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Barclays pressured by shareholders to cut fossil fuel financing
- Reuters, January 7, 2020

European Investment Bank to phase out fossil fuel financing
- The Guardian, November 15, 2019

Banks continue to pile on Fossil-Fuel finance
 - International Banker, January 15, 2020

Climate Movement Takes Aim at Wall Street
- Common Dreams, January 9, 2020

JPMorgan Chase Will Halt Financing of Arctic Oil, Gas Drilling, Coal Plants
 - Sierra Club, February 25, 2020

BlackRock Has A New Attitude About Fossil Fuel Investing
- Cleantechnica, January 15, 2020

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink puts climate change at center of megafund’s investment strategy
- Fortune, January 14, 2020

Goldman Sachs to stop financing new drilling for oil in the Arctic
- The Guardian, December 15, 2019

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

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

‘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

Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists
- The Guardian, July 16, 2020

How scientists are coping with ‘ecological grief’
- The Guardian, January 12, 2020

Consumers Energy makes first-in-nation goal of "net zero carbon emissions" by 2040
- Michigan Radio, NPR, February 24, 2020

How to change the minds of climate deniers
- Grist via The Guardian

Revealed: US listed climate activist group as ‘extremists’ alongside mass killers
- The Guardian, January 13, 2020

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.

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.” The males were given letters indicating that they would not be charged unless the records appeared within two years. During the court appearance, because a representative of the City Attorney was not available to bargain with, the attorney entered a plea of Not Guilty and the case was rescheduled for February 21 for the four remaining women defendants.

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!

Organized by the People's Climate Coalition @PCC.MKE

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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

PCC.MKE at the Action Network

Ideas - Our goal isn't to be perfect, our goal is to reduce carbon

Why a generation is choosing to be child-free
The Guardian, July 25, 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

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?”

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer review – a life-changing book
- The Guardian, October 6, 2019

Almonds are out. Dairy is a disaster. So what milk should we drink?
- The Guardian, January 29, 2020

Jonathan Safran Foer: ‘Why don’t Extinction Rebellion issue specific ideas? They are awfully vague’
- The Guardian, January 19, 2020

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

Climate change made Siberian heatwave 600 times more likely – study
- The Guardian, July 15, 2020

Elizabeth Wathuti, a climate activist from Kenya

‘Overwhelming and terrifying’: the rise of climate anxiety
- The Guardian, February 10, 2020

California's wildfire risk keeps getting worse. Now a decade of blackouts lie ahead
- The Guardian, January 13, 2020

The plight of Hurricane Dorian evacuees offers a frightening vision of 'climate apartheid'
- The Guardian, September 10, 2019

View of crops and a forest on a hillside damaged by deforestation, pests and prolonged droughts

Drought and hunger: why thousands of Guatemalans are fleeing north
- The Guardian, February 7, 2020

Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 65F
- The Guardian, February 7, 2020

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

'Bigger picture, it's climate change': Great Lakes flood ravages homes and roads
- The Guardian, September 3, 2019

‘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.

change.org

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.