Hey there John, it's Carly,
Our hearts are with the victims and survivors of the horrible antisemitic attack in Australia. Nobody should face hate or violence because of their faith. While agents of hate want us all divided by race and creed, we know that the good in human hearts is stronger. We are too often raised to believe that we are in competition with our neighbors, but part of what makes us human is a deep sense of empathy and responsibility towards our neighbors. We should all live in the example of Ahmed El Ahmad, who stepped in, wrestled a gun away from one of the shooters, and chased him off, despite sustaining serious injuries in the process.
This week, as I’m preparing to celebrate the eight nights of Hanukkah, I'm thinking about the miracle of one day of oil stretching into eight. If the greedy oil barons over at Exxon Mobil or Shell heard this story today, I don’t think they’d think of it as a miracle. They’d see dollar signs.
At the core of Hanukkah is such a simple lesson: when we come together as a community and refuse to give up, miracles can happen.
Everyday people only care about having enough. Enough energy to heat our homes, power our lives, and keep the lights on.
But for billionaires, nothing is ever enough. They need more - more profit, more control, more power - and they don’t care about the cost to the rest of us, even if it means a destroyed planet, endless wars and an uncertain future.
That’s why they’re fighting to keep energy scarce, privatized, and controlled by them. They know that control buys them political power, media influence, and the ability to bully any community that gets in the way of their next fix.
They’re terrified of a world powered by clean energy, because they can’t own the sun or the wind. They’re afraid of power that can belong to communities instead of billionaires and corporations.
We’re fighting to build a world where people have enough energy to light and heat their homes, not one where billionaires hoard more and more.
We’re not asking for eight days of Hanukkah gifts. But on this first day, I do have an ask for you.
Chag Sameach,
Carly Shaffer
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