This platform lays out our plans for ending this self-fulfilling prophecy of environmental degradation, urban decay, and traffic gridlock. According to Peterson, these chapters will lead to a higher level of grassroots involvement. These local chapters have night and weekend meetings to involve the broadest range of community advocates. As soon as the coalition's North Bay chapter is established we'll have an unprecedented reach for regional campaigns. In the long run, coalition leaders feel that they can only win with a extremely broad base of support.
Organizations can sign on at anytime.
Bring a group banner or your favorite sign to hang or hold and show the media, elected officials, and the public we think globally and act regionally. The current measure, which includes vital funds for AC Transit's operations, expires in 2002. A previous renewal attempt failed in 1998, in part due to environmental opposition over funding of wasteful highway and BART expansions. Expenditure Plan Steering Committee have spent months debating how to rewrite the spending plan. The Coalition has spear-headed an attempt to bring together opponents and supporters of the 1998 measure to negotiate a plan the voters will support.