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/

Let us know of any other favorite climate newsletters you like.

OTHER LETTERS/PETITIONS

Join us to demand that PG&E stops ravaging our trees and instead invests in modern infrastructure that will greatly reduce wildfire risk.

PG&E’s antiquated infrastructure is vulnerable to high winds, and its outdated lines create sparks that have turned into massive fire events. These fires have destroyed thousands of homes and other structures, killed people, forced hundreds of thousands of evacuations, and upended Californians’ lives. Modern technology can eliminate these risks, even if a tree falls into a power line.

Yet, instead of systematically upgrading its infrastructure, PG&E has diverted attention away from its own negligence and placed the blame on trees. It has embarked on a propaganda campaign to blame the trees and gain public support for “enhanced vegetation management.” This assault on forested land is cutting down trees near power lines, few of which actually pose a hazard. The destruction also harms ecosystems while removing a vital line of defense against climate change. PG&E’s vegetation management tactic puts the cost on us, the ratepayers. Ironically, it costs less to modernize the infrastructure than to do the vegetation management.

https://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/hold-pge-accountable-for-infrastructure-failure-in-wildfires

CIEL

Paying our taxes enables the government to function and protect the public interest. Part of that responsibility includes investing in the pension funds of the public employees who carry out that work. But these pension funds are still invested in the polluters that are driving the climate crisis.

In fact, nearly all public pension funds in the United States are invested in fossil fuel companies.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time, and already, we are feeling the impact of escalating floods, fires, heatwaves, and storms. These impacts will also be disproportionately borne by communities and nations least responsible for the climate crisis. Public money shouldn’t be invested in companies that contribute to global destruction and are the primary drivers of the climate emergency.

Will you tell your local elected officials to divest public pensions from fossil fuels?

Take action!

GREEN AMERICA

As President Biden’s new Executive Order on Climate Related Financial Risk states: “The failure of financial institutions to appropriately and adequately account for and measure these physical and transition risks threatens the competitiveness of U.S. companies and markets, the life savings and pensions of U.S. workers and families, and the ability of U.S. financial institutions to serve communities.”

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is asking for public comments by June 14 to help draft rules requiring consistent climate disclosures by all publicly traded companies.  

This rule is crucial to ensuring that all investors, communities, and consumers have the information they need to determine if these companies are reporting out accurately on their climate impacts, risks, and steps for addressing their impacts.

LINE 3

1.     Call President Biden. Call the White House and Climate Office of Gina McCarthy by dialing: 888-724-8946. Tell them: “President Biden must honor the treaties and protect our climate by stopping the Line 3 tar sands pipeline now.”

2.     Help free the water protectors:

o    Donate to the bail fund for the approximately 200 water protectors arrested this week: treatypeoplegathering.com/donate

o    Demand justice: During a peaceful protest water protectors were buzzed with a low flying Homeland Security helicopter and attacked with an LRAD sound cannon. Some have been held for up to 20 hours without being booked and denied prescription medications.

Contact Minnesota’s Governor to demand that the water protectors be treated fairly and released now.

Office of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan
130 State Capitol
75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155

 

 

EPIC (see more detail on Epic website)

The Natural Resources Agency is accepting comments on the following question as they prepare their report on which lands should be conserved:

“What land and coastal habitats, including urban and community green spaces, should California classify as having significant opportunity to contribute to our goals of achieving carbon neutrality and building climate resilience? Do some landscapes inherently have greater potential than others? Of these landscapes, which have the longest-term sequestration benefits?”

Send a personalized email to the Natural Resources Agency at [email protected] with the subject line “Expanding Climate Action Through Nature-Based Solutions” and let them know that you believe JDSF should be classified as one of the best lands in the State of California for contributing to our carbon sequestration goals.

Comments are open until June 15th. Use your own words to explain to the Natural Resources Agency why they should be calling for the conservation of JDSF.

 

SIERRA CLUB

As the years progress, fossil fuel companies continue to increase plastic pollution, which has been devastating for low-income communities across the nation. Take action now to demand that congress pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act now! Help put a stop to the plastic boom that is being energized by fossil fuels.

CENTER for Biological Diversity

Tell the President to stop the Formosa Plastics plant.  Plastic is both a climate issue and an environmental justice issue. According to Yale University and the World Economic Forum, about 4-8% of annual global oil consumption is associated with plastics. But if current trends continue, plastics will account for 20% of oil consumption by 2050. In terms of environmental justice, the proposed mega polluting Formosa plant, located in the St. James Parish of Lousiana, would further pollute a predominantly black community already struggling with toxic pollution. Urge the President to stay true to his environmental justice and climate commitments by stopping this disastrous facility for good.  

EPIC

Early yesterday morning, tree sitter Alder reported hearing chainsaws and heavy thuds as big trees were being cut at a “fast and furious” rate in multiple locations. Alder immediately notified Cal Fire State Forests Program Director, Kevin Conway, as well as contractor, Anderson Logging, of people’s presence on the ground in vicinity. Many community members, trail hikers and bikers have flocked to the woods in a last ditch attempt to keep standing the trees they love.

Concerned community members called on Kevin Conway, Cal Fire State Forests Program Director, to immediately halt logging operations while people are in the woods. Previous negotiations for dialogue broke down recently when Cal Fire refused to agree to halt logging while talks were initiated.

While the Mama and Papa trees have focused public attention on JDSF, activists emphasize that they are “not the only trees in the forest” and that it is the entire forest in the context of climate change, cultural and tribal protections and current environmental and economic issues affecting Mendocino County and the world.

The Coalition to Save Jackson State Forest in JDSF is calling for a moratorium on logging until a new Environmental Impact Report for the JDSF Management Plan is completed, stating: “The old report, drafted 2007, is woefully out of date”. Please join us in urging Cal Fire State Forests Program Director, Kevin Conway, to halt logging operations immediately so negotiations can continue and until proper dialogue has been reached.

Sign on to a letter to Kevin Conway.

 

EDF

Right now, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working to craft a new rule to tackle methane pollution from oil and gas operations, and they want to hear from you.

Methane pollution is a severe threat to our climate, our health and our communities, and we need everyone to urge EPA Administrator Regan to protect our health and slow the rate of climate change by taking sweeping action on methane. We have the tools and technology today to cut methane pollution from the oil and gas sector by 65% by 2025.

Send in your comment today and — tell the EPA that it’s time to put methane under control!

GINA PELTIER – MOVE ON

For seven years, my community—the Anishinabe (Ojibwe) people of Northern Minnesota and our allies—have been organizing to stop the construction of the massive Line 3 toxic tar sands pipeline, which is a terrible threat to our treaty rights, clean water, and the climate.

President Biden can cancel the permits for Line 3 with the stroke of a pen, just as he did for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office. It just needs to become a priority for him.

Will you show your support and sign my petition asking President Biden to stop construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline?

This week is a week that touched my heart. More than 2,000 water protectors took peaceful, bold action side by side with frontline Indigenous leaders in resisting Enbridge’s Line 3. Nearly 200 were arrested.1 Others are still prayerfully holding space in solidarity with the RISE Coalition, upholding our treaty rights at the spot where the pipeline is slated to cross the Mississippi headwaters.

Now we need YOUR help to send a loud message to President Biden, asking him to stop construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline.

Sign my petition

TIDES ADVOCACY

Can you join us by taking action today?

Sign the petition to urge Governor Newsom, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins to fund Community Resilience Centers.

Share the call for utility debt relief.

Read and share our recommendations for an #EJBudget.