350 Climate Change Action Festival- Events for Change

Here is a link to an article in the Elkhart Truth about our event: http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?ID=496488

Saturday the 24th

9am- All trash created by Goshen College in 3 days is amassed in one spot on Campus. Volunteers sort through it and do a trash audit, and make refuse into a 350 sign. [The location for this is behind(east) of the Physical Plant]

12noon- Community Lunch with local food, food will be provided, but people are welcome to bring food as well. Do bring your own dishes if you can.
- Drum Circle
- Face painting
- Opportunites to call/write senators/reps
- Learn about 350
- Connect with local Environmental organizations (Reith Interpretive Center, Ecopax, Goshen Voluntary Gas Tax, Citizens Action Coalition, Chain Reaction, etc.. email alanask@goshen.edu or just show up with info if you want your organization to be involved)

[this will be in the Union Gym East on Goshen Campus ]

1:15pm
- Raffle, must be present to win. prizes include a bike, powerstrips, light bulbs, books, LED headlamp, Diva Cup, more.
-Campus bell will ring 350 times

1:30pm- Bike/walk from all over town to the courthouse with banners, signs and enthusiasm

2pm
At the Courthouse
- Acoustic music
- petitions circling
- Speaker
- Skit
- 350 photo

8pm- Environmental and Social Justice Coffee House in Newcomer 19.
Music, Poerty, etc.... cost $1, includes dessert.

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Earlier events:

Thursday the 22nd-

10-12:30 and 2-4pm- Call and write letters to senators and representatives. Each action gets you a raffle ticket for Fridays raffle.
Location: AD 21 (administration buliding, Goshen College campus)

Friday the 23rd-

1-5pm Call and write letters to senators and representatives. Each action gets you a raffle ticket for Fridays raffle.
Location: AD 21 (administration buliding, Goshen College campus)

4:15pm The Cost of Coal: The Bee Hive Collective
(whose mission statment is to cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools.)
http://beehivecollective.blogspot.com/
http://www.beehivecollective.org/