From SF Gate

Bush sets California schedule
Following up on our story today about the trip of President Bush to California next week, here's the detailed schedule for the president, straight from White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's morning briefing:
*On Friday, April 21, Bush will travel to San Jose, where he'll participate in a panel on the American Competitiveness Initiative. He'll overnight in St. Helena on Friday.
*On Saturday, the president will tour a California Fuel Cell partnership in West Sacramento. He'll make remarks on advanced transportation technology in West Sacramento, and then fly to Palm Springs for a fund-raising reception for the Republican National Committee. Bush will spend the night in Rancho Mirage.
*On Sunday, the president will attend a church service, have lunch with Marine Corps and Navy families and attend a Marine Corps training exercise, all in Twentynine Palms. He'll spend a second night in Rancho Mirage.
The times on all the events won't be announced until next week. As always, the president's schedule could change, with events added or moved.

Source:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=4322

And:
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CA: Bush to visit area base, GOP fundraiser (Twentynine Palms and Coachella Valley)
Riverside Press-Enterprise ^ | 4/15/06 | David Olson

President Bush will visit the Coachella Valley and the Twentynine Palms Marine base next weekend.

Bush will attend a Republican National Committee fundraiser at the Toscana Country Club in Indian Wells on April 22. Tickets to the dinner cost $25,000, said Palm Desert Mayor Jim Ferguson, a longtime Republican activist who received an invitation but is not attending.

Bush will spend the nights of April 22 and April 23 in Rancho Mirage, said Alex Conant, a White House spokesman. However, the White House is not yet divulging where in Rancho Mirage the president will stay, he said.

On April 23, Bush will attend church services at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms before having lunch with Marine and Navy families, Conant said.

The president will then observe training exercises that Marines participate in before deployment to Iraq, said Capt. Chad Walton, spokesman for the base. The exercises include training in a simulated Iraqi town, mock attacks on military convoys and live-fire practice with pop-up targets, Walton said.

On Monday and Wednesday, about 160 Marines and Navy sailors are scheduled to return to Twentynine Palms from Iraq after seven months of deployment, said Sgt. Christopher Cox. He added he does not know whether the president plans to meet with the Marines and sailors.

Bush is scheduled to return to Washington on April 24. The White House itinerary said events prior to his return to the White House that day are still to be determined.

This will be the president's second Inland visit in the past eight months. In August, Bush visited a Rancho Cucamonga senior center to discuss changes in the Medicare program.

In October 2003, he visited Riverside and San Bernardino, and he campaigned in Riverside in 1999 for the GOP primary. In May 2000, Bush campaigned in Palm Springs and attended a fundraiser in Rancho Mirage.

Before arriving in the Inland area next week, Bush will travel to Northern California. He will arrive in San Jose on Friday to attend a panel on the American Competitiveness Initiative at Cisco Systems Inc., and will spend Friday night in St. Helena.

On April 22, Bush will tour The California Fuel Cell Partnership in West Sacramento before flying to the desert. Gov. Schwarzenegger hopes to meet with Bush during his California visit, although a time and location have not been set, said Margita Thompson, the governor's press secretary.

Source:

http://www.pe.com/sharedcontent/registration/register.jsp;jsessionid=aeAwrEpXFALa

The local chapters of the larger national organizations opposed to the Bush Regime are NOT planning to mobilize for this. So its up to local and the smaller grassroots groups to organize.

GW Bush has scheduled a stop at the California Fuel Cell Partnership in West Sacramento on Earth Day, 4/22 to pay lip service to alternative energy. More hot air babbling from the Resident in Chief, let's tell the Oilygarch in Chief that California won't stand for more lies and deceit from the Bush regime!!



this from Davis Enterprise;

"Bush to visit Yolo County

By Sharon Stello/Enterprise staff writer
President Bush will visit the California Fuel Cell Partnership in West Sacramento on Saturday, April 22, as part of a whirlwind three-day trip to California.

White House spokesman Alex Conant said Bush will arrive in San Jose next Friday, where he will participate in a panel discussion on the American Competitiveness Initiative, a strategy that would increase federal funding in critical research areas to encourage innovation and strengthen the nation’s ability to compete in the global economy.

The president announced this initiative in his State of the Union address in January.

Bush will spend Friday night in St. Helena and, the next day, he will travel to West Sacramento to participate in a tour of the Fuel Cell Partnership and make remarks on advanced transportation technology. No further details were available today about this portion of his trip.

Later Saturday, Bush is off to a fund-raising reception for the Republican National Committee in Palm Springs, spending Saturday night in Rancho Mirage.

On Sunday, after attending church, the president will have lunch with Navy and Marine Corps families, attend a Marine Corps training exercise in Twentynine Palms and spend a second night in Rancho Mirage.

His trip marks the first time a sitting president has visited Yolo County since former President Bill Clinton came to the area. In November 1997, Clinton spoke at the dedication of the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, just outside Davis. In November 2002, Clinton came to UC Davis to give a talk at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

Chris White, spokeswoman for the California Fuel Cell Partnership, declined to comment about Bush’s upcoming visit, referring all questions to the White House press office.

The partnership is a collaborative of auto manufacturers, energy companies, fuel cell technology companies and government agencies working together to advance a new vehicle technology that’s better for the environment, but at the same time practical and affordable. The goal is to increase energy efficiency, and reduce or eliminate air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

A representative from the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies said today the agency is a part of the California Fuel Cell Partnership, but there are no plans yet for university involvement with the president’s visit.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes to talk with the president while he’s in the region although no meeting has been scheduled yet, Margita Thompson, a spokeswoman in the governor’s office, said this morning.

“The governor is pleased that the president is coming out to California and he looks forward to talking with him about the issues that are critical to California,” Thompson said.

She said the governor would like to bring attention to the state’s need for federal assistance with improving levees. This includes not only monetary help but expediting the permit process to allow the state to quickly begin work to shore up the levees.

“The continuous rain is certainly a constant reminder of the urgency of our levees,” Thompson said.

She added that the issue of immigration could also come up if the governor meets with the president. She said Schwarzenegger is pleased that Congress is talking about immigration and hopes legislators will continue working on the issue.

Thomson said the governor believes “a balanced approach” is needed and that enforcing the country’s borders for safety reasons should be a primary focus, but he also supports a guest worker program.

— Reach Sharon Stello at sstello@davisenterprise.net or 747-8043.

Friday, April 14, 2006"

http://www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2006/04/14/news/261new0.txt

also west sac news;

http://www.topix.net/city/west-sacramento-ca


California Fuel Cell Partnership
3300 Industrial Blvd. Suite 1000
West Sacramento, CA 95691

directions from Business 80 (or West Sacramento Blvd.);
turn south onto Harbor, head towards Port of Sacramento, turn right off Harbor onto Industrial Blvd.

(916) 371-2870

fax

(916) 375-2008

Talk about greenwashing, on Earth Day (4/22) the Oiligarch in Chief going to visit a fuel cell research station to pay more lip service to alternative energy? Let's show up at this location (time unannounced) in West Sac on Saturday and let GW Bush know that the people of California are sick of smog and escalating oil wars. We demand action to make alternative energy available to everyone, not just more nonsense talking from the Petroleum Puppetmaster..

http://www.fuelcellpartnership.org/

The fuel cell partnership in West Sac consists of Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, General Motors, Toyota, Honda, VW, etc.. basically the largest auto manufacturing corporations of the G8 nations attempting to monopolize the hydrogen fuel cells for their continued profit following decades of their petroleum combusting engine monopoly. Fuel cells on public transit are again at the whims of the Big 3 auto corporations..

original article @;

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/04/1815891.php

Jeremy Rifkin, author of "The Hydrogen Economy" and part organizer of the Green Hydrogen Coalition, warns us about the Bush/Cheney regime's plans of hijacking the people's hydrogen future in an attempt to monopolize this resource for corporate profit. The Bush/Cheney IPHE plan for hydrogen extraction and storage depends on coal, nuclear and petroleum, resulting in the same pollution and resource wars as before. The Green Hydrogen Coalition suggests other options for hydrogen extraction, locally controlled and environmentally sustainable (wind energy, solar, small scale hydroelectric, waves, biomass, etc..). Will hydrogen be an eco-friendly affordable community assett, or will hydrogen be controlled by heirarchal corporations for profit, harnessed by ecologically destructive methods and a luxury of the wealthy??

from the statement of the Green Hydrogen Coalition;

found @;

http://www.foet.org/GreenHydrogenCoalition.htm

"Environmental, consumer, and public policy organizations to challenge President Bush’s launch of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE).

The Green Hydrogen Coalition accuses the Bush administration of attempting to hijack America’s hydrogen future to promote the interests of the coal, oil, gas, and nuclear industries.

The Green Hydrogen Coalition calls for greater reliance on renewable sources of energy to extract hydrogen and vows to bring the issue of black versus green hydrogen into the national debate over America’s energy future.



WASHINGTON, DC—November 10, 2003—A coalition of the nation’s environmental consumer, and public policy organizations, including Friends of the Earth, The Foundation on Economic Trends, Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, Greenpeace, the League of Conservation Voters, MoveOn.org, Public Citizen, the Sierra Club, and the US Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), announced today a public education campaign to challenge the upcoming launch of President Bush’s International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE). The White House will host a meeting of energy ministers from around the world on November 19-21, in Washington, D.C., to sign a landmark agreement to share research and development on hydrogen related activity, with a goal of ushering in a hydrogen economy over the course of the next several decades. The United States will serve as the secretariat of this first of a kind global research and development effort.

While the Green Hydrogen Coalition supports a hydrogen future for America and the world, it charges the Bush administration with promoting a black hydrogen rather than a green hydrogen research and development agenda.

The Bush administration says that harnessing hydrogen will free the U.S. from dependence on Mideast oil and provide a non-polluting source of energy for electricity and transport. In reality, the White House plan calls for massive subsidies to the coal and nuclear industries to extract hydrogen—a black hydrogen agenda. While Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham claims that the Bush administration is equally committed to research and development of renewable sources of energy to extract hydrogen—a green hydrogen agenda—the current energy bill tells a different story. The bill contains subsidies of more than $8 billion to the fossil fuels and nuclear industries and less than $4 billion to the renewable energy industries in its current draft.

The Green Hydrogen Coalition (GHC) charges the White House with using the IPHE initiative both as a smokescreen to deflect attention away from its dismal anti-environmental record and as a forum to promote the interests of the coal, oil, gas, and nuclear industries.

The Green Hydrogen Coalition warns that if the United States is successful in steering the IPHE towards a black hydrogen future, it could lock the global economy into the old energy regime for much of the 21st century, with dire environmental and economic consequences.

The Green Hydrogen Coalition announces its own plan to launch a public education campaign to expose the Bush administration’s black hydrogen agenda and to advocate for real benchmarks for increasing renewable sources of energy to extract hydrogen.

The Green Hydrogen Coalition believes that the shift to fuel cells and a hydrogen economy will be as significant and far reaching in its impact on the American and global economy as the steam engine and coal in the 19th century and the internal combustion engine and oil in the 20th century. The vast energy and ecological benefits of a hydrogen future will only be realized, however, according to the Coalition, if renewable sources of energy become the prime source for extracting hydrogen. The coalition will lobby member countries in the IPHE to support a green hydrogen approach to the research and development of hydrogen energy.

The Green Hydrogen Coalition advocates an intentional program to build a renewable hydrogen based future. While the green hydrogen economy is being phased in, the Coalition advocates simultaneously dealing with today’s environmental problems directly and without delay through immediate implementation of solutions that are currently available, including: significant increases to vehicle fuel economy, the introduction of hybrid electric vehicles which pave the way to fuel cell cars, the redesign and overhaul of the nation’s power grid, massive energy conservation measures, the Kyoto Protocol global warming treaty, and benchmarks targeting renewable energy adoption. The Coalition believes that these initiatives should parallel efforts by the IPHE to subsidize and underwrite the research and development of renewable energy technology, hydrogen and fuel cells. Governments should set the goal of a fully integrated green hydrogen economy by the middle of the 21st century.

"The path toward a hydrogen economy must be paved with renewable energy and energy conservation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration is poised to pollute a hydrogen future by emphasizing dirty and dangerous fuels such as coal and nuclear power."

--Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth



“President Bush and the environmental community agree that hydrogen is America's future. We disagree on where to get the hydrogen from. The White House would like to extract hydrogen from coal and natural gas and by harnessing nuclear power to the task—locking us into a black hydrogen future. The environmental community would like to use renewable sources of energy like wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal to extract hydrogen from water or to extract hydrogen from biomass—a green hydrogen future. The issue of black versus green hydrogen is going to be the seminal environmental question of the coming century."

--Jeremy Rifkin, President, The Foundation on Economic Trends



“Powerful forces from the fossil fuel and nuclear industries are trying to hijack the promise of clean, safe, energy--generated sustainably by the wind, the sun, and the tides—in a cynical attempt to produce hydrogen fuel from the self-same energy sources which are wreaking havoc on our environment, increasing the likelihood of nuclear war and the destruction of earth's habitat. We need to employ the already existing solutions for conservation and sustainable energy production while shifting enormous taxpayer subsidies from polluting fuel industries and moving full speed ahead to develop the abundant promise of a green hydrogen economy.”

--Alice Slater, President, Global Resource Action Center for the Environment



"The Bush Administration is distracting us with the veil of energy security and leading the world down the wrong hydrogen road with a dirty scheme of hydrogen from nuclear and coal power. The Bush hydrogen partnership is another attempt to divert attention from their dangerous environmental policies by doing research and development instead of taking action now to solve problems. The only hydrogen economy that will ultimately provide national and environmental security is green hydrogen."

--John Passacantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace



"While this international program of hydrogen research is laudable, the Bush administration should consider itself on notice that a mere photo-op does not constitute a progressive global energy policy. Hydrogen-related research should focus on renewable energy sources, not old, discredited, polluting technologies."

--Deb Callahan, President, League of Conservation Voters



"If the Bush administration had its way, the world would be overrun with nuclear power plants to fuel an extremely energy-inefficient economy. Creating thousands of tons of nuclear waste while extracting hydrogen makes a mockery of clean energy goals; we must emphasize conservation and renewables over production and pollution."

--Joan Claybrook, President, Public Citizen



“Getting hydrogen from dirty or unsafe sources makes no sense. It's like trying to lose weight by jogging to McDonalds.”

--Dan Becker, Director, Sierra Club Global Warming and Energy Program



“The good news is that here in the U.S., we have great untapped potential to generate energy and hydrogen from clean renewable sources like solar, wind, clean biomass, and geothermal energy. The bad news is the Bush Administration opposes setting strong national renewable energy standards and global warming pollution reduction standards, and instead keeps us in the dark ages with continued reliance on fossil fuels and nuclear power.”

--Katherine Morrison, Staff Attorney, U.S. Public Interest Research Group



Statement of The Green Hydrogen Coalition


Nine of the nation’s leading environmental, consumer, and public policy organizations have joined together in the Green Hydrogen Coalition (GHC) to challenge President Bush’s launch of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE). While the Green Hydrogen Coalition supports a hydrogen future for America and the world, it charges the Bush administration with promoting a black hydrogen rather than a green hydrogen research and development agenda. The Green Hydrogen Coalition is comprised of Friends of the Earth, The Foundation on Economic Trends, the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, Greenpeace, the League of Conservation Voters, MoveOn.org, Public Citizen, the Sierra Club, and the US Public Interest Research Group.

The White House will host a meeting of energy ministers from around the world on November 19-21, in Washington, D.C., to sign a landmark agreement to share research and development on hydrogen related activity, with a goal of ushering in a hydrogen economy over the course of the next several decades. The United States has proposed that it serve as the secretariat of this first-of-a-kind global research and development effort.

The Green Hydrogen Coalition accuses the White House of using the IPHE initiative as a smokescreen to deflect attention away from its dismal anti-environmental record and a forum to promote the interests of the coal, oil, gas, and nuclear industries. The Green Hydrogen Coalition further charges the Bush administration with using the IPHE as a delaying tactic to avoid introducing already available off-the-shelf technologies and effective policies that can address local and global environmental issues.

The Green Hydrogen Coalition warns that if the United States is successful in steering the IPHE towards a black hydrogen future, it could lock the global economy into the old energy regime for much of the 21st century, with dire environmental consequences.

The Hydrogen Economy
Hydrogen—the lightest and most abundant element of the universe—can be the next great energy revolution. People call it the “forever fuel” because it will never run out. And when hydrogen is used for power the only byproducts are pure water and heat. Hydrogen is found everywhere on Earth, yet it rarely exists free floating in nature. Instead, it has to be extracted from fossil fuels, water, or biomass. Therefore, the energy used to derive the hydrogen makes the hydrogen either dirty or clean, in other words, “black” or “green”.

The Green Hydrogen Coalition believes that, if done the right way, the shift to fuel cells and a hydrogen economy will be as significant and far reaching in its impact on the American and global economy as the steam engine and coal in the 19th century and the internal combustion engine and oil in the 20th century. Hydrogen has the potential to end the world’s reliance on oil from the Persian Gulf, the most politically unstable and volatile region of the world. It will dramatically cut down on carbon dioxide emissions and mitigate the effects of global warming.

Black versus Green Hydrogen
Today, most commercial hydrogen is harvested from natural gas via a steam reforming process. Yet the supply of natural gas is as finite as our oil supply, and therefore not a dependable feedstock for hydrogen.

Petroleum, coal, and nuclear resources are all potential sources of hydrogen but are not clean, safe, long-term solutions. Producing hydrogen from petroleum will not free the U.S. from dependence on foreign oil. Coal extraction has significant impacts on the land and produces nearly twice the amount of carbon dioxide as natural gas, resulting in the emission of increased heat-trapping gases.

The U.S. Department of Energy and the coal industry counter that extracting hydrogen from coal would be viable if a commercially effective and safe way can be found to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) and the Bush administration is seeking more than one billion dollars for research and development to make CO2 sequestration a reality. However, carbon sequestration, and the quest for “clean coal”, is not the silver bullet solution for producing hydrogen that the Bush administration is portraying it to be.

Carbon sequestration is the process of permanently storing CO2 gas in geologic or ocean reservoirs. If proven to be safe, permanent, and environmentally benign, sequestration could be used to reduce atmospheric CO2 emissions from burning coal and other fossil fuels, potentially making them more acceptable sources of hydrogen or electricity in the short term. However, producing hydrogen from coal can never be an option unless the carbon from coal can be stored safely for the long-term without other adverse environmental impacts. The safety and long-term viability of storage is uncertain, and the adverse environmental and health impacts of coal mining, mountain top removal and power plant waste disposal are still a problem with even the most advanced coal fired power plant and carbon sequestration technology being considered.

Nuclear power could also be used to produce hydrogen, but there are unresolved safety and disposal issues that have not been adequately addressed. Nuclear power plants are also vulnerable to potential terrorist attacks. Still, the Bush administration is seeking more than a billion dollars to develop a new nuclear power plant designed to produce hydrogen.

There is another way to produce hydrogen—one that uses no fossil fuels or nuclear power in the process. Renewable sources of energy—photovoltaic solar cells, wind, small sustainable hydropower, geothermal, and even wave power— are technologies that are available today and are increasingly being used to produce electricity. That electricity, in turn, can be used, in a process called electrolysis, to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Once produced, the hydrogen can be stored and used, when needed, to generate electricity or be used directly as a fuel. Storage is the key to making renewable energy economically viable. That’s because when renewable energy is harnessed to produce electricity, the electricity flows immediately. So, if the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, or the water isn’t flowing, electricity can’t be generated. But, if some of the electricity being generated is used to extract hydrogen from water, which can then be stored, for later use, society will have a more continuous supply of power.

Clean biomass, which includes non-genetically modified sustainably grown energy crops and sustainably retrievable agriculture wastes, could also be an important near-term source of hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles and electricity generation. Clean biomass is a proven source of renewable energy that is utilized today for generating heat, electricity, and liquid transportation fuels. Clean biomass can be used to produce hydrogen through a process called gasification in which the biomass is converted to a gas and hydrogen is extracted.

Virtually no net greenhouse gas emissions result because a natural cycle is maintained in which carbon is extracted from the atmosphere during plant growth and is released during hydrogen production. Replanting and reforesting are prerequisite for maintaining a renewable hydrogen supply from biomass.

President Bush’s Black Hydrogen Agenda
The Bush administration says that harnessing hydrogen will free the U.S. from dependence on Mideast oil and provide a non-polluting source of energy for electricity and transport. In reality, the White House plan calls for massive subsidies to the coal and nuclear industries to extract hydrogen—a black hydrogen agenda. While Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham claims that the Bush administration is equally committed to research and development of renewable sources of energy to extract hydrogen—a green hydrogen agenda—the current energy bill tells a different story. The bill contains subsidies of more than $8 billion to the fossil fuels and nuclear industries and less than $4 billion to the renewable energy industries in its current draft.

Moreover, despite continued public pronouncements by the Department of Energy that it is equally committed to promoting renewable sources of energy, the White House and their Congressional allies have systematically blocked efforts in Congress to establish benchmarks and target dates for the phasing in of renewable sources of energy in the generation of electricity and for transport. The European Union, by contrast, has made a commitment to produce 22 percent of its electricity and 12 percent of its overall energy from renewable sources of energy by 2010.

Therefore, while we favor an international research and development partnership to help usher in a hydrogen economy, we oppose the U.S. government becoming the Secretariat as long as the Bush administration’s agenda is to use hydrogen as a Trojan horse to foster the interests of the fossil fuel and nuclear industries and to avoid dealing with important environmental issues today. With this consideration in mind, we have written letters to the Presidents and Energy Ministers of each of the countries invited to take part in the IPHE, urging them to oppose the U.S. proposal that it be the secretariat of the IPHE unless the Bush administration is willing to agree to set renewable energy benchmarks and targets equivalent to those established by the European Union.

The Green Hydrogen Coalition Agenda
The Green Hydrogen Coalition believes that the full energy and ecological benefits of a hydrogen future will only be realized if renewable sources of energy are prioritized and increasingly phased in, eventually becoming the global source for extracting hydrogen. The Coalition advocates an intentional program to build a renewable hydrogen based future. While the green hydrogen economy is being phased in, the Coalition advocates simultaneously dealing with today’s environmental problems directly and without delay through immediate implementation of solutions that are currently available, including: significant increases to vehicle fuel economy, the introduction of hybrid electric vehicles which pave the way to fuel cell cars, the redesign and overhaul of the nation’s power grid, massive energy conservation measures, the Kyoto Protocol global warming treaty, and benchmarks targeting renewable energy adoption. The Coalition believes that these initiatives should parallel efforts by the IPHE to subsidize and underwrite the research and development of renewable energy technology, hydrogen and fuel cells. Governments should set the goal of a fully integrated green hydrogen economy by the middle of the 21st century.



Related Links:



http://www.greenhydrogencoalition.org/



"Commercial fuel-cells powered by hydrogen are just now being introduced into the market for home, office and industrial use. The major automakers have spent more than two billion dollars developing hydrogen cars, buses, and trucks, and the first mass-produced vehicles are expected to be on the road in just a few years.

The hydrogen economy makes possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today’s centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, becomes obsolete. In the new era, says Rifkin, every human being could become the producer as well as the consumer of his or her own energy – so called “distributed generation.” When millions of end-users connect their fuel-cells into local, regional, and national hydrogen energy webs (HEWs), using the same design principles and smart technologies that made possible the World Wide Web, they can begin to share energy – peer-to-peer – creating a new decentralized form of energy use. "





How to get to 4/22 Bush/Cheney protest in West Sacto;

Unwelcome Bush regime in West Sac!!


The location of Bush's visit in West Sacramento may take some planning to get to. The Fuel Cell Partnership where GW Bush will be giving his hot air babbling speech is a bit hidden from downtown Sac. Some people may also want to be there if the regime's motorcade travels around the Capitol to visit his golf buddy Arnold. It would be good to maintain a protest vigil at the Fuel Cell Partnership until the Oiligarch shows up. The theme could be "All the King's Jesters" people dressed in motley joker outfits symbolizing the laugh parade of Bush's foolhardy half-hearted attempts to break the petroleum monopoly and provide Californians with affordable alternative energy and efficient public transit, and bicycle/pedestrian friendly communities instead of sprawl. Keep it peaceful to avoid getting jumped by the Secret Service and other paranoid police officers..

For those not driving, here's some help with local transit;

public transit to West Sacramento;
http://www.yolobus.com/m3.html

If coming by train, the 42 Yolobus line runs a few blocks away from the Union station in downtown Sacto. The 42A/B bus travels between Davis, Woodland, Sacramento and West Sacramento in that order and reverse in a circle. If in Sacramento downtown, the 42A can be caught at most stops on L Street. The 42B will eventually end up in West Sac, though this is the much longer "scenic route" that tours the airport, Woodland and Davis first. If coming from Davis, take the 42B..

Either one goes along West Capitol Blvd. in West Sac. Get off on Harbor (south, or left if coming from Sac, right if coming from Davis) and prepare for a semi-long walk down Harbor, over bridge until arriving at the "T" intersection (Industrial Blvd.) with the Port of Sacramento in front, turn right and head down Industrial to 3300 where the Fuel Cell Partnership is located. Standing on the sidewalk with signs is legal, though police will probably attempt various verbal threats to scare protesters away..

Critical mass bicycle protest from Sacramento would be a great option to demonstrate free alternative energy, maybe bikes can topple the the petroleum pyramid perch that Bush/Cheney currently occupy..

Here's the link for mapquest;

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=3300+Industrial+Blvd.&city=West+Sacramento&state=CA&zipcode=


Time? seems to be up to when people can arrive, i doubt that Bush will arrive at 8am on a Saturday. Maybe sometime around 10 am would be good, in case he comes early. It is also possible that Bush will cancel this portion of his trip and go directly to downtown Sacramento. If any new updated info surfaces will post on imc..

Bush is here 'till 8, so don't hate. "Cept on immigration of course, he's an open borders man.

His approval rating is at 33% by FOXNEWS standards (!!!) and his cabinet is so corrupt that they have to do cosmetic surgery (kicking out Puffy McMoonFace aka Scott McCullen)
to bamboozle republicans into thinking their making changes to save face. And the immigration issue was just a distraction to make the gulliable U.S. public forget about Iraq and all of the corruption, and dick shooting someone in the face.

So after the democrats take over congree we should be able to kick that stupid cowboy out on his ass by 07.

democrat is no differece. they are all in the same system which is the capitalist system. we do need to change the system i am sick of tired this bull vote one or the other.

Minutemen will protest Bush on Monday for his open border policies and pro-illegal alien stance. Stand with the heroic Minutemen and say NO to Bush and NO to illegal aliens!!