350 Humboldt has a book club! We meet the last Monday of each month. Every few months we decide on the next set of books. We are meeting this Monday evening at 7pm to choose. This is a great time to join and get a book you want to read (or want others to read) into the list. Bring two book nominations. After you present them (using reviews or from having read them already), the group will choose one. So every member has one book they proposed that we read. Just google “climate and books” and you’ll get lots of options. Books can be novels, or stories about climate scientists, or problems like sea level rise, really no limit except some relationship to climate change. We hope you will join us at 7pm tomorrow on Zoom:
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Please join our letter-writing group Sunday evenings at 7pm. It is a time to write letters and postcards, chat, and get information about the latest letter writing campaigns. Important petitions are below followed by letter campaigns to could join.
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PETITION TO EPA BY CLIMATE PROTECTION AND RESTORATION INITIATIVE
James Hanson and other climate heroes have submitted a legal petition to EPA asking for phase-out of fossil fuel pollution and restitution by fossil fuel companies. Here is a fact sheet: https://cprclimate.org/press-releases/petition-fact-sheet/
They are also asking for sign-ons. 350 Humboldt is signing on, but you can sign on as an individual:https://cprclimate.org/about/actions-campaigns/petition-to-epa/#endorse-sponsor
BREAKING NEWS: ACTIVATE AMERICA
The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. Right now, 22 states already have laws on their books to ban or restrict abortion that will now go into effect, and four more appear poised to do so. It’s only a matter of time before we see doctors imprisoned and patients dying cruel preventable deaths in pursuit of back alley abortions.
We’re expanding our Pro-Choice Postcarding program TODAY and urge you to sign up and recruit everyone you know. We’re reaching pro-choice voters who sometimes miss elections making sure they know what’s at stake and imploring them to vote for pro-choice Democrats this November.
Sign up HERE to get started – and chip in HERE to help fund our work.
Sierra Club
Diesel back-up generators are highly polluting and are linked to heart and lung disease. Methane gas powerplants are massive greenhouse gas emitters, release toxic air pollution, and rely on notoriously leaky and dangerous pipelines. Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant has huge potential to damage our environment and human health and is appropriately set to be retired in 2025.
Unfortunately, Governor Newsom is looking to fund all of these antiquated and harmful technologies in this year’s budget. California should be looking towards a future that does not rely on polluting or harmful energy sources. Instead, the state should fund mass build outs of zero-emission energy resources, rooftop solar, battery storage and other, clean resiliency technologies.
California Environmental Voters
As we get closer to the worst of California’s wildfire and drought season, the Legislature and Governor must stop kicking the can down the road. We need a multi-year plan that truly prioritizes climate justice investments in California’s spending.
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Activate America’s new campaign in CA
In our line of work, it’s important to be nimble and to seize opportunities when they’re presented.
In California’s newly created 41st Congressional District, which includes the Deep Blue hotbed of Palm Springs, the two Democratic candidates for Congress secured an impressive 46% of the vote in the primary. That puts the top Democratic vote getter, Will Rollins, within striking distance of an upset come November, IF we put in the work. You can help by signing up to phone bank or postcard to introduce voters to Rollins.
It won’t be easy. Ken Calvert is an entrenched incumbent, MAGA before MAGA was ever coined. He’s developed a long voting record of being hostile to immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community, and we’re hopeful that doesn’t fly in this district with huge Latino and LGBTQ+ populations.
We’re immediately launching a postcard campaign and a phone bank into the 41st District to help boost Rollins’ name ID. It focuses on his storied professional career, including his cracking down on white collar criminals who tried to defraud vulnerable seniors.
Want to join us? Sign up here to postcard or phone bank.
New program from Postcards to Swing States
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New from Vote Forward
In case you missed the news last week, Vote Forward volunteers like you have “adopted” more than 1 million voters who will receive ‘please vote’ letters ahead of the midterms this fall!
This is incredible progress, but in order to reach our 10 million letter goal, we need your help. Will you host a virtual or in-person Vote Forward letter writing party? Letter writing parties are an easy way to bring your friends and family together to build community and strengthen our democracy by writing a lot of letters encouraging more folks to participate in the electoral process.
Hosting a letter writing party is easy and fun, and we’ll provide you with everything you need to be a successful host! Check out this written guide with instructions on how to host, and then set up your event on Mobilize using this template to share with your network and collect RSVPs. You can also join our letter writing party host training on June 22 for more helpful tips on hosting events. If you have any questions, you can email [email protected] any time for personalized support from a member of our team.
HERE IN HUMBOLDT
Third Act – Bill McKibben’s new group is postcarding
Let’s join together as Third Act’s Democracy Force to write postcards and mobilize voters in Arizona and Pennsylvania to request their vote-by-mail ballot in time for Midterm Primary Elections. Learn more below about why postcards and mail voting are vital and effective at increasing turnout.
https://thirdact.org/third-act-postcards-to-voters/
Environmental Voter Project
Our next post carding campaign will be to Colorado voters ahead of their June 28th state primary!
We’ll be sending postcards to environmental voters who voted in the 2020 General Election, but are unlikely to vote in midterm elections based on their previous voting history. We expect to begin mailing out packages of postcards to signed-up volunteers beginning in late March, and the required “mail-to-voters” date for this round of postcards is on Monday, June 6th.
This sign up form is only for trained EVP postcarding volunteers. New postcarding volunteers should sign up for an orientation below.
If you have not already attended an EVP postcard training, please sign up for one of the 45 minute trainings below. We use very specific designs and messaging that are optimized to increase turnout, so we require all our postcarding volunteers to receive an EVP training before sending postcards.
POSTCARD WRITING TO VOTERS ORGANIZED BY HUMBOLDT ACTIVIST FREDERICA AALTO
Here is Frederica describes what they are doing:
I am administering a postcarding network in Humboldt County (presently over 300 writers) and we supply postcards and stamps to writers, which are available for cost at several convenient pickup locations. Have anyone interested in joining us contact me. We mostly postcard for ROV (Reclaim Our Vote), which is non-partisan, but have also postcarded for Activate America (which used to be called Flip the West), which is partisan.
She can be reached at: [email protected]