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FYI on Concert to Combat Global Warming

This is an email I received  from Kalee Kreider, the CommunicationsDirector for Al & Tipper Gore. I have exchanged a few emails with her forsome info. I was looking for. It has some info that may interest some of you. (Iadded the highlight). I deleted the list of bands to shorten the post. If anyonewould like that info., leave a comment and I will email the list to you.

Hi all,
Below is the announcement I mentioned last week that was coming. Thought you
might have interest. Cheers, Kalee

STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 5 a.m. EDT April 10, 2007
CONTACT: Yusef K. Robb
(323) 384-1789 / press@liveearth.org

USA LIVE EARTH REVEALED
Tickets for the 7/7/07 Concert to Combat Global Warming Go On Sale 4/16

EDITORS: Video highlight package with B-roll of artists and concerts and
sound bites from Wall and Gore available. See satellite info below. Audio
release for radio also available. Contact Robb for MP3 file.

NEW YORK -- Organizers today announced sixteen of the headliners who will
perform at the U.S. leg of the 7-continent, 24-hour Live Earth concerts on
7/7/07.  The concert will be held at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, Live
Earth Founder and Executive Producer Kevin Wall said. Tickets for the show
go on sale Monday, April 16 at 10 a.m. EDT.

³Capping Live Earth with a blockbuster show like this will ensure we meet
our challenge of building a mass audience to combat global warming,² Wall
said.  ³Live Earth will be a monumental event both in terms ofentertainment
and in turning the tide against global warming.²

The global concert on 7/7/07 will begin in Sydney and continue across all 7
continents, concluding with the U.S. show.

³We hope the energy created by Live Earth will jump start a massive public
education effort,² Live Earth Co-Chair Vice President Al Gore said. ³Live
Earth will help us reach a tipping point that¹s needed to move corporations
and governments to take decisive action to solve the climate crisis.²

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 16 and will be available
at livenation.com/liveearth or by calling Ticketmaster at (212) 307-7171.
All ticket information is available at LiveEarth.MSN.com.  All proceedswill
go to The Alliance for Climate Protection and other international NGOs.

Live Earth is a monumental music event that will bring together more than 2
billion people to combat the climate crisis.  Live Earth¹s 24 hours ofmusic
across 7 continents will deliver a call to action and the solutions needed
to answer the call.  Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-yearcampaign
led by The Alliance for Climate Protection to move individuals, corporations
and governments to take action.

Exclusive online media partner MSN is helping Live Earth reach people in
every corner of the globe.  The concerts will be streamed live on 7/7/07 at
LiveEarth.MSN.com. MSN¹s 39 localized web portals worldwide attract 465
million monthly users.  The concerts will be broadcast on the NBC in the
U.S. and on more than 120 networks around the world.

Wall also announced that smart car, Stonyfield Farm and Pepsi have joined
Live Earth as corporate partners.  In addition to working with Live Earthto
create corporate efforts to combat global warming, this growing list of
partners will help ensure a mass audience for Live Earth is reached.  These
efforts will be detailed at a later date.

Wall also announced today that Live Earth will stage concerts at Sydney¹s
Aussie Stadium; Rio de Janeiro¹s Copacabana Beach; Johannesburg¹s Cradle of
Human Kind; Tokyo¹s Tokyo Stadium and the Shanghai, TBD.

Live Earth is produced by Control Room, of which Kevin Wall is the CEO.
Control Room has produced and distributed more than 60 concerts since its
founding in 2005 featuring Beyoncé, Madonna, Green Day and the Rolling
Stones, among others.
Satellite info: 4:00 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. EDT; 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. EDT;
1:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. EDT. Coordinates for all feeds: Galaxy 26 Transponder
24 (C-Band); Downlink Frequency: 4180 H; Audio Subcarriers: 6.2/6.8;
Playout/Uplink facility: Ascent Media 212.599.1391.

Kalee D. Kreider
Communications Director
Office of the Hon. Al Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore
2100 West End Avenue, Suite 620
Nashville, TN 37203
(615) 327-2227
(615) 327-1323

Tuesday Post Election Event at UW

WHERE: University of Washington, Room 309 of Parrington Hall
WHEN: Reception (free food and drinks) at 5:30 PM, and the event starts at 6 PM

Aside from being the author of this web site and a student at the University of Washington, I am also a Board Member of the Evergreen Chapter of ASPA -- American Society for Public Administration.  For the last few months, one of our committees has been working with the Evans School of Public Affairs to put on an event that will take place on Tuesday at the University of Washington.

Tuesday's Post Election Event will be an open discussion about the election last week.  Former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice will be the MC.  There will be a Republican panelist, a Democrat panelist and a few nonpartisan political analysts.  Audience members are encouraged to participate.

For those of you who are in the Seattle area and can make it to this event on Tuesday evening after work/school, we would welcome your attendance.  Whether you want to voice off on the election that was or just sit back and listen to the discussion, join us there.  There will be free food and drinks. 

The event will take place at Room 309 of Parrington Hall at the University of Washington.  They will start serving snacks and drinks and 5:30 PM, and the program will begin at 6 PM.  Again, we would encourage you to come if you could (heck, you could even meet me!).