Dear Friends and Allies,
This year we have witnessed an extraordinary escalation in the climate crisis and an unprecedented growth of popular resistance to governments and corporations who fail to rise to the occasion. It is urgent that we work even harder to grow the movement for climate action and gather new forces for a livable earth.
The CT Climate Crisis Mobilization (C3M), formed last summer to support our state’s new youth climate strike movement in actions at the State Capitol on September 20 and December 6, 2019, brought together approximately 90 organizations in a state-wide call to support those actions. C3M is now asking you to join us in a similar effort.
On April 22, 23, 24, and 25, key Connecticut climate action organizations are currently preparing for four major activities to mark the global week of action in our state that begin with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22 and will culminate with a protest against the permitting of a fracked gas power plant in Killingly. Through the CT Climate Crisis Mobilization we will work together to create a new synergy and to maximize the endorsement and turnout for these activities by publicizing them together as a package of actions.This will create additional excitement about all of the April actions and contribute to bringing truly new forces into motion.
To that end, we urge all CT climate and social justice organizations to sign on to a united call that urges “All Out” for April 22-25 in Connecticut. The actions that we propose to bring together in a massive publicity campaign include:
Wednesday, April 22—Rally at the New Haven Green; 4 p.m. Initiated by New Haven Sunrise Movement; sunrisenewhavenct@gmail.com; New Haven Climate Movement (cschweitzer@newhavenleon.org); Yale Endowment Justice Coalition
Thursday, April 23—Stop the Money Pipeline; 11:30 a.m. at the Old State House, 800 Main Street, Hartford; Initiated by Sierra Club CT Chapter, and CT Citizen Action Group; angelserranoccag@gmail.com. A march to three different insurance companies in Downtown Hartford to demand that they stop investments in fossil fuels and stop underwriting fossil fuel projects.
Friday, April 24—Youth Climate Strike, 3 p.m, CT State Capitol, 210 Capitol Ave., Hartford; Initiated by Sunrise Movement CT and Green Eco Warriors; sunriseconnecticut@gmail.com
Saturday, April 25—Stop the Killingly Power Plant Rally & Energy Fair; Noon; Davis Park, 210 Main St., Danielson CT. Initiated by No More Dirty Power in Killingly; 860-604-4846.
With your help, we will fund and distribute posters and flyers, organize social media campaigns, and place advertisements that announce all four actions. In addition, we have voted to contribute several thousand dollars for logistics to the Hartford Youth Climate Strike and to the Stop the Killingly Power Plant rally. We have also agreed to organize coach buses and vans from numerous towns to the Killingly protest. Finally, we plan to organize several united press conferences with the organizers of all four actions, plus representatives of important community organizations who have joined the effort, including organizations fighting for the rights of immigrants and refugees,for good green jobs in our urban centers, and for an economy based on sustainability and equity. A budget totaling approximately $5000 for all of this activity is available for your review and all funds will go to a C3M account held by the fiscal sponsor CCAG.
This is the language that we will use on all posters, flyers, and press releases:
The CT Climate Crisis Mobilization is bringing together a diverse coalition of individuals and groups to promote a series of actions that call for a transition away from fossil fuels and toward an economy based on 100 percent clean renewable energy and human needs. These actions will call attention to the climate crisis, and include calls for climate and environmental justice, social and racial justice, economic justice, justice for immigrants and refugees, and an end to spending for war. These issues are all connected in our global fight for a biodiverse and livable earth.
Please consider endorsing and making donations to this mobilization effort. Send individual endorsement with identifying organizations or organizational endorsements to C3Mobilzation@gmail.com. Funds earmarked for this effort should be sent via this link to the C3M account. See the C3M website for links to more detailed information on all the actions that have been put out by the initiating organizations.
Join us April 22-25 for climate action!
In solidarity,
Steering Committee, CT Climate Crisis Mobilization, and
Kate Donnelly, No More Dirty Power in Killingly
Angel Serrano, Connecticut Citizen Action Group
Samantha Dynowski, Sierra Club CT Chapter
Sena Wazer, Youth Climate Strike/Sunrise Connecticut
Leticia Colón de Mejias, Green Eco Warriors
Tyler Wakefield, Sunrise New Haven
Erick Sarmiento, Unidad Latina en Acción
Ben Martin, 350 CT
Adrian Huq, New Haven Climate Movement
Nora Heaphy, Yale Endowment Justice Coalition