Demand that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) release the American Rescue Plan transit stimulus funds intended to create union jobs and provide services vital to working people’s daily lives. The time to restore and improve jobs is … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2021
Red, Black, Green New Deal Launch, May 11
Join the Movement for Black Lives for the launch of its campaign for a Red, Black, & Green New Deal—a Black climate campaign to set a national Black Climate Agenda for a sustainable future in defense of Black lives. The M4B explains, … [Read more...]
The True Cost of Chevron: Here, There and Everywhere, May 2
At our May meeting, Sunflower Alliance is proud to present three warriors in the struggle against the international fossil fuel giant headquartered in our own backyard—Chevron, or as it's pronounced in Ecuador, Chev-wrong. From its environmental … [Read more...]
Tell John Kerry: Militarism and Inequity are Climate Issues
Sign on to this letter from Veterans for Peace to Biden's Climate Envoy John Kerry, telling him to include military Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in all reporting and data on GHGs (they never should have been excluded); use his public … [Read more...]
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change
At a time when governments around the world are rolling out climate change policies, activists and experts from North American and global climate and environmental justice groups are explaining why real climate solutions must go beyond the greening … [Read more...]
Support SB 467—Now as a Setbacks-Only Bill, by April 27
SB 467, the bill to ban extreme extraction and establish 2,500-foot health and safety buffers between oil wells and sensitive sites like homes and schools, died last week in the Senate Natural Resources Committee when three Democrats voted no or … [Read more...]
Major New Report: Fossil Fuel Racism
Check out this important new report, Fossil Fuel Racism: How Phasing Out Oil, Gas, and Coal Can Protect Communities. The report was issued by Greenpeace, the Movement for Black Lives, and the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Poverty and endorsed by many … [Read more...]
Film Premiere: Occupy the Farm, April 20, 22
Many of us will remember the heroic struggle to save the Gill Tract Farm in Albany, when 200 urban farmers walked onto a publicly-owned research farm and planted two acres of crops in order to save the land from becoming a real estate development. … [Read more...]
CA Roadmap to Just Transition, Take Survey by June 3
The Newsom administration is developing a "Roadmap to Just Transition" to a "just, clean economy." Weigh in on what it should look like. The Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency are charged with … [Read more...]
Climate Justice Earth Day Events, April 21-23
A special program on feminist climate action, a grassroots climate justice summit, and the launch of a UC Center for Climate Justice. WHO CARES? A CONVERSATION ON FEMINIST CLIMATE ACTION, APRIL 21 Women's Earth Alliance and Sierra Club's Gender, … [Read more...]
No Homes on a Toxic Waste Dump! April 20
“The tides are rising and so are we!” Come tell the Richmond City Council not to allow housing on the super-toxic AstraZeneca waste-dump site until it's completely cleaned up! Last January the lame-duck city council approved a 4,000-unit … [Read more...]