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Huge. Laws like this were designed to punish investors for taking basic steps to address climate risk.
@sierraclub.org statement: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
(Also worth noting: the firms targeted were never actually “boycotting” fossil fuels—that was political misinformation all along.)
🕵️♀️ Exclusive data from Stand.earth reveals that since 2021, banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Bank of America committed more than $124 billion of financing to just nine fossil fuel companies set to most benefit from the U.S. recent illegal invasion of Venezuela.
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Thank you!!! 💪🏾👌🏾🙏🏾
Being up before 8am today after the holiday break feels OBSCENE! 😂
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
Whew! I have had three GOOD cups of Sir Davis!
I went to 4 stores and couldn’t find a drop of Egg Nog on Christmas Eve.
Santa if you want to save some time and get home early.
Here is a place you can skip
——> The White House. 😂
This isn’t just a hypothetical “fear.”
The same communities of color that have long suffered from higher rates of pollution and environmental degradation are now being targeted again by big tech companies and their power hungry data centers.
This is unacceptable.
This is about building with the people around you, servant leadership, and treating strategy, data, and care as non-negotiables.
If you’re organizing, thinking about organizing, or love someone who is, I hope you’ll read it and share it forward.
Everything I wish had been overemphasized to me when I first started, combined with what I’m witnessing current and upcoming organizers experience right now.
What started as me prepping for the “Good Trouble: Laying the Blueprint for Next Gen Community Organizers” panel at Inclusive Capital Summit evolved into this letter to the next generation of organizers.
A decade of lessons went into writing this letter over the last 2 months.
I legit feel tired having constantly think about what to eat. 🫠😅🤣
As families struggle with soaring costs for rent, groceries & basics, nearly 200 labor, consumer & civil rights groups are warning Congress: a bill the payday loan app industry is urging Congress to introduce would open the door to predatory payday loan apps. https://loom.ly/Uuzme1s
Nobody asked for this. Yet here predatory lending is, workshopping a new form: the 50-year mortgage.
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Glad I got out the house today and experienced a #NoKings demonstration. Today looks like a step in the right direction.
Real Democracy Does Not Fear Dissent.
Yeah, I know people love the saying “Democracy dies in the dark”
But apparently, this MF dies in the light.
We all vividly see what’s happening and ya hate to see it. SMH.
Let’s not let that happen.
Turning the military on citizens.
Attempting to rig elections.
Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.
Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Mantra:
I have what I need to get through the week ahead. 🍁
Anybody:
Me: The WORST type of hotel is an Atrium style hotel. I CAN’T STAND them.
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
More importantly, we have the opportunity to invite people and institutions into a shared vision of creating a system that is JUST & Regenerative, Building The Good. One that expands access for everyone, not just the well-connected.
That said, I believe that we have the ability to not only revoke social license to operate of individuals and institutions committed to upholding their extractive ways.
These systems have been perfectly designed to achieve the result they are achieving. David Stroh made it clear when he said "No matter how dysfunctional a system appears to be, it is producing benefits for the people who participate in it."
Our economic & political system are not broken; they are working exactly how they are suppose to for the people there're meant for.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
