#ProtectWater – INDIVISIBLE VENTURA

You don’t have to get arrested on the steps of the nation’s capitol or our state legislature to make meaningful change. This Memorial Day weekend, please carve out a couple of hours to help your neighbors and our community grow stronger.

Action #1: Share this information on Sunday’s social justice fair – both with those you know who could use it, and everybody else!
Action #2: Reach out to your neighbors to vote “YES” on Measures A & B for clean water for all and environmental justice for neighborhoods impacted by the oil industry. We include a list on how to fight back against those oil industry stooges, who solumnly intone misinformation and utter nonsense on endless flyers and commercials, funded by an $8 million dollar campaign.

Action #1: Share this information for Sunday’s social justice fair – both with those you know who could use it, and everybody else!

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Quote: Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist

Action #1 – FEDERAL: Tell Biden and your federal legislators to declare a CLIMATE EMERGENCY – we need to untangle ourselves from a fossil fuel addiction that keeps us hostage to dictators and greedy, unscrupulous corporations.
Action #2 – LOCAL: Help Ventura County residents ensure safe drinking water for all with “YES on A&B!”
ACTION #3 – STATE: DIVEST billions of fossil fuel investment from CalPERS and CalSTRS with SB-1173.

Gaslighted – our grim addiction to an amoral industry.

They are an expensive habit – Governments pay fossil fuel companies billions of dollars in subsidies a year – almost $5 TRILLION from 2010-2020, money that could have been invested in renewable energy resources.
They take with both hands – In the US, “dozens of special tax loopholes save the oil and gas industry BILLIONS every year on the backs of taxpayers while putting …communities and nature at risk from pollution and climate change,” with some paying NO FEDERAL TAXES AT ALL. Meanwhile, “they use our roads and our electrical grid and our police protection locally and our military protection globally ($1Tn a year for US to keep that up to protect Exxon’s interests overseas) We educate their employees and we fund their retirement….”