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<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Forwarded from UP email list...</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> --- Original Message ---</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Sent: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Subject: HELP! students need housing for climate change conference</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Steve Hill wrote:</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> There is a huge conference of student environmental activists</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> that will be taking place in College Park Nov. 2 through Nov. 5.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Its called Power Shift 2007 </FONT> <A HREF="http://powershift07.org"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> http://powershift07.org</FONT></A><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> "Youth from</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> across the country will convene in Washington, DC to change the</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> climate on global warming in the United States. Together, we will</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> create a shift in the fight for a clean and just energy future."</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> I [Steve Hill] am hoping that my neighbors can help me house a</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> few students [for a few days during this event].</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Laura ([Steve's] daughter who is a sophomore at Macalester</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> College in St. Paul MN) is responsible for recruiting and</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> coordinating the involvement of students from the Twin Cities</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> for this big event. She called me today to let me know that</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> they have secured the donation of two charter buses and she</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> will be bringing 80 students to this gathering.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> This started out as a request for me to house a couple of</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> students that she would fly out here with; then they realized</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> that they could bring more people for the same cost if they</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> drove, which then morphed into so many people driving that</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> environmentally it made more sense to charter a bus, to hey, </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> we got a donation of two buses and 80 of us are coming. </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Which is just a few more than I can house on my own.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Because she is my girl and I get so few opportunities to take</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> care of something for her (well, except for the tuition thing), </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> I told her not to worry and that I'd help find housing for</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> everyone.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> I have been assured that they don't need to be fed--they just</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> need floor space for sleeping. f you can house a few students,</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> please let me know. [contact info below]</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> If you have neighbors who might house a few students, please let</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> them know. If you have little mailing lists that might generate a</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> few volunteers, please consider sharing this with them.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> If people want to help house students from around the country,</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> they can also sign up from a link on</FONT> <A HREF="http://powershift07.org/"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> http://powershift07.org/</FONT></A></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> (that won't help me with my 80 from Minnesota, but it will help</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> other activists from around the country).</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Thanks. </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Steve</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Steve Hill</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Service Employees International Union</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> v: 202-730-7388</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> f: 202-350-6613</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> c: 202-255-6393</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> www.seiu.org</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> steve.hill@seiu.org</FONT></div>
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