Climate Strike: Stop Environmental Racism
Youth and allies are rallying at the SF Federal building to demand climate action and an end to environmental racism. Specifically, we are calling on Biden and the Army Corps of Engineers to halt construction of the Line 3 Pipeline. We are also calling for our teachers pension fund, CalSTRS, to divest teachers money from this project and all fossil fuels.
Environmental racism is deadly and creates climate breakdown that affects everyone. Take action from your bedroom or classroom today to stop it.
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LINE 3
The U.S. government has a responsibility under federal law to honor the rights guaranteed to tribal members in their treaties. The proposed Line 3 corridor would violate the treaty rights of the Anishinaabeg by endangering primary areas of hunting, fishing, wild rice and cultural resources in the 1855 treaty territory. The climate effects of Line 3 are enormous--Line 3 will carry enough oil to produce about 170 billion kilograms of carbon dioxide per year, equivalent to about 50 coal power plants, or 38 million vehicles on our roads.
Call Biden at 1-888-724-8946
Call The Army Corps of Engineers at 202-761-5903 or 202-761-1878
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CALSTRS
Most California public school teachers have no idea that CalSTRS, their pension fund, invests over $6 billion in the fossil fuel industry, including millions in Enbridge, the company that is building Line 3 .
We must show CalSTRS that they cannot silence the youth and keep teachers from knowing what is happening in their boardroom and about their $6 billion investments that are funding a climate catastrophe and a racist pipeline. Since CalSTRS is the largest teachers’ pension fund in the country, what happens in California can have a tremendous impact globally.
Sign on at bit.ly/DIvestCalSTRS
Go to youthvsapocalypse.org
Ask your teachers to send Board@CalSTRS.com an email to divest now!
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For more information visit:
STOPLINE3.org
www.youthvsapocalypse.org
https://edsource.org/2020/california-teachers-should-tell-calstrs-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels/636066
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