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MoveOn.org wants clean energy supporters to show up at 2:00pm on Friday, April 17th at Artur Davis’ Downtown Birmingham office to help deliver letters from small businesses about the importance of passing Obama’s clean energy jobs plan.

From their site:

Big corporations like Exxon Mobil and BP are making headlines opposing President Obama’s plan for a clean energy economy.1

But the behind-the-scenes truth is this: Millions of small businesses in every neighborhood support clean energy. They just haven’t had a way to be heard in Washington—until now.

On Friday, we’ll be delivering more than 15,000 letters of support for clean energy from small-business leaders to our members of Congress.

MoveOn volunteers have been pounding the pavement for weeks to collect these letters. Small businesses are such great messengers to tell Congress that clean energy will grow our economy, create more jobs, and lower electric bills.

These are simple, fun events. We’ll gather outside of the local congressional office where we’re delivering the letters, listen to a few remarks from local small-business leaders, and then go inside to deliver these letters. Having a good crowd is important to show our strength.

Good local jobs mean more money flowing into local businesses. And since those jobs can’t be shipped overseas, we can count on a thriving economy for a long time to come. We can’t afford not to invest in clean energy.

Can you join us on Friday, Apr. 17, 2009, at 2:00 PM in Birmingham to deliver letters from small businesses in support of Obama’s clean energy jobs plan?

Click Here to Sign Up!

Or just show up at 2:00pm to the office.
Birmingham City Center, 2 North 20th Street
Birmingham, AL 35203

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Lilly Ledbetter, a true hero of the people over corporations movement, with President Obama when he signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

The Over the Mountain Democrats are hosting an event at Samford University in Reid Chapel that will feature a conversation with Lilly Ledbetter, who singlehandedly led a ten year fight on equal pay for equal work, and Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, the only Democrat in our statewide appellate courts. It’s Thursday, March 26th at 6:15pm.

As always, more info on this and other events this week on the freeThinkBham Event Finder, including
-An Evening of West African Drumming at the Library
-Conversation with video-art pioneer Mary Lucier
-Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
-Conversation with the authors of the EatingAlabama.org blog
-Spring Bicycle Cleaning with Bici Coop (see below)

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The Cullman Timesreports that Sen. Richard Shelby was asked at a town meeting about the rumor of Obama’s citizenship. Here’s what he said.

Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate. You have to be born in America to be president.

According to the Associated Press, state officials in Hawaii checked health department records during the campaign and determined there was no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii.

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Alabama will receive more than $1 billion for education and $2 billion for programs ranging from home weatherization to aid for the homeless under the federal stimulus bill signed into law Tuesday, an analysis of the law indicates.

Read the Birmingham News article

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