Pressure ODF to Take Climate Action

The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) oversees 10 million acres of forests that can act as a major carbon sink — our Coast Range and Western Cascade forests have some of the highest potential for carbon storage in the world, and they filter our drinking water too. But industrial forestry is limiting carbon storage and polluting drinking water across Oregon.

Unfortunately, ODF’s current leadership is skirting its responsibilities to communities and future generations by doing everything possible to make it easy for the timber industry to liquidate these forests. It must  do better.

With Governer Brown’s Climate Executive Order, we have a real opportunity to press for real climate leadership at the Oregon Department of Forestry. Click below to learn more about how you can take action.

#EndClimateSilence on Cable News

American news outlets are not making the connection between extreme weather, climate change, and fossil fuel pollution. They are failing to mention, from coverage on derecho, to the fires in the west, to the superstorm now hitting the Gulf Coast, how a hotter planet means bigger, stronger storms.

It’s been 15 years since Hurricane Katrina left its mark on New Orleans, and news outlets are still failing to discuss the links between fossil fuel pollution, climate change, and extreme weather.

Watch this video connecting the dots between hurricanes, climate change, and fossil fuels (on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter). Then add your name to the petition if you believe it is time for the media to tell the whole story.

Tell Lloyds of London: Don’t Insure the Leaky Trans Mountain Pipeline

Lloyd’s of London is insuring an oil pipeline that’s poisoning Indigenous land in Canada. The Trans Mountain pipeline is a mega-oil highway, transporting crude oil across Canada. Just two weeks ago, it spilled 190,000 of thick tar sands oil near a sacred Indigenous burial ground. This is just one of 85 spills from this pipeline in the last 10 years. We can’t wait around for another spill to destroy more Indigenous land — so the affected communities are demanding insurance companies drop this dangerous pipeline.

Lloyd’s of London is in the middle of a huge controversy as its original owners have profited off colonialism and the slave trade. Its insurance contract on Trans Mountain pipeline is also going to expire in August. A huge public outcry about its on-going role in colonialism could force the insurance to pull out and leave this mega-oil project that threatens Indigenous people’s way of life.

Add your name to demand Lloyd’s of London stop insuring this planet-wrecking pipeline.

Demand that Corporations Divest from Police Foundations

On Sunday Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot in the back seven times by a Kenosha, WI police officer. His 3 children watched it happen. His attempted murder is yet another reminder of why millions of people across the country are rallying behind the demand to defund the police: Our nation’s heavily militarized police kill over 1,100 people a year.

Police foundations are private, corporate-sponsored groups that supplement already bloated police budgets. From NYC to LA and everywhere in between, police foundations help cops acquire surveillance tech, SWAT team equipment, and weapons that are used to terrorize Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. This week, we’re joining Color Of Change and more than 40 organizations to demand divestment from police foundations because it’s not enough for corporations to say they want racial equity — they need to move their money and prove it.

Read on about police foundations and what you can do about them, or jump straight to signing the petition.

More Ways to Show up for Black Lives

Call the Federal Reserve Chairman about the Fossil Fuel Bailout

the Trump administration just gave fossil fuel companies their complete wish list of changes to the new federal loan program, without adding any requirements to aid workers. While first responders work without hazard pay or PPE gear, polluters are looking for a lifeline from taxpayers for their failing, climate-wrecking industry.

We’re asking you to call Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell and tell him not to bail out big oil — click below to get talking points and get connected to Powell.

Contact Congress about the REWIND Act

From the very beginning of this pandemic, we’ve seen corporations and corrupt politicians exploit this health crisis for their own private gain. It’s an all-too-familiar strategy of using a mass crisis as an opportunity for sneaky and selfish profits, all at the expense of people’s lives. It’s infuriating.

This is why, just earlier this week, our Senator Jeff Merkley along with CA Representative Nanette Barragán introduced the REWIND Act. This new legislation would block a bailout for the fossil fuel industry in the next stimulus package and ensure relief money flows directly to people, not polluters.

Senator Merkley’s REWIND Act has also been co-sponsored by Senator Wyden and Representative Blumenauer. Let’s thank them for standing up for people, not polluters, and ask our other Oregon US Representatives to help pass the REWIND Act.