[ Reader Comments: Tyre Nichols Murder; Ilhan Omar; Rent Control;
Climate Disaster; David Crosby; Making Sense of the Ukraine War and
confusion on the Left; Medical Debt; Reconstruction; Antisemitism;
More Announcements; Cartoons;]
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TIDBITS – FEB. 2, 2023 – READER COMMENTS: TYRE NICHOLS MURDER;
ILHAN OMAR; RENT CONTROL; CLIMATE DISASTER; DAVID CROSBY; MAKING SENSE
OF THE UKRAINE WAR AND CONFUSION ON THE LEFT; MEDICAL DEBT;
RECONSTRUCTION; ANTISEMITISM;  
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_ Reader Comments: Tyre Nichols Murder; Ilhan Omar; Rent Control;
Climate Disaster; David Crosby; Making Sense of the Ukraine War and
confusion on the Left; Medical Debt; Reconstruction; Antisemitism;
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Announcements AND cartoons - Feb 2, 2023,
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* RE: THE CONSTITUTION HAS A 155-YEAR-OLD ANSWER TO THE DEBT CEILING
(DANIEL MILLSTONE)
* HATEFUL PROTECTION  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* TWO AMERICAS  --  CARTOON BY MICHAEL DE ADDER
* NOTORIOUS MEMPHIS CRIME GANG ARRESTED  --  DAVID G. BROWN
CARTOON
* RE: TAX THE WEALTHY 75% AND DO IT NOW (MAX MASTELLONE)
* RE: GERMAN TANKS AGAINST RUSSIA? A HISTORIC MISTAKE (JOHN ALDIS)
* RE: WHEN ILHAN OMAR ASKS QUESTIONS, HER COLLEAGUES SHOULD LISTEN
(VELVA SPRIGGS; CAROLFRANCES LIKINS)
* RE: WHAT SHOULD RENT CONTROL ACCOMPLISH? (NORM LITTLEJOHN)
* RE: A MEDIA CEILING IS ABOUT TO FALL IN ON DEMOCRATS (ELEANOR
ROOSEVELT)
* RE: ‘MASSIVE CLIMATE DISASTER’: GROUPS DEMAND BIDEN REVERSE
COURSE ON WILLOW PROJECT (GEORGE LESSARD; JENNIFER WATSON)
* LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG  -- FROM THE UNITED AUTOMOBILE
WORKER, OCTOBER 1937
* RE: WHAT THE MEDIA FORGOT ABOUT DAVID CROSBY (PETER GILMORE)
* ACCURATE DESCRIPTION  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH 

RE: MAKING SENSE OF THE UKRAINE WAR (FRANCISCO GONZALEZ; GEOFFREY
JACQUES)

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* PAST IS PROLOGUE: HOW LESSONS FROM THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA CAN HELP
US BUILD  - FEBRUARY 8 (D.C. AREA EDUCATORS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND
ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT)
* ENDMEDICALDEBT VIRTUAL CAMPAIGN FORUM - FEBRUARY 9 (LABOR RELIGION
COALITION OF NEW YORK STATE AND LONG ISLAND PROGRESSIVE COALITION)
* FILM SCREENING: "REPAIRING THE WORLD" - CHARLOTTESVILLE - FEBRUARY
9 (CHARLOTTESVILLE CLERGY COLLECTIVE, CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL, MT.
ZION FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH, AND NOT IN OUR TOWN)
* 365 DAYS OF WAR IN UKRAINE: PROSPECTS TOWARDS PEACE IN 2023 -
FEBRUARY 24 (PEACE IN UKRAINE COALITION (USA); MOVEMENT DE LA PAIX
(FRANCE); CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT (UK); TRANSFORM! EUROPE)
* SYMPOSIUM ON THE LEGACY AND CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF STANLEY
ARONOWITZ'S INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS - NEW YORK - MARCH 3 (INSTITUTE
FOR THE RADICAL IMAGINATION)
* NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO STOP DIRTY BANKS - MARCH 21 (THIRD ACT)
 

RE: THE CONSTITUTION HAS A 155-YEAR-OLD ANSWER TO THE DEBT CEILING
 

There are many solutions to the phony debt ceiling crisis now touted
by the misbegotten GOP. Here, via xxxxxx,
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Eric Foner, always worth reading, suggests one. But any of them would
do (Me? I love minting trillion dollar coin$. ). What, politically we
need to do, is to stop being hobbled by this mythical beast. 

Daniel Millstone

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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HATEFUL PROTECTION  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich

January 26, 2023

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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TWO AMERICAS  --  CARTOON BY MICHAEL DE ADDER

 

Michael de Adder
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January 28, 2023

 

NOTORIOUS MEMPHIS CRIME GANG ARRESTED  --  DAVID G. BROWN CARTOON

 

David G. Brown

January 30, 2023

dgbstudio
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RE: TAX THE WEALTHY 75% AND DO IT NOW
 

Wrong. The rates were raised that high because the government was
pumping large sums of new dollars into the economy to manage the
Depression and WWII. All those extra dollars were threatening
inflation partially because few consumer goods were available to
purchase due to the war effort. High taxes and “War Bonds”
siphoned those extra dollars out of the economy and kept inflation at
a manageable level. So, it wasn’t high taxes that created the middle
class, it was high deficit spending that created full employment, plus
the GI Bill, that greatly increase the number of college educated
Americans.

Max Mastellone

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RE: GERMAN TANKS AGAINST RUSSIA? A HISTORIC MISTAKE
 

We hesitate to send more military equipment to avoid "escalating" the
conflict and then wait until the conflict has, again, escalated before
we send more military equipment.

It is as if our goal is to let the conflict continue to get out of
control before we try to prevent it from getting out of control.

John Aldis

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RE: WHEN ILHAN OMAR ASKS QUESTIONS, HER COLLEAGUES SHOULD LISTEN

 

I must convey to Congresswoman Omar how proud I am of her, her
principles, her contributions to Congress, and her commitment to
justice. 

Velva Spriggs

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My letter to "my" congressman, Jimmy Gómez, in response to Mariam
Barghouti's excellent article:

Subject field: Israeli blood on your hands

Body of my letter: 

As long as you continue to give our tax money, against our wishes, to
their fascist apartheid government, not only is the blood of any
Palestinian they kill on your hands but so is that of any Israeli that
Palestinians kill in the frustration and wrath that you have
generated. John F. Kennedy warned us that "Those who make nonviolent
revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

You work for ending homelessness in your c.d. while you pay Israel to
cause it there. You work to end violence here while you pay the
Israeli military and the illegal settlers to carry it out over there.
You work to stop repression against peaceful protest elsewhere in the
world while you make sure that any Palestinian peaceful protest is
punished by horrific violence.

Please read the following article as soon as you can. I will be
awaiting your response and I won't accept a form letter about wanting
a peaceful solution while ignoring my point about the violence you are
causing in the meantime.

Carolfrances Likins

 

RE: WHAT SHOULD RENT CONTROL ACCOMPLISH?
 

In Wisconsin, as in many states, local rent control has been banned by
the state legislature. Just coincidentally, the Speaker of the
Wisconsin Assembly is a fairly notorious landlord.

“People like Mike Leyba have spent years working to make it possible
for rent control to return to Boston.

“Always an expensive city to live, Boston has become one of the
costliest places in the country in the years since rent control was
banned statewide in the mid-1990s. Advocates like Leyba, the
co-executive director of the social justice group City Life/Vida
Urbana, have worked to build momentum at both the state and local
levels for overturning the ban and reinstating a policy they say is
urgently needed amid a roiling crisis of displacement and
unaffordability.”

Norm Littlejohn

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RE: A MEDIA CEILING IS ABOUT TO FALL IN ON DEMOCRATS
 

Ban paid political advertising on radio and TV the same way cigarette
advertising is banned, and for the same reasons -- it's poisonous.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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RE: ‘MASSIVE CLIMATE DISASTER’: GROUPS DEMAND BIDEN REVERSE COURSE
ON WILLOW PROJECT
 

“… The Biden administration's Bureau of Land Management on
Wednesday published an environmental assessment that recommends
partial approval of a major drilling project on Alaska's North Slope,
prompting a flurry of calls for the Interior Department to reject the
plan outright and prevent any additional fossil fuel extraction in the
region.

"Greenlighting the Willow project would banish President Biden's
climate legacy to one of irreparable and downright shameful
environmental destruction," said Raena Garcia, fossil fuels and lands
campaigner for Friends of the Earth. "Big Oil's exploitation of the
rapidly warming Arctic has already thrust local communities onto the
frontlines of the climate crisis, jeopardizing public health and
polluting critical ecosystems."

Kristen Miller, executive director of Alaska Wilderness League,
implored Biden to "reverse course on this massive climate
disaster."…”

George Lessard

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This country is run by oligarchs. Also, the US government has sided
with capitalists against their own working class people.

Jennifer Watson

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LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG  -- FROM THE UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKER,
OCTOBER 1937

 

Re: What the Media Forgot About David Crosby

I appreciate this. As an early fan of the Byrds, I could sense
Crosby's demons through their expression as braggadocio, rants,
addictions. But yes, that unreconstructed Sixties radicalism was
there. And we're all better off for it.

Peter Gilmore

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ACCURATE DESCRIPTION  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

Mike Luckovich

January 31, 2023
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: MAKING SENSE OF THE UKRAINE WAR

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Ukraine is fighting for its survival as a nation against a fascist,
corrupt dictator bent on recreating the old Russian empire. This is
the truth, and anyone defending Russia's war of aggression is a
co-conspirator and a war criminal too.

"It is distressing to see leaders of one of the most prominent antiwar
organizations in the United States, in effect, upholding Putin’s
left flank, offering up hollow condemnations of the Kremlin while
using its propaganda to badly misinform the public about the nature of
a war that has already shaken the global capitalist system and has the
potential to end human civilization."

Francisco Gonzalez

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This review is valuable for its cogent exposition of one new and
important problem that the Russia-Ukraine war has revealed, and that
is the way this war has sowed confusion within the left, especially
(but not exclusively) in the United States. 

People that, in the name of left wing values, were anti-Soviet and
anticommunist during the years of Bolshevik governance in Russia, have
found a new fondness for Russia's first modern imperialist leader, a
fondness they express through the use of historic left wing language.
These people have joined with others, some of them veterans of the
Communist movement, who seem to think nostalgia for the USSR is an
appropriate analytical tool for generating an understanding of this
war.

While writer Eric Draitser describes this problem well, he only offers
some preliminary thoughts regarding its origins, which, in my view,
are rooted in a decades-long disorientation of the left that we've
lived with since the dissolution of the USSR and the end of Bolshevism
as an international political force. 

Most of this review is a detailed and thorough analysis of the current
government of the Russian Federation, of Federation President Vladimir
Putin's publicly stated reasons for going to war, and of the struggle
of the people of Ukraine for their national existence. He exposes the
disconnection between the fables that Russia's supporters tell
themselves and the rest of us about the war's origins, and what real
(rather than selective) history says.

One symptom of the problem here is the emergence of a left wing
version of the focus on Great Power political rivalries as an
analytical tool. As it does in the hands of liberals and other
pro-imperialists, the left wing version of Great Power Politics-style
analysis erases the histories and aspirations of peoples in small
countries, and of oppressed nationalities. Finally, this type of
analysis has the virtue, if you want to call it that, of erasing the
class struggle itself from its historical and political cosmology.
However, as Draitser points out: "Our job is not to cosplay as Little
Kissingers studying the global chessboard and basing our political
views on the positioning of non-Western pieces. Instead, our
responsibility is to discern what is real and to defend and propagate
that truth in the service of internationalism and liberation from
capitalist and imperialist oppression."

This review is a challenge to the emergence of a pro-Russian
imperialist Neo-Realpolitik on the left that finds itself opposed to
the Ukrainian people, who are on the front lines of the
anti-imperialist struggle in Europe, and with whom we ought to be
expressing our solidarity and support in the face of Putin's effort to
restore the Russian Empire of the Czars in the 21st century.

Geoffrey Jacques

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PAST IS PROLOGUE: HOW LESSONS FROM THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA CAN HELP US
BUILD  - FEBRUARY 8 (D.C. AREA EDUCATORS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ZINN
EDUCATION PROJECT)

Virtual BLM at School event. Michelle Coles, author of "Black Was the
Ink", to discuss the parallels between the Reconstruction Era & today.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 -- 7:00 - 8L00 PM EST

Reserve a spot
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Join D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice for a virtual event in
support of the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action. Mimi
Eisen, co-author of _Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State
Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction_
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Michelle Coles, author of _Black Was the Ink_
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the parallels between the Reconstruction Era and today. What can we
learn from the past? Further, what do current school districts’
standards reveal about the present-day failures to accurately teach
Reconstruction? Participants will have time to collaborate, share
resources, and reflect on their own Reconstruction teaching and
learning experiences. Attendees will be entered into a raffle to
receive a copy of _Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle _or a picture
or YA book connected to the 13 guiding principles for Black Lives
Matter at School.

MICHELLE COLES is an award-winning young adult novelist, former civil
rights attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, and public
speaker. Her goal in writing is to empower young people by educating
them about history and giving them the tools to shape their own
destiny. Her debut novel, _Black Was the Ink_, the first young adult
historical fiction about the Reconstruction Era, won the 2022 Grateful
American Book Prize, a 2022 Skipping Stones Award, and the 2019 New
Visions Award Honor. Learn more at _www.michellecoles.com_
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MIMI EISEN is a program manager at the Zinn Education Project.
Originally from Philadelphia, she holds a BA in history from Cornell
University and an MA in American history from Brown University, with a
secondary focus in digital public humanities. Eisen specializes in
civil rights, law, and citizenship in late nineteenth-century America.
She has taught high school-level U.S. history and developed
educational content across eras and mediums. Her work is grounded in
the idea that the past is far more than a treasury of facts: it is
contested, collective, and instructive of the perils and possibilities
of the moment.

Reserve a spot
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TEACHING FOR CHANGE [[link removed]]

PO BOX 73038

WASHINGTON, DC 20056

ENDMEDICALDEBT VIRTUAL CAMPAIGN FORUM - FEBRUARY 9 (LABOR RELIGION
COALITION OF NEW YORK STATE AND LONG ISLAND PROGRESSIVE COALITION)

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New York’s non-profit hospitals sued over 53,000 patients between
2015 and 2020. Hospitals are required to offer financial assistance
but instead they take patients to court even though these non-profit
hospitals get over $1 billion in tax support each year.

There is a growing campaign in New York to #EndMedicalDebt by growing
the power of patients and passing laws to protect us from predatory
hospital billing.

Join this community forum to learn more about the crisis of medical
debt and how we can win changes that protect patients and improve
health care access for all New Yorkers.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE FORUM
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Hosted by Citizen Action of New York, Community Service Society, Labor
Religion Coalition, Long Island Progressive Coalition, Make the Road,
NYS Poor People’s Campaign, New York Public Interest Research Group
(NYPIRG), Statewide Senior Action, Syracuse United Neighbors, Syracuse
Democratic Socialists of America, Citizen Action of New York, and the
End Medical Debt campaign coalition.

LABOR RELIGION COALITION OF NEW YORK STATE
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LONG ISLAND PROGRESSIVE COALITION
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FILM SCREENING: "REPAIRING THE WORLD" - CHARLOTTESVILLE - FEBRUARY 9
(CHARLOTTESVILLE CLERGY COLLECTIVE, CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL, MT. ZION
FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH, AND NOT IN OUR TOWN)

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SATURDAY. FEB. 11, FROM 5 TO 8 P.M., AT MT. ZION FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST
CHURCH AT 105 LANKFORD AVE., CHARLOTTESVILLE

Register here
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"Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life" documents
Pittsburgh's powerful community response to hate in the aftermath of
the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Through survivors,
family members, Pittsburgh residents and leaders, the film shows unity
in a moment of crisis, the resilience of a vibrant city, and a
community working together to be "stronger than hate."

Talk afterward with filmmaker Patrice O'Neill.

Not In Out Town [[link removed]], the Charlottesville Clergy
Collective [[link removed]], Congregation
Beth Israel [[link removed]], and Mt. Zion First African
Baptist Church [[link removed]] are sponsoring a free
screening of “Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life
[[link removed]],” a documentary on
Pittsburgh’s response to hate and antisemitism. Download flier
[[link removed]].

After the screening, there will be a time of discussion and
exploration about how we can respond to hate and antisemitism here in
Charlottesville. 

Light refreshments will be served. 

_Repairing the World: Stories from The Tree of Life is a new film and
community engagement project from Not In Our Town [[link removed]]
about standing up to hate._

365 DAYS OF WAR IN UKRAINE: PROSPECTS TOWARDS PEACE IN 2023 - FEBRUARY
24 (PEACE IN UKRAINE COALITION (USA); MOVEMENT DE LA PAIX (FRANCE);
CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT (UK); TRANSFORM! EUROPE)

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DATE - FRIDAY - FEB 24, 2023

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME)

REGISTER HERE
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One year after the beginning of the Ukraine war – the INTERNATIONAL
PEACE BUREAU in cooperation with the PEACE IN UKRAINE COALITION
(USA), MOVEMENT DE LA PAIX (FRANCE), CND (UK) AND TRANSFORM!
EUROPE will hold an international webinar to bring together different
voices from different countries to discuss a lasting peace in Ukraine
and our way towards it.

Introductory words will be given by MICHAEL VON DER SCHULENBURG, a
former UN/OSCE diplomat; who lately participated in the development of
the Vatican peace plan. 

Afterwards both Ukrainian and Russian activists will share their
perspectives on the ongoing situation, including Oleg Bodrov (Public
Council of the Gulf of Finland), Karyna Radchenko (100 Words for
Peace) and Yurii Sheliazhenko (Ukrainian Pacifist Movement).

A roundtable discussion by different peace activists – including
Corazon Valdez Fabros (IPB Co-President), Reiner Braun, Lindsey
German, Alain Rouy (Movement de la Paix) and Kate Hudson (CND) as
moderator – on a lasting ceasefire and negotiations will close the
webinar.

REGISTER HERE
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Visit their webpages: Peace in Ukraine Coalition (USA)
[[link removed]] / Movement de la Paix (France)
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Disarmament (UK) [[link removed]] / Transform! Europe
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SYMPOSIUM ON THE LEGACY AND CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF STANLEY
ARONOWITZ'S INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS - NEW YORK - MARCH 3 (INSTITUTE
FOR THE RADICAL IMAGINATION)

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO STOP DIRTY BANKS - MARCH 21 (THIRD ACT)

We are building a community of Americans over the age of sixty
determined to change the world for the better. Together, we use our
life experience, skills, and resources to build a better tomorrow.

Over the past year, thousands of you have taken the Banking on Our
Future pledge to close your accounts, cut up your credit cards, and
boycott Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo if they
don’t move their investments out of fossil fuels. On 3.21.23, we
gather to show the strength of our movement!

You don’t need to be a cardholder or a Third Actor to
participate––we need people of all ages, races, and means to make
visible the connection between cash and carbon. Bring your friends,
energy, and creativity!

Find an event on the map below or submit your own.

Third Act has spent much of the last year collecting Banking on our
Future pledges from thousands and thousands of people across America:
pledges to move our money out of the big, dirty fossil-fueled banks
– Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo – if they
don’t move their investments out of fossil fuels.

And we’ve learned more about how important this is: new data makes
it clear that these banks are using your money to fund the climate
crisis in a big way. If you have $62,500 in one of these banks, that
amount loaned for pipelines, frack wells, coal, and oil exploration
produces more carbon than all the driving, cooking, heating, cooling,
and flying an average American will do in 6 months. In other words,
your bank may well be the largest part of your carbon footprint.

Together with partners and with all of you, we’ll be collecting
thousands more pledges to cut up our credit cards or close bank
accounts, and we’ll deliver them in person to bank branches and
headquarters in February. IT’S AN IMPORTANT STEP, BUT NO ONE
EXPECTS THAT PLEDGES TO MOVE OUR MONEY WILL BE ENOUGH TO CHANGE THE
POLICIES OF THESE BEHEMOTHS. Chase alone has 75 million credit card
customers, and over the last months has been moving backwards—not
forward—in its climate commitments.

WE NEED TO ESCALATE: IF THE BANKS WON’T CUT IT OUT ON CLIMATE, WE
WILL CUT UP OUR CREDIT CARDS!

WE NEED TO GO BEYOND INDIVIDUAL ACTION AND START MAKING CLIMATE
FINANCE A DINNER TABLE ISSUE. SO ON MARCH 21 (3.21.23) WE’LL HAVE A
NATIONWIDE DAY OF ACTION. IT’S GOT TO BE BROAD AND BEAUTIFUL AND
DEEP IN PEOPLE’S MINDS AND HEARTS.

Here’s how we hope it looks: Groups organizing to cut-up credit
cards (symbolically or actually) in as many iconic places as we can
imagine. (Maybe underwater on a dying coral reef, if you have diving
skills, or against the backdrop of a fire-scarred forest, or alongside
the remaining damage from Hurricane Ian). We also need lots of people
outside and inside bank branches, especially out in suburbs across the
country. Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo and Bank of America have picked
30,000 of the highest-traffic locations in the country for their
offices and we want to make sure a wide sampling of them are visited
that day.

If there are ten of these bank branches in the neighborhoods near you,
get a band of people to move from one to the next all day: the more we
get out the message, the easier the next phase will be. So start
thinking: where can we go to make a difference? What can we do that
will get noticed? How can we make people understand the crucial link
between these banks and the climate crisis?

YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CARDHOLDER OR ACCOUNT-HOLDER TO PARTICIPATE,
AND IF YOU ARE, YOU DO NOT YET HAVE TO HAVE FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE
THE SWITCH. We know this takes time and involves many personal
decisions. (Here are some materials to help making the switch easier.
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if you haven’t finished the switch it doesn’t matter. We’ve
known all along we’re not going to solve this one person at a time.
The point of the Banking on our Future pledge and this Day of Action
– and of the actions that will follow – is to collectively make
some noise, raise the visibility of the dirty banks’ role in climate
destruction, and grow our movement for climate justice and solutions.

You also do not have to be a Third Actor to participate. All kinds of
great partners are collaborating to make the day as much of a success
as we can. We need people of all ages, races, and means to participate
and send a strong message to the banks: if you don’t move money out
of fossil fuels, we will move our money out of your banks.

What we do on 3.21.23 will drive the next stages in this work. Next,
we will need to start pressing state and city treasurers, businesses,
university administrators, and many others to figure out new banking
arrangements. Those people and institutions have the power, because of
the size and visibility of their accounts, to push even harder, and
already we’re hearing good responses from some of them: vast
companies like Salesforce, and important officials like New York
City’s Treasurer have said out loud that they’re going to put
pressure on financial institutions. But that’s just a start: we need
to show the way. WE NEED TO MAKE VISIBLE THIS INVISIBLE CONNECTION
BETWEEN CASH AND CARBON. THAT’S WHAT THIS DAY OF ACTION IS ABOUT.

Third Act Working Groups have lots of ideas and plans already. But you
don’t need a formal Working Group to be involved. If you can round
up a few friends, you can stage an action. We’ll help with
materials, with connections, and with ideas to make sure that the
local media pays attention. _Coming soon_, we will have a map showing
planned actions and a form where you can submit your action or sign-up
to join one in your area.

HERE’S HOW TO GET STARTED. First, sign-up below to indicate your
interest in getting involved with the Day of Action and we will send
you updates on hosting or joining an event, taking actions at banks,
and more. Second, sign the Banking on our Future pledge, if you
haven’t already. And third, read the FAQ’s below and keep an eye
out on this page to see when new information is added!

If you can give any amount to our Day of Action fund, now is a great
time—we plan to outfit each action with support, beautiful artwork,
and training, which all take resources. There’s a donate button
below.

AND THIS PART IS IMPORTANT: HAVE FUN DOING THIS. That pleasure and
creativity will be infectious; it’s how we keep building this
movement!

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