Category Archives: Monthly Newsletters

Between 2021 and 2024, I had the honor of being the co-director of Stop the Money Pipeline alongside Jackie Fielder. In July 2024, with the full-throated support of all of us here, Jackie left Stop the Money Pipeline to run for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Four months later, Jackie not […]

In a recent Heated newsletter, the esteemed climate reporter, Emily Atkin, wrote something that stayed with me: “​​How am I supposed to keep writing about, and caring about, climate change and pollution and government capture by Big Oil, when the government is executing people in broad daylight? How am I supposed to watch the country descend […]

The invasion of Venezuela continues the long, brutal history of US imperialism in Latin America. From the overthrowing of Guatemala’s democratically-elected president, Jacobo Árbenz, in 1954, to the Chilean coup of 1973 that instilled a murderous right-wing dictatorship, to the stoking of civil war in Nicaragua in the 1980s, the history of US policy in […]

With Trump attacking clean energy and boosting fossil fuels, it’s more critical than ever that local governments do all they can to combat the climate crisis. Fortunately, hundreds of cities are already working hard to reduce emissions from their buildings, transportation, and energy systems. But in the face of such dire threats, local governments can […]

A debate has erupted in New York between one of the city’s most high-profile climate groups and one of its most well-known politicians. For the last two years, New York Communities for Change (NYCC) has campaigned to get Comptroller Brad Lander to move the city’s $300 billion pension funds away from BlackRock and other asset […]

So, we have news: we’re starting a monthly newsletter. Beginning today, we’ll send these newsletters near the start of each month, and each newsletter will go a little deeper than our normal emails, providing an additional level of insight into our strategy and our work.  To kick us off, we’re digging into an old strategy […]