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Tuesday, November 10
7 - 8:30pm
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2020 General Election
​November 3, 2020

You can request your absentee ballot for November 2020 NOW!
It's always important to vote and this year will have an outsized impact on the world.  Make sure YOU VOTE THIS YEAR to steer us in the direction you want us to move.

Here are some resources to shorten your search for candidate information.  

https://myvote.wi.gov - Wisconsin government site with tabs for six key voting functions
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https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/VoteAbsentee - The tab for requesting absentee ballots

The sample ballots for the August 11 primary are available now.  See a sample ballot for your address at:
The 2020 Climate Test - 350.org
Our next president needs to be a
​real climate leader.
Stand for a Livable Climate
Friday October 9, 2020
​12pm - 1pm
Sidewalk Protest at:
Wisconsin & Water

YOU can PROTEST by moving YOUR MONEY and CC
See the Moving Your Money section below
Do you still have an account(s) or credit cards with Chase, Wells Fargo, Capital One, BMO, etc.?

Take a look at this short video - even if you're not at these banks. Divest -  four minute video, recommended by Bill McKibben

An animation about divesting from fossil fuels with drawings and narration by youth from Bay Area Earth Guardians Crew and Youth vs Apocalypse.

​What is divestment? It's when a person or organization takes money OUT of certain types of banks, companies and funds. Divestment can take power away from industries that are causing really big harm. Divestment frees up money to be INVESTED in solutions, like green jobs.
Stand for a Livable Climate
Wisconsin Pipelines
​Enbridge's Line 5 oil pipeline reroute would be a major environmental impact!

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WEC (We Energies) In the News

Financing Climate Change
BlackRock votes against 49 companies for lack of climate crisis progress
 - The Guardian, September 17, 2020
Samsung Securities pledges no further financial backing for Adani coal after protest
 - The Guardian, July 17, 2020
Guardian to ban advertising from fossil fuel firms
​ - January 29, 2020
Delay is deadly: what Covid-19 tells us about tackling the climate crisis
 - The Guardian, March 24, 2020
Climate Movement Takes Aim at Wall Street
 - Common Dreams, January 9, 2020
Carney sides with Greta Thunberg against Trump over climate
 - The Guardian, January 22, 2020
JPMorgan Chase Will Halt Financing of Arctic Oil, Gas Drilling, Coal Plants
​ - Sierra Club, February 25, 2020
European Investment Bank to phase out fossil fuel financing
 - The Guardian, November 15, 2019
BlackRock Has A New Attitude About Fossil Fuel Investing
 - Cleantechnica, January 15, 2020
​Barclays pressured by shareholders to cut fossil fuel financing
 - Reuters, January 7, 2020

Moving Your Money
Personal
Where Should I Put My Money? Tips and Resources - Alison Kirsch, RAN
How and Why to Leave Your Bank - Lisa Servon's research has explored economic insecurity, consumer financial services, and financial justice
How to Switch to a New Bank or Credit Union - NerdWallet
Better Banking - Green America
Why Switch to a Responsible Credit Card - Green America
Break Up with Your Mega-Bank - Green America

Towns, Cities
Divest Your Community Toolkit here - Mazaska Talks
It's such a hassle, Why Bother?
I Quit My Bank. Am I Saving the World? - Maeve Higgins, New York Times
Banking On Climate Change Report (Report Summary) - Rainforest Action Network report and data
A voice from the forest in the corporate boardroom - Al Jazeera op-ed by Tara Houska, Giniw Collective
Want to Do Something About Climate Change? Follow the Money - New York Times op-ed by Lennox Yearwood Jr. and Bill McKibben
Money is the Oxygen on which the Fire of Global Warming Burns - The New Yorker, Bill McKibben 
Two Years of Giving Chase…Hell - Alec Connon, 350 Seattle
Banks and Climate - Rainforest Action Network

Renewables
Nature-led coronavirus recovery could create $10tn a year, says WEF
 ​- The Guardian, July 15, 2020
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sPower - Solverde solar plant
All net new electricity generation in the US will be wind and solar power in 2020
 - PV Magazine​​, January 16, 2020
U.S. clean energy investment hits new record despite Trump administration views
 - Reuters, January 16, 2020
Buying Clean Electricity
 - energy.gov, U.S. Department of Energy

Action
Why some US cities are plotting a ‘green recovery’ after the pandemic
 ​- The Guardian, September 18, 2020
Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?
Audio, 44 minutes
- Freakonomics Podcast, August 12, 2020
‘It's time for America to reassert climate leadership. It starts with voting’
 ​- The Guardian, July 29, 2020
Biden plots $2tn green revolution but faces wind and solar backlash
 ​- The Guardian, July 25, 2020
The US is headed for climate disaster – but Joe Biden's green plan might just work
 ​- The Guardian, July 16, 2020
Which racial/ethnic groups care most about climate change?
​ ​- Yale, April 16, 2020

Ideas - Our goal isn't to be perfect, our goal is to reduce carbon
These two go together. Let Biden know if you support this idea!
The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest Audio, 35 minutes
- Freakonomics Podcast, July 29, 2020
Joe Biden Offers $20 Billion To Protect Amazon Forests
- Earth Innovation Institute, March, 2020
“I believe in voting strategically to save us, from what has already been wrought and might be unsaveable now.”
- Artist Barbara Kruger
The Guardian, February 13, 2020
Why a generation is choosing to be child-free
The Guardian, July 25, 2020
Jenny Offill: ‘I no longer felt like it wasn’t my fight’
​- The Guardian, February 8, 2020
What happens when we wake up to the climate crisis?

obligatory note of hope . com
“How could a meat-eating, plane-flying, march-hating person like me ever find a place in the climate justice movement?”
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We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer review – a life-changing book
​- The Guardian, October 6, 2019

Dec. 6, 2019 Milwaukee People's Climate Coalition Bank Sit-In, Rally and Demonstration

On December 6, 2019, hundreds of people from grade school kids to seniors rallied at Zeidler Park in Milwaukee in support of the Global Climate Strikes. As the speakers addressed the rally and the crowd marched to the corner of Wisconsin Ave. and Water St., eleven people prepared and entered Wells Fargo Bank to peacefully protest Wells Fargo's extensive investments in the fossil fuel economy. Their peaceful sit-in changed business as usual. The police eventually arrived and the eleven protestors were arrested and taken, separated by gender, to two police stations where they were charged with trespassing. A court date of February 3, 2020 was set.
Due to time conflicts, three of the protestors paid their fines and court costs.

At the February 3, 2020 court appearance, Emily Bell, the attorney representing the remaining eight defendants (pro-bono) learned that the paperwork for the four male defendants had been “lost in the system.”  During the court appearance, because a representative of the City Attorney was not available to bargain regarding the charges, the attorney entered a plea of Not Guilty and the case was rescheduled for February 21 for the four remaining women defendants.  Meanwhile the males were given letters indicating that they would not be charged unless the records appeared within two years.

At the February 21, 2020 court appearance, the charges for the four women were changed from trespassing to disorderly conduct and the fine was reduced to $90.
 
That same day, at least one of the men received a letter with a new court date of April 20 – Earth Week!  Due to Covid-19, that court date was eventually postponed into August at which time the men pleaded not guilty.  A court date was set for October.

Organized by the People's Climate Coalition @PCC.MKE
The eleven people arrested are members of the People's Climate Coalition @PCC.MKE (in addition to other Milwaukee climate groups).  These eleven people (many of whom are students) will have total fines between about $1300 and $1700 depending on the eventual fines for the men. 
You weren't arrested, but you can contribute by donating to help with their fines.
Please donate $3, $10, or more.  Your help will go towards the fines of these eleven people.
Thank you,
​350 Milwaukee

Video & Podcasts
Jamie Dimon ‘doesn't understand the risk’ of climate change: Greenpeace Exec. Director
​Yahoo Finance Video - January 21, 2020 7 min.
​“A Message from the Future with AOC”: New Film Imagines World Transformed by the Green New Deal
- The Intercept, April 17, 2019, 7 1/2 Min.
 Watch CNBC's interview with JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon at Davos 
CNBC - January 22, 2020 4 min.
Go to the 14 minute point to see Dimon's comments on climate, carbon, and fossil fuel.
Migration and climate change are deeply connected
350.org has released a 2 minute video. 
Watch it and share!
How Climate Change Threatens Humanity
 - Fresh Air Podcast, NPR​, April 15, 2019
​Bill McKibben talks about heat waves, fires, flooding, drought, and, soon, millions of climate refugees.
How Climate Change Became A Partisan Issue
 - Fresh Air Podcast on NPR​, April 8, 2019
Greta Thunberg Speech at Brilliant Minds conference in Stockholm
- YouTube, June 13, 2019
Climate Crisis
 - TED Radio Hour Podcast, NPR​, June 7, 2019
There's no greater threat to humanity than climate change.
Inside The Sunrise Movement: How Climate Activists Put The Green New Deal On The Map
- NBC News 11 Minute Video

Impact
Revealed: how the gas industry is waging war against climate action
- The Guardian, August 20, 2020
Revealed: how the gas industry is waging war against climate action
- The Guardian, August 20, 2020
Climate change made Siberian heatwave 600 times more likely – study
- The Guardian, July 15, 2020
California's wildfire risk keeps getting worse. Now a decade of blackouts lie ahead
- The Guardian, January 13, 2020
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Elizabeth Wathuti, a climate activist from Kenya
‘Overwhelming and terrifying’: the rise of climate anxiety
- The Guardian, February 10, 2020
Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 65F
- The Guardian, February 7, 2020
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A train of loaded coal cars heads to Oak Creek, Wisconsin
How bad can the climate crisis get if Trump wins again?
- The Guardian, January 12, 2020
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‘It looks like a film. It looks like a video game.’
Pictures of the world on fire won’t shock us for much longer
- The Guardian, January 13, 2020
The hellish future of Las Vegas in the climate crisis: 'A place where we never go outside'
- The Guardian, September 3, 2019

Petitions
Brazil: End the Amazon apocalypse!
"My name is Gabriel, I am a lawyer and I live in Rio Branco, in the heart of the Amazon. I am here because we need to ask all levels of Government in Brazil to mobilise and help us put an end to the burning of the Amazon rainforest!"

Here are links to three petitions to end the burning.
​Would you please choose one and sign?
Need convincing?
Call on Chase Bank and CEO Jamie Dimon to divest from tar sands and all other dirty fossil fuels

This is a Rainforest Action Network Campaign
 Support Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal
For the first time ever, someone in Congress has a plan that is ambitious enough to address the climate crisis.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing her fellow Democrats to create a Green New Deal – a plan to transform our economy and society at the scale needed to stop the climate crisis.
​
94 Representatives (only one - Mark Pocan - from Wisconsin) and 12 Senators (none from Wisconsin) have signed onto the Green New Deal resolution. Add your name now to help make sure the Green New Deal is on the agenda as Democrats take power in the House of Representatives.
Click here to read, and sign, the petition!

Green New Deal - Sunrise Movement - Website
The left must be bold and back a green new deal - The Guardian
The Green New Deal, explained - Vox
​The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal - The Intercept

350 Milwaukee is a supporter of the Green New Deal!

350 Milwaukee in the News

​Coverage of 350 Milwaukee protesting Trump - Milwaukee Courier
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​350 Milwaukee's Keep it in the Ground Protest - Wisconsin Gazette

Larry Hoffman talking about solar power - Wisconsin Public Radio

George Martin talking about oil trains - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Julie Enlsow on the Paris Climate Agreement - Milwaukee Courier
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Photo courtesy of the Overpass Light Brigade

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