Local campaigning
With the success of the demonstration at the Hunter Cabinet meeting on 8 April 2009 by the Save the Williams River Coalition, and the next Cabinet meeting in the Hunter scheduled for May 28, we must keep up the campaigning, general discussion and letter writing to newspapers and politicians.
Brian is having success using the Hunter storage simulation graph to quickly convince people that there is no need for the dam and that therefore the water stored at Tillegra would ultimately be sold for other purposes – power generation, water intensive industry and use by other water authorities such as Central Coast or Sydney. This is motivating locals to make a stand. We should all try to sign up at least 10 new members and ask them to do 3 things:
1. Write letters to a range of people we identify as the most important including all local councillors and members of parliament
2. Turn up to the rally on Thursday 28 May for the next Community Cabinet meeting in Newcastle or Warners Bay
3. Sign up 10 of their friends to do the same three things.
Don’t forget Wednesdays 4:30pm at the office for tea, chat and campaign management.