Take Action: According to Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda, tackle one issue at a time. The more trouble it takes you to contact your politicians, the more they pay attention. So when you can manage the time and effort, put your body out there. Face-to-face or protest march > calling > faxing if you can’t get through on regular phone > writing letters (because they may arrive too late) > personal email > petition or group email.
But we are in this for the long haul, so pace yourselves. Do whatever level you can do. We will be here once a week with the latest.
To see if your legislator is having a Town Hall meeting: Check out the Town Hall Project’s list of Town Hall Meetings so that you can meet them face to face if you wish.
To write your letter then fax it for free: FaxZero: Create and send faxes for free to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada
Easy resource to find your politicians’ phone, email, etc: The AARP has an action site, Advocacy - Legislative Action Center - AARP. I know AARP isn’t perfect, but it has a nifty feature for everyone: Look down to the right, where it says “find your state legislators”. Put in your zip code. It returns federal, state AND local politicians, NOT just legislators. Federal, for example, includes contact information for Trump, Pence, your two Senators, and your Congressional representative. If you need more than phone numbers and email addresses, it has clickable links to their web pages, which should have up-to-date contact information including fax numbers, street addresses, appearance schedule, how to schedule appointments, and constituent services.
If all else fails, you can join Greenpeace’s environmental resistance:
Pledge To Resist With Greenpeace
They also have a petition for Congress to support action on climate change:
Sign The Petition At Greenpeace To Tell Your Congress Critters To Protect The Paris Climate Agreement
You can also sign petitions against Scott Pruitt:
Sierra Club: Tell Your Senators To Oppose Scott Pruitt's Nomination
League of Conservation Voters: Tell The Senate To Reject Scott Pruitt
Please feel free to share and/or reprint this diary in whole or in part with attribution far and wide, other websites or newspapers, I give it freely. Our aim is for millions to take action.
Each week: The week’s cartoon will post after press time at the TeePublic elenacarlena store if you’d like to pick up a shirt, mug, or other items with any cartoon in the series, to help spread the word and support these efforts.
Thank you for taking action!
References:
McConnell Sneaking Out Of KY Airport To Avoid Protestors (click the link for tweets from the protest outside his home)
On March 19, 1986, Coretta Scott King wrote to the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate to oppose the nomination of Jeff Sessions. At that time, he was rejected as being too racist to be a judge. Times appear to have changed and not for the better in the Trump administration. But just because McOtter does not want it well known, I am reproducing here page 1 of ten pages. The entire document can be read at the Washington Post: Read The Letter Coretta Scott King Wrote Opposing Sessions' 1986 Federal Nomination
I write to express my sincere opposition to the confirmation of Jefferson B. Sessions as a federal district court judge for the Southern District of Alabama. My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting. Anyone who has used the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens should not be elevated to our courts. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome powers of his office in a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters. For this reprehensible conduct, he should not be rewarded with a federal judgeship.
I regret that a long-standing commitment prevents me from appearing in person to testify against this nominee. However, I have attached a copy of my statement opposing Mr. Sessions’ confirmation and I request that my statement as well as this letter be made a part of the hearing record.
I do sincerely urge you to oppose the confirmation of Mr. Sessions.
500 Rally In St. Paul To Defund Planned Parenthood. More than 5000 Counter-Protestors Greet Them
Moral March On Raleigh — Live Stream and Live Blog
As The Planet Warms, Trump's EPA Director Hedges :
2016 was the hottest year ever measured…. It is the third year in a row that has broken the planetary heat record… the chances of this happening naturally are vanishingly small…. Hundreds of miles of the Great Barrier Reef bleached and withered…. Arctic sea ice… has never been observed at lower levels. Rising oceans inundated the east coast of the United States.
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This just isn’t right: The international scientific consensus, hard-won after many decades, is that human activity is the dominant cause of modern-day global warming.
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Harold Hamm, the oil billionaire who popularized fracking, was the chair of Pruitt’s reelection campaign. Pruitt has also accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the industry.
We Must Reject Scott Pruitt - He Doesn't Care About Protecting The Health Of Americans
EPA Nominee Scott Pruitt Testifies To Senate Committee
Scott Pruitt Hasn't Even Been Confirmed And EPA Employees Are Already Protesting :
Mr. Pruitt’s record raises serious questions about whose interests he has served to date and whether he agrees with the longstanding tenets of U.S. environmental law.
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The spirit of the rally was, ‘We’re not going to be silenced’. Science is real, and the work that we are doing is just protecting the basic fundamental rights to a healthy community.
Environmental Integrity Project: With Senate Set To Vote On EPA Administrator, 625 Former EPA Officials Urge Rejection of Scott Pruitt
The Donald Trump Cabinet Tracker :
Chances at Senate confirmation: Decent. Democratic leaders have made Pruitt one of their top targets... warning that his views on climate change are extreme.... They hope to pressure centrist Republican senators like Susan Collins to vote against him. Yet… more conservative and politically vulnerable Democrats like Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia will probably vote for his confirmation. Manchin has already signaled as much, issuing a laudatory statement after meeting with Pruitt in early January.