June 2023 Monthly Actions & Meeting W/ Bill McKibben, Middlebury College

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Each month, Citizens’ Climate Lobby supporters gather locally for a monthly meeting where we educate ourselves by listening to a guest speaker. Go to your local chapter's page to find out more about your chapter's plans for listening in. June's Monthly Meeting will be on Saturday, June 10th at 1:00 pm ET and featured a conversation with Bill McKibben, Middlebury College.

50682849a884ee0610ab03a91eff1582-huge-mcTo have any shot at building the clean energy economy needed to solve climate change, we will have to overcome the inflexive resistance to development of the projects and resources that will facilitate that transition. Perhaps the most trusted person to deliver that message to environmentalists is climate champion Bill McKibben, and that's what he did in a recent piece for Mother Jones. He joins this month's national call days before our volunteers go to lobby on Capitol Hill. Bill is an author, educator, and environmentalist who helped found 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign. He recently helped found Third Act, a progressive organizing movement for people over the age of 60.
 

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Watch or download the video recording or pre-call video. Listen to the podcast on PodBean or iTunes.  View the the transcript

 

June's Monthly Actions (click here to download the full sheet)

  1. Have a potluck this month to kick off your summer outreach
  2. Amplify our June lobby meetings by writing to Congress
  3. Social media bonus action: Share our D.C. Conference posts with your social media network
  4. Chapter development bonus action: Invite new recruits to buddy up and support each other
  5. Help CCL fundraise this summer 
  6. Communications exercise: Practice talking about CCL’s permitting reform principles
Group Leaders: check out the “Advance Planning for Group Leaders" PDF for how to use the June Action Sheet.
Posted by Brett Cease on Jun 2, 2023 2:10 PM America/Los_Angeles

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