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Sign to tell the Senate: You can’t filibuster a reckoning on the voting rights act

by DrewAction, allies, Home March 6, 2023March 6, 2023Comments are Disabled

President Biden went to Selma Alabama yesterday to commemorate the 58th anniversary of bloody Sunday, when a brutal police attack on peaceful civil rights protesters as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The attack by police fractured then activist John Lewis’ skull, and the ensuing outrage led directly to the signing of the Voting Rights …

Last Chance to Stop Willow

by DrewAction, allies, Home March 2, 2023March 27, 20231 comment

Last Month, the Biden administration took another step closer to the bring of climate catastrophe by approving the Willow Arctic oil project in Alaska. Biden ran on climate change, and repeatedly promised to ban fossil fuel extraction on public lands and waters, and especially in the sensitive Arctic. Biden lied. Since taking office his Administration has …

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3 weeks to go until our bank rallies on 3.21.23

3 weeks to go: Big banks you’ve got mail, cut it out or we cut up our cards

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 28, 2023February 28, 20232 comments

As we’ve been telling you for a few weeks now, on March 21, 2023 – 3.21.23 – we will come together in the streets to demand banks stop funding climate chaos. Last week we delivered thousands of letters and petition signatures (including yours) to the banks demanding that they cut funding for fossil fuels, ro …

Break up with bad banks

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 15, 2023February 15, 20231 comment

We’ve told you heart breaking stories about the Big Four Fossil Banks — Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, or Wells Fargo — for years. The simple truth is that these banks are cheating on you with fossil fuels. While you sleep, thinking you’re a good person for saving money and paying your credit card bill …

Big Oil is stealing from the working class. Tax their windfall profits!

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 13, 2023February 13, 2023Comments are Disabled

Last week at his State of the Union address, President Biden took time to call out the excessive profits the oil industry has been posting: BP had just announced a $27.7 billion profit for 2022, more than doubling last year’s earnings. This announcement comes at the tail end of a record-shattering fourth quarter and 2022 …

Endangered log perch Deny MVP's 404 water permit

Zombie pipeline MVP is back. Water Protectors take action!

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 9, 2023February 9, 2023Comments are Disabled

We’ve been telling you for years about the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 300+ mile long fracked-gas pipeline from fracking fields in West Virginia near Pennsylvania, through Virginia, and all the way into North Carolina. The project is still years behind schedule, drowning in debt, and which locals have fought on land, in the courts, on the …

No Cop City Anywhere. Defend the forest everywhere.

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 8, 2023February 8, 20233 comments

Frontline organizers in Atlanta are calling for urgent support to stop Cop City – and we’re answering the call with actions from coast, to coast, to coast. Here’s what you need to know A few days ago we told you about Tortuguita, a leader in the campaign to stop cop city in Atlanta who was …

BIden Declare a Climate Emergency poster by Denali Nalamalapu

The most important two words at tonight’s State of the Union: Climate. Emergency.

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 7, 2023February 7, 2023Comments are Disabled

Tonight is the State of the Union address, where the President visits Congress to tell them his plans for the year ahead, and to brag on his achievements from last year. In the course of the speech tonight, Biden will probably talk about climate change, specifically the Inflation reduction Act and its various tax credits …

an image contrasting a polluted background with power lines and a clean foreground with solar panels separated by a gavel and town hall

Nerdy tweets and utility actions in a post Inflation Reduction Act world

by DrewAction, Home, Opinion February 4, 2023February 6, 2023Comments are Disabled

UPDATED Feb 6 -It’s been a busy week behind the scenes as we prepare a series of actions targeting utilities bad behavior, and especially fracked fossil gas. I was trying to get my head around some news and new reports, so I wrote a long twitter thread that drew some … unexpected reactions. I’ve added …

Tell the Forest Service to speak for the trees, no MVP

by DrewAction, allies, Home January 31, 2023January 31, 20231 comment