FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 24, 2008

KPFA Radio to Broadcast the Largest Teach-In in US History

Over One Thousand Colleges to Participate in Global Warming Day

(Berkeley, CA - January 24, 2008) While the ice caps melt and the
government stalls, campus organizers are putting together the largest
teach-in in U.S. history – and KPFA Radio will broadcast the event from
the campus of San Francisco State University.

On January 30^th and 31^st, scholars, activists, and policymakers will
gather at SF State and over one thousand other colleges and universities
across the country to discuss the future of our planet. Expert speakers
will include Van Jones, Michael Glantz, and Dennis Martinez.

“Focus the Nation is the largest grassroots effort to date to energize
the country to take urgent action to address climate change,” says
teach-in organizer and San Francisco State professor Carlos Davidson.
“All that we lack to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is political will.”

KPFA Radio will broadcast the teach-in on Thursday, January 31^st from
10am to 6pm, anchored by Karolo Aparicio, Brian Edwards-Tiekert,
Michelle Chan-Fishell, Kris Welch, Davey D, and Nora Barrows-Friedman.

“Global warming presents the most important challenge that people have
ever faced,” says Aparicio, co-host of KPFA’s Terra Verde. “We stand at
the crossroads and have a choice between sustainability and renewable
energy or business as usual, sea levels, social upheaval, and mass
extinctions.”

For more information, go to www.kpfa.org <http://www.kpfa.org/> and
bss.sfsu.edu/envstudies/schedule.html.

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