SC RIGHT-TO-VOTE-ON-DESAL Media / Group Picture Opportunity

Santa Cruz Right-to-Vote-on-Desal 2012 in partnership with the Santa Cruz Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, Save The Waves Coalition, Surfers' Environmental Alliance (SEA), the Sierra Club, Peak Water, Teach the Forest, and Women's League for Peace and Freedom will stage a media-friendly photo shot at Mitchell Cove on West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz on Sunday, October 7 around 3:00 P.M.

We will gather on the beach or stairs to display our message on our surfboards, organizational banners, and hand-made signs: LET THE VOTERS DECIDE! 

We envision a standing line of surfboards showing our message spelled in block letters and wish to have as many people as possible in the pictures. We also request you bring your surfboard to the shoot.

Ken “Skindog” Collins, local big wave charger and Santa Cruz World Surfing Reserve Surfing Ambassador, says “Santa Cruz does not need a Desal Plant right now. What Santa Cruz does need right now is the people of the community to step up, get involved, and protect the natural resources that we are truly blessed with, and want to continue to have for our children and generations beyond.”

 Jim Littlefield, from Surfers’ Environmental Alliance, agrees: “SEA absolutely supports the right of Santa Cruz voters to ultimately decide whether or not to invest in such a massive construction plan when previous desalinization projects around our country have such a dismal success record.”

 This event should be colorful and media-friendly, so all media representatives are welcome and encouraged to attend.