Take Action: According to Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda, tackle one issue at a time. The more trouble it takes you to contact your politicians, the more they pay attention. So when you can manage the time and effort, put your body out there. Face-to-face or protest march > calling > faxing if you can’t get through on regular phone > writing letters (because they may arrive too late) > personal email > petition or group email.
But we are in this for the long haul, so pace yourselves. Do whatever level you can do. We will be here once a week with the latest.
To get out the vote for the environment: Join The Environmental Voter Project So More Environmentally Concerned Voters Vote
To stay current on environmental issues: Sign Up For Environmental Action Alerts From Earthjustice
To see if your legislator is having a Town Hall meeting: Check out the Town Hall Project’s list of Town Hall Meetings so that you can meet them face to face if you wish.
If your legislators will not have a Town Hall, have one and invite them: Indivisible Guide: Missing Members of Congress Action Plan: Hold a Constituents' Town Hall
To write your letter then fax it for free: FaxZero: Create and send faxes for free to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (up to five free faxes per day) or GotFreeFax: Send free fax online to the U.S. and Canada (a bit easier to use, but only up to two free faxes per day).
Easy resource to find your politicians’ phone, email, etc: The AARP has an action site, Advocacy - Legislative Action Center - AARP. I know AARP isn’t perfect, but it has a nifty feature for everyone: Look down to the right, where it says “find your state legislators”. Put in your zip code. It returns federal, state AND local politicians, NOT just legislators. The state list should show your Governor and the local list should show your Mayor. If you need more than phone numbers and email addresses, it has clickable links to their web pages, which should have up-to-date contact information including fax numbers, street addresses, appearance schedule, how to schedule appointments, and constituent services.
Please feel free to share and/or reprint this diary in whole or in part with attribution far and wide, other websites or newspapers, I give it freely. Our aim is for millions to take action.
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Thank you for taking action!
References:
ABC: March for Truth protesters demand independent investigation into Trump's possible Russia ties :
Favorite sign: “Trump gives me a Truth-Ache!”
ABC: This Week transcript 6-4-17: Scott Pruitt, Al Gore, Susan Rice :
Pruitt: When you look at the years from 2000 and 2014, we reduced CO2 emissions by over 18 percent.
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What we do know... is that the Paris agreement... impacted up to 400,000 jobs... This makes common sense, that when you take energy sector jobs and say we're no longer going to produce energy in those sectors, that it's going to impact the manufacturing base and the energy jobs in this country.
We've had over 50,000 jobs since last quarter -- coal jobs, mining jobs -- created in this country. We had almost 7,000 mining and coal jobs created in the month of May alone.
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I mean, what we do know is this: we know that the environmental left was as critical of Paris as those on the right were as far as it violating process and the cost that was going to be borne by this country. They thought it was a bad deal. As I indicated, James Hansen called it a fake and a fraud. So, there's very much short memory being applied here with respect to the efficacy of environmental protect coming out of Paris.
Shrink That Footprint: America's Carbon Cliff: Dissecting the Decline in US Carbon Emissions
New York Times: Today's Energy Jobs Are in Solar, Not Coal
The Weather Channel: Here Are the 187 Mayors and 10 Governors Who Denounce Trump's Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement :
The first 10 governors are:
Charlie Baker, Massachusetts
Jerry Brown, California
Kate Brown, Oregon
Andrew Cuomo, New York
John Hickenlooper, Colorado
David Y. Ige, Hawaii
Jay Inslee, Washington
Dannel P. Malloy, Connecticut
Terry McAuliffe, Virginia
Gina M. Raimondo, Rhode Island
Don’t let your city and/or state be left out!
Website for the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda (I could not find one yet for the Governors)
Literal hat tip to Jan4Insight for the rainbow pussycat hat!
Please consider this an open thread, discuss these or any other issues!