taking a day off work to defend our environment, more info at http://www.vtactionday.org/.

Wednesday was more calling and a kick off event with the Sierra Club. VPIRG Energy Advocate James Moore packed the basement of the Norwich public library, where folks phoned in to Speaker Gaye Symington, House Natural Resources Chair Robert Dostis and more local legislators from the upper valley.

Finally, Thursday night was our cap-stone event in Burlington with Mayor Bob Kiss. A great big THANK YOU to the more than 100 Burlingtonians that packed city hall and joined our fight to stop global warming by investing in clean, safe and affordable power. Channel 3 (WCAX) and Channel 5 (WPTZ) sent camera crews to the event as well. If you missed the meeting, don’t get mad, get organized: join VPIRG’s email list and stay in touch about actions coming up in your area on global warming, health care and more….