Indianapolis Climate Action Network, as part of the nationwide Step-it-up effort, announced that it has organized a rally on Saturday, Nov 3 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm at Broad Ripple Park, located at 1550 Broad Ripple Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220.

The rally will address various aspects of and solutions to global warming by inviting speakers who will be talking about Green Job opportunities, reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050 and forcing no new coal plants without carbon capture and sequestration.

The goal of the rally is to raise awareness and educate the public about global warming and to reach out to a broad and diverse audience, because it will take all of us to reduce the impact of global warming. Local organizers state there will be musicians, DJs and speakers during the rally, including Nobel Prize winner Kevin Gurney, associate director of Purdue's Climate Change Research Center, who shares the award as one of the international climate scientists who played various roles in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Prize with Vice-President Al Gore. Also speaking will be both the Republican and Democratic candidates for Indianapolis City-County Council District 3.

The ICAN has organized this as part of a national event on November 3, 2007 to call for leadership on global warming. The event will build on Step It Up's April 14 rally that produced more than 1,400 events in 50 states, the largest global warming event in U.S. history.

The events across the country -- held one year before the 2008 election -- will show the contrast between the intense concern of ordinary Americans and the leadership vacuum in Washington, D.C. At some of the rallies, people will dip an index finger in green ink, a reminder that they plan to cast their vote next fall with global warming in mind.

"November 3 represents a new move towards political accountability," said author and national Step It Up spokesperson Bill McKibben. "So far it's been enough for politicians to say: I care. Now, one year out from a pivotal global warming election, it's time to see who's going to lead."

The November 3 rallies will be organized using the same decentralized Web 2.0 approach by a core team of committed youth in New Hampshire and hundreds of independent organizers across the country, including here in Indianapolis.

"We unlocked a pressure cooker of public concern for global warming in April by simply calling for local action," said Step It Up co-coordinator May Boeve. "The enormous participation across the country, by people from all walks of life, should be a wake-up call to politicians."

While Step It Up rallies issue a call for action from local communities, thousands of youth will gather at the University of Maryland at College Park, calling for change at the November 2-5 Powershift 2007 conference.

Participants in rallies will call for real leadership on global warming including these key priorities: (1) no new coal plants, (2) 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, and (3) 5 million new green jobs.

"Americans are demanding real solutions that will reduce carbon emissions and stop global warming before it is too late," said Step It Up co-coordinator Jamie Henn. "Many events will occur in historic places such as the Lincoln Memorial or on Paul Revere's route to symbolize the need for politicians to provide leadership on global warming."

"From melting ice caps to erratic weather, we already see the impact of global warming," McKibben added. "But while global warming presents our most pressing challenge, it also presents our most inspiring opportunity. As the first Step It Up event showed, Americans will unite across partisan, racial, economic and religious lines to pressure leaders to solve this crisis."

For more information, hit up these websites:

Indianapolis Climate Action Network www.indianapoliscan.net

Step It Up 2007 www.stepitup2007.org