Tell the Fossil Fuel Corporations “No Money for Fossil Fuels!” during International Days of Action

Local, regional, national and international non-governmental organizations are coming together for a week of raising public awareness about the fossil fuel corporations doing business in New Mexico. Under the banner of Warheads to Windmills.org, the week begins on Monday, September 23rd and extends through Sunday, September 29^th. This is a second week of action.  The first week focused on nuclear weapons. Both present existential threats to life on Planet Earth – one that kills in an instant; the other painfully over time.  https://warheadstowindmills.org/

In March 2023, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stated, ”In short, our world needs climate action on all fronts – everything, everywhere, all at once.” https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2023-03-20/secretary-generals-video-message-for-press-conference-launch-the-synthesis-report-of-the-intergovernmental-panel-climate-change

The Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2024 “Banking on Climate Chaos,” provides detailed information about how – contrary to the Secretary-General’s plea for climate action –  the biggest global banks have instead committed billions to fossil fuel corporations, bringing the total since the 2016 Paris Agreement to $6.9 Trillion Dollars.  https://www.ran.org/publications/

New Mexicans are coming together to challenge four fossil fuel profiteers that operate here, mostly in the Permian Basin in the southeast corner of the state. They are: Chevron, Energy Transfer, ExxonMobil and Phillips 66.

Tuesday, September 24^th is the day of action for Phillips 66, with corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas. https://www.phillips66.com/ Thursday, September 26^th is the day of action for Chevron, headquartered in San Ramon, California. https://www.chevron.com/  Friday, September 27^th is the day of action for ExxonMobil, with headquarters in Spring, Texas. https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/ Sunday, September 29^th is the last day of the action, which focuses on Energy Transfer, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. https://www.energytransfer.com/ These corporations explore, drill, extract, process and distribute gas and oil products that cause climate change and destruction of frontline communities.

The Warheads to Windmills website contains all the tools you need to take action to tell the profiteering corporations:  NO MONEY FOR FOSSIL FUELS!  You will find banners, signs and leaflets, ideas for organizing vigils, die-ins, boycotts, demonstrations, phone banks, and ideas for taking electronic action. These include letter writing; stigmatizing the corporate profiteers on social media and writing letters to the editor. Tag the corporations in your own posts. Be sure to use the #PressuretheProfiteers hashtag to amplify your message.  https://warheadstowindmills.org/2-weeks-of-action-on-climate-and-nuclear-weapons/

During the week of action on fossil fuels, the peaceful protest on Fridays from noon to 1 pm at the corners of Alameda and Sandoval in downtown Santa Fe will continue.

It’s time to raise our voices and challenge fossil fuels together.

1. And the award for the Nuclear Profiteer du Jour goes to…

Thursday, Sept. 19^th … RTX (Raytheon Technologies!)

Friday, Sept. 20^th … Boeing

Saturday, Sept. 21^st … Honeywell    

Sunday, Sept. 22^nd … Lockheed Martin

Congratulations to All!

TAKE ACTION: Pressure the Profiteers Campaign continues! Divest from Nuclear Weapons!

Please do take at-home actions as you are able.

You can go to https://warheadstowindmills.org/nuclear-weapons-map/#nw-corp Scroll down to:

Contact the Companies

Then select the “RTX-Raytheon” tab for the email address(es), plus links to the RTX social media pages, plus templates for messaging. The social media actions are the easiest; just tell ’em it’s time to switch to peaceful work!

Consider submitting your email to the CEO as an open letter to an editor too.

Let’s get ’em! Shame on war profiteering!

TAKE ACTION: Pressure the Profiteers Campaign continues! Divest from Fossil Fuels!

https://warheadstowindmills.org/fossil-fuel-map/#ff-corp

2. Friday, September 20th at noon at the intersection of West Alameda and Sandoval for the weekly one-hour peaceful protest for nuclear disarmament. Join the weekly peaceful protest with Veterans for Peace, CCNS, Nuclear Watch NM, Loretto Community, New Mexico Peace Fest, Pax Christi and others. Bring your flags, signs and banners!

NEW! Enjoy lunch at the Manko Food Truck with award-winning chef, Ray Naranjo. Manko is a verb for “come and eat.” The truck will be parked in the Santa Fe Dispensary: Cannabis Dispensaries Owned and Operated by the Picuris Pueblo at the corner of Alameda and Sandoval.  https://www.ediblenm.com/ray-naranjo/

3. Friday, September 20 from 5 pm to sunset at Tiguex Park, Albuquerque – 2024 New Mexico Climate Strike: Reimagine and Rise: Uniting for the People’s Climate Plan.  Celebrate YUCCA’s Fifth Birthday!   March * Rally * Speakers * Art Build * DJ * Performers.

4. On Monday, September 23rd from 11:30 to 12:30 pm CHALLENGE HONEYWELL FOR FABRICATING MISSILE GUIDANCE SYSTEMS.

Please join us in front of the University of New Mexico, on the public campus sidewalk area at Cornell and Central, for a peaceful protest challenging Honeywell’s corporate profiteering from fabricating guidance equipment for the Minuteman III and the proposed Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and its relationship with Sandia National Laboratories. 

Join us to raise your voice against the colonization of New Mexico by the nuclear weapons and fossil fuel industries.

5. September 1^st through September 30^th – the Sierra Club Grassroots Network Nuclear Free Team concludes its first Nuclear FREE Film Series with the powerful independent film – ATOMIC BAMBOOZLE: THE FALSE PROMISES OF A NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE. Watch the film – FREE OF CHARGE – followed by a live webinar on September 30^th with the filmmaker and stellar panel moderated by Mike Carberry, Co-Chair, Sierra Club Nuclear Free Team. The 46-minute film available on Eventive – free with registration.  https://scnuclearfree.eventive.org/welcome#!

6. Friday, August 30 through September – 58 years: a retrospective of works by Cathie Sullivan at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de La Familia, Santa Fe.  Opening on August 30 from 5 to 7 pm.  The exhibit includes 57 oil paintings, drawings and limited edition silkscreen prints, three bronzes, 20 animal carvings and hand and digitally printed note cards. 80% of sale proceeds will be donated to Amigos Del Parque, Nuclear Watch NM and El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe.  https://www.elmuseocultural.org/exhibit/csretro-24

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