THE GEORGIA RUN-OFF NEEDS GET OUT THE VOTE WRITERS

ACTIVATE AMERICA – POSTCARDS

Today Activate America launched our postcard campaign into Georgia. You can sign up HERE. These cards need to be mailed by November 25th.

It’s very important that we reach these voters, who may not be aware of the very short early voting window. It’s going to be a razor thin outcome, and so much is at stake.

 

Vote Forward – LETTERS

Thanks to the hard work of more than 40,000 Big Senders, nearly 5 million voters received letters encouraging them to participate in our democracy, and this week, we saw strong voter turnout for the midterm elections!

Now, the Georgia Senate race is headed to a runoff, and voters will decide who to send to the U.S. Senate on December 6. We’ll be writing to Democratic-leaning registered voters who we think may be unlikely to vote. Will you join us to write letters to Georgia voters encouraging them to vote in this critical runoff election?

Because the runoff is only a few weeks away, please put your letters to Georgia voters in the mail as soon as they’re ready, but no later than Tuesday, November 29.


CLIMATE ACTION CALIFORNIA – Phone to “cure” ballots

Ballot curing for Nevada is live, and times are available:
Sign up here with the Nevada Democratic Party
and even
Sign up with Swing Left for ballot curing… in California!
And we thought the election was going to be over on Tuesday!

 

 


 

For those of you working with Frederika Aalto:

Dear Writers:

I just realized (thanks to a helpful comment from a writer) that tomorrow is a federal holiday (Veterans’ Day) so the post offices will be closed and I can’t buy stamps. Since this is a very short but very important campaign, I think that the best course of action is for me to put out the packets with labels tomorrow, you to pick up the packets and leave the full amount ($14 per packet) and then contact me to get your names, addresses and script, so that you can start writing. I will probably not be able to get stamps until Monday, at which point I will leave stamps in an envelope addressed to you at your pickup location. That way, you will be able to do the writing over the weekend and mail your postcards by Tuesday. From Monday on, the packets will have stamps. However, I don’t want to wait until Monday to start this campaign, as time is of the essence. If this is agreeable to you, pick up your packets anytime from late tomorrow on, and when you ask me for names, let me know that you didn’t get stamps. I will make sure that you get them ASAP.

Frederica [email protected]


 

 

Join the 350 Humboldt letter writing group at 7pm Sunday November 13 to chat while we write to Georgians. Get your list of voters to write to from Vote Forward in advance.

Join Zoom Meeting

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

 


PETITIONS

350.ORG

We are at a pivotal point. We need the U.S. to own up to its responsibility and pay for its contribution to the climate chaos.Can you sign this petition and show your support for loss and damage financing?

STAND.ORG

Momentum is building on the global campaign to #KickBigPollutersOut. A wave of media attention on this scandal, disruptions to polluters’ official events (which we may have been involved in 🙃), and protests in the courtyards have lit a fire. If we can also ramp up international pressure on governments around the world, it could be enough to remove the fossil fuel lobby from the decision-making table.

Will you add your name to this petition calling on world governments to kick big polluters out of the UN climate talks? It’s time to hold governments to account and show them the world is watching.

350 Seattle

PUSH FOR STRONG EXECUTIVE ACTION ON CLIMATE — Whether Democrats control Congress or not, the President’s Inflation Reduction Act — while an important win — was not sufficient. To turn the tide on fossil fuel emissions and production, the President needs to take strong executive action immediately, and we will be asking our Congressional representatives to push Biden to do so. However, individually, we can make our demands known right now. As noted by the Center for Biological Diversity, there are three actions we must ask of Biden:

“First, he can stop federal fossil fuel extraction by ending approvals of all new fossil fuel projects and phasing out existing production on public lands and waters. Second, he can declare a climate emergency to accelerate our shift away from fossil fuels and further boost renewables. Third, he can use executive authority to require agencies to set science-based standards for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.”  

The next two years are critical to protecting life on Earth. Tell Biden it’s up to him to end the fossil fuel era now.

COP 27 IN EGYPTAt the COP 26 conference in Glasgow, 34 countries and five financial institutions signed a pledge to end new international public finance for fossil fuels by the end of 2022 and to fully prioritize finance for clean energy. Since Glasgow, a small but growing number of countries have taken actions to meet this pledge, but not surprisingly several big countries are lagging behind. Oil Change International notes that if the Glasgow signatories followed through on the pledge mentioned above, they would directly shift 28 billion US dollars each year away from fossil fuels into clean energy.