Step It Up 2 Clear Skies/Climate Change schedule of speakers

National Day of Climate Action
“Clear Skies, Climate Change” rally

November 3, 2007
4:00 – 5:30 PM
New Canaan Town Hall Steps
(In case of rain, meet in front of Town Hall, at 4 p.m.move to Outback Teen Center behind Town Hall)

4:00 Lily Gruver, Vice President of New Canaan Environmental Group
Welcome/Schedule
Group photo on Steps of Town Hall

4:02 Richard Stowe, President of New Canaan Environmental Group
Opening Remarks

4:10 Toni Boucher, State Representative, 143rd District - Comments
4:20 William Tong, State Representative, 147th District - Comments

4:30 Judith Freedman, State Senate, 26th District - Comments

4:35 Heather Wolf, OurAirspace.org, Pound Ridge, NY
FAA Redesign facts and fallacies; Q&A

4:45 Paul Giusti, Selectman of New Canaan
Advisory Committee on Airport Noise/ Comments

4:50 Judy Neville, First Selectman of New Canaan
Alliance For Sensible Airspace Planning FAA Update

5:00 Christopher Shays, U.S. Congressman, Connecticut’s 4th District
Global Warming & FAA Redesign and Q&A

Congressman Shays Headlines Step It Up 2: Who’s the Leader? National Day of Climate Action rally at New Canaan Town Hall tomorrow 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Congressman Shays Headlines Step It Up 2: Who’s the Leader?
Clear Skies (FAA) and Climate Change Rally

The New Canaan Environmental Group is holding a Step It Up 2: Who's A Leader? November 3rd National Day for Climate Change Rally on the steps of New Canaan Town Hall this Saturday November 3, 2007 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., rain or shine.

Who: New Canaan Environmental Group
What: Step It Up 2: Clear Skies and Climate Change Rally
Where: Town Hall steps, 77 Main Street, New Canaan
Date: Saturday November 3, 2007
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Contact: Richard Stowe at 594-9097, or ncenvironmentalpolitics@yahoo.com
For more information, visit: http://stepitupnewcanaan.blogspot.com/

The November 3rd "Clear Skies, Climate Change" rally in front of Town Hall coincides with the State of Connecticut's decision announced yesterday,
November 1st, at New Canaan Town Hall to take legal action against the FAA's September 5th Record of Decision on its Airspace Plan.

The rally will address airspace plan challenge and challenges we face in crafting and passing quality veto-proof climate change (global warming) legislation.

Congressman Christopher Shays, the keynote speaker, will address the crowd at 5 p.m. Other speakers include State Representative William Tong, State Representative Toni Boucher, State Representative John Hetherington, New Canaan Selectman Paul Giusti, New Canaan First Selectman Judy Neville,
Heather Wolf (Our Airspace). Check http://stepitupnewcanaan.blogspot.com for further updates on Saturday’s rally.

Press Conference at Town Hall in New Canaan earlier today

Today I attended a 10 a.m. press conference in New Canaan, in which Governor M. Jodi Rell and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that the State of Connecticut were filing suit to halt the implementation of the FAA's "unlawful" flight plan.

They were joined by First Selectman Judy Neville, who announced that the Alliance for Sensible Airspace Planning, a consortium of 11 towns and cities were filing suit in the 2nd District Court in New York. Absent was Congressman Christopher Shays, whose Chief of Staff, Paul Pimental, read a statement on behalf of Connecticut's 4th District Congressman.

During the question period that followed I declared that "we will prevail" over the FAA and announced that Congressman Shays will address the public directly at the Saturday November 3rd Step It Up: Who's the Leader? rally in front of Town Hall in New Canaan. Congressman Shays will address both climate change challenges we face and the next steps in terms of lobbying Congress to create a more sensible transportation policy that offers a genuine competitive and sustainable travel modes to climate change-inducing air travel. Its our increasing dependency on air travel that creates our crowded skies. The details of the rally are below.

Who: New Canaan Environmental Group
What: Step It Up 2: Clear Skies and Climate Change Rally
Where: Town Hall steps, 77 Main Street, New Canaan
Date: Saturday November 3, 2007
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Contact: Richard Stowe at 594-9097, or ncenvironmentalpolitics@yahoo.com
For more information, visit: http://stepitupnewcanaan.blogspot.com/

The New Canaan Environmental Group is holding a local Step It Up 2: Who's A Leader? November 3rd National
Day for Action rally on the steps of New Canaan Town Hall this Saturday November 3, 2007 from 4 to 5:30
p.m., rain or shine.

The November 3rd "Clear Skies, Climate Change" rally in front of Town Hall coincides with the State of
Connecticut's decision announced earlier today, November 1st, at New Canaan Town Hall to take legal
action against the FAA's September 5th Record of Decision on its Airspace Plan.

The rally will address airspace plan challenge and challenges we face in crafting and passing quality
veto-proof climate change (global warming) legislation.

Congressman Christopher Shays, the keynote speaker, will address the crowd at 5 p.m. Other speakers
include New Canaan First Selectman Judy Neville, New Canaan Selectman Paul Giusti, State Representative
John Hetherington, State Representative William Tong, Heather Wolf (Our Airspace http://ourairspace.org).

Check back here on the Step It Up New Canaan site for further updates.