JOIN US in taking a few moments to join two letter writing campaigns. One is a campaign initiated by Elders Climate Action, to hold AARP accountable for doing more thorough and serious discussions on climate justice. The second is an ongoing campaign to enlist Jill Biden in the struggle to stop Line 3 and other fossil fuel industry infra-structure projects:
1)Sample letter to AARP:
Email to: [email protected]
RE: AARP’s June 1 Bulletin & its cover story on Climate Change
Dear Editors:
I am a member of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations (www.1000grandmothers.com). We are part of the growing movement of AARP-age people determined to fight for strong, immediate action to address the linked crises of climate and injustice, to create a green, equitable future for everybody’s children and grandchildren around the world.
I was pleased to read AARP’s June 2021 Bulletin, its first effort to inform elders about climate change. But, with its focus on finances, home values, and lifestyle, the Bulletin downplayed the larger threats menacing AARP members and future generations – and the big changes needed to reduce them.
I urge you to expand your reporting on the climate crisis and tell your members they are needed to help end it. The most significant thing they can do is join a climate change organization - every community has them. The AARP generation must step up.
Sincerely,
[Be sure to close with your address and phone number.]
2)Sample letter to Dr. Jill Biden/ President Biden
Grandmother-to-Grandmother Letter Writing Campaign
Template for a letter to First Lady Jill Biden
(If you do not consider yourself a grandmother and would like to participate, please feel free to send your own version of this letter directly to President Biden at the same address.)
(date)
First Lady Jill Biden
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Dr. Biden
I am writing to you as one grandmother to another, asking that you join us in taking a stand to stop the Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota. Please join us in supporting the Anishanaabe Water Protectors who are resisting the operation of Line 3. The Pipeline is carrying dirty tar sands crude oil through pristine watersheds, wild rice lakes, and sacred lands.
We do this on behalf of our grandchildren and their grandchildren. We hope you will join us for the sake of your own grandchildren. We understand that our political relationship with Canada is very important to the US, and to your husband – but we can no any longer trade our grandchildren’s future for the short termprofits of the fossil fuel industry. Line 3 endangers the waterways of thousands, and tramples on the rights of Indigenous peoples, and endangers all future generations by adding to the climate catastrophe.
Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest inland oil spill in the U.S., is operating the Line 3 Pipeline corridor through untouched wetlands and sensitive Mississippi River headwaters. The company is violating the treaty rights of Anishinaabe peoples and nations in its path. Line 3 is bringing nearly a million barrels per day of dirty tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin, contributing more to climate change than Minnesota’s entire economy. All this at a time when we desperately need to pivot and leave carbon in the ground in order to save our planet.
Please join us and speak out to protect indigenous sovereignty and environmental sanity by stopping the operation of Line 3, thus preserving clear waters and untainted land for all peoples’ grandchildren. President Biden is in a unique position to stop Line 3, and we hope you will urge him to take this courageous step.
Sincerely,
(name and address)
1)Sample letter to AARP:
Email to: [email protected]
RE: AARP’s June 1 Bulletin & its cover story on Climate Change
Dear Editors:
I am a member of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations (www.1000grandmothers.com). We are part of the growing movement of AARP-age people determined to fight for strong, immediate action to address the linked crises of climate and injustice, to create a green, equitable future for everybody’s children and grandchildren around the world.
I was pleased to read AARP’s June 2021 Bulletin, its first effort to inform elders about climate change. But, with its focus on finances, home values, and lifestyle, the Bulletin downplayed the larger threats menacing AARP members and future generations – and the big changes needed to reduce them.
I urge you to expand your reporting on the climate crisis and tell your members they are needed to help end it. The most significant thing they can do is join a climate change organization - every community has them. The AARP generation must step up.
Sincerely,
[Be sure to close with your address and phone number.]
2)Sample letter to Dr. Jill Biden/ President Biden
Grandmother-to-Grandmother Letter Writing Campaign
Template for a letter to First Lady Jill Biden
(If you do not consider yourself a grandmother and would like to participate, please feel free to send your own version of this letter directly to President Biden at the same address.)
(date)
First Lady Jill Biden
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Dr. Biden
I am writing to you as one grandmother to another, asking that you join us in taking a stand to stop the Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota. Please join us in supporting the Anishanaabe Water Protectors who are resisting the operation of Line 3. The Pipeline is carrying dirty tar sands crude oil through pristine watersheds, wild rice lakes, and sacred lands.
We do this on behalf of our grandchildren and their grandchildren. We hope you will join us for the sake of your own grandchildren. We understand that our political relationship with Canada is very important to the US, and to your husband – but we can no any longer trade our grandchildren’s future for the short termprofits of the fossil fuel industry. Line 3 endangers the waterways of thousands, and tramples on the rights of Indigenous peoples, and endangers all future generations by adding to the climate catastrophe.
Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest inland oil spill in the U.S., is operating the Line 3 Pipeline corridor through untouched wetlands and sensitive Mississippi River headwaters. The company is violating the treaty rights of Anishinaabe peoples and nations in its path. Line 3 is bringing nearly a million barrels per day of dirty tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin, contributing more to climate change than Minnesota’s entire economy. All this at a time when we desperately need to pivot and leave carbon in the ground in order to save our planet.
Please join us and speak out to protect indigenous sovereignty and environmental sanity by stopping the operation of Line 3, thus preserving clear waters and untainted land for all peoples’ grandchildren. President Biden is in a unique position to stop Line 3, and we hope you will urge him to take this courageous step.
Sincerely,
(name and address)