The climate justice organization, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations, is hosting an online fundraising concert to benefit the Georgia voting rights organization Fair Fight and the senatorial campaigns of Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2020
Army Corps Scraps Plans to Dredge for Oil Tankers!
In a huge victory for the health of the Bay, our communities, and the climate, the US Army Corps of Engineers has dropped its plan to dig deeper shipping channels in the Carquinez Strait. The plan was explicitly intended to make it cheaper to ship … [Read more...]
Powerful Video: Growing Up Next to an Oil Well
Check out this new, powerful environmental justice resource: a New York Times video oped, "Living Near Drilling is Deadly: Why Don't Lawmakers Care?" In the video, Josiah Edwards describes growing up in L. A County as "a black kid with asthma," … [Read more...]
Sunflower Alliance Zoom Meeting, December 6
We're looking forward to getting together with you for our regular meeting. We'll discuss the latest developments in the campaigns we're participating in: fighting local fossil fuel expansion, coal exports, and refinery pollution. And local work to … [Read more...]
Workshop: Climate Change Impacts on California, Dec. 2 and 3
Join the California state environmental health agency for a two-day workshop, Exploring California's Climate Change Connections. The workshop will highlight scientific evidence and information relating to climate change and its impacts, with a focus … [Read more...]
A Just Transition for Labor: What Will It Take?
Tens of thousands of workers have jobs in fossil fuel and related industries. How do we secure a just transition that guarantees good jobs with benefits for these workers in a new clean energy economy? In this essential webinar presented by The … [Read more...]
Family Housing on a Toxic Dump? Just Say NO, by December 1
Help stop the move to rush through approval of a huge mixed-use development on the most contaminated Superfund site in the state. Tell the lame-duck Richmond City Council to hold off approving the Development Agreement for the Campus Bay … [Read more...]
Letter to Contra Costa on Just Transition from Fossil Fuels
Just weeks after Contra Costa County’s Board of Supervisors declared a climate emergency, a diverse group of environmental, labor, and public health advocates sent a letter to the Board calling for a planned and equitable transition away from fossil … [Read more...]
Workers and Just Transition: A Global View, December 5
Worldwide transitions deserve a worldwide response! An exciting webinar produced by the Labor Network for Sustainability and the Just Transition Listening Project Organizing Committee will bring together labor and policy leaders to share … [Read more...]
Stop Rush to OK Toxic Shoreline Development, November 19
Help stop the move to fast-track approval of a 2,000-4,000 unit mixed-use project on the contaminated Richmond South Shoreline. This coming Thursday, the developer-friendly Richmond Planning Commission will vote on the Zeneca/Campus Bay Project … [Read more...]
Utility Service is a Human Right, November 18
The economic disasters affecting so many people during this pandemic have made even it more clear that we must stop shutoffs of energy and water -- basic human needs. Join the Network for Energy, Water, and Health in Affordable Buildings … [Read more...]