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US climate movement takes aim at Biden White House 'to change course of history'
Jon Queally and Common Dreams October 11, 2021
Organizers for climate justice are making final preparations Sunday ahead of five days of planned actions this week to confront President Joe Biden over the urgent need to declare a climate emergency, ditch fossil fuels, and move swiftly to create a green energy economy that can create millions of new jobs in the process.
"As fires burn, oceans rise and cities flood, we're mobilizing to Washington D.C. to demand that President Biden act on climate justice right now," said Joye Braun, a frontline community organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), a key member of the coalition behind the week-long mobilization dubbed "People vs. Fossil Fuels" which will kick off Monday, include daily civil disobedience at the White House, and culminate Friday with a march on the Capitol Building for a mass sit-in.
"The fossil fuel industry has brought devastation to our homelands and it's time that we bring this fight to Biden's doorstep," said Braun.
The coalition—which includes IEN, 350.org, Sunrise Movement, Center for Biological Diversity, Zero Hour, Friends of the Earth USA, Oil Change International, Climate Justice Alliance, and many others—is calling on the U.S. president to "declare a climate emergency, stop all new fossil fuel projects, fight for climate justice, and launch a just and renewable energy revolution."
The group's detailed and complete list of demands can be found here and those who wish to get involved can visit this page on the coalition's website.
In their invitation to join the cause and back the demands put forth by front-line organizers from around the country, the coalition said: "We are asking you to stand with us. As representatives of communities who have carried the brunt of the harm from fossil fuels for generations, we ask you to join us in solidarity. If we all come together, put our bodies on the line in the name of climate justice, we may be able to change the course of history."
The 'Build Back Fossil Free' coalition organizing this week's mobilization says that Biden has both the executive authority and the popular mandate to act aggressively to address the climate crisis but so far has not acted with nearly enough urgency.
"Biden is faced with a momentous decision, and I and others will be gathering in Washington to encourage that decision: to declare a climate emergency, stop the petrochem build-out, and usher in a just transition to a clean, green renewables economy," said John Beard, director of the Port Arthur Community Action Network, a Texas group fighting the oil and gas industry in the Gulf Coast.
"President Biden came into office promising bold action to transform our economy with renewable energy and good jobs, but he passed the buck to a dysfunctional Congress," said Jean Su, director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Energy Justice program. "Biden has immense executive powers to speed the end of the fossil fuel era and ignite a just, renewable-energy revolution. Without executive action on fossil fuels, there's no way for the president to protect us from the climate emergency. We're calling on Biden to reclaim his power from coal- and gas-state Senators and show us he can be our Climate President."
According to organizers:
By refusing to stop major fossil fuel projects, President Biden has broken his promises to protect Indigneous rights, prioritize environmental justice, and fully address the climate crisis.
Despite the President's rhetoric, his administration has failed to stop major projects like the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, defended oil drilling in the Arctic, promoted fossil fuel exports, and allowed drilling, mining and fracking to continue on Native and public lands.
Meanwhile, the impacts of the climate and pollution crisis have only grown worse. Hurricanes have devastated communities from New Orleans to New York City. Wildfires have burned millions of acres across the West. Historic droughts and heatwaves have gripped most of the country. And every day, millions of Americans, especially Black, Brown, and Indigenous People, breathe air and drink water poisoned by fossil fuel pollution.
As Common Dreams reported, over 300 scientists last week backed the demands of the coalition and said that to avert 'uncontrollable climate chaos,' Biden must move more swiftly and concretely to end the age of fossil fuels.
"U.S. scientists are done speaking calmly in the face of inaction," saidSandra Steingraber, a biologist and co-founder of the Concerned Health Professional of New York, who signed a letter alongside 337 colleagues. "Terrified by our own data, we stand in solidarity with the People vs. Fossil Fuels mobilization and its demands. President Biden, listening to science means acting on science. It means stopping new fossil fuel projects, opposing industry delay tactics, and declaring a national climate emergency."
Dr. Shaye Wolf, climate science director at the Center for Biological Diversitywho also signed the letter, said, "When scientists across the U.S. are imploring the president to get the country off fossil fuels, it's time to listen."
april 2021
Last Friday, two days after Sen. Scott Wiener’s SB 467, the:{_{fracking ban/buffer bill}_:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);box-sizing:inherit"):}: (that had been our highest priority this year) went down to defeat in its first committee, Governor Newsom:{_{directed}_:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);box-sizing:inherit"):}: two of California’s executive agencies to 1) prepare to begin to phase out fracking by 2024, and 2) “analyze pathways” to end oil extraction in California by 2045.
This is gratifying, confusing, and disappointing all at once. Gratifying because FINALLY someone with authority is directly addressing California’s addiction to fossil fuels extraction. Confusing, because until last week, Newsom had protested he had no power to ban fracking. And very, very disappointing because another quarter-century of drilling for oil and gas in California is the last thing the planet needs. We’ve already got more fossil fuels above ground than we can afford to burn without exceeding 1.5 degrees warming.
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How shall we respond? We recommend that 350 Silicon Valley members and all Californians contact the Governor and share the following concerns:
- Fenceline communities near oil and gas wells in California have suffered long enough with toxic gases and polluted groundwater. We applaud Gov. Newsom for directing the CalGEM agency to phase out fracking by 2024. However, we think wells located within 2,500 feet of homes, schools, day care centers, medical facilities, etc. should be closed down ASAP. CalGEM should expedite its public health rulemaking and move to close down wells within a 2,500 foot buffer zone by the end of 2022 at the latest. California’s vulnerable residents can’t wait.
- California’s electrical grid already has abundant solar and wind energy, and a vibrant industry is poised to increase production to meet our future needs. While we thank Gov. Newsom for directing state agencies to begin planning for an end to dirty fossil fuel extraction, the latest data on atmospheric carbon underscores our emergency situation. On April 5, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) measured the highest number ever at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory — 421 ppm of carbon dioxide. In short, we cannot wait until 2045 to end oil extraction — we must end it by 2035 at the latest.
You can send your comments to Gov. Newsom via his website: :{_{https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/}_:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);box-sizing:inherit"):}:
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https://kpfa.org/episode/terra-verde-december-1-2017/
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senator Nancy Skinner's SB 27, which was signed into law by Newsom this week, will require agencies to design a framework/strategy to support carbon sequestration on natural and working lands, and a registry of projects.
Governor Newsom signed 24 environmental bills this week, including several of our priorities. While we can celebrate a few wins, we must also urge him to finish the job.
Senator Josh Becker's SB 596, signed on Thursday, is the first bill in the nation to directly target greenhouse gas emissions from cement, which is responsible for 7 precent of all global emissions. It's also the first provision in California law requiring any sector to achieve net-zero emissions.
While we were also excited to see SB 47 (Limón) become law so that idle and deserted wells are cleaned up, two complementary bills remain unsigned — AB 896 (Bennett) and SB 84 (Hurtado), critical components to ensure that remediation is paid for by the well owners.
http://www.350siliconvalley.org/
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RESOURCES
Official CA Bill Tracker website:
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You can find your district #’s and representatives here:
http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov
350BA Bill Tracker google spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sHUMePXVHes-XMZO7oLRk7p0p4hnicjf8ADxLdMnq68/edit?usp=sharing:{}:
Sites to research campaign donations:
Maplight has donations but dark money (through PACS) is hard to trace and get names of donors.
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http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/Detail.aspx?id=1335519
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Bill McKibben author of classic End of Nature, which provided an important wake-up call on global warming. New book *Enough*on GMO's audio interview (excerpt) *The Bill McKibben Reader* "Bill McKibben has been among America’s most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking book on climate change, *The End of Nature*, is considered “as important as Rachel Carson’s classic Silent Spring” and *Deep Economy*, his “deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding”(says Michael Pollan) exploration of globalization, helped awaken and fuel a movement to restore local economies." 2008 video interview. UCTV 2010 interview His latest book is Eaarth: Making a Life on a Hot New Planet Review and excerpt Letterman interview. longer talk based on Eaarth; audio interview on using Gulf spill as turning point. 6/10 A :{A great talk:(style="margin:0px;font-weight:bolder"):}: by 350.org founder Bill McKibben on how he and some writer friends and six students built the movement. Do the Math Tour takes on the energy companies head on in a fight to the death. Students will be key 12/12.*** See Activism. Bill McKibben talk 6/12. **** Lauded by Time Magazine as the planet's best green journalist, McKibben, founder of 350.org movement, is the author of dozens of books about the environment brings deep insight into the human dimensions of climate change. 60 min. PowerShift 2011. Bill McKibben vs. Epstein, Debate on Fossil Fuels good update on global warming 11/12. This American Lifehost Ira Glass tells the story of writer turned activist Bill McKibben. McKibben is trying to create a divestment campaign modeled after the successful campaign against apartheid in South Africa. The campaign is designed recast the discussion of climate change with fossil fuel companies as the villains. alt link audio) 5/13. 8/13 update (time to step up pls). Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. (see Eco-heroes) has a new book Oil and Honey:the Education of a Unlikely Activist (video talk), (review), see also excerpt on bees, drawing on Honeybee Democracy, NPR story audio,excerpt, video talk by author.
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Recently, there has been a growing discussion of climate change as a moral issue, both in academia and in religious communities. This past fall I spoke at three religion and climate change conferences in as many months, including a conference at Harvard Divinity School, “Spiritual and Sustainable: Religion Responds to Climate Change,” and in June 2015 I will join many global thinkers at a process theology conference on climate change in Claremont, California.
The highly anticipated encyclical from Pope Francis on climate change will undoubtedly contribute and bring attention to this discourse. Frequently, however, the acknowledgment that climate change is a moral issue on which religious people should engage is the end of the conversation. There has not been nearly enough discussion about what it means to engage with this moral challenge. We have not yet answered how and where we should be taking our stand in response to climate change. I argue that when religious people answer the call of the climate crisis, we must bring real moral leadership to the climate justice movement.
The first kind of engagement with the climate crisis is usually a change in consumer behavior, reducing one’s personal carbon footprint. In our consumer-focused society, it is not surprising that the first obvious role to which we turn is that of a consumer. We see thousands of advertisements a day that remind us we are consumers. So when we seek to make an impact, we immediately think of our power as consumers. After first changing our personal carbon footprints, we then turn to our collective consumption and try to impact our organizational carbon footprint. In the buildup to the pope’s encyclical, I’ve already heard some talk about getting Catholic churches to weatherize their buildings and put solar panels on their roofs.
This is useful and important work, but, as the history of the climate movement demonstrates, this obsession over consumer behavior has limited benefit and tends to reinforce the mindset that created the problem in the first place. We got to this point of environmental crisis by “buying” into the notion that our value as people lies in our role as consumers. Furthermore, this focus on consumer activism naturally becomes a rich person’s movement. The mantra of “vote with your dollars” means that those without many votes (dollars) don’t matter very much.
Part of the role of the church is to remind us that we are more than consumers. Like many organizations, churches can bring to life our role as citizens, community members and family members. In addition, churches are uniquely suited to develop our identities as children of God, pieces of an interdependent web of existence, or bearers of divine sparks of creativity. Connecting with these nonconsumer ways of being in the world is an adequate definition of empowerment, which is the basis of any social movement. A movement empowered by the elevation of these nonconsumer identities is a necessity for the revolutionary change that the climate crisis demands of our energy, political and social systems.
Thus far, religious communities have primarily engaged with climate activism by getting behind the climate movement. When 350.org launches a divestment campaign, churches and denominations get on board to divest their endowments. When Bill McKibben asks clergy to participate in civil disobedience, they show up with their collars on. But waiting to be told what to do is not moral leadership. As a veteran of the climate movement, I suggest that we don’t need religious communities merely to join the climate movement. We need religious communities to lead, challenge and deepen the climate movement.
The first imperative of moral leadership in the climate movement is to speak the hard truths about the nature of our challenge. Implicit in the idea of climate justice is the goal of keeping most fossil fuel reserves in the ground. There may be a way to do that while still ensuring the profits of the corporations that expect to extract those fossil fuels, and certain misguided initiatives like the United States Climate Action Partnership have pursued that agenda. But what separates the climate justice movement from other climate-related players is the mission of keeping those fossil fuels in the ground without guaranteeing future profits to the corporations who have already profited from exploitation.
http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/08/tim-dechrisopher-climate-change/
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Wackadoodle 350.org protesters disappear their KKK moment
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Last weekend I pointed out that 350.org leader Bill McKibben had endorsed the antics of some 350.org members in Texas that adopted tactics of the Klu Klux Klan – showing up at somebody’s house with mask covered faces, torches, and a threat: