Meeting 2:30 pm 14 June with

Guest Melbourne Living Treasure

Comedian Rod Quantock!

Dear All

This is about an ONLINE meeting starting 2:30 pm on Sunday 14 June at zoom.us/j/7868786878. Simply go to your computer or smart phone and copy-paste or type zoom.us/j/7868786878 in the top window. If this is not satisfactory, you can use an ordinary phone by dialling 1800893423 or 0280156011 or 0370182005 or 0871501149, whichever is not busy, and quoting 7868786878 (78 68 78 68 78, three 78s and two 68s).

During the meeting, we introduce ourselves, tell of any good news, and long-time members explain to newcomers how Citizens' Climate Lobby advocacy for action on climate change complements protest demonstrations. We discuss plans for raising community awareness of actions that need to be taken to mitigate the looming climate catastrophe.

I am pleased to announce that we have a guest speaker. Rod Quantock, who will help us get our climate message across by making people laugh. There will be time for Q&A.

Rod is well known for his pioneering style of stand-up comedy, which is often politically driven. His television shows included Australia You're Standing In It, Back Berner and Good News Week. He has also conducted comedy bus tours to surprise locations to meet other people who had no idea of their coming; the intention, usually successful, was to give them the idea that the world is less frightening than they thought, and that you can have fun with strangers. Rod was a founding member on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival board.

We entertain, educate and support each other in raising public awareness about the seriousness and urgency of acting to find solutions to the climate disruption problem by

- proposing a brilliant method of pricing fossil fuels

- helping each other with writing letters to newspapers and to community leaders

- form well-thought-out strategies for meetings with community leaders, including politicians, especially to encourage consensus on the urgent need to stem carbon emissions.

Our meetings are interesting and enjoyable, even though the underlying motive is serious and the involvement of people at the "grass-roots" level has never been more important.

Hoping to see you there!

George Carrard

Co-Convenor, South Sydney Chapter, Citizens Climate Lobby Australia,