MOVEON AGENDA FOR NATIONAL GREEN JOBS DAY

"We're in a pivotal moment on passing ground-breaking clean energy jobs legislation through congress. We need to quickly ramp up pressure on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which is writing the legislation now; and we need to begin organizing to place pressure on the Senate, so that conservative senators can't kill the legislation later. So in Energy & Commerce committee districts, we're organizing small-business district meetings by May 11th (Note: Frank Pallone, Jr., is the only representative in NJ on the committee and he represents the Sixth District of New Jersey which covers most of Middlesex County and a good portion of Monmouth County, including the Bayshore and 16 communities on the Atlantic Ocean. It also encompasses small portions of Somerset and Union counties). And all over the country, we're organizing a "Clean Energy Jobs Day" during the next congressional recess -- a national day of action to highlight clean-energy businesses and the local opportunity of the new energy economy."

"In the coming weeks, we have an important window of opportunity for our Power Up America campaign:

• The Energy and Commerce Committee, sometimes called the Waxman Committee, is debating a big, potentially economy-shifting and game-changing energy bill. We're hearing that this committee's bill is increasingly important -- so we need to quickly organize some extra pressure on ALL members of that committee.
• At the same time, we need to take our target-focused campaign to the next level, so that this big energy bill can't be watered-down and killed in the Senate.
  We know that the biggest obstacle to progress is fierce lobbying by pollution-based companies like Big Coal and Big Oil. To counter them, we need to continue to elevate the voices of small business owners, and look for ways to highlight clean energy businesses. So, we're planning two exciting tactics to rise to this pivotal moment:
• In House Energy & Commerce committee districts, we're organizing district meetings featuring small business owners. We need to move quickly on these, since the committee will begin voting on amendments to the legislation around May 11th. These meetings will include some media work -- a press conference outside the office, so that media can cover it and other members can come.
• And all over the country, we're organizing a Clean Energy Jobs Day -- a national day of action in late May (28th) to turn up the heat on Congress by showing the promise of the clean energy economy to our senators and representatives, the media, and the public. We'll highlight the clean energy jobs and businesses that already exist in our communities, and we'll showcase the ways in which they could expand. During the Jobs Day, each Council will organize a press conference at a clean energy business, and then lead a tour of a few other clean energy sites. They'll call on their senator or representative to support President Obama's plan for a new energy economy. To effectively plan for and build up to the Jobs Days, we'll hold an Organizing Meeting on May 2nd.
  
  IN BRIEF: We're organizing Clean Energy Jobs Days all over the country for late May. In House Energy & Commerce committee districts, we're also organizing small business district meetings with Congress. And there will be other additional tactics for councils that are really energized and want to do more.
  In all our organizing for the coming weeks, we're pivoting out of the small business outreach that we've been doing. It should be an exciting drive, and it's directly relevant to the political moment we're in."