CAN 350 CYCLISTS ALL
BE WRONG?

Healthy Planet March and Rally Spurs Cyclists to
Action

Cyclists in Salt Lake City will lead the pack this Saturday,
April
5th, at a march and rally to promote a healthy planet beginning
and
ending at the city government building, 451 South State Street.
Riders
will take to the streets at 12noon to call for peace, health care
and healthy
air.

Rocky Anderson, former Salt Lake mayor, is just one speaker slated
to
raise public awareness and support. The April 5th Healthy Planet
Rally
aims to spotlight three causes: ending the occupation in Iraq,
providing
universal single payer health care for all citizens and
reducing carbon
emissions to halt global warming.

Carbon emissions are exactly where the
350 cyclists come in. They
will represent the 350 parts per million of CO2
needed to create a
sustainable atmosphere. We are currently at 383 parts per
million.
Cyclists, walkers and one electric car will drive the message
home:
to protect our planet, we need to reduce CO2 emissions
now.

Saturday’s march will also launch Bill McKibben’s global
350
Campaign. Environmentalist and author McKibben, who spoke in Salt
Lake
City last month, encouraged local activists to round up 350
cyclists to kick
off the April 5th rally. Salt Lake will be the first
U.S. city to host a 350
event with our own CO2 cyclists.

The one o’clock rally, led by moderators
Troy Williams of KRCL and
Diana Lee Hirschi of the Salt Lake Quakers and
Nader for President,
features live music by Rich Wyman and Orion, speeches by
Green Party
activist Peter Miguel Camejo and Iraq War veteran Chris Conway.
Poets
Shea, Repo and Flora will join Rocky Anderson, along with
Barbara
Toomer from Disabled Rights Action Committee and Brian Moench
from
Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment.

Additionally,
soldiers’ combat boots representing each Utah military
casualty in Iraq will
be on display in the Eyes Wide Open: The Cost
of War exhibit. Dr. Martin
Luther King was assassinated forty years
ago, on April 4th, trying to end the
war in Viet Nam and secure
peace, justice and equality. The Healthy Planet
Rally honors his
memory by marching on April 5th to secure a healthy planet
with
healthy lives for all.

Cyclists, activists, families–add your
voice to the call for peace,
health care and healthy air. Come join Rocky and
the gang at the
Healthy Planet Rally, April 5 from noon till 2:30 at 451
South State
Street. For more information, go to http://agenda08.org