Two positive items in the news last week: 1. A major legal victory for the Standing Rock Sioux and allies fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline 2. Some serious discussion about nationalizing -- and phasing out -- the fossil fuel industry. From … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2020
Zoom Sunflower Alliance Meeting, April 19
We're all trying to keep up the struggle with computers and phones. You probably are too. No meetings for a while, but we hope to see you soon on Zoom. We'll share updates on key campaigns -- yes, they are still going forward -- and open the space … [Read more...]
Petition: Tell EPA To Take Back Its Free Pass for Polluters
The Trump administration just gave polluters a free pass to pollute our air and water. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as cover, Trump's Environmental Protection Agency announced it will no longer enforce legally mandated public health and … [Read more...]
Petition: Liberty Mutual: Stop Insuring Climate Destruction!
Tell insurance giant Liberty Mutual to stop insuring tar sands. As a top fossil fuel insurer with at least $8.9 billion invested in fossil fuel companies, Liberty Mutual is complicit in the destruction of waterways and sacred land. Tar sands oil … [Read more...]
Petition: Support the Wet’suwet’en, Defund the CoastalGas Pipeline
Support the Wet’suwet’en people fighting the construction of the TC Energy CoastalGas pipeline through their territories. Demand that Chase Bank stop funding it! And tell KKR, the investment firm planning to buy 65% of the pipeline, to change its … [Read more...]
Add Your Support for the People’s Bailout
Join Sunflower Alliance, the Climate Justice Alliance, 350.org, and more than 500 other environmental and social justice organizations to demand that the federal government pass a People's Bailout. The program outlines five principles for just … [Read more...]
Online Art Action: Protect the Bay
Check out the video showing the beautiful Spring Equinox online banner organized by Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty. More than 100 people, each with one letter, spelling out: Dear Army Corps Protect Our Bay Refuse … [Read more...]
Tell the Federal Government: No Bailouts for Big Oil
Join 350.org in demanding that Congress take immediate action to protect our communities, not Big Oil. Big Oil is looking to Congress and the Trump Administration to bail them out with our taxpayer dollars. . What Congress invests in now … [Read more...]
Online Action Against Canadian Pipeline Builder, March 23
Act in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people fighting the CoastalGas pipeline. TC Energy is continuing to build the pipeline through their land -- even in the midst of the pandemic Flood the inboxes, phone lines, and Twitter feeds of KKR, the … [Read more...]
Film: Story of Plastic, March 29
Depicting a world rapidly becoming overrun with toxic material, The Story of Plastic brings into focus an alarming, manmade crisis. Striking footage illustrates the ongoing catastrophe: fields full of garbage, veritable mountains of trash; rivers and … [Read more...]
Update on Army Corps of Engineers SF to Stockton Dredging Plan (as of 3/6)
The Army Corps of Engineers dredging project cannot move forward until a state or local government agency issues an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). This is to fulfill California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requirements. But the federal … [Read more...]