Get Out the Vote: Together Colorado Planning/Potluck Oct 2

Get Out the Vote: Together Colorado Planning/Potluck Oct 2

All faith groups are invited to a Get Out the Vote planning potluck led by Together Colorado organizers this Monday October 2nd at 6pm at First Congregational Church (FCC) 1128 Pine St. in downtown Boulder.

Highly recommended! Every vote matters. Here are the details: 

Get out the Vote/Together ColoradoPotluck and PlanningMonday, 10/2, 6 PM, Plymouth Hall
You are invited to join the Voter Engagement Team of FCC and members of five other Boulder County congregations as we come together to get organized to Get Out the Vote. We’ll gather for a potluck dinner in Plymouth Hall at 6 PM followed by a planning meeting let by Together Colorado organizers who will help us focus our efforts to engage, encourage, and inform voters to participate in the November election.

Questions? Oscar Hernandez, the Together Colorado Boulder County lead.

Together Colorado is a nonpartisan, multi-racial and multi-faith community organization deeply involved in legislative and policy advocacy with a number of organizing campaigns, including Climate Justice. Learn more here.

Insurance Leadership Forum Rally Oct. 1

Insurance Leadership Forum Rally Oct. 1

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! 

> RSVP at the event page here

Phase Out Fracking Action Hour Sept. 25

Phase Out Fracking Action Hour Sept. 25

From our friends at 350 Colorado: Join the volunteer Action Hour on Monday Sept. 25 at 5pm to get in on the action to Phase Out Fracking in Colorado! Catch the latest updates on the ballot initiative, connect with others in the movement, and plug into direct action to get the Fracking Phase Out on the 2024 Colorado ballot!

350 Colorado is proud to be a part of the Safe & Healthy Colorado coalition building the movement for a 2024 statewide ballot initiative to Phase Out Fracking Permits in Colorado by 2030!

  • 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.
  • Despite industry claims, oil & gas contributes less than 1% of total employment in Colorado and only about 3% of our GDP, while pollution from oil & gas operations in Colorado will cause over $13 billion in damages between 2020 and 2030 (1.5 times the total taxes and fees oil & gas brings to Colorado).  
  • 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: 

  1. Pledge to Sign the Fracking Phase Out Ballot Initiative!
  2. Use this One Click Letter to ask your city, county, and state elected leaders to endorse the ballot initiative! 
  3. Collect 15 “pledges to sign” the ballot initiative from Colorado voters, submit the form to info@safeandhealthyco.org, and receive a prize from LUSH!
  4. Donate to the ballot initiative campaign if you are able!
  5. Follow, like, and amplify on social media:  Facebook Instagram Twitter
  6. Ask everyone you know to do the 5 steps above!
Reverse Tashlich Creek Cleanup Sept. 10th

Reverse Tashlich Creek Cleanup Sept. 10th


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 HaShemInland 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