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/86943045708?pwd=clVqWVJZNEFQSVl0QWd6VCtOZGtWZz09
Tonight steering committee member Laura Simpson will tell us about a new app for taking climate actions: Climate Action Now.
A. Here are some petitions to sign and letters to write. It won’t take more than a few minutes and every action we take counts in the climate crisis. Below the petitions are opportunities to write postcards to voters in important elections.
Environment America
The 1972 Clean Water Act is our nation’s bedrock clean water protection law. For decades, the act safeguarded all of our waters from sewage, chemicals and more dangerous pollutants.
Then, the Trump administration’s Dirty Water Rule jeopardized that progress.2
As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decide on the fate of our nation’s waterways, polluting industries and developers have made their voices heard — clamoring to keep the Dirty Water Rule.
Will you make sure our calls for clean water are louder?
350 SV
At a time when all the experts are telling us we need to be developing renewable energy, that we need to be addressing the climate crisis and that we don’t have much time to act, the last thing we should be doing is tipping the scales in favor of an industry that pollutes our planet.
Center for biological diversity
Pesticide-treated seeds harm wildlife like fish, frogs, birds, bees and butterflies. And by hurting and killing pollinators that are critical to our agricultural systems, they endanger the future of our food supply.
Pesticides from these seeds are now routinely found in public water supplies, where they pose a health risk to people. They’re especially dangerous to pregnant women and children, since they can lead to developmental or neurological problems.
These treated seeds are extremely common in California — but the state’s pesticide agency doesn’t consider them “pesticides” under the law. That legal loophole means their use isn’t regulated or tracked.
B. WRITE LETTERS TO VOTERS
There are some new postcard writing and letter writing opportunities. Check them out.
POSTCARD CAMPAIGN TARGETS FLORIDA VOTERS
Virtual Postcard Writing · Hosted by Broward for Progress (browardforprogress.org)
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/417759/
Join us for Postcards to Voters. We’re writing to Florida voters and need your help! Last cycle we sent almost 100,000 postcards out. Will you join us? 15 minutes a day can make a huge difference!
NEW POSTCARD CAMPAIGN FOR WISCONSIN VOTERS:
From Activate America (Formerly Flip the West)
We are writing to likely Democrats in Wisconsin to let them know Democrats delivered on their promises with the new Infrastructure and Jobs Act. Wisconsin is widely considered to be the most vulnerable state in the Democrats’ “blue wall” for presidential elections. Then-candidate Joe Biden narrowly won the state in 2020 after Donald Trump won in 2016. But Republican Senator Ron Johnson is increasingly out of touch with reality.
Many voters do not pay attention to their elected officials’ voting records. Join Activate America (formerly Flip the West) as we write to Wisconsin voters and let them know how Johnson is voting against their interests.
You may also chose to write a similar message to voters in key CA congressional districts in Spanish or in English.
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/387648/?
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]