Monday, February 12 - Protect the Great Lakes & Straits / Register Wisconsin Voters
Actions You Can Take
Action 1: Urge President Biden and your members of Congress to Protect the Great Lakes & Straits
Action 2: Attend a training session to learn how to register voters in Wisconsin on Feb 15. - email info@milwaukeevoterproject.org for more information
Action 1: Protect the Great Lakes & Straits
It's time for President Biden to act on climate, protect clean water, and use his authority to revoke the presidential pipeline permit and shut down the Line 5 pipeline.
Every day over 20 million gallons of oil flow through the aging twin Line 5 pipelines located in the heart of the Great Lakes, used as a shortcut to take crude tar sands oil from Alberta to Ontario. Line 5 crosses underneath the Straits of Mackinac, where Lakes Michigan and Huron meet. Built for to last 50 years, it has now been open for 70. Unsupported sections, an anchor strike, a million gallons already spilled along its length, owned by a company responsible for the largest inland oil spill in US history: the aging Line 5 pipeline is a disaster waiting to happen.
An oil spill from the Line 5 oil pipeline in the Great Lakes threatens the drinking water of 40 million people.
Businesses, governments, environmental organizations, faith communities, citizens, Tribal Nations in Michigan, Wisconsin, and across the country oppose the continued operation of Line 5 and support its decommissioning. Canada and Big Oil are mounting legal challenges to American laws that protect our waters and investments that slow climate change. A proposed oil tunnel, if it ever gets built, would take 10 years to construct and is not a solution to this urgent threat.
Our climate and precious fresh water resources are put at risk for fossil fuel profit.
We need to act now to prevent disaster - before it's too late for the Great Lakes.
Action via Clean Water Action
Action 2: Learn How to Register Wisconsin Voters
Here’s a great way to increase Dem turnout in Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Voter Project (MVP) is a grassroots group of non-partisan volunteers who work to ensure that all citizens, especially those in underserved communities, are registered to vote and aware of upcoming elections. They register voters in warm, indoor offices (DMVs) in Milwaukee’s disadvantaged neighborhoods. The people there have their IDs with them and time on their hands as they wait in lines, so a 3-hour shift can be quite productive. This has been a very successful program and rightfully popular with Indivisible Chicagoans.
The first step is to attend a simple one-hour Zoom training on Thursday, February 15 at 1:30 p.m.
Interested? Send an email to info@milwaukeevoterproject.org.
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