Sunflower Alliance members who participated in the successful No Coal in Oakland campaign will discuss the ways the campaign built the power to stop the coal export terminal. Plus updates on our campaigns. We need your participation and your … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
Tell the California Air Resources Board: Yes Cap! No Trade! Sept 22
Tell the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to put an end to pollution trading. The cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gas emissions doesn't work and increases pollution in our most over-burdened communities. CARB is considering extending the … [Read more...]
Benicia City Council Says No to Valero!
A great win for People Power! The Benicia City Council voted 5-0 on Sept. 20th to deny the use permit for Valero's proposed oil train facility. A Surface Transportation Board ruling which arrived a few hours before the meeting assured city council … [Read more...]
Call for Monterey County, Now through Nov 8
We won in Alameda County. We won in Butte, San Benito, Mendocino and Santa Cruz. And this November at the ballot, we’re taking on Chevron in its own backyard—Monterey County, the fourth largest oil-producing county in the state. It's time for Bay … [Read more...]
NoDAPL Teach-in and Solidarity Action, Sept 15
Meet in front of the College of Ethnic Studies building at San Francisco State University for a teach-in and solidarity action to support the thousands of indigenous and other people gathered to block the Dakota Access pipeline. Performances, … [Read more...]
Donate Supplies for Dakota Pipeline Resistance Camps, Sept 19
Greenpeace offices around the county will be collecting camping, cooking, art, medical, and other supplies for the thousands of indigenous and other people gathered to resist the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline would carry almost half a million … [Read more...]
No Dakota Access Pipeline: Stand in Solidarity to Protect Water , Sept 17
Support the thousands of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) by joining Stand in Solidarity to Protect Water Sept. 17. The pipeline threatens lands of native tribes and other communities as … [Read more...]
Money Out of Politics, Sunflower Alliance Assembly, Sept 11
Larry Abbott will talk with us about Proposition 59, on the November ballot. It calls on California elected officials to work to overturn the Citizens United ruling -- and support a US Constitutional amendment stating that corporations are not people … [Read more...]