HEAR ALDARON LAIRD TALK ABOUT HIS LATEST RESEARCH ON SEA LEVEL RISE IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY

Tomorrow, Monday June 7th, 7pm.

Sign up at: https://actionnetwork.org/events/humboldt-bay-on-the-threshold-of-change/

WRITE LETTERS TO VOTERS

Write letters and sign petitions on your own or join the 350 Humboldt “chat and write” letter-writing group Sunday evenings at 7pm. Here is the zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85643874306?pwd=Tm1yeXJBVVhWMGt5ZjZXVTVYbGFoZz09

POSTCARD WRITING TO VOTERS ORGANIZED BY HUMBOLDT ACTIVIST FREDERICA AALTA

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. At present, we have just finished postcarding Wisconsin, so are at a lull, but new campaigns will be starting soon for several states. 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]

VOTING – VOTE FORWARD

https://votefwd.org/campaigns

Sending letters to voters thanking them for voting in last election and encouraging them to vote again in upcoming elections.

VOTING – POSTCARDS TO SWING STATES

Please SIGN UP to write postcards to make sure Democrats come out and vote. We’ll send you the postcards, addresses and instructions for free. You provide $0.36 stamps and mail the cards.  A number of campaigns are available on the website.

With the help of volunteers like you, we wrote 21 million postcards in 2020, and we saw incredible results! Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. You can help us keep New Jersey and Virginia blue!

Visit our website to learn more about Postcards to Swing States and get answers to our frequently asked questions.

SIERRA CLUB VOTER REGISTRATION

Only 63% of Arizona voters are registered. Send a blank registration form and a letter to unregistered voters:

Print copies of this blank voter registration form and include a blank form with each letter you send. Please do not write on the voter registration forms.

These letters should be put in the mail as soon as you have completed them.

Please follow the instructions here to complete and send your letters: sc.org/LetterWritingInstructions.

When you are ready for your next batch of letters, please request more at sc.org/RequestLetters.

WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR CLIMATE NEWS?

The LA Times has an email letter called Boiling Point written by reporter Sammy Roth. You can sign up for it on this page: https://membership.latimes.com/newsletters/?

And 6000 strong 350 Silicon Valley has a great newsletter you can sign up for here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/subscribe-31?

Another good California climate group is The Climate Center.  Their newsletter always has new information: https://theclimatecenter.org/news/?

And we hope you get Bill McKibben’s weekly newsletter. Sign up at his site: http://billmckibben.com/

OTHER LETTERS/PETITIONS

STOP THE MONEY PIPELINE

The good news is that some pension funds have begun to divest from fossil fuels. New York State just divested from tar sands, Minnesota is divesting from coal, and a number of states are moving forward divestment legislation.

That’s why we need to take action now and push as hard as possible for pension funds to divest entirely from fossil fuels, not just coal and tar sands. We need to stop investing in fossil fuels across the board.

Demand pension funds divest completely from fossil fuels and invest in the kind of future people want to retire to. Send your message now.

NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TRANSIT JUSTICE

Senator Sherrod Brown and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently introduced the Clean Transit for America plan to move our country’s public transit systems to zero-emission fleets.

This is an important step toward investing in public transit while addressing the climate crisis. As Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Brown plays a key role in advancing our goals of investing in public transit to lower carbon emissions while connecting people and communities to jobs, education, food, healthcare and more.

Together, let’s fight for increased funding for public transit to invest in a zero emission transit policy that addresses the climate crisis, increase routes and stops to make public transit accessible to more people, and eliminate or reduce transit fares to combat racial and economic inequity.

Sign the petition to Senator Sherrod Brown calling on him to lead the fight and be a Transit Justice Hero now.

FOSSIL FREE CALIFORNIA

CalSTRS Board Member Tony Thurmond has called for a hearing in June on CalSTRS’ plans for reinvestment, signaling a greater interest in shifting away from fossil fuels. It’s time to keep the pressure on CalSTRS high. Please send a letter to CalSTRS calling for immediate divestment of the more than $100 million they have currently invested in Enbridge, the owner of the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota. And, also call for CalSTRS Board members to support full divestment from fossil fuels.

During the June 10 CalSTRS board meeting, we anticipate that CalSTRS will acknowledge the more than 1,000 letters sent demanding divestment from Enbridge. As reinforcement, consider sending a personalized letter highlighting these talking points.

Have 2 minutes?

Sign the divest from Enbridge letter and share on social media.

Have 15 minutes?

Use our talking points to send a personalized letter to the CalSTRS board and the board member holdouts. Email [email protected].

350.ORG

Today, more than two thousand water protectors are traveling from across the country to join frontline Indigenous leaders for the historic, three-day Treaty People Gathering in Northern Minnesota.

Send President Biden a message on the White House comment page on why he needs to #StopLine3 right now.

Instructions: Fill in your contact information and write a message in your own words about why you want Biden to take action to stop Line 3 tar sands pipeline.

Sample comment: “President Biden: Please stop the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. Like Keystone XL, this project is a threat to our climate and water and violates Native American treaty rights. You must take immediate action to stop the construction of Line 3 and invest in clean energy instead.”

Comment here

350 FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE GROUP

We writing to ask you to help end fossil fuel subsidies. Such subsidies keep the fossil fuel industry in business, and make it easier for them to lobby Congress and block strong climate legislation. As noted by Senator Ed Markey, the 20 largest fossil fuel companies account for more than a third of global gas emissions in the modern era. Yet, such companies receive $15 billion per year in direct federal subsidies, and in 2020, spent more than $115 million lobbying Congress in defense of these giveaways — a 13,000% return on their investment!

Please call or email your Congressional representative (Rep. Jared Huffman)  this week and ask that they cosponsor HR 2102, the End Polluter Welfare Act , and that they push for the bill to be included in the President’s American Jobs Plan. We have only a narrow window of time to make this happen.