From our friends with the Rainforest Action Network: Join us for a rally in Colorado Springs, October 1st at 11am outside of one of the largest gatherings of insurance executives — the Insurance Leadership Forum at the Broadmoor resort — to demand they insure our communities instead of oil, gas, and coal.
Major insurers like Liberty Mutual, Chubb, and Travelers are increasing rates and walking away from communities as we face wildfires from the climate chaos they are creating by insuring and investing in fossil fuels.
WHEN: Sunday, October 1, 2023 11am – 1pm
WHAT: A rally to hold insurers accountable and demand they insure our communities instead of oil, gas, and coal.
WHERE: Meet at 10:41am at Charmaine Nymann Community Garden at Bear Creek Regional Park, Creek Crossing St, Colorado Springs, CO 80905. We’ll carpool to the Broadmoor from this location!
This is a rare opportunity to disrupt executives who are in town to drink cocktails, and golf while we face the poisoned air, water, and climate destruction from the methane gas, oil, and coal they expand. Join us in holding them accountable to become climate leaders!
The Phase Out Fracking ballot initiative will require a gradual decrease in the number of new fracking permits each year starting in 2026 and ending with no more new permits after 2030!
The ballot initiative requires permits to decrease in disproportionately impacted areas first, and includes support for a just transition, training, and reskilling for affected workers.
Oil and gas fracking is the #1 source of pollution in Colorado causing the climate crisis and the ‘severe’ ozone air quality issues along Colorado’s front range. Phasing Out Fracking is necessary for Colorado to meet our environmental justice and climate goals.
To win this groundbreaking and necessary ballot initiative and Phase Out Fracking in Colorado for good, we need YOU! To win it, we need an army of people to step up and pitch in. Join us!
Join the upcoming volunteer Action Hour and get in on the action to Phase Out Fracking in Colorado!Monday Sept. 25th, 5-6pm. Register here and bring a friend!The Volunteer Action Hour will be every other Monday at 5pm. Join us for a short, sweet, and impactful hour of action!
Onward,
Bobbie Mooney
Beyond Oil & Gas Campaign Coordinator, 350 Colorado
P.S. Can’t join the Action Hour but want to take action right now!? You can:
Pledge to Sign the Fracking Phase Out Ballot Initiative!
Use this One Click Letter to ask your city, county, and state elected leaders to endorse the ballot initiative!
This past weekend, there were 700 #EndFossilFuels actions in 65 countries, on all seven continents, with at least 600,000 participating! In New York City, GreenFaith and many partners joined together for the March to End Fossil Fuels with 50,000-75,000 people attending!
And the action is not over yet! Today and tomorrow, GreenFaith will be joining nonviolent direct actions on the ground in NYC, to keep up the pressure on President Biden and the financiers of continued fossil fuel exploitation.
You can join in the action from home by attending our action hour TODAY at 2 PM ET / 1 CT / 12 MT / 11 AM PT! The GreenFaith US team and Fridays for Future U.S. are convening this multi-generational community space online, so that people can join together to get grounded and take action, from wherever you live! It’s essential that we keep up the pressure and momentum as world leaders convene this Wednesday for the UN Climate Ambition Summit.
Tashlich is a Rosh Hashanah ritual in which Jews begin the new year by symbolically casting off last year’s sins by tossing pebbles or bread crumbs into a body of water. In 2016, the college division of Repair the Sea (Scubi Jew®️) at Eckerd College conceived the idea of hosting a Reverse Tashlich, a beach cleanup to remove human “sins” from the water.
Every year since, the program has expanded as new communities have joined and removed thousands of pounds of debris from waterfront locations around the world as part of their High Holiday observance. This year the Boulder JCC is partnering with Congregation Har HaShem, Inland Ocean Coalition, and Colorado Jewish Climate Action (CJCA) to host a family-friendly creek cleanup in Boulder. Exact location details will be provided a day before the event to those who register.
Reverse Taschlich Sunday, September 10, 9:30am Register Here
The Phase Out Fracking Action Party hosted by 350 Colorado in support of the Safe & Healthy Colorado ballot initiative at the Boulder County Courthouse on Saturday, June 10th was a big success! Attached and here are some photos and below are next steps to continue to take action to protect Colorado’s land, air, water, public health, AND help keep fossil fuels in the ground.
It was great to see so many of you from the GreenFaith Boulder County Circle there, joining more than 100 other supporters who engaged with hundreds of people walking on Pearl St during the 5-hour event.
Here’s how you can continue to help reach the 5000 pledges goal to put the fracking phase out on the Colorado 2024 statewide ballot. From Bobbie Mooney, 350CO Beyond Oil & Gas Campaign Coordinator:
Help reach our 5,000 Pledges to Sign goal and enter to win PRIZES from Patagonia and LUSH!
1. If you haven’t already, Pledge to Sign the ballot initiative right now!
2. SPREAD THE WORD! Share the pledge to sign through one or more of these methods: social media posts, social media direct messages, emails, phone calls, texts, etc.
—> post to Facebook/Instagram (sample text below photos)
2. Send an email to friends (sample email below photos)
3. Win a prize from Patagonia or Lush! Tell 350 Colorado how you helped spread the word via this quick submission form here and be entered to win once for each “spread the word” action item you complete. As a thanks for taking action, we have hundreds of prizes to share! Prize draw will be Monday June 19th.More info about the prizes & drawing here.
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Thank you again to all the grassroots activists and organizers who turned out this weekend. We are excited to kickoff a summer of action!
