9 Year-Old-Girl Scolds Jerry Brown Over Oil Drilling

Submitted by Jamie Court on Sat, 09/08/2018 - 00:00

This TV ad will debut in San Francisco next week during Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit

 

Adults have gotten nowhere calling on Jerry Brown to limit oil drilling within a couple thousand feet of homes and schools. 

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Consumer Wins In Sacramento: The End of Session Scorecard

Submitted by Jamie Court on Tue, 09/04/2018 - 00:00

A win in the California statehouse on the last day of session usually means not losing too much, but last night California consumers  scored tangible victories.
Here is last night's statehouse scorecard:

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Double Victory: The Paint Boycott Worked

Submitted by Jamie Court on Fri, 06/29/2018 - 00:00

Yesterday was a big day for consumer justice!
Just 24 hours after we launched the #BoycottSherwinWilliams boycott, the paint company decided to pull its deceptive ballot initiative to erase its liability for poisoning families with lead in its paint. 
Add that victory to the signing of yesterday's online California consumer privacy law and June 28th 2018 will go down in history as a monumental day for consumer rights.

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Boycott Sherwin-Williams Paint!

Submitted by Jamie Court on Wed, 06/27/2018 - 00:00

New campaign urges paint maker to Get The Lead Out
 
UPDATE: 6/28/18 5 PM The Boycott worked! Sherwin Williams and Con Agra pulled their ballot measure from the November ballot. Congrats to all.
 
Paint maker Sherwin Williams has decided to go to the California ballot with a deceptive ballot initiative to erase its liability to the public for poisoning families with lead in its paint. We have decided to boycott Sherwin Williams paint stores.

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Not Every Angeleno Prospers In The Oil Economy

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Wed, 05/23/2018 - 00:00

“Not every Angeleno is going to prosper in the ‘Next-Gen new economy,’” according to a recent newspaper ad by the State Building & Construction Trades. The union wants politicians not to “be bullied into supporting job killing regulations that are designed to shutter yet another Southern California industry.” This one being the oil and gas industry.
 

Brown’s Last Chance Campaign Confronts Gov At LA’s Union Station

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 00:00

Browns Last Chance campaign asked Governor Brown to cross to our side of the tracks at Union Station on Friday and start keeping oil in the ground.  

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