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 a climate emergency.
Below those are organizations to work with to write postcards to voters in important elections.
Here in Humboldt, there are important positions on 350 Humboldt committees that we are recruiting for. Please consider checking them out. Let me know if you are interested.
Thanks.
Dan Chandler, 350 Humboldt Steering Committee
CalGEM will host two public workshops to take verbal public comments: WEDNESDAY, December 1, 5-8 pm PT, and next Thursday December 9, 6-8 pm PT. Please register below, and plan to be online at least a half-hour before the start as there will be many people calling in. Tell CalGEM the new rules should apply to all existing wells, and ask them to put a moratorium on new wells until the new rules are in effect. |
Register Here |
Public comments on the draft rule are due Tuesday, December 21, and we want to submit as many public comments as possible supporting 3,200-ft. buffers, demanding that they apply to existing wells, and calling for a ban on all new permits within the zone until the final rule is in effect. Help us put the pressure on CalGEM, by adding your name to VISIÓN’s excellent letter! |
350 SV
Hi all
We’ve put this together: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-manchin-sinema-and-your-senators-pass-build-back-better-now. Targets are our Senators AND Manchin and Sinema.
…and I’ll be happy to add any groups who use Action Network as co-sponsors (so you can go in and collect your signers, etc.) — and anyone else who just wants their logo on the page. Let me know if you’re interested!
Janet Cox
Legislation Director
PUBLIC CITIZEN
AIG provides crucial insurance to fossil fuels, enabling them to destroy our planet. Without insurance, fossil fuel companies can’t build new oil pipelines or fracking wells.
We need AIG’s CEO to see that insuring coal is dangerous for people and the planet — and deeply unpopular with Americans.
We’re delivering this petition next week as a special holiday message to AIG CEO Peter Zaffino: ‘Tis the season to stop insuring fossil fuels!
That means we’re running out of time to collect the names of everyone who wants AIG to stop insuring coal — including yours, Sue!
VOTE SOLAR
The California Building Standards Commission will meet soon to approve the 2022 CALGreen code. The proposed code still perpetuates structural inequities, denying the majority of multi-family residents access to affordable at-home EV charging — and the code-making process itself has been riddled with troubling irregularities.
Even (or especially!) if you’ve signed on before, please sign this final letter, repeating our demand to the California Building Standards Commission that they provide equitable access to EV charging in new multi-family housing.
You can also use this one-click tool to send an email directly to the Governor, asking him to intercede.
Signatures received by Monday, December 6 will be included.
NRDC
One of President Biden’s most ambitious conservation goals is the 30×30 initiative: a plan to protect 30 percent of U.S. lands and inland waters and 30 percent of ocean areas by 2030. Right now, only about 23 percent of U.S. ocean areas are fully or highly protected, leaving large swaths of marine ecosystems vulnerable to biodiversity decline and worsening climate change impacts. Tell NOAA to implement meaningful protections for the ocean—now.
https://act.nrdc.org/sign/6296-3030-noaa-211123?
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/86943045708?pwd=clVqWVJZNEFQSVl0QWd6VCtOZGtWZz09
NEW POSTCARD CAMPAIGN TARGETS FLORIDA VOTERS
Florida: Postcards and Letter Writing to 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/?
PROGRESSIVE TURNOUT PROJECT CAMPAIGN
Write postcards to first-time voters in ten states with key Senate races in 2022. Help us make sure Democrats stay engaged and make voting a habit in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
We’ll send you postcards, addresses and instructions. You provide stamps and mail the cards to voters before the Jan. 7, 2022 deadline.
Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. In 2020, our volunteers sent 21 million postcards to voters in 14 swing states, and we saw incredible results!
Postcards to Swing States is a project of Progressive Turnout Project. For more information, visit us at turnoutpac.org/postcards or send us an email.
THIS POSTCARD WRITING GROUP FOCUSES ON CITIES
We wanted to let you know that we just helped start a new postcard program focused on making sure progressive voters who care about climate change turnout in local elections this November in some key cities with relevant climate policy at stake. It’s www.PostcardsforClimate.com.
It’s unrelated to Postcards to Swing States but has a similar setup.
Would you be willing to write some of these postcards? The sign-up form is accessible from the website.
The current campaign is for New Orleans. We have an FAQ with more details: www.PostcardsforClimate.com/faq.
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]