Dear friends,
Now that we’re going back to a four-day week, I want to restore throwback Thursdays, for actions that need a little bit more . . . action. Lots of these appeared around the recent holiday, and you may have been preoccupied with any number of things. In any case, no judgment. Let’s get busy.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar publicly played a recording of a vile, profanity-laced death threat that was directed her since Lauren Boebert’s recent Islamophobic remarks about Omar. Omar has received and reported hundreds of similar threats since her election to Congress.
Omar is expecting Congressional leaders to take action and we must demand it.
Contact your Congressional Representative and let them know that Boebert and others have to face consequences for their bullying and threats. There is a ready-made message.
There’s a good environmental measure before the city council, the Skip the Stuff bill,
which would require NYC restaurants and food service establishments to only provide condiments, napkins, and plastic utensils, plates, and cups if a customer asks for them.
Call on council speaker Corey Johnson to bring the Skip the Stuff bill (Intro 1775-B) to a vote! This is a ready-made action from the NRDC!
New York State’s Climate Action Council is finalizing their recommendations, a ‘roadmap’ to achieve the goals set in 2019. Among those goals are
sourcing 70% of [the state’s] electricity from renewable energy by 2030, using 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040, and reducing greenhouse gases by 85% from 1990 levels by 2050
Urge them to go with their most aggressive proposal, which would retire existing fossil fuel infrastructure and save the lives of tens of thousands of New Yorkers.
Contact NYS’s Climate Action Council to let them know that we are depending on them to deliver on the promises of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
Why not go for the all-three-levels-of-government hat trick?!
Tell President Biden: No more fossil fuel permits!
I’m interested in activating and educating more people, and so I need your help. Please think about your friends, colleagues, and acquaintances who are possessed by Lordean rage, the kind that motivates people
to do something productive: to join an organization, to give money, to sign a petition, to protest in the streets.
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DC statehood has already passed in the House. Statehood would address the critical matter of democratic representation for DC’s 714 million residents, in addition to redressing some of the gross imbalance in the US Senate, where the vast majority of American people are represented by the slimmest majority of senators.
It is conventional wisdom that the legislation will never come to a vote in the Senate as long as the filibuster remains in place. The admission of a state is not, strictly speaking a legislative matter, and the filibuster may be set aside here, just as it has been for judicial appointments.
Contact your US Senators and demand that they move on DC statehood. I made it easy! Pass this action along to friends in other states.
We cannot ignore the urgent need to work for voting rights and stop the extreme partisan gerrymandering that is well underway. You were probably besieged by requests for donations this week. My big takeaway from the last election cycle was that we should support grassroots action rather than candidates.
Invest in the groups on the ground who are educating and activating voters.
If you’re a phone-banker, you are needed.
Sign up for tonight’s action to contact West Virginia voters and patch them through directly to Senator Manchin's office asking him to pass the Freedom To Vote Act.
The white nationalists who organized the 2017 Unite the Right rally where Heather Heyer was killed were found liable for more than $25 million in damages. This seems particularly important as it has come to light that the former president was on the phone with the January 6 planners, gathered at the Willard Hotel, just hours before the insurrection.
Have a good day!
with love,
L