UPDATE: We blew through the 50,000 hour goal within 10 minutes! New goal is 100,000 hours!
Yesterday 12,000 people completely surrounded the White House and demanded President Obama reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
The fight for a clean energy future is a fight between special interests and people power. What we saw yesterday was an incredible demonstration on the side of people power — and now we have to build on it.
<p style="text-align: center;><strong><a data-cke-saved-href=" http:="" www.wearepowershift.org="" pledge"="" href="http://www.wearepowershift.org/pledge">Show our People Power: Pledge to stand up to Big Polluters & stop Keystone XL</p><p>Yesterday was also exactly one year out from Election Day 2012, and with President Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline pending, we have to show him young people are ready to get to work for a clean energy economy.<img data-cke-saved-src="/sites/all/modules/contrib/wysiwyg/plugins/break/images/spacer.gif" src="/sites/all/modules/contrib/wysiwyg/plugins/break/images/spacer.gif" alt="<--break->" title="<--break-->" class="wysiwyg-break drupal-content"></p><p><strong>That’s why we’re asking you to make a commitment for the next year.</strong> Between now and November 2012, we’re going to spend hundreds of thousands of hours standing up to Big Polluters. Let’s show our people power by adding up those hours right now.</p><p><strong><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.wearepowershift.org/pledge" href="http://www.wearepowershift.org/pledge">Sign the People Power 2012 pledge!</a></strong></p><p>Imagine what it will look like when thousands of us put our commitments on the table. What if thousands of us reached out to our friends and asked them to join us in pledging?</p><p><strong>We’ve set a goal of 50,000 hours pledged between now and next November.</strong> This demonstration of People Power will show President Obama that we’re committed to standing up to big polluters, and that he should join us as we roll up our sleeves and commit to working for a clean energy future.</p><p><em>Photo Credit: Christine Irvine</em></p><p></p>