The climate has a money problem, but it’s not the way we spend taxpayer dollars (ok, we have that problem too) — it’s the Federal Reserve. In case you missed it, earlier this month the Fed blocked a global effort to regulate climate change, and the risk it poses to our communities and economy. A …
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March 4 – Final report! The global week of action has just wrapped up THANK YOU to everyone who signed petitions, shared on social media, came to actions in Hartford, New York, Houston, Boston, and beyond. Even more exciting, our actions have already had an effect! Probitas, one of the major insurers targeted in the …
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Late last year, we asked several times to sign petitions, send comments, and take action aimed at getting the Biden Administration to stop the fossil fuel exports, especially LNG, that are wrecking our climate progress. Thanks to your support we’ve already delivered more than 200,000 comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the US …
In this summer of global climate chaos – Hawaii burned, the Panama Canal ran dry, Greece underwater (and also on fire), millions of Americans living under heat advisories this week (and most weeks this summer) – the Federal Reserve held a week long meeting on “Reassessing Constraints on the Economy and Policy.” But Fed Chair …
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By this point, you probably know that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and now Threads, spends a lot of time spying on you. Chronicled in books like The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and the Netflix docu-drama The Social Dilemma, the problem of social media spying on us, selling our personal information to unscrupulous …
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It’s no secret that, for years, climate denial has been running rampant online and in the media. Newspapers, cable networks, and especially social media companies, have been taking huge sums of money from the fossil fuel industry to spread disinformation and misinformation on climate change. In exchange, policy gets stalled, voters are confused and misled, …
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*UPDATE April 23* – IF you haven’t had a chance yet, make sure to check out this year’s banking on climate chaos report, and sign our petition to demand the big fossil banks stop killing the planet. Then, if you’re close enough to get to Charlotte, NC, NYC, New York, or San Francisco, CA make …
What a week last week was! Hopefully you came to at least one of the many protests, rallies, demonstrations, actions, strikes, and jail support events last week – and therefore got at least some of this first hand. But just in case you missed something (and there was a lot, so don’t feel bad) here’s …
In light of the recent upheavals in the banking sector and the greater concentration of deposits in the large Wall Street banks, now more than ever we need to demand that these banks use their power and funds responsibly. The banks must manage both financial risks and climate risks; indeed climate risks ARE financial risks. …
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For more than a year, Starbucks workers have joined together, raised their voices, cast ballots and gone on strike to demand Starbucks respect their right to a union. Workers are asking for simple things, like a voice in their workplace over pay and scheduling. Starbucks, which posted $3.3 billion in profits last year, has responded …
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