Friends,
Today we lost in Congress, but I'm not feeling defeated.
The Senate passed a bill to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other terrible trade deals. It will go to the President's desk by the end of the week.
This bill is moving forward because there still too many members of Congress who are beholden to multinational corporations, and not the people.
The way you change that is by building a movement -- by mobilizing, by making common cause with organizations across the political spectrum, and sticking to your principles.
That's what we did to stop the TPP.
350 local groups stepped up to confront wavering Senators, we linked arms with labor and other allies, and we never backed down -- some members of Congress got more calls in the last 24 hours than on any other day in the past 6 years.
And as a result, this fight was much closer than anyone expected. And if we keep doing building a movement, we will be able to change the results to come.
I'm not going to lie. The road ahead is now a little steeper. Big Oil and friends have another tool in their pocket to fight back against climate action. But it's still a journey that we can, and must complete.
Our work continues: fighting Keystone XL and other disastrous tar sands pipelines, ending the toxic threat of fracking, and divesting our schools, cities and churches from the fossil fuel industry. We must leave 4/5ths of the world’s carbon underground and we’ll keep working to keep it there. No insider deal can change that.
Congress wants to fast track more pollution, and profits for Big Oil.
We will fast track resistance, and our work to stop them.
With anger, but also with hope,
Jason
350.org
350.org
Shell’s Arctic drilling plans may hit permitting snag
