Thanks to everyone who participated in the Earth Day Rally at the Courthouse in Eureka. Special thanks to Bandemonium who keep our spirits up.  Also thanks to the volunteer tablers at the Arcata Farmer’s Market Saturday and those who stopped by to write postcards or just to talk.

WRITE LETTERS TO VOTERS

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. There are now opportunities to support candidates in swing districts in California.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86943045708?pwd=clVqWVJZNEFQSVl0QWd6VCtOZGtWZz09

PETITIONS

Fix My Funds

We know it’s possible for Vanguard to move quickly – they just did when they suspended Russian securities from their portfolio in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

But when it comes to climate, Vanguard is behind the times. That’s why we’re matching the company’s outdated approach to the climate crisis with an outdated communication tool: faxing.

Take action with us today by sending a fax to Vanguard. Our one-click tool makes it just as easy as sending an email.

Sierra Club has several current campaigns at:

https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/National?

 

Public Citizen

Insurance companies in California are trying to hide their support for fossil fuel companies.

Fortunately, the state legislature is considering a bill (AB 1694) that would require insurance companies to publicly disclose the support they provide for fossil fuels.

If we can get this bill across the finish line, insurers would have to disclose their investments in coal, oil, and gas.

But the insurance companies will kill AB 1694 in committee unless your assembly member sees overwhelming support from Californians like you.

Contact your representative in the California Assembly now.

Center for Biological Diversity

The U.S. federal government is the single largest consumer in the world and can leverage its purchasing power to catalyze a sustainable marketplace. Its spending strategy can act as a market leader, driving change across entire industries. It has the power to significantly reduce the production of plastic and its disposal in landfills and incinerators and spur demand for better alternatives.

Urge the General Services Administration, the procurement arm of the government, to prohibit federal agencies from buying single-use plastic products.

Sierra Club

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency in charge of evaluating the permits for gas pipelines and export terminals, delayed implementing two important proposals that would have accounted for the impacts to our climate and communities from fossil fuel industry projects. Failing to account for these impacts directly threatens the safety and health of communities near proposed fossil fuel infrastructure, exposing families to pollution and the harmful effects of climate change.

Right now, you have an opportunity to take action and let FERC know that it should finalize the Pipeline Certification and Greenhouse Gas Emissions policy statements. The final day to submit a public comment for both draft policies is Monday, April 25.

POSTCARDS TO VOTERS

From Activate America (Formerly Flip the West): California Campaign

Sign up to postcard in CA-40. We’re postcarding Democratic voters in three districts who have missed elections before to make sure that they don’t sit this one out. You will be writing to support specific progressive candidates.

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/

Vote Forward: Here is a new advance in targeting letters to where they make most difference. If you write to voters, please take a look.

The redistricting process has changed district lines across the country for this year’s midterm elections. As maps are finalized or congressional districts become more competitive, we’ll add letter writing campaigns to reach those voters–our first congressional district-level campaigns are already live!

If you’re unsure about which state or district to write letters to this year, you can use Swing Left’s new tool to help find your nearest competitive Swing District!

Check out the following email for more details, and head to swingleft.org/targets to get started.

— The Vote Forward Team

Postcards for swing states

We need your help to write 550,000 postcards to rally Democrats to vote in the Pennsylvania primary on May 17. Encouraging Democrats to make voting a habit now will ensure more of them will also vote in November.

Sign up now and we’ll mail you free postcards with the design below, along with instructions and voter lists. Volunteers need to provide the postcard stamps. You’ll pick from three messages that we’re testing as the first step of signing up. You’ll have until May 6 to finish writing the postcards.

Environmental Voter Project

Our next postcarding 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]