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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Marites Velasquez [mailto:marites@studentpirgs.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 09, 2014 7:55 PM<br><b>To:</b> Sinha, Gaurav<br><b>Subject:</b> Campus volunteer opportunity on campaign for public transportation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Prof. Sinha,<br><br>Ohio PIRG is looking for Ohio University students who may be interested in volunteering with our new 21st Century Transportation Action Team on campus this fall. Student could learn leadership and campaign skills like organizing events, media outreach, managing volunteers or building a coalition while helping to improve alternative transportation options in Ohio.<br><br>Could you forward the announcement below to your students?<br><br>Feel free to contact me with any questions.<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br><br>Marites Velasquez<br>Program Director<br><a href="http://www.ohiopirgstudents.org">Ohio PIRG</a><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=602 style='width:451.5pt;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><tr><td width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:#000033;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in'><tr><td width=600 valign=top style='width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:white'><tr><td width=600 valign=top style='width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=600 height=82 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:part2.08090305.09060602@studentpirgs.org"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=596 style='width:447.0pt'><tr><td width=576 style='width:6.0in;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 align=right><tr><td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 align=right><tr><td width=175 style='width:131.25pt;background:white;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><p align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=300 height=241 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CFE48F.450B79F0" alt="Join Ohio PIRG's Transit Action Team"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=object><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkblue'><a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=BZyBONYKaVbI84XPT5iNVQ" target="_blank"><span style='color:#416E9E;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=180 height=31 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:part4.03050502.02090504@studentpirgs.org" alt="SIGN UP"></span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hi,</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Do you wish there were more public transit and bike lanes? Do you think fast trains are cool?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=object><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:darkblue'><a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=T713wQlyD_6ySyPYFnAglg" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Then join Ohio PIRG's 21st Century Transportation Action Team!</span></strong></a></span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>We're looking for passionate people who believe that Ohioans deserve a safe, clean transportation system that lets us all get where we need to go. We want government to stop spending so much transportation money on new and wider highways, and instead use that money to invest in public transit, bikeways, and repairing existing roads and bridges.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Cuyahoga County continues to fuel global warming by releasing thousands of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year –<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>in 2002, Cuyahoga County ranked as the fourth highest emitter of carbon emissions in the nation, with 12.1 millions of tons emitted that year alone.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Despite this, we spend too much on highways and not enough on transit, bikes and pedestrian infrastructure. The state has been on a highway-building spree where earlier this year they passed a $3 billion transportation plan that is mostly going towards highway expansion. The state’s Highway Lobby is strong and wants to cash in on those highway contracts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>These are the wrong priorities, but especially because students have been leading the decline in driving and are increasingly riding public transit and biking.</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>By<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span class=object><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:darkblue'><a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=YkvM_STmSCc8C5baSlYpSw" target="_blank">joining the Action Team</a></span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>you could intern or volunteer on the campaign on campus this fall and learn how to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Organize transit days of action<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Mobilize the campus community<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Raise the voices of Millennials' preferences for alternative transportation options<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=object><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=Zq6qBAZdmy6nVV4kbxuoSg" target="_blank">Click here to sign up.</a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<br>Marites Velasquez<br></span><span class=object><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:darkblue'><a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=ap7GElveFFI9152CpPawJQ" target="_blank">Ohio PIRG</a></span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=object><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:darkblue'><a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=JO9-nbpNjMdFifZ9uPaD9A" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=145 height=45 id="_x0000_i1028" src="cid:part10.08020700.07010102@studentpirgs.org" alt="Like Us"></span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You are receiving this email at<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span class=object><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:darkblue'><a href="mailto:marites@studentpirgs.org">marites@studentpirgs.org</a></span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. 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