The University of Iowa Presents:
Energy Expo 2006
September 27, 2006  -  9:00am-6:00pm

FEATURED GUEST SPEAKER

Ted Glick
   - U.S. Climate Emergency Council
   - Climate Crisis Coalition


Come and experience Ted Glick in person as he speaks about the depth and urgency of the global climate crisis. He will provide an update of emerging global conditions. Ted will address what is currently being done, and the specific things each of us can do to help reduce our impact on the environment. His message is one of hope.

Ted Glick has devoted 38 years of his life to the
progressive social change movement. For the last two years Ted has played a national leadership role in the effort to stabilize our climate and for a clean energy revolution. He was a co-founder in 2004 of the Climate Crisis Coalition and in 2005 coordinated the USA Join the World effort leading up to December 3rd actions during the United Nations Climate Change conference in Montreal. 70 organizations endorsed this effort, and there were 40 local actions around the United States. He was on the core committee for the massive April 29th March for Peace, Justice and Democracy in NYC which included the climate crisis as one of its major issues. In May he became the National Coordinator of the U.S.Climate Emergency Council.

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

 


Ted Glick and Reverend Lennox Yearwood of the Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign at a Remember Katrina/Stop Global Warming Rally.

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

His prolific writing on the movement to which he devotes his life includes his 2000 book, Future Hope: A Winning Strategy for a Just Society, and his column, "Future Hope," which has been distributed nationally for six and a half years.


Ted will be addressing the Global Warming Educational Rally
at 5:00pm on The University of Iowa Pentacrest.

 

Energy Expo 2006


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