When a mega-fracking site gets moved from a White neighborhood to a BIPOC neighborhood, a mother fights to try and stop it. She joins the state-wide effort to change the law but the powerful oil and gas industry fights back with lawsuits, harassment, sabotage, and $50 million. Check out the trailer here
Fracking the System: Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars Thursday October 19th 6:30-9pp Naropa University Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave
Doors open 6:00 p.m | Film at 6:30 p.m. Q&A with director and guests 8:00 p.m.
On September 17th, 2023, thousands of us marched through the streets to call for an End to Fossil Fuels. Please join us online on October 12th at 5pm MT to celebrate the success of the march, and talk about how to stay engaged in the multi-faith campaign to stop fossil fuels.
In the US, GreenFaith is working to stop fossil fuel projects, and stop their funding, while simultaneously calling for a just transition and for polluters to pay for the impacts that are being borne by people impacted across the world.
We hope you’ll join us to learn more about our international, inter-generational, multi-faith grassroots community, and how you can plug into the work moving forward!
Start: Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 5:00 PM MT
End: Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 6:30 PM MT
Virtual event: A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP
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.
Want to find out about climate actions happening in Boulder County? Looking to get involved with environmental and climate justice efforts?
Check out Boulder.Earth — a dynamic, grassroots website created by-and-for the community to foster awareness, collaboration and connectivity for increased impact on climate justice in Boulder County, Colorado.
Our goal is to help the community take action on climate, learn more about the abundant eco-social-justice work that’s already underway, and push the dial towards achieving our climate and sustainability goals.
As stewards of this website, the BoCo Climate Justice Hive is committed to developing better community organizing tools and online technology to work across borders and foster more robust partnerships, changing systems as well as our relationship to each other and the earth.
Collaborating and working in concert, our potential is far greater than the sum of the parts. To make this happen, coordination and a clear shared vision are necessary. These are the goals of the BoCo Climate Justice Hive.
Boulder County is home to a couple hundred organizations and programs addressing environmental and social justice. In addition, there are more than 3,000 climate and atmospheric scientists, which means Boulder may have more people working on climate justice per capita than anywhere else on earth! Boulder.Earth as a dynamic, grassroots web portal highlighting the county’s robust eco-social-justice community. This site is truly by and for the community—a chance to see our diverse, collective work highlighted in one place, bringing together artists, activists, scientists, entrepreneurs, faith groups, politicians and on and on…
WHO WE ARE
In an effort to connect conversations, coordinate more effectively, and incentivize collaboration, Naropa University’s Joanna Macy Center for Resilience and Regeneration and the volunteer team that built Boulder.Earth have created the BoCo Climate Justice Hive to not just manage the website, but to actively bring together various community-based climate justice efforts.
The Hive collects and shares up-to-date information about who’s doing what and where, “cross-pollinating” neighborhoods, communities, and sectors in Boulder County by weaving connections from grassroots to grass-tops and across the non-profit, academic, business, and government worlds.
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!
