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CCL Weekly Briefing, December 14, 2022
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Help volunteers like Gigi
Take action this week
Concert soothes climate anxiety
Upcoming trainings
Your donation helps volunteers like Gigi
Gigi Santo, a Florida high school student, was determined to have a big
impact on climate change. She might be too young to vote, but she's not
too young to organize.
With support from her chapter, she got other students in her high school
to join Citizens' Climate. Now, she leads the Broward Chapter of
Citizens' Climate, with over 400 members — and they've convinced their
Congresswoman to introduce new climate legislation.
Name a paid lobbyist who's done THAT.
At Citizens' Climate, we know that the best way to solve climate change
is together. We provide training, education, and support. Our volunteers
bring determination and some pretty amazing talent to solve the problem.
Together, we get climate legislation passed.
Consider a tax-deductible, year-end donation to Citizens' Climate
Education today.
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Donations will help us recruit and empower more lobbyists like Gigi in
2023.
DONATE NOW
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In other news this week:
• Speaking of Gigi: Gigi Santo was also a speaker at our December
conference. She talked about the importance of being a leader in your
community to stop climate change. You can watch her speech and read the
transcript here
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• An expanded policy agenda: CCL shared a press release yesterday
highlighting the successes of our conference for media outlets across
the country to see. You can read that press release here
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• Do not try to bend the spoon: John Sabin, CCL Regional Coordinator for
the Great Lakes Region, wrote about the importance of persistence and
kindness when working with congressional offices and encountering
frustrating situations. Read more here
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• With Gratitude #4: In this installment
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, you can read about volunteers who host congressional forums, create
displays for local libraries, and create the political will for a
liveable world!
• Madeleine's conference speech: Executive Director Madeleine Para's
conference speech focused on the importance of our policy rollout and
how CCL will function in 2023. You can watch her speech and read the
transcript here
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• Carlos Curbelo's conference speech: Former U.S. Representative Carlos
Curbelo spoke at our December conference about the importance of CCL's
role in bridging the political divide on climate change. You can watch
his speech and read the transcript here
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• December national call: CCL's December call featured Marcelo Mena, CEO
of Global Methane Hub, which supports methane emissions reduction
efforts around the world. In this call, Mena offered his perspective on
the recent COP27 climate summit. You can watch the recording of that
call here
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Take action this week
If you have a little time: Check out CCL's lobbying efforts on Twitter
CCLers have been virtually lobbying their members of Congress to help
the climate movement finish the year strong! Scroll through CCL's
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If you have more time: Ask members of Congress to support the RISEE Act
Thanks to the efforts of CCL volunteers, we've seen a boost in members
of Congress paying attention to the RISEE Act. We've got one more shot
at passing climate action before the 117th Congress ends. Reach out to
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Quintet uses music to tackle climate anxiety
(Above photo courtesy of Courtney Flatt, Northwest News Network)
Members of the Tri-Cities chapter of CCL in Washington organized a
concert to help attendees process emotions related to climate anxiety
and grief. The concert brought in a packed house.
Nelda Swiggett, a musician and the leader of a jazz quintet, shares that
their concerts about climate change tours through churches in the area.
The idea came to Swiggett after she visited Alaska and noticed the
effects of climate change.
Her concert, titled "The Alaska Suite," features nine pieces named after
climate effects, such as "Melting," "Burning," and "Worry." Before each
piece performance, Swiggett reads a brief introduction about climate
change in Alaska, and how some of the same effects can be seen in
Washington.
Her hour-and-a-half-long concert also includes poetry and narrations of
the things that she saw throughout her trip.
CCLer Lora Rathbone explained how art can reach audiences that might not
be as likely to talk about climate change.
"A lot of social science shows that people not only respond more to
emotion, but it's got to be personal somehow to them, experienced
firsthand, like we do here, the increasing temperatures in the summer
and other strange weather events," Rathbone said.
You can read the full story in the link below.
READ THE FULL STORY
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Upcoming trainings
12/15: Getting Started With Local Partnership Ideas: As CCL expands our
policy agenda, it opens up possibilities for our chapters to do more
work with local and state-level climate groups and policymakers. Join
CCL staff for a discussion around how you can get started with local
partnership ideas. Join us!
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Trainings will resume after the holidays on Jan. 5, 2023.
To see other topics and past trainings, visit the Training Topics page
of CCL Community
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