350 Chicago will be holding an action on June 9th from 11AM - 2 PM along with 350 member organizations across the country to support the People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition. We will be calling on President Biden to Declare a Climate Emergency and to end the fossil fuel era.

We would like help in further defining the message and uplifting the climate and environmental justice issues of Chicagoans during the action. We intend to protest the Peoples Gas rate hike, demand the shutdown and dismantling of Line 5 oil and gas pipeline traversing under the great lakes at the Mackinac straits, endangering the drinking water of millions of residents, and would like to highlight other issues of importance during the action as well. Join us on Thursday, April 27th at 7 PM to help us further refine our demands and issues for the action.

Tentatively, the action will take the form of a New Orleans style Jazz funeral. We would kick off our action with a rally at the Daley Plaza and finish at the Aon Center at the headquarters of Peoples Gas.

We would need volunteers to organize an Art Build, work on communications and media strategies, organize and recruitment of action participants, find guest speakers, and define potential roles for the action and much more.

We will be hosting the first organizing meeting on Thursday, April 27th at 7:00 PM. For further info and to RSVP, reply to [email protected] and be emailed the Zoom link.

In solidarity,

Larry Coble

Team 350 Chicago