GRANDMOTHERS TO GRANDMOTHERS
OCTOBER 2022 NEWSLETTER
(Sections are color coded to match this list's colors so you can focus on what's most interesting to you)
- ACTION ALERTS
- 1000 GRANDMOTHERS KEEP ON SHOWING UP
- 'HAVE YOU HEARD' - Climate News Highlights
- GRANDMA SAYS
- PUZZLING OVER "FALSE SOLUTIONS"
- BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
- ORGANIZATIONAL WORK - inside story
ACTION ALERTS:
2) California Climate Justice Movement vs Fossil Fuel Industry: What’s Next?
Now that many climate bills have been signed into law this year (see Legislative Working Group report), the fossil fuel industry is trying to take away the biggest victory – a 3,200-foot health and safety buffer around oil and gas wells. They’re plotting to overturn it with a ballot measure. What’s next for the battle between the climate justice movement and the oil and gas industry? Hear from frontline community leaders in a meeting to share updates and discuss next steps,
hosted by the Oil and Gas Action Network. Tuesday, October 11, 5 – 6:30 PM
Online, register here
3) Being a good guest: supporting indigenous leadership at home.
There are many ways to support indigenous activists in the San Francisco Bay Area, from learning local history and original place names to advocating for land back efforts. The West Berkeley shellmound and village site at 4th and Hearst in Berkeley continues to be at risk for development. Shellmound defenders urge us: "If you live in Berkeley, or elsewhere in the Bay Area, we ask that you please consider writing an email or otherwise reaching out to Berkeley Councilmembers (especially your representative, if you live in Berkeley)"
4) Land rematriation in the East Bay: The Sogorea Te Land Trust, founded and led by indigenous women, is taking care of several parcels in Berkeley, Oakland and Richmond, and has just accepted a 5-acre cultural easement at Sequoia Point in Redwood Regional Park. The Oakland City Council will vote on whether to approve the easement in November. Send a letter of support to Council members. You can donate to Sogorea Te here.
5) And support indigenous climate activists outside the Bay Area:
- Join the Indigenous Women’s Treaty Alliance to Stop Line 5, By October 14 Canada’s Enbridge corporation has requested a permit to build an oil tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac in the Great Lakes, violating indigenous rights, endangering Great Lakes waters and fisheries, and furthering climate crisis. The US Army Corps of Engineers is accepting comments on their environmental impact statement until October 14. The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network encourages everyone to submit a comment. Their webinar on this subject has already passed, but you can find information and links here.
- Support Pomo tribal people’s campaign to stop logging in their forest
Logging in the Jackson State Demonstration Forest on the Northern California coast is destroying the mature redwoods so crucial to our climate future, and desecrating sacred sites and cultural resources of the Pomo and Coast Yuki people. Support the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians as they call on the state to honor its commitment to stop logging until they create a co-management system, giving indigenous people a voice in what happens to their ancestral
lands. Sign the petition here
1000 GRANDMOTHERS KEEP SHOWING UP
September 10: No Mining on Sacred Land
Grandmothers were among 700 people who showed up in San Jose to tell Santa Clara County not to allow Juristac – Mutsun Ohlone sacred and traditional land -- to be destroyed by a company that wants to dig a gravel pit there.
September 20: We told Chase to stop funding the climate crisis. At Chase bank’s annual morale-building footrace in San Francisco, Grandmothers were among
the many people (in the streets and in kayaks) sending Chase the message: Stop Funding the Climate Crisis
September 23: Youth Climate Strike/No Coal in Oakland. Grandmothers joined Youth vs Apocalypse and many others at Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza as part of a global climate strike focused on economic, racial, and environmental justice: #PeopleNotProfit. #ClimateReparations. Youth in Oakland were specifically demanding No Violence! And No Coal! In response to developers’ threats to break their promise not to ship coal through Oakland. Grandmothers
showed up, marched, and helped serve food.
showed up, marched, and helped serve food.
HAVE YOU HEARD – Climate News Highlights
GREAT NEWS!!
Joe Manchin conceded he didn’t have the votes for his “dirty deal” and pulled it.
Grandmas who picketed Pelosi and Feinstein’s offices earlier this month, well as major environmental groups, Virginians actively opposing his Mountain Valley Pipeline, and progressive Democrats — all played a role in this significant defeat.
GOOD NEWS
In August, 19 Republican state attorneys general wrote a letter to the CEO of BlackRock Investments, charging that the company’s stated policy of helping investors transition to “zero net energy” is a violation of their legal responsibility to maximize investors’ profits. AGs from Louisiana and Indiana went further, indicating that pension managers investing in BlackRock could be held personally liable.
This is clearly an attempt to intimidate banks and investment companies, which are under pressure to divest from fossil fuels. In reality, BlackRock is one of the world’s biggest financers of fossil fuels, despite recent gestures and policy statements. BlackRock is one of the targets of Stop the Money Pipeline, a climate justice coalition campaigning to pressure investors to stop funding fossil fuels. Learn more about their campaign against BlackRock here.
Drought-Wracked California Allows Oil Companies to Use High-Quality Water. Inside Climate News reports that hundreds of millions of gallons of fresh waterare used by oil companies in California, mostly in Kern County, where communities lack affordable, safe drinking water. Data from the California Geologic Energy Management agency (CalGEM) show that water is being diverted from state domestic and agricultural supplies to extract crude oil from some of the world's most climate-polluting oilfields. Kern County wells account for 99.5 % of the high-
quality water appropriated, which is injected for fossil fuel extraction. The disproportionate amount needed is because Kern County's oil is so viscous, and its wells are so old. Meanwhile, farms and municipalities have had to ration their water supplies.
RESOURCES:
* In this KALW Interview with Geoff Dembicki, author of The Petroleum Papers, Dembicki connects the dots: from the Koch investments in the Canadian tar sands oil processed in their refineries to their support of the right-wing Cato Institute, which supports climate change deniers when they appear on Fox news and in mainstream debates. Major oil companies were warned about climate devastation as early as 1959. Exxon buried its own climate research, and much more.
* A three-part documentary called Big Oil's Last Lifeline exposes the sacrifice zones (read black, brown and poor cities) that big corporations have selected to build their poisonous operations, which cause cancer, leukemia, and other severe maladies. Hear from people on the ground: organizers, mothers, survivors, block captains, scientists. The film is well done and informative, and the contents will piss you off!
* On September 20, Amazon Watch released a critical report describing how Petroperú (Peru’s national oil company) is trying to force its way into Indigenous territory to build new oil operations there. Indigenous peoples have already clearly opposed the potential oil projects. Amazon Watch successfully educates banks and insurers to get them to withdraw or not enter into contract with Petroperú.
GREAT NEWS!!
Joe Manchin conceded he didn’t have the votes for his “dirty deal” and pulled it.
Grandmas who picketed Pelosi and Feinstein’s offices earlier this month, well as major environmental groups, Virginians actively opposing his Mountain Valley Pipeline, and progressive Democrats — all played a role in this significant defeat.
GOOD NEWS
- Princeton University “disassociating” from 90 companies “active in the thermal coal or tar sands segments of the fossil fuel industry,” including Exxon Mobil and NRG Energy. An article in the student newspaper “The Princetonian” reports that the announcement from the Board of Trustees “also stated that the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) will “eliminate all holdings in publicly traded fossil fuel companies” and “ensure that the endowment does not benefit from any future exposure to those companies” as part of the Board’s “commitment to achieving a net-zero endowment portfolio over time.”
- St. James Parish in Louisiana residents gained a major victory! The Center for Biological Diversity reports in its news releasethat a mostly Black community in “Cancer Alley” has fought long and hard against Formosa Plastics, which wants to build a giant petrochemical complex that would emit 800 pounds of toxins. St. James’ Fifth District is already burdened with toxic chemical plants. Recently a Louisiana court denied Formosa the air permits it needs tobuild the facilities.
- Gas appliances in California emit four times as much GHG as all of the state's power plants put together.
- Indoor fossil fuel use accounts for roughly 12% of total US carbon emissions
- Indoor fossil fuel use produces nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, which contribute to health-harming ozone and particulate air pollution, a cause and exacerbator of asthma and heart disease.
- 99% of the disadvantaged communities in the California have unsafe levels of ozone pollution.
In August, 19 Republican state attorneys general wrote a letter to the CEO of BlackRock Investments, charging that the company’s stated policy of helping investors transition to “zero net energy” is a violation of their legal responsibility to maximize investors’ profits. AGs from Louisiana and Indiana went further, indicating that pension managers investing in BlackRock could be held personally liable.
This is clearly an attempt to intimidate banks and investment companies, which are under pressure to divest from fossil fuels. In reality, BlackRock is one of the world’s biggest financers of fossil fuels, despite recent gestures and policy statements. BlackRock is one of the targets of Stop the Money Pipeline, a climate justice coalition campaigning to pressure investors to stop funding fossil fuels. Learn more about their campaign against BlackRock here.
Drought-Wracked California Allows Oil Companies to Use High-Quality Water. Inside Climate News reports that hundreds of millions of gallons of fresh waterare used by oil companies in California, mostly in Kern County, where communities lack affordable, safe drinking water. Data from the California Geologic Energy Management agency (CalGEM) show that water is being diverted from state domestic and agricultural supplies to extract crude oil from some of the world's most climate-polluting oilfields. Kern County wells account for 99.5 % of the high-
quality water appropriated, which is injected for fossil fuel extraction. The disproportionate amount needed is because Kern County's oil is so viscous, and its wells are so old. Meanwhile, farms and municipalities have had to ration their water supplies.
RESOURCES:
* In this KALW Interview with Geoff Dembicki, author of The Petroleum Papers, Dembicki connects the dots: from the Koch investments in the Canadian tar sands oil processed in their refineries to their support of the right-wing Cato Institute, which supports climate change deniers when they appear on Fox news and in mainstream debates. Major oil companies were warned about climate devastation as early as 1959. Exxon buried its own climate research, and much more.
* A three-part documentary called Big Oil's Last Lifeline exposes the sacrifice zones (read black, brown and poor cities) that big corporations have selected to build their poisonous operations, which cause cancer, leukemia, and other severe maladies. Hear from people on the ground: organizers, mothers, survivors, block captains, scientists. The film is well done and informative, and the contents will piss you off!
* On September 20, Amazon Watch released a critical report describing how Petroperú (Peru’s national oil company) is trying to force its way into Indigenous territory to build new oil operations there. Indigenous peoples have already clearly opposed the potential oil projects. Amazon Watch successfully educates banks and insurers to get them to withdraw or not enter into contract with Petroperú.
PUZZLING OVER “FALSE SOLUTIONS”
Now that the earth is clearly burning, the fossil fuel industry has given up on climate denial. Their new strategy is: Give us money and trust us to solve the problem. So, they’ve come up with an impressive array of “false solutions” that sound good but are not going to prevent climate catastrophe. Some of these are: carbon capture and sequestration, carbon offsets, biofuel, biomethane, biomass, hydrogen, and sustainable aviation fuel. But it’s tricky. Some of these things are just a bad idea no matter what (such as carbon offsets and biomethane). Others have been implemented so far in ways that were mostly harmful and/or ineffective -- but there might be ways of doing them that could be helpful, especially in the short run.
Over the next few months, we’ll look at these “solutions” one by one (starting next month with carbon capture and sequestration, recently facilitated by a new California law). But for now, let’s start with some guidelines.
How do you know if something is a false solution?
Simple test: Does it justify, support, or enable continuing to burn fossil fuel?
(The only real solutions are quick phase-out of fossil fuels and rebuilding society for a more just and efficient use of resources).
Other questions to ask (based on the dismal history of the false solutions already being implemented):
1. Do the projects actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as they promise?
2. Do they increase pollution, especially in low-income communities and communities of
color?
3. Do they create new dangers for communities in their path?
4. Do they cause environmental harm?
5. Do the projects really do what they say they are doing, or are they subject to false
reporting and scams?
6. Are the technologies actually ready to be implemented in time?
7. Is it possible to do them on a scale that would be required?
8. Who’s promoting them? (hint: if it’s the fossil fuel industry it’s not a good sign)
9. Would the money be better spent on measures that would actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, and build a more just and sustainable system of energy use?
Here are a couple of reports that give an overview of false solutions:
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse
Chasing Carbon Unicorns
We will be boiling down some geeky reports from trusted climate justice sources to the best of our ability – but these strategies are controversial. You might not agree with what we say here. So please feel free to submit comments to [email protected] and we will report on them as we go.
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Reading The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson was a surprising shake-up for me, in a good way. It got me thinking more broadly about the range of possibilities we can (and are!) exploring to proactively tackle our climate crisis. Some of this shake-up was the content, which was extensively researched. Some was the format -- I’d never read a novel that offered a chapter told from the perspective of a carbon atom, for example. Since its publication, the impact of this anti-dystopian science-fiction tale has led Robinson to be a speaker or consultant at numerous climate change conferences. Two quick notes: One is that the opening chapters are quite devastating; please don’t despair, keep reading. The other is that some of the solutions described toward the end of the story are not strategies embraced by climate justice experts, despite the well-researched nature of the rest of the book. This includes a kind of online currency (like bitcoin), and a carbon market selling credits for reducing carbon, which in general has led to actually perpetuating fossil fuel use. So, keep in mind that The Ministry for the Future is a novel, not a strategy advanced by climate justice experts.
- Becca Todd
OUR ORGANIZATIONAL WORK – JOIN IN with us!
1000 Grandmothers Rock the Vote
We currently have six 1000 Grandmothers teams doing electoral work together. Our teams are small but mighty, having written more than 4,000 postcards and letters to potential Democratic voters in swing states, urging them to register to vote and turn out to elect candidates who will protect the earth, reproductive rights, and our democracy. We know many other grandmothers in our ranks are also doing this important work on their own. As we enter the final weeks before the elections, more grandmothers are also stepping up to do phone banking, and some of us will be heading to Nevada to help keep this critical state blue. Let’s keep up the great work and look forward to celebrating together come November! If you want to get more involved in electoral work, email Robin Baker, [email protected]
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
** 1000 Grandmothers phone-banking opportunity**
Grandmothers' Monday afternoon Phone Banking for our LAST FIVE MONDAYS before the election, this Monday, October 10, at 3:30 PM PDT - come to all or whichever ones you can.
All Grandmothers will be assigned to a breakout room at the beginning of the zoom session where one of us will do training on the dialer we'll be using. We will go over the script together before you start calling with time for questions, of course. We will get back together on Zoom at 5:15 PM to debrief and hear your victory stories.
This is a great chance to be part of making a difference.
The way the dialer works you almost always talk to a live person, many, many times over the two hours! If you get discouraged, you can just look at the Zoom screen with the other Grandmothers talking to voters and be inspired! Don't let the technology hold you back; it's easy and one of us will be there the whole time if you hit a snag.
- if you need help figuring out how to join in phone banking, contact Jane at [email protected]
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Engagement Working Group Welcomes New Members
The Engagement Working Group is tasked with engaging new members into 1000 Grandmothers. We are a hard-working group of dynamic women! We’ve developed Information Sessions for those who are curious, interested, or already involved, detailing the organization’s history and principles and explaining various paths to involvement. So far we’ve presented five such sessions to appreciative and enthusiastic future Grandmothers; we will continue to offer these sessions monthly. In addition, we help to facilitate the formation of new circles. We'd love to have you join us! If you might be interested and want to learn more, let’s talk! Send an email with subject line GM Engagement to [email protected].
Nonviolent Direct Action Working Group
The NVDA Working Group is for members of 1000 Grandmothers who want to engage in peaceful protest, blocking streets for indigenous allies, participating in group demonstrations, and street art. New members welcome. If you’re interested, email: [email protected]
Our next meting will be online, Tuesday, October 18, from 5:30 to 7 pm. If you need the Zoom link, please email [email protected].
Legislative working group
The California legislature has adjourned for the rest of the year, so there’s not much legislative work until January. Bills passed by the legislature and signed into law this year included some big climate wins, including two landmark victories against the fossil fuel industry:
* Mandate the Natural Resources Agency to set targets for nature-based carbon
sequestration and integrate these into California’s climate plan
* Streamline local permitting of residential solar energy systems
* Allow the Public Utilities Commission to authorize a system for customers to pay for “building decarbonization” upgrades gradually, as part of their electric bill.
* Set a goal that state vehicles have “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.
More controversial new laws:
• Mandate the California Air Resources Board to set up a system to “evaluate, regulate, and facilitate carbon capture, utilization, or storage (CCUS) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies,” which many consider a destructive distraction from climate progress.
* Extend the deadline for closing the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant from 2025 to 2030, a move many environmentalists oppose, although some argue it will be necessary to supply the state with enough electricity
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Calling all Grandmothers: Help build pressure on legislators to pass strong climate justice laws! Please send your address and phone number to the Legislative Working Group, so we can contact you when your legislators need a push. Write an email, make a call, or join in a meeting with your legislator. If you live outside the Bay Area, all the better. To join this effort, please send your address and phone number to [email protected] with “Grandmothers”
in the subject heading. Thanks!
We want to hear from you:
If you have questions, comments, suggestions, 'letters to the editor', photos of your grandchildren, or anything else you want to say to the editors of this newsletter, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or [email protected]
PUZZLING OVER “FALSE SOLUTIONS”
Now that the earth is clearly burning, the fossil fuel industry has given up on climate denial. Their new strategy is: Give us money and trust us to solve the problem. So, they’ve come up with an impressive array of “false solutions” that sound good but are not going to prevent climate catastrophe. Some of these are: carbon capture and sequestration, carbon offsets, biofuel, biomethane, biomass, hydrogen, and sustainable aviation fuel. But it’s tricky. Some of these things are just a bad idea no matter what (such as carbon offsets and biomethane). Others have been implemented so far in ways that were mostly harmful and/or ineffective -- but there might be ways of doing them that could be helpful, especially in the short run.
Over the next few months, we’ll look at these “solutions” one by one (starting next month with carbon capture and sequestration, recently facilitated by a new California law). But for now, let’s start with some guidelines.
How do you know if something is a false solution?
Simple test: Does it justify, support, or enable continuing to burn fossil fuel?
(The only real solutions are quick phase-out of fossil fuels and rebuilding society for a more just and efficient use of resources).
Other questions to ask (based on the dismal history of the false solutions already being implemented):
1. Do the projects actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as they promise?
2. Do they increase pollution, especially in low-income communities and communities of
color?
3. Do they create new dangers for communities in their path?
4. Do they cause environmental harm?
5. Do the projects really do what they say they are doing, or are they subject to false
reporting and scams?
6. Are the technologies actually ready to be implemented in time?
7. Is it possible to do them on a scale that would be required?
8. Who’s promoting them? (hint: if it’s the fossil fuel industry it’s not a good sign)
9. Would the money be better spent on measures that would actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, and build a more just and sustainable system of energy use?
Here are a couple of reports that give an overview of false solutions:
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse
Chasing Carbon Unicorns
We will be boiling down some geeky reports from trusted climate justice sources to the best of our ability – but these strategies are controversial. You might not agree with what we say here. So please feel free to submit comments to [email protected] and we will report on them as we go.
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Reading The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson was a surprising shake-up for me, in a good way. It got me thinking more broadly about the range of possibilities we can (and are!) exploring to proactively tackle our climate crisis. Some of this shake-up was the content, which was extensively researched. Some was the format -- I’d never read a novel that offered a chapter told from the perspective of a carbon atom, for example. Since its publication, the impact of this anti-dystopian science-fiction tale has led Robinson to be a speaker or consultant at numerous climate change conferences. Two quick notes: One is that the opening chapters are quite devastating; please don’t despair, keep reading. The other is that some of the solutions described toward the end of the story are not strategies embraced by climate justice experts, despite the well-researched nature of the rest of the book. This includes a kind of online currency (like bitcoin), and a carbon market selling credits for reducing carbon, which in general has led to actually perpetuating fossil fuel use. So, keep in mind that The Ministry for the Future is a novel, not a strategy advanced by climate justice experts.
- Becca Todd
OUR ORGANIZATIONAL WORK – JOIN IN with us!
1000 Grandmothers Rock the Vote
We currently have six 1000 Grandmothers teams doing electoral work together. Our teams are small but mighty, having written more than 4,000 postcards and letters to potential Democratic voters in swing states, urging them to register to vote and turn out to elect candidates who will protect the earth, reproductive rights, and our democracy. We know many other grandmothers in our ranks are also doing this important work on their own. As we enter the final weeks before the elections, more grandmothers are also stepping up to do phone banking, and some of us will be heading to Nevada to help keep this critical state blue. Let’s keep up the great work and look forward to celebrating together come November! If you want to get more involved in electoral work, email Robin Baker, [email protected]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
ANNOUNCEMENT:
** 1000 Grandmothers phone-banking opportunity**
Grandmothers' Monday afternoon Phone Banking for our LAST FIVE MONDAYS before the election, this Monday, October 10, at 3:30 PM PDT - come to all or whichever ones you can.
All Grandmothers will be assigned to a breakout room at the beginning of the zoom session where one of us will do training on the dialer we'll be using. We will go over the script together before you start calling with time for questions, of course. We will get back together on Zoom at 5:15 PM to debrief and hear your victory stories.
This is a great chance to be part of making a difference.
The way the dialer works you almost always talk to a live person, many, many times over the two hours! If you get discouraged, you can just look at the Zoom screen with the other Grandmothers talking to voters and be inspired! Don't let the technology hold you back; it's easy and one of us will be there the whole time if you hit a snag.
- if you need help figuring out how to join in phone banking, contact Jane at [email protected]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Engagement Working Group Welcomes New Members
The Engagement Working Group is tasked with engaging new members into 1000 Grandmothers. We are a hard-working group of dynamic women! We’ve developed Information Sessions for those who are curious, interested, or already involved, detailing the organization’s history and principles and explaining various paths to involvement. So far we’ve presented five such sessions to appreciative and enthusiastic future Grandmothers; we will continue to offer these sessions monthly. In addition, we help to facilitate the formation of new circles. We'd love to have you join us! If you might be interested and want to learn more, let’s talk! Send an email with subject line GM Engagement to [email protected].
Nonviolent Direct Action Working Group
The NVDA Working Group is for members of 1000 Grandmothers who want to engage in peaceful protest, blocking streets for indigenous allies, participating in group demonstrations, and street art. New members welcome. If you’re interested, email: [email protected]
Our next meting will be online, Tuesday, October 18, from 5:30 to 7 pm. If you need the Zoom link, please email [email protected].
Legislative working group
The California legislature has adjourned for the rest of the year, so there’s not much legislative work until January. Bills passed by the legislature and signed into law this year included some big climate wins, including two landmark victories against the fossil fuel industry:
- A ban on new permits for oil and gas drilling within 3,200 feet of “sensitive receptors” like homes, schools, and hospitals. This victory comes after years of struggle by frontline communities and their allies, including us.
- A ban on using carbon dioxide captured from “carbon capture and sequestration projects” to increase production from oil wells (“enhanced oil recovery”) The passage of these bills is a gamechanger in California politics. These victories show that we can defeat the fossil fuel industry on issues that significantly restrict its operations. That shifts the political balance and gives us momentum to build more power for our movement.
* Mandate the Natural Resources Agency to set targets for nature-based carbon
sequestration and integrate these into California’s climate plan
* Streamline local permitting of residential solar energy systems
* Allow the Public Utilities Commission to authorize a system for customers to pay for “building decarbonization” upgrades gradually, as part of their electric bill.
* Set a goal that state vehicles have “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.
More controversial new laws:
• Mandate the California Air Resources Board to set up a system to “evaluate, regulate, and facilitate carbon capture, utilization, or storage (CCUS) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies,” which many consider a destructive distraction from climate progress.
* Extend the deadline for closing the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant from 2025 to 2030, a move many environmentalists oppose, although some argue it will be necessary to supply the state with enough electricity
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Calling all Grandmothers: Help build pressure on legislators to pass strong climate justice laws! Please send your address and phone number to the Legislative Working Group, so we can contact you when your legislators need a push. Write an email, make a call, or join in a meeting with your legislator. If you live outside the Bay Area, all the better. To join this effort, please send your address and phone number to [email protected] with “Grandmothers”
in the subject heading. Thanks!
We want to hear from you:
If you have questions, comments, suggestions, 'letters to the editor', photos of your grandchildren, or anything else you want to say to the editors of this newsletter, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or [email protected]