sorry butchering your name associate director at the sierra club the on oil campaign thank you so much for joining us they are having me say your last name caller really hollow really think you ok so you were at this hearing today and from the reports that i read it got a little rowdy yes it certainly did and it was a perfect example of the american people versus big oil and big money there were over eight hundred people in the audience in the hearing room and a thousand outside at the rally at lunch and they came from every walk of life it was actually pretty inspiring to see farmers and ranchers and business people entrepreneurs' environmentalists just a huge swath of people that came to show their concern they were a lot of pipe fitters in the audience so it was sort of a mixed bag we had this huge raft of americans from all walks of life that came to say no and then a bunch of paid union supporters that would come to sit in the audience very few actually tough. they were paid either but that's not to say what you have that your country is divided in regards to this pipeline because

i'm the environment of justice and dignity director for the sierra club. we appreciate very much this opportunity testified on this important issue. i'm just here to simply state this pipeline as many of my colleagues and our friends from all over this semester said is not in a national interest, national interest. not only that, the analysis of the pipeline is terribly flawed. and the state department failed to conduct an environmental justice analysis of the eis. and understand that president clinton was resolute in his executive order, and still serve as the guiding principles of our federal agencies should conduct their actions further environmental justice. india company memorandum for heads of the federal agencies, he emphasizes a part of every analysis, federal agencies must analyze the environment affects include human health, economic and social effects and including effects on minority populations and low-income population. echoing his executive order the council environment equalities guidance also states plenty of the process must include an an

the sierra club and ever one pond 4 million members and supporters do not believe the keystone xl tar sands pipeline is an initial interest. working in an incredibly diverse and a broad coalition of groups across the could united states in canada we have reviewed the final in frear metal assessment conducted by the state department. we've looked into transcanada's record and listen to thousands of community members, farmers and ranchers from across the midwest and texas all to come to the same conclusion time and time again that the tar sands pipeline is a bad deal for america. the purpose of the pipeline is to deliver profits for foreign oil company transcanada. evin canadians have rejected the pipeline project citing the massive environmental and public health risk that it poses. but transcanada is asking u.s. ranchers, farmers and landowners to shoulder the burden so they can pump their dirty tar sands through the heartland. it is simply not in our national interest to ask american land owners and business owners to forfeit their property to a foreign company while bearing the risk

the sierra club has endorsed my candidacy. i have worked hard to protect and expand health care, which is why nurses have endorsed me. one of the other things that is important in my candidacy, i will be 100% independent of power brokers. i, with all of the experience and discussions i have had with you, have come up with five policy booklets. it allows you to hold me accountable. over 130 propositions on how to improve sentences go. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] >> thank you for your brief opening statements. you will get a chance to expand on everything you want to talk about tonight. right now, we will proceed with journalists. then we will ask questions to the candidates of their choice. that means that not everyone will be called on. i will call all the journalists in alphabetical order. after that they will initiate, maybe, a lightning round to all candidates that may consist of yes or no answers, horror hoorays hands. candidates will have one minute to answer each question. >> thank you, sheriff. great to b

the sierra club calls on the department of state to take another look at the proposed pipeline.s time, doing it without the trans canada contractors and lobbyists in the rule protect honest look at the impact, but that the science and record and listen to the will of the american people. the national interest will be clear. say no to the pipeline. [cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, while we appreciate that you appreciate the comments made by the various different speakers, long rounds of applause take time away from listening to those comments. please hold that down. next i like to call ms. daniel .le sims, >> i was born in 1988, the same year that nasa scientists gave testimony on climate change. how was too young to remember the exxon valdez, too young to understand the frustration with an added states did not practice protocol. from my life i've seen the largest and most destructive hurricanes in history, living to the hottest years and the planet, he -- on the planet. clearly the united states needs to lead. many in my community that are affected by oil pipelines

. >> most people including the sierra club want to remove the native trees in the brush however a small are holding it up and a lawsuit is slowing them down and they are working their way through the courts to try to resolve this matter. >> there will be a ktvu channel 2 news program coming up following our news report. >>> and wall street protesters have been camped out for ten days now and she is out there telling us about the concerns about the conditions out there, here is more. >> reporter: we have been talking to folks all morning long and i can tell you it is a fairly tense situation and we have had the people involved in this occupied oakland and we are staying a little further back, we do not want anybody to walk through this encampment and we have had several people come up to us to talk about the good things they say going on and in the back we have a kitchen set up in areas where they say they are feeding the homeless and there is a lot of quote humanity within this encampment as you said ten days in, however there are also people who don't want us here and that has created

the sierra club and greenpeace and the rainforest action network along with local organizations have this successful anti coal campaign involved in an array of tactics from lobbying and mobilization to suing companies to direct action sit ins on smokestacks and mountaintops that will be blown up for mining coal. this is succeeded in closing over 100 coal plants that were scheduled to be built. if action like that can get more publicity that will hopefully educate people. it is important that education happen while addressing problem directly. in terms of how to educate people, if i had a special set of tactics i would have written a book about it but i don't really know what to do other than the kinds of things that are being done already. i don't have a special angle on how to deal with it. >> i came up with a term that may help. a circle with a stop sign with the letter c3 meaning stop catastrophic climate change. you are welcome to borrow it. >> i have been involved in the movement against mountaintop removal mining. coal is the number-1 source of greenhouse gases. there is a sour

we reported the sierra club actually complained n about this company accusing the company of illegallyumping toxic waste into the permanente creek which is right here in the area. so again a very fluid situation. as we continue to get details we'll pass them on to you. back to you. >> stephanie, i was goingask you, we hear about the quarry andciment plant. do they mine the rock out of the quarry and bring it into the plant? >> reporter: that's still unclear. the cement plant is a mile in and there are several quarries in the area so we don't know the perimeter of where they are searching. again, details very fluid at this point. >> stephanie, from your vantage point you mentioned this was possibly an employee meeting. are they keeping people from going in? i imagine employees are arriving trying to figure out what's happening right now? >> reporter: absolutely. there are dozens of people standing by here. we just spoke not that long ago to someone who works at the cement plant and he said actually he doesn't even know if there was a workplace meeting because that company is so big, the

and the sierra club said the panama agreement has the same agreements that allow foreign investors and corporations to directly challenge public interest laws for compensation before international tribunals bypassing domestic courts. in other words, the rule of law gets shredded piece by piece by piece. as the building and construction trades at the afl-cio noted, the panama agreement, quote, undermines the buy america policies that re-invest in our communities. you know, it's really sad when an institution and an administration keeps doing the same thing over and over and over again that is hollowing out the jobs in the united states of america. we want to make it in america, we don't want to outsource more jobs, provide more escapes. and when you represent the people of ohio, and every time you keep 100 jobs, they snatch away 300 and they say to the workers, you earning too much money, $14, you are going down to $9, you don't like that? there are 7,000 workers lined up for a part-time job. this congress better wake up and renegotiate these trade deals have cost the middle class acros

. >> or sierra club. a lot of money flying around. >> where the rubber hits the road right now, until we get money out of politics, is their votes. at some point, whatever the super committee decides, the congress has to vote on. it's our responsibility to go and see, how did our member vote, what kind of money did they take, and you have to hold that person accountable if they don't -- i know that seems paltry, but it's -- >> you're correct, there's nothing incorrect about that. i guess what's frustrating -- what's frustrating though, and that's honorable, and we appreciate that, we're looking for something. but what's frustrating about that, i think, susan, is that people are -- it's very apparent that the two options, if you will, chocolate or vanilla, strawberry or raspberry, whatever it is, for a country that understands a lot of choice and understands and sort of admires a lot of choice, we have 50,000 paint colors, 50,000 kinds of fabric, 50,000 kinds of house, 50,000 kinds of cars, we have two cho

arm of the sierra club and i'm proud to join and represent the over 40,000 members and supporters ofthe sierra student coalition when i say that we are probably opposed to the keystone xl pipeline. [applause] >> the transit workers union and various other mayors dying in the nobel peace laureates when i say that we are again opposed to the keystone xl pipeline. [applause] in here to submit testimony based on three key points the pipeline is not the answer for american jobs the pipeline will create energy security for the united states and any life lost to the oil industry is one life to many. to my first point the pipeline will according to the cornell university global labor instead of only three of around 6,000 jobs. the claims about transcanada and the legal industry cannot be substantiated. it's easy to hire scientists and all the interim one about facts that you create these jobs cannot be substantiated by real studies. based on the study cornell found barely 6,000 jobs would be created and also any joe is better than no job, none of us are against jobs, the reality is, the stat

i may committee chair for the sierra club and i chair a national campaign defending water for life for democracy. i'm not here today to argue about psi pressure or parts per million. i'm not here today to say move the pipeline one mile in one direction or the other. i'm not here to say that the inspectors along the pipeline every 10 miles or every one mile. i'm here today to speak for my godsend, farm my grandson, for malia, sasha and chelsea. and so i will read to you part of what my godsend's mother wrote after being arrested in front of the white house protesting the pipeline a few days before i, too, was arrested. she said as i stood before the white house gate listening to the police issue their warnings of our impending arrest, to our group of over 100 demonstrators, i thought i would say as they carded me away, what crime? i wanted the president to hear. and i recalled the day obama stood before the american people in those days and months, as bps deepwater well spilled millions barrels of oil into the gulf of mexico. i remember him remarking that yes, he was concerned about thi

been in the business of producing nrning and you got folks speaking that is being endorsed by the sierra club. mr. speaker, this is what the american public is asking for. they are asking for us to get together, use our knowledge, collect information, use that data, come up with a plan that will do the things you've heard talked about here. the very premise of this is just so simple. this land is your land. the idea that the richest of this land in the natural resource -- and the natural resources, if we use them wisely, if we take those resources and reinvest we can outinnovate, outmoving product to market. we can do that and have the grand -- the natural park system that we have in this country, we can have it both ways if we're smart. but it needs to start here. it needs to start with a plan. it makes no sense to anyone i talk to in the plains of southern minnesota that we're spending over $1 billion a day and sending it to countries that hate us. they will hate us for free. we can keep the money at home, reinvest in the infrastructure, make sure the outdated locks and dams on the mississi

[applause] >> i am with the sierra club. we have 1.4 million grass-roots at -- advocates who believe we need progress, not pollution. that is why we are part of the american dream movement. >> i am with campus progress. we work with young people across the country to work on the issues that can help representative -- bill the american dream movement. >> i am executive director of progressive majority. we run, train, and coach towson so progressives to run for office in every level of government. we are all proud to be part of the american dream movement. >> i am marge baker with people for the american way, representing hundreds of thousands of activists across the country, dedicated to fighting the radical right in the corporate right. we are working every day to confirm federal judges to have a deep and abiding respect for the entire constitution, and we are proud partners in the american dream movement. >> i am charles young, representing the hip-hop culture. represent over 700,000 young people, celebrities, artists acros

knew to be in seven points at the top of the still this is the rival jessica sierra three months ago while the dagestan club stick to. now over in england chelsea was going to spot with a five point triumph the bottom side bolton frank lampard with a hat trick while andy johnson also scored a hat trick is full and trash q.p.r. six will preserve their unbeaten run but the two know when i have a steak while harry redknapp praised his side for that see one victory over blow gunners boss aston bang at the top and. should not have been allowed. you know we're having a good day week because big chances of winning which is which is good we've got a problem first of the way they played you know we we played with two midfield players i played with a player one up and two wide and they obviously had position in midfield because at the extra man in there so it was difficult i need a change of john to be honest you know we come in one new up but i was still wasn't didn't feel comfortable with the way we were going. to be contradicted the moment i just want to. protect too much of the result when you have one. and. frus

move to be in seven points at the top of the still m b this is the rival jessica sierra three months ago while the dagestan club stick to. so i bringing in chelsea was going to spot with a five point triumph report inside bolton frank lampard with patrick while andy johnson also scored a hat trick is full and fresh q.p.r. six nil i suppose they preserve their unbeaten highly run but the two know when overstaying hi greg knapp praised his side for that c one victory over blog on the spot ask him very well tom and first band about should not have been allowed. it will make you know we have a good. chance of winning which is which is good we've got a problem first of all the way they played you know we we played with two midfield players i played with a player one up and two white and male wish we had position in midfield because i get tremendous service difficult only change of john to be honest you know becoming one new up there i was still wasn't i still didn't feel comfortable with the way we were going to from. the moment i just want. to keep to much of the result. frustrating as well because the first goal.

it begins in 1879 with john mover, co-founder of the sierra club, going up and seeing those incredibleglaciers up the inside passage of alaska and writing about it and how a whole group of what i call, really, wilderness lawyers have worked to safe wild alaska including theodore roosevelt and people like walt disney, william o. douglas, on and on. so i'm now working on "silent spring revolution." in the 1960s. this is not just a history book. i end it in 1960 when eisenhower saved the arctic refuge, anwr that you hear about in the news all the time. >> well, this really is a story about personalities, and let's talk about some of them. let's begin with president teddy roosevelt. his involvement in alaska. >> well, t.r. saved the whole grid of modern alaska. today we have an alaska marry time national wildlife area, the aleutian change -- chain. he stopped the timbering and created on the gas national forest, these incredible resources and places like the yukon delta bird reserve. and t.r. created it with federal, um, federal orders, executive orders. roosevelt saw that democracy had to

but american rivers is one, the sierra club, nrdc, and so on and so forth but actually, i think we haveo be supporting groups, the federal government groups such as the u.s. geological survey in the umar mental protection agency because these are the guys who have the mandate to provide water and monitor water and to build water infrastructure. so with -- what that requires is for you to use your vote in your voice. when michele bachmann says the epa is a job-killing agency, tell her no. it is actually a job creation agency. this country is in dire need of infrastructure work particularly in its water infrastructure. there's there is a huge opportunity there. let's apply yourselves. >> at the global level, 65% of the water, surface water is used for agricultural irrigation and in many parts of the world, there is an intersection of water scarcity, food scarcity, high population growth and poverty. do you get into that or do you want to comment on how we use water for agriculture? >> i did get into that. agricultural in this country and globally is the greatest user of water. and yes, we

club war. >>> for some reason it is all re hush hush. >> that's because there is a secret. >>> u.s. rangers are in the sierra foothills.ight, the secret that will soon be revealed. >> good evening, i'm ken bastida. >>> i'm dana king. tonight this, even protestors in egypt that overthrough a dictator are now rallying in support of occupy oakland. >> not just the egyptians. robert lyles on the well known liberal who says mayor quan should probably go. >> reporter: he has taken on both president's clinton and bush and now michael moore is taking on mayor gene quan. he is staying right here in the bay air until he gets a sitdown with the mayor who militarized. >> occupy oakland. >> reporter: michael moore turned the mic into a syringe injecting some protestors with hope. >> he is very inspirational. everything he said had a lot of truth. >> he spoke from everybody's heart. >> another white savior coming to save the day. >> no more useful or intelligent than any other individual personally. >> reporter: they gathered to hear his message as the world watched tear gas land on demonstrators on tuesday night. moore calls it a w