Contact your legislators today.

Tell them to vote No on AB 398.

Governor Brown negotiated this bill behind closed doors with Big Oil.

Say No to a bad climate deal and Yes to Climate Justice!

The California Environmental Justice Alliance is just released their 4th Environmental Justice Scorecard today for the 2016 Legislative Session — the only one in the state to assess how well California’s elected officials supported actions to address environmental issues that impact low-income communities and communities of color.

For the first time ever, CEJA has also released an Environmental Justice Agency Assessment including EJ Principles for policy implementation, with an analysis of how state regulatory agencies, which play such a powerful role in protecting low-income communities and communities of color, can improve their commitment to and inclusion of environmental justice within policy implementation.

As environmental justice communities brace to be hit first and worst by attacks under the Trump administration, it is more important than ever that we lift up the values and principles that we must see from all our elected official in this new era.

Read the full EJ Scorecard and EJ Agency Assessment here.

Vote on Tuesday, November 8, 2016!

This November, we have the opportunity to vote for Affordable Housing, Good Government, Funding for Schools and City Services and Less Criminalization.

Get your bilingual San Francisco Rising Voter Guide here.

PODER is a founding member of San Francisco Rising, an electoral alliance that builds the power of working class communities of color in San Francisco!

We support the Housing Forward SF housing affordability slate:

Yes on Prop C to preserve affordable housing!

Yes on Prop M to create transparency for housing and development decisions!

No on Props P and U – say no to real estate developer giveaways!

Finally, check out the recommendations on statewide propositions by Bay Rising, our regional civic engagement and grassroots power building alliance. The voter guide is here.

Vote!

 

#NoDAPL

San Francisco.  On Thursday, September 7, 2016, a press conference in solidarity with the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Nations will be held at the Army Corp of Engineers San Francisco office. The group will meet at 1455 Market Street, from 10am-11am. The Standing Rock Sioux Nation is suing the US Army Corp of Engineers in the US District Court in Washington, D.C., demanding that the pipeline permit be rescinded, that the engineers withdraw their nationwide permitting process as it applies to the pipeline, and for the environmental impacts to be properly reviewed. The court will hear the case on Friday, September 8, 2016.

SFC Sunflower Alliance “We stand with the courageous Standing Rock Sioux as they struggle to prevent further devastation of their precious natural resources and sacred sites by the Dakota Access Pipeline project.  We are saddened and outraged by this environmental injustice perpetrated by the Army Corps of Engineers, and call upon them to immediately revoke permits for the pipeline project.   The Dakota Access Pipeline is a national disgrace of the greatest proportions; the indigenous land and water defenders opposing it are real American heroes.”

Background information:  In 2014 Energy Transfer Partners and Dakota Access planned a 1,168 mile long oil pipeline that will carry crude oil from Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to Illinois (via South Dakota and Iowa) where it will link with another pipeline to terminals along the Gulf of Mexico. The US Army Corps of Engineers along with these oil companies is attempting to “fast track” this project without proper legal consultation with tribes, inadequate archaeological and anthropological studies nor proper environmental review. Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge announced it will also invest in this pipeline as well. Dakota Access plans to run pipelines under the Missouri River in three places. Those areas directly threaten the drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux nations, as well as the 18 million people who depend on the Missouri River for water, such as ranchers, farmers and city dwellers.

This press conference has been organized by NoDAPL Solidarity SF. We are a local Environmental Justice and Climate Justice activist group responding to a call from our sisters and brothers at the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp and Sioux Nations. Our organizing committee includes Indian People Organizing for Change, Idle No More SF Bay, the Chinese Progressive Association, PODER, and Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth.

For more information, contact Teresa Almaguer at 415-431-4210 or tere@podersf.org.