Video: Climate First!'s Virtual Action vs. Chase Bank, April 23, 2020.
In view of a U.S. President doing everything he can with the federal government to dramatically increase the use of climate-wrecking fossil fuels, Climate First! has begun working to help get a “polluters pay” bill passed at the state level. New York State and Vermont have already passed this critical legislation, and now there are campaigns underway in other states, including Maryland, to get fossil fuel companies to pay for damages resulting from climate-amplified natural disasters. On a related matter, since bills have been recently introduced in the U.S. Congress that would give fossil fuel companies legal immunity from state and federal polluters pay legislation – just like the gun manufactures got in 2005 – Climate First! has also begun working on the "No Immunity For Big Oil" campaign. Please consider signing a petition involving this important effort.
And, of course, powerful U.S. corporations, such as ExxonMobil, JPMorgan Chase, and others, have a strong financial interest in slowing efforts to phase out fossil fuels. Therefore, we must also convince influential companies and their allies to strongly support – with action – the United States' transition away from dirty fossil fuels. Whether it's confronting a major U.S. bank via a protest or virtual meeting over the lender's massive financing of oil and gas projects, promoting socially responsible banking to consumers and businesses, or encouraging a state or local government to adopt a clean energy program, Climate First! is all about direct action to address the climate crisis.
Our mission is pretty simple:
Climate First! strives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean energy in the Mid-Atlantic region, by organizing grassroots efforts that encourage corporations, as well as state and local governments, to think climate first.
And how has Climate First! done?
Pretty well... Check out our Victories!
So are you fired-up and ready to go?
Here's what you can do to help save the climate:
1. Sign up for our emails.
2. Learn how major U.S. banks are wrecking the climate with their lending practices.
3. Study ethical (AKA sustainable) banking. Strongly consider doing business with sustainable lenders.
4. Attend Climate First!'s direct actions and events.
5. Get involved in our campaigns.
6. Donate to Climate First!.
7. Share your skills with Climate First!. Eg., make signs, do research, be a guest blogger.
Finally, see examples of our bank actions in two videos. The first video is a march & climate "strike" on Sept. 27, 2019 at a Chase Bank in downtown Silver Spring, MD. The second is a protest on April 10, 2019 in a Wells Fargo bank branch in Washington, D.C.
a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4iHdRboNRI&feature=youtu.be
b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yIjhbGgkFQ&feature=youtu.be
