Our usual get out the vote letter writing party will take place Sunday September 20 at 7pm.

We have only a month left, and it is even more critical than before that we take back the Senate as well as help Biden win. We can do it by motivating people who haven’t voted recently to vote. Contact Vote Forward to write letters: https://votefwd.org Other organizations have text and phone banking. Check out the Sierra Club [https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7013q000002CEKoAAO] and Natural Resources Defense Council texting and phoning operations [https://act.nrdc.org/sign/af-p2p-volunteer-181002].

 

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As an affiliate of 350.0rg we often send on to our members the national or California organization emails. The one below targets tweets at Governor Newsom asking him to stop increasing the oil and gas infrastructure at a time when the fires have shown him, and all of us, that we need to rapidly switch to renewables.

We should be angry.

Over 3.4 million acres of California have burned already – more than any other year on record. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, some losing their homes, livelihoods, or loved ones. Millions have been breathing toxic air.

And while Governor Newsom pays lip-service to the climate crisis, behind the curtain he continues to approve thousands of new oil and gas permits, literally digging our hole deeper. It’s infuriating.

We’ve got intel that Newsom is about to make a climate-related announcement, so now is a key moment to double down efforts to demand he stand up to big oil. California is the 5th largest economy in the world and that’s why it’s important for everyone reading this email – in every corner of the country – to speak up.

We need you now. Help respond to California’s fire crisis by telling Governor Newsom: Stop fueling the flames. Reverse course by halting new oil and gas permits and phasing out fossil fuels in California. Do it now.

CLICK TO TWEET THE MESSAGE BELOW:

Yes @GavinNewsom, we know that climate change is REAL. That’s why we need you to stop #FuelingTheFlames in California. Here are our demands:

-ROLL out a 2500ft buffer

-STOP new fossil fuel projects

-DROP existing oil production

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The more people who speak up now, the louder we’ll be heard, and the more leverage we’ll have to get Newsom on board with our demands – right ahead of Climate Week next week.

The truth is that Governor Newsom has been fanning the flames of California fires since the moment he took office. He’s approved over 1,500 new oil and gas wells just this year – even walking back his moratorium on dangerous fracking in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

California is supposed to be a leader in the fight to slow catastrophic climate change. Right now, Newsom is failing us. But if we succeed at pressuring him, we can set a precedent for more states to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

There is no time to lose:

Click to tweet our demand that California Governor Newsom respond to this urgent crisis not by simply acknowledging that climate change is real – but by halting new oil and gas permits immediately.

While our communities are on fire, we can’t settle for anything less.

Thank you for adding your voice,

Matt Leonard

P.S. Please watch and share the video our team produced about what’s happening on the ground here.

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Other actions you can take to help move us in small but important ways toward our goals:

EMAIL GOVERNOR NEWSOM TO SUPPORT ALL RENEWABLE ENERGY BY 2030 (IN WAKE OF NEWSOM’S COMMENT THAT THE 2045 GOALS NEEDS TO BE SPEEDED UP): HTTPS://GOVAPPS.GOV.CA.GOV/GOV40MAIL/

SUPPORT THRIVE A NEW RECOVERY AGENDA BY SIERRA CLUB AND MANY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS (INCLUDING 350 HUMBOLDT) BY ASKING OUR LEGISLATORS IN CONGRESS TO SUPPORT: HTTPS://ADDUP.SIERRACLUB.ORG/CAMPAIGNS/ASK-YOUR-MEMBERS-OF-CONGRESS-TO-BECOME-ORIGINAL-COSPONSORS-OF-THE-THRIVE-RESOLUTION