From Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light (http://www.paipl.org):
Many of us will remain focused on family, friends, and various religious rituals, holy days, and celebrations through these weeks, through the darkest part of the year.
As you continue that truly important work, we ask you to also do one thing to place a marker for climate action in the new year. Please deliver an already-composed letter to your Harrisburg legislators now, while they are working with their staffers and colleagues to set agendas for the upcoming legislative year. The letter asks them to make climate action a priority in Harrisburg in the new year.
Please print, sign and deliver these two letters
- even if you have never done any advocacy before.
- even if your legislator already knows where you stand.
- even if you know your legislator doesn’t ever want to talk about climate change.
- even if you know your legislator is a climate champion.
The fact is that our elected officials cannot read minds; they must be told what is important to their constituents (and research shows that people need to hear new ideas repeatedly to internalize them). Link to the letters:
- letter to state SENATORS (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rLi37gUX9iBL_EkG5HhvO66lGMPeMPufjZ5CcQN6Axc/edit)
- letter to state REPRESENTATIVES (https://docs.google.com/document/d/14gcw_KXvRJaIJimDBJa8L0JcVz1t9wXFtRLTVJ5aOPA/edit)
Include no new fossil fuel infrastructure RESOLUTION (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw8gQ9Gqroj-R0M0LUtEOXZRVDg/view; print 2 copies)
To use the letters
- replace the red text with the name and address for your legislator, and
- add your signature, name, and address to the end.
Take the letter to a local office to drop it off in person. If mailing it is the only way to get it there right now: mail away! (for added impact, call to tell them it’s coming, or to ask if it’s been received.)
Find your legislators, using your address. If you are in one of the districts listed below, your legislator changed with the November election — be sure to use the name of the incoming person. (Find information for the districts/legislators listed below at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FRLj9mfKQQ7Wc0pzxOpXxwtIm4rJYIhOs6jZwleDvhg/edit)
- PA Senate districts with a new senator-elect: 3, 13, 15, 31, 35, 49
- PA General Assembly districts with a new representative-elect : 10, 31, 45, 49, 58, 92, 95, 101, 106, 111, 112, 115, 150, 158, 159, 165, 183, 200, 202, 203
We’d love it if you send a note to chunter@paipl.org to let us know you’d done it!
Send us
- the name of your legislators and/or your districts
- the name of the person you handed the letter to
- bonus points for a photo!
Consider signing up for our monthly Policy Update calls — even if you can’t attend the 1 hour calls, you will receive the (much smaller) summaries in your inbox.
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