 webinar, a summer report back. The people have solutions. So we have a little bit of music if you strain, you might hear it. But you know, this is all this is all how we roll is beautiful. Thank you all for coming in. I'm going to give it a five minutes or so for folks to trickle on in. We had an amazing 450 people sign up. So it's great. We're going to give it a few more minutes and then we're going to start. This is the people have the solutions 350 report back chat report back for the summer. I'm looking at the chat and we're just going to ask folks to put in your name, where you're located, and something just maybe a one word that describes how you're feeling today. And if our chat monitors can also drop that in the chat, that reminder that would be excellent. Thank you, everyone. Look at all the places that we are calling in from. This is amazing. And if anyone wants to, I see Kyle says feeling good. So appreciate that, Kyle. And Lisa. And great. And I see my father-in-law checked into that's what's up. So just just a reminder that this message, this webinar will be recorded. So just remember that. Thank you, everyone. Sweet. This is great to see. I'm going to start us off. So thank you, everyone. My name is Nico Urugama. I am the 350 partnerships coordinator here in the United States. And before we begin, just, you know, if there's something around that you need one to like, if you like smells, I picked some lavender from outside the public library to help ground me. If there's something else, maybe someone that someone beautiful in your life or something beautiful that happened, just take a second to close your eyes and think about it. Think about that person, think about that event, breathe in that smell, stretch your muscles if you need to, and come into this webinar with all the grounding of your ancestors of the land that you're from and the land that is being occupied. And just come in with your full cells. We appreciate everyone for taking their time, whether it's nighttime, the morning time, we have one of our amazing speakers from Tanzania calling in at 1 a.m. their time. So, so grateful. And thank you for doing that. We're super excited and honored to present this panel today. The people have the solutions, which is our summer report back from the 350 US team. There are some 350 staff here on the call. We're not going to spotlight them, but you hopefully will see them tonight, some of them tonight and also throughout this year and in different spaces. So thank you for midnight in Berlin. So we just wanted to know that we have a really amazing staff and you'll be hearing from us throughout the year. Please check your emails, please answer your phone calls. We're happy to be in touch with you all. As you know, 350.org is a global climate advocacy organization dedicated to ending our dependence on fossil fuels and ushering in a fast and just transition to renewable energy. We believe that the struggle to protect our planet and to stop the climate crisis is not separate from the struggles for racial justice, the struggle for affordable housing, the struggle against militarism and imperialism, just to name a few. So we're working at that. We're trying to work at the intersections. We're trying to make these connections and this is what our panel is about today. As planet defenders, our charge is broad. And so our analysis must be broad as well. Saving a forest cannot be isolated from the historical and current day attempts at genocide and disposition of land from those who stewarded and protected those lands. It cannot ignore the fact that people were enslaved and forced to build structures that heralded a new phase of accumulation of unprecedented wealth for a small minority. It cannot be separated from the fact that poor working class and largely black and brown communities around the world live every day with poor air quality. And we, our climate crises have shown that in the recent weeks, we're not immune in the global north from things that have been happening in the global south for generations. As global capital starts to look towards renewable energy sources, we cannot ignore the fact that the structure of global capitalism will only continue these same patterns of exploitation, expropriation, and extraction on the backs of those already most affected. The solutions that we raise up must tackle these intersectional issues and be rooted in the communities at the front lines of the fights. Though the Canadian wildfires are the latest wake-up call to the bankers and hedge funds on Wall Street, we know that in this country and around the world, they continue to ignore the demands of the people to stop burning fossil fuels. They're aided globally by governments, legislatures, and judicial systems that sustain the infrastructure of racial and imperial capitalism. I just want to note too that oftentimes we may feel outrage, anxiety, hopelessness, and despair when we look around. That's totally, those are all totally normal feelings. And we must learn to lean on each other and to center our struggles around the most oppressed and organize with love and joy. That's super important. We can't lose sight of that. We can't lose sight of our dignity and our humanity. The people are rising and we have the solutions. It was the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci who wrote, the old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. So we are in the time of monsters, but that means that we have the hope that actually we can turn things around. We present this panel today to you to give you an idea of what has been moving in the campaigns that you all have been supporting and actively supporting and what you've been hearing from 350.org over the past few months. We will hear from our wonderful panelists talking about the fights to stop pipelines in the Appalachian Mountains and in East Africa. We will hear about the fight to stop the construction of a police academy in Atlanta and we will hear about an exciting new campaign around utilities here in the United States. I'm going to pass the word over to my comrade Jeff Ordauer who is the North America director for 350 for a few words. Thanks, Nico. Thanks everyone for being here. I appreciate what folks are putting in the chat. We're here both with excitement and anticipation and also things are hard. As someone pointed out in the chat, we had the highest recorded temperatures in the recorded history on July 3rd across the globe and we're facing some, as Nico talked about, very, very significant crises and we're trying our best to figure out how we move to that moment. The first thing I want to just give us a little bit of a U.S. context. I know Nico has given us global context for what we're doing, why folks are reporting back and where we're moving forward with our programming. The great thing about seeing so many of you is I know that many of you last month, a month ago, were in the streets, were in front of courthouses, were in front of the White House, were part of 68 actions that the 350 network council organized and many, many local groups participated in as well as many allied organizations. And those actions were part of what we're calling an arc of escalation. And that arc of escalation is getting us through November in an attempt to sort of stand up to all the crises that we face. So the actions were the shot across the bow. In September, the Secretary General of the UN, as folks know, has called for a climate ambition summit. And there's a climate summit happening in New York City on September 20th, I believe, is that date. But on September 17th, we'll be seeing a mass march and mobilization in New York City. We've been hearing from many local groups that folks are chartering buses and going to be there. And we know that a mobilization itself is not going to be enough. So we're also going, there's also going to be some actions around that a lot of direct actions and ways for folks to participate in those, particularly right after this mobilization and before the summit, so that we're putting both the president on notice as well as folks around the world that we're not going to stand for what's happening. And the climate ambition summit needs to be about working effectively around climate and climate change and eliminating fossil fuels. And then the other piece of what we're doing around the climate ambition summit and around the arc of escalation is next week, you'll be seeing from us a pledge away, we know that things move globally because they move locally. And so we're going to be moving local pressure. There's been an opportunity for you to engage your local elected officials in a pledge to participate in to sort of push President Biden to push global leaders around what action they're taking that's insufficient around climate. And so there's something that you can do in your cities, in your counties, in your towns to participate in that. So look for an email from us next week about the pledge for elected officials. And then we know the mobilization in New York is not enough. And as a global organization, we're going to be part of a global day of action, a global moment. So 350 and allies across the world in Africa and Asia and the Pacific and South America are going to be taking directly on fossil fuel companies, we're making rep good profits, they're profiting off of the war, they're profiting off of the destruction of the planet. And we're going to be holding them accountable for what they're doing for the just obscene profits that they're making. And making sure that that money is redistributed where it needs to go into the solutions that we need to be pushing for. So that will happen the first week in November, stay tuned for that. And we really want everyone who's interested to be able to participate. And then the final piece on actions and escalation is we know none of these actions themselves are sufficient. And there needs to be a lot more than what's happening. But we don't necessarily claim to have the answers. We had some suggestions, we were inspired by how many folks took action based on the network council's call on 68 cities. But the other thing is we don't know what you're thinking, what you're thinking about. And so there's going to be a survey at the end of this. And if you sign up because you're interested in taking some kind of direct action, we're also going to be having some focus groups with 350 members, three folks who have been on this call in other places. Because we want to hear from you, we want to hear what you're thinking about. And what you think is the sufficient way for us to rise in terms of action to stand up to the crisis. And then the second thing I want to talk about is our role in solutions and how we're thinking about it's not just about the resistance, but it's about the solutions we want to build. We've talked about this in as we've emailed you, we've talked about local groups have talked about this, we talked about this on our last call. But what we want to be doing is it's about a number of things we saw unprecedented a year ago now $360 billion through the Inflation Reduction Act and other money in infrastructure to help us convert. And part of our goal is to eliminate or our job is to eliminate the barriers to adjust transition off of fossil fuels. And one of the major roadblocks to that has been utility companies. All right, utility companies are hugely problematic for a number of reasons. And we're going to be talking about utility, we're going to hearing about the utility companies from our panelists today. The mix there they continue to have this addiction to fossil fuels. They are making sure that if you're trying to install solar on your home, it's going to be hard for you to put that solar and sell it back on the grid, even though because they want to have the power they want to control the grid. They continue for poor and working class folks to load up on bills, you pay late, you get sacked, they threaten to cut you off, you really get cut off. So utility companies are one of the biggest problems that we face to implementing the solutions that we want to see. And then there's a governance issue. So many of them are owned by investors, right? So rich getting richer, they're not owned by the people, they're not thinking about what's best for us, but we're all utility customers. And so we're going to talk about the governance of utility companies is critical as well. So we're going to be hearing from Maine and one of the most critical campaigns around that. So we've got just incredible panelists here to tell you not just what they're doing, but how you can participate. And we're going to hear from them right now. But thank you all and appreciate all that you're doing. And all that we're going to be doing is this summer for this hot summer. And I'll turn it back to Nico. Thank you, Jeff. We're going to start, we're going to move to our speakers. I'm going to do a quick bio of all of our speakers. I will say that I want to thank Natasha and Mel, our staff who are working diligently to get Crystal Mello, who is one of our speakers who is having difficulties connecting. She's clated to be our first speaker. And we may move things around for her to come on. But, you know, sometimes internet in the Appalachian Mountains is not the easiest. So, but I'm going to read our speakers. We have four amazing speakers tonight. Crystal Mello is a pipeline resistor and impacted community member on the Mountain Valley Pipeline Route. She is a community organizer with a grassroots group fighting the pipeline, the Power Coalition. Our second speaker is Richard Senkondo. Richard is a climate change scientist, environmental justice and human rights activist. And currently he is advocating against injustice on the East African Crude Law Pipeline or ECOP to voiceless rural communities in Tanzania. Thank you, Richard. Third, we will hear from Al. Al Cleveland is the campaign manager of the Pine Tree Power Campaign in Maine. With a decade of experience in electoral and issue campaigns, they are dedicated to building just thriving communities. Over the last four years, Al led a statewide campaign to end youth criminalization and incarceration in Maine. They've been a volunteer fundraiser and leader in campaigns around tenants rights, protecting LGBTQ youth and democracy reforms. Now, they are dedicating themselves to building public power for Maine. And last but not least, we have the incredible Kiana Jones, who is a political and social justice activist and community organizer and a staunch advocate for quality, affordable childcare and equity in education. She currently works with community movement builders, community movement builders to educate, engage and empower the black community in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an ordained minister and proprietor of E equals MC squared educational services LLC, where she works as a homeschool curriculum consultant, IEP advocate and German translator. Kiana is the wife of Jared Moore and mother to their five unique and extraordinary children. So without further ado, let's start our panel. I'm going to just check with my team here. If we have crystal, it looks like we don't. So we are going to work to get her on the line. But Richard, if we can have you speak first, each speaker will have 10 minutes. And then after that, we're going to have a kind of a question and answer with all the speakers when we before going to close. Just a reminder for our speakers to speak slowly as well. And a reminder for all our attendees, if you leave the zoom, you will be provided when you leave the zoom, you will be provided with a survey and we ask that you follow it up. And it's been dropped in the chat as well, multiple times. So thank you to our folks doing that. So Richard, we'd love to for you to come off come on video and tell us about the East African crude oil pipeline. When you're ready to begin, we'll give you 10 minutes. Good afternoon to our team who are in New York City. And for those of us who are in East Africa, it is now midnight, so good evening. So my names are Richard Isengondo. I'm based in Tanzania, East Africa. And as I said, the area is introduced by Niko. I am a climate change scientist. But also a private activity, environmental justice and a human right to defender based here in Tanzania. Since it was in 2009, I decided to join the movement on the Stope campaign of East Africa crude oil pipeline, which is known as IKOPU. The pipeline is transversive for IMA, the train guy in Uganda. To Tanzania, the pipeline travels about one thousand and four hundred, more than one thousand and four hundred kilometers from Uganda to the east coast part of Tanzania called the Chongoleani Tanga. So I have just joined the movement, as I said, area to address the injustice that are committed by IKOPU on the rural communities of Tanzania, particularly to the voiceless communities in who majority are illiterate, who doesn't know to read and write. So there have been a lot of human rights violations, and particularly on the contracts where the contracts actually have been written in English. And as you can understand here in Tanzania, English is just a second language. The first language is Swahiri. So these contracts, whenever I brought you to this project, a 50 person, we call them PAPS. They are not given adequate enough time to review them. They are posted to sign. And at the end, so we realize about the injustices such as violations, or brand acquisition acts, or conversations, and so on. So I will be taking directly to the community. Actually, we are working, which actually they are against. We are working with the voiceless communities, as I said, in the rural areas of Tanzania, where the projects are closed. Here in Tanzania, about 80% of the total area of IKOPU, Tanzania is affected, more than 80% compared to Uganda. And Uganda, only 20% has been affected. So much of the area affected is here in Tanzania, and the majority of the population affected here in Tanzania. So the community is actually working. There are typically against the IKOPU, the pipeline, typically based on if you identify orations, basic slides in particular, property rights that you were confiscated by the projects in relation to unfair conversations is that you were provided. So the movement see globally how has been responding that our organization, the organization for community engagement, since it was in 2021, we decided to work at the front line with the grassroots community, particularly to enlighten them about their rights and to enlighten them about the consequences of the project or IKOPU. Because the project implements us into the government of Tanzania, what has been telling these people is all about the positive benefits of the project, such as the improve of economic incentives, the improve of well-being at the national level and at the visual level, but also assurance of employment opportunities to local communities in all areas affected by the pipeline. But in actual sense, when you realize the low economic benefits, they have no any sustainability, because these are just the ones we call the important core jobs, they are cheap laborers, but also we realize that even in those communities, few of them manage to secure those cheap laborers. So the majority of affected communities have been lamenting about not realizing or not getting those economic benefits that we have promised, but also we are much more concerned about the impacts and the consequences of ecosystems, key ecosystems, key sensitive ecosystems, such as game reserves where in Tanzania about two, about three big game reserves have been affected, but also the likelihood of oil spills into the ocean, the Indian Ocean, the coastal and the Indian Ocean, because Tanzania is well known to be active way to seismic activities. Here in Tanzania, two to three years, you can't pass without experiencing strong earthquake or seismic activities. So together, both the scientists and the community would have been much more more concerned about the likelihood of oil spills over into marine ecosystems, water aquifires, but also on the land, the likelihood of spills also because of the earthquake-sealed related activities. So how we have been responding to that right now, we are enlightening the community for them to get understanding the consequences of the livelihoods, the consequences of the ecosystem. And I can say that in the past, since 2018, Tanzania was actually a bit back compared to Uganda. It was because of the authoritarian, more of dictatorship political regime that we had under President Makupori, where other activities and the human right to defend us, we were going missing. Some of our colleagues were killed, some went missing, some were detained without even being granted a bail. So it was really, really a little bit very, very tense to operate over here in Tanzania. Even some of our friends decided to cause the border to go to neighboring countries to continue with the with the activism activities. But President Makupori died back in 2017. It was after he won the second lane of the general political election. So it was now the time we decided no, no, we can't be back. We needed to go and push. So right now it is time we have become very, very, very active. However, repressions haven't typically gone. We are still experiencing. I can even just remember in February, I, Richard Senkondo from OCE, and the Baraka Renga, a green-faced representative here in Tanzania. We are forced to free the country and move temporarily to Kenya to hide ourselves because we had listened to contact the workshop when lighting project affected the patients about the climate change and the consequences of the pipeline. And then after three days, so we got anality from one of our friends in political, in police forces. They told us to take immediate actions because we are going to be detained. So we decided to call the border and we moved temporarily to Kenya. We were hosted temporarily, hosted by our colleagues who don't have time in Kenya. So we stayed there about three weeks here and the return will turn into Tanzania to see it. But even when we turned into Tanzania, it was not safe. Baraka Rengasi, a green-faced representative, person of computer PC, and the phone was taken. And also myself, I lost the phone because I hid my laptop to one of my friends. So when they came to my home, my laptop was noticing that they only managed to get your phone and some of the documents that were related to the equal support. So that are the issues I like to know in Tanzania. We are seriously pressing about repression since the insecurity challenges only carry on our campaign. So we have also part of the alternatives that we have managed to do is dusty to continue with the education or will seriously observe as among the project affected persons, those perhaps whom we are working. As I said, about 80% of the total area affected by ECOPO in both Uganda and Tanzania is in Tanzania. So we have more than 234 words in Tanzania and eight regions that have been affected by ECOPO. So right now we have only made it to identify serious 18 observers whom we are working. These observers help us to update the keepers updated on whatever measures or actions that are taken by the government of Tanzania whom we generally refer them as ECOPO. So they keep us updated. So we consider them as not yet enough because of the large area that has been affected. So we are still pushing on and looking for more partnership from other organizations, international organizations to increase the number of observers who can speak also with the journalists but also who can be updating us to make it at least 60 because 18 of them are not enough. You see they are constantly threatened by security forces whenever they want to talk to us activists, whenever they want to rise against injustices, any kind of justice such as unfair conversations, they are typically always threatened. So some of them they become very weak whenever they are threatened, whenever they are threatened, they even fear to continue with the support of the movement. So we consider them as 18. Richard, thank you so much. We're going to have to cut it for now but we're going to come back to you at the end when all of our speakers go. But this is very helpful to give us a clear picture of how total energies is trying to build a pipeline in Tanzania and Uganda and all the displacement and you're talking about the repression that's happening against you, against the project affected persons and how and against the ecosystem there as well. So I want to let's give Richard some love in the chat. You're seeing all the reactions come up Richard. We're going to come back to you at the end. It sounds like we have crystal mellow on so I'm going to ask crystal to please turn on your video. We're so excited to have you and you're going to have 10 minutes. There we go. Yay crystal. So you're going to have 10 minutes to give us a little update from the mountain valley pipeline and don't forget to unmute. Okay, are we good? You're great. Okay, thanks y'all so much for putting this together and dealing with my trials with the internet and getting the lost out there in the internet world. Thank you for putting this together and linking us all because I know that's what's important, all of us hearing each other's stories, learning about each other's fights, growing together as we have in the past couple years. It's been amazing thing to be a part of. I am a mom that lives here in eastern Montgomery County also on stolen monokin and tutelow land. I'm the mom of a 31-year-old daughter and a 16-year-old son. I have two grand babies, one 12-year-old and one one-year-old. I have lived in Virginia mostly all my life, over 20 years here at this present address, which is in eastern Montgomery County and I clean houses for living. I've been doing that for over 25 years. The fight against the mountain valley pipeline started in 2014. I personally didn't get involved in 2018. My son and I noticed a path of trees cut down leading to the Roanoke River in our town. I had heard of the pipeline and read about direct actions being taking against it, but I didn't realize it was coming to our town. Some folks in Bent Mountain took to the trees on their own property. There's been multiple blockades and that's what really got my attention was seeing that more in the news than just the talk about the pipeline. I'm not really sure how I miss the local memo about it. A friend says they don't really have a ribbon-cutting ceremony to let everybody know this is going to happen and design like that, right? We don't fight against them. Just being busy as an everyday mom, trying to maintain the home front, not hearing about that was sad. The MVP is a 42-inch underground pipe that will carry frat gas from Mobley, West Virginia to Pennsylvania County in Virginia. 42 inches is huge, y'all. Have you ever hula-hooped? If you think about back in the day doing the hula-hoop, it's bigger than that. If you think about that, going around your hip, that's what they want to put up and down these mountains and through these waters. You can sit in this pipe. We have some of the steepest mountains in our region. They will disturb over a thousand water bodies, which include rivers, streams, creeks, wetlands, many unnamed water tributaries also. We have a unique landscape here. Carstopography refers to natural landscape that is largely the result of chemical weathering by water resulting in caves, sinkholes, cliffs, and steep-sided hills called towers. These features form when water picks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ground to form carbonate. Crystal, can you just slow down just a little bit for our interpreters? Yes. You're doing great. Well, I'm sorry. I'm all a mess now with the whole get on. I'll go back to Carst because it's so important. A lot of people don't understand Carst, but that's a lot of our topography on this pipeline route. It refers to natural landscape that is largely the result of chemical weathering by water resulting in caves, sinkholes, cliffs, and steep-sided hills called towers. These features form when water picks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ground to form carbonic acid. We have many, many caves along the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which makes this project so much more a risk for failure. I'm still not convinced that it can even be built on this terrain, but it won't stop them from tearing everything up trying to do that. Over the last multiple years, Wall Street, the banks, the corporate partners behind the project who want the quickest way to get their gas to markets, since this has been approved through the Biden administration, it literally is a pass from Congress. They have free range to do whatever they want now. It was attached recently to the national debt ceiling. That's sad that a private company can have that much power to do this. Over the years, we've monitored, they worked actively in 2018. We, the people, taken pictures and getting out there monitoring the destruction that they were doing. Reporting that resulted in over 300 violations. They've been in so much trouble. The only way that they could get this done is to get it through Congress. It'd be interesting to find out how that happened. In my opinion, lots of people got paid off. I hate to say that and only have a little bit of proof, but Joe Manchin is getting a lot of kickbacks from this and so is Schumer. There's not, there's very few access points along this route to local service, home heating. So this is for a bigger, a greedy group of people in our area. Run of gas is one of the investors and they have about a 1% interest in this. And I do believe that's what made them eminent domain. Run of gas does have the makings of a gate station in my community where they can tap into this. And the board to ask if they, this could be tabled, you know, because there were so many things going forward that didn't look good for the pipeline and just ask them if they could table it. Run of gas gave the excuse that they needed this, the equipment, something like within six months, they needed to use it and that this would keep the prices down to their customers. And like maybe two weeks later, there was an article in the run of times where run of gas was trying to go for a price increase of 11%. So they're also putting this burden on their customers to cover their awful investment in this project. So people in Roanoke who are already struggling now that Roanoke's actively being gentrified, they're paying the price and the rent prices in Roanoke have gone up a lot. So people are already struggling in Roanoke and now they're paying for the Mountain Valley Pipeline also. Groups have been putting their bodies in the way. I talked a little bit about that earlier. Rallying at banks, third act is wonderful at going to banks and setting up 24-hour vigils in front of the banks, you know, reaching, talking to people, letting them know what these dirty banks are doing and the money that they're putting in the bank is what harm it's investing to so many people. Teaching, having water monitoring classes, construction sites, learning how to get a timestamped app on your phone so you can take these pictures because if they're not timestamped, then they don't count. Lobbying, art builds, beautiful music, meals, those are ways that we're all fighting this pipeline. Some alternatives, solar seems to, but that was even tabled in Virginia recently so that can't even be a thing for at least the next year, you know. Thank you, Crystal. Thank you so much. This is great. I love your passion and it's great to hear about what the Mount Valley Pipeline is and how it's been affecting your communities in the Appalachia and how you all are resisting as moms and people, you know, just to not become another sacrifice zone. And I think, you know, that's an interesting, what going back to Richard as well, you know, trying to stop these sacrifice zones. But we will come back to you again. I wanted to give a quick space to Tanner from Appalachians Against Pipelines, quick space to talk about, you know, Crystal was talking about a little bit about the actions that folks are taking and there is a way to be involved and Natasha has dropped it in the chat. Tanner, can you come off mute and put on your video and just let us know real quick what this is about? Hi. Can you hear me? Okay, great. Well, thanks for letting me out and I really appreciate the opportunity. I think just like Crystal was talking about with the blockades, Appalachians Against Pipelines has been fighting this pipeline since 2018, back when two tree sits went up on Peter's Mountain. And since then, there have been many actions, many tree sits, which is like tapping into this long history of resistance in Appalachia to extractive industry. We would love to have folks come and get involved. I think Natasha dropped the link in the chat, you can fill out our intake form, and we'd be really excited to have folks get involved in, there's like a whole range of actions from like Crystal was talking about, about banks to get like doing blockades on the easement and like painting banners, and there's like so many activities and things to do. There's like tourists in this area, so we would love you to have it. Thank you, Nika. Thank you, Tanner. Yes, it's so good to see comrades from all over the place joining us. So great to, great to have that. Thank you, Tanner, for that. And thanks again, Crystal. You see all the love in the chat for you. Let's give it up again for Crystal. And now we're going to pass it on. And I'm going to just remind speakers, I'm going to send you like a private message when you have like two minutes. So I apologize to having to interrupt at the end like that. We're going to have Al come on now to speak about the Utilities campaign happening in Maine that Jeff talked a little bit about earlier. So thank you so much, Al. Thank you so much, Nika, and the 350 team and all of these incredible panelists. My name is Al Cleveland. I'm currently on the unceded occupied land of the Abenaki people, commonly known as Portland, Maine. And I'm really excited to talk to you all about our work here and our fight to transform Maine's energy landscape with a real way to build public power here in our state. In Maine, over the last two decades, our two investor in utilities were bought and swallowed up by enormous energy monopolies who have turned our electric grid into a means of relentlessly increasing corporate profit. Instead of providing us reliable, affordable power and partnering with us in a renewable energy transition, we have been subject to countless outages, unaccountable billing practices, constant rate increases, and paid lobbyists who have opposed any meaningful change that we've tried to do for climate change on the state level, all to increase their shareholder returns. It's clear that our work to pave the way to 100% renewable energy is necessary for our collective survival and well-being. And the obstacle in that path is even clearer. It's the investor in utilities. They have stood in our way at every turn of creating an energy future that responds to our planet's needs in our own. Maine's utility monopolies, Central Maine Power, Inversant Power, are following the path of many corrupt corporations before them. They're valuing people over profit, profit over our planet. Instead of working for us, they keep raising our bills, standing in our way, and they're taking hundreds of millions of dollars in profit for their shareholders. This November, Mainers have the chance to change course and create our own power company that would be owned by ratepayers, consumers, and Maine. We're going to be voting on a ballot referendum question to build the Pine Tree Power Company. It would be a nonprofit, publicly owned power company that would have an elected board of directors. We are literally would be putting power back in the hands of Maine people where we could invest great payer funds and money people spend on their electric bills into building a grid that actually works for us, that's affordable, and helps us get to our renewable energy goals. For too long, Maine has been helped hostage just like the rest of the country by investor in utilities. They have zero incentive to build a power company that works for people, and they have every incentive to build a power company that can extract money from people that can't afford their bills. In April, 93,000 disconnection notices were sent to Mainers who couldn't afford to pay their power bill over the winter. For perspective, that's 10% of the people who are utility customers in our state, 10% of our state got disconnection notices. Our opposition likes to remind people that they don't control the supply cost of electricity. We're would be buying out the infrastructure for delivery and transmission. We know that's true, and we also know from our coalition of solar developers that central Maine power and versant power have illegally halted renewable energy projects over the last decade, and it's only been escalating the last few years. Versant power, the utility that serves eastern and northern Maine, has the worst solar interconnection rates in the country. They have a lot to gain by continuing to operate and extract from our electric red, and that's why the opposition to our ballot initiative campaign is 100% funded by the parent companies of the utilities. So far, they've spent well over $18 million to defeat our campaign. It's going to be a lot more we're going to find out in the next two weeks. It's expected, this is expected to be one of the most expensive ballot initiative campaigns in Maine's history. They're feeding the public misinformation and lies about how your utility bill operates, which is even just more hurting our communities. And they're also consistently asking for rate increases. Six days ago, they both were approved and given a 20% rate increase. After three years of manors having unprecedented increased bills with supply costs. In Maine right now, we also want to be most unreliable rids in the country. And it's not just because we live in a cold wintery environment. We have some of the worst power out power outages, leaving vulnerable people without power for way too long. It takes longer for when your power gets turned off and named to come back on than anywhere else in the country. And our largest utility, central Maine power continues to be ranked dead last in the nation for customer satisfaction over the last four years. So the conditions are really ripe for change. Our grid has been under invested in because the utilities don't see a profit with mass investment over small changes. And this is a huge problem if we want to meet any of our climate goals here in Maine. We have a democratic controlled governor and legislature. And yet we cannot move anything through our state because of the utility lobbying. Right now in Maine, we know that transportation is about 50% of our carbon emissions and we heat with some of the highest rates of heating oil in the country. If we are going to accomplish our goal of electrifying everything, we need a grid that is reliable and affordable or else there's no way we can convince our communities to get electric transportation or electric heating. We know that the first six communities in the US to get to 100% renewable energy were all consumer owned utilities. And that's why in 2019, our coalition of young people, energy experts, small businesses started working to figure out how we build a consumer owned utility for our state. And in 2021, we passed an incredible bipartisan bill through our legislature that would have built the Pine Tree Power Company. Of course, this was vetoed by our quote unquote progressive governor whose entire career has been lined through the pockets of the investor owned utilities. And so in 2021 and in 2022, we worked with over 300 volunteers across the state to collect 80,000 signatures to get a question on the statewide ballot that would allow Mainers to take control of our electric grid. 80,000 Mainers are using our constitutional right to decide collectively about the future of our energy and our climate and our rates. And we're rallying all over the state right now to build this campaign and our coalition to really talk about how if we want to get to a place where we have cheaper rates where we can invest in the grid we need, we have to change the ownership structure of utilities. And we have to say this cannot be something that's owned by corporate shareholders in places that don't represent us. We need an elected board to be able to make these decisions. This campaign is a case study of what we can learn right now when huge multinational corporations are going to pour millions and millions of dollars to defeat us. The tactics they're using are going to be replicated. The narratives they're testing are going to be used over and over again. Main, biggest utility, central main power is owned by Oven Grid who has been trying to purchase the New Mexico utility. Rochester, New York has been trying to kick one of Oven Grid companies out of their district because of the same things we're dealing with here. We have a really clear enemy in this campaign. It's the investors. They're raising our rates, they're using our money to interfere in this election, they're using our rates to tell us how to vote. This is really helpful because if we have a chance to win in November we can bring public power not just to Maine but utility accountability nationwide and examples to all of the incredible organizers of how you fight such big money. For us to win we need a lot of support and that's why we are asking for volunteers, supporters, donors all across the country because we know we're not going to be able to fight a huge multinational corporation by ourselves. We are an incredible scrappy grassroots group of young people here and we need all of the help we can get and so I know our website will go in the chat and I really just ask if you all have ideas, excitement, energy please try to get involved with us. Thank you so much Al and great timing. Thank you for giving us a little bit of an intro into what the multinational utility companies are doing to consumers. It's the three of you, you, Richard and Crystal have kind of painted a really interesting picture of on one hand also painting this picture of like corporations who kind of do have all the money and are you know moving democracy in their way to their to their interests to serve their interests over the objections of the people and over the needs of the people. So I want to really appreciate you talking about this exciting campaign and we're really excited to continue supporting and so now with that we're going to pass on to Kiana to tell us a little bit about the campaign to stop Cops City down in Georgia. So Kiana you have 10 minutes. Thank you so much. Thank you Niko and thank you to 350. Thank you to these amazing panelists who are giving us an update on just some of the things that we have been fighting here in the US. We are really in a global climate crisis not that we are just now getting here we have been here for quite some time but I do believe that we are at a point right now where things are truly critical. Again my name is Reverend Kiana Jones. I bring you greetings from occupied Muscogee Creek land here in Decatur, Georgia where we are right adjacent to the city of Atlanta Georgia and as Niko has mentioned I am involved in the movement to stop Cops City. I am a grassroots organizer who has been doing the work of organizing for more than 15 years now. I started organizing in New Jersey many many years ago and I started out as an advocate for quality education in my community of Roselle where I live that grew into advocating for everything that affected our community but particularly for quality education and for the rights of students with special needs. So I am an IEP advocate I do still advocate for parents who have children to get their IEPs but more recently and most recently I have been heavily involved in the movement to stop Cops City. Coming back to Georgia in 2020 I jumped in feet first into social justice organizing here we all know what was going on in 2020 and in 2020 the city of Atlanta saw the uprising of people in a way that it had never quite seen since the civil rights movement and as a result of that people in a very ritzy area of the city of Atlanta called Buckhead began to get nervous. The establishment the capitalist establishment and powers that be in government in Atlanta began to get nervous and what they were nervous about was the power of the people. They saw that if people mobilize and organize and work together in community that there is nothing that we can't do. So a council person at the time who was the representative for District 12 her name was Joyce Shepherd came up with the idea that Atlanta needed to build Cops City. What Cops City would be is not only a grand symbol of state repression but Cops City would be the answer to the uprisings of the people in the city of Atlanta and quite frankly in the state of Georgia because Cops City would not only be a place where officers in the city of Atlanta would be trained in military techniques and tactics they would actually be training officers from all over the state and the nation and in fact because of an agreement that we have with the Israeli Defense Force through the Georgia international law enforcement exchange there would be military personnel from all over the world who would come and train here in the city of Atlanta at Cops City and the reason that it's called Cops City is that this so-called training facility would be equipped with a mock city to practice quote unquote urban warfare that language is taken directly from the initial proposal for Cops City taken directly from the contract and description of what it is urban warfare is what would be practiced and trained for at the site that they are looking to build Cops City on. It would also have a burn tower the initial iteration included a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad for Black Hawk helicopters and there is an existing firing range on the property but with the new plans they will upgrade that firing range and also build a swap facility right across the street. Now the very striking thing about this particular facility is that in order to make it happen the city of Atlanta has commandeered 381 acres of forest land in unincorporated DeKalb County wherein they don't even have jurisdiction. That 381 acre acres of forest land is known as the Wilani Forest it has since been renamed the South River Forest and is the largest urban forest in the southeastern United States. It is also known as one of the four lungs of Atlanta it encompasses the South River and the South River watershed. The South River is the head water of the largest river system in the state of Georgia the Altamaha River. It is also the second most polluted river in the United States and while we are talking about the area where they are trying to build Cop City unincorporated DeKalb County that portion sits in Southeast Atlanta however because that portion of land is in unincorporated DeKalb County those residents who live there have no power to vote for the mayor of the city of Atlanta or any of the council people who represent the city of Atlanta so you see the conundrum here but uniquely that is also the area that I was born in I was born in raids there my 90-year-old granny still lives there I have friends and other relatives who still live there in that area and we know that that area of Southeast Atlanta has been neglected for decades I mean I remember when I was a child there were landfills there when I grew up I mean right now there is still pollution in the water from lead from bullets from the firing range still running into the water so what the city of Atlanta had has decided to do is partner with the Atlanta police foundation to try and build this facility and the Atlanta police foundation is comprised of major corporations like Home Depot Delta Chick-fil-A Coca-Cola Wells Fargo Bank of America JP Morgan Chase Georgia Georgia Pacific Cox Enterprises Waffle House just to name a few and what we've also seen is that those very same corporations are the corporations that sponsored SB202 in Georgia a few years ago which is an omnibus voter suppression bill what that means for the people of the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia is that in addition to already experiencing widespread state repression we would experience more and we have already seen the evidence of that because the establishment here is dead set on building this project right where they are trying to build it they do not respond to people who asked them to take it to another location they do not respond to the prospects of envisioning using city of Atlanta property to build this facility on I suspect that it has something to do with the fact aside from the people of DeKalb County not being able to vote for those officials who are making these decisions but I do suspect that it might have something to do with what we call new market tax credits and if anyone knows what new market tax credits are I do believe that the city of Atlanta is using these to give money to the Atlanta police foundation in exchange for kickbacks from the police foundation to make sure that Black neighborhoods will be repressed with police presence I mean heavily repressed some of the repression that we have seen right now in the state of Georgia as a result of our campaigning against this project is domestic terrorism charges being filed against people and people are being charged with domestic terrorism for something as simple as attending a music festival and wearing dark clothing holding a sign that says stop cop city many of the actions that we have stood up so far are simply protests rallies showing up in public forums for public comment to make sure that our voices are heard the people of the city of Atlanta have given 17 hours of public comment at one time against this project we've given more than 14 hours of public comment in person against this project you see people all over the country all over the world standing in solidarity with this project yet Mayor Andre Dickens and the city council of the city of Atlanta are intent on pushing it forward there are many movements especially those that stand in solidarity with Palestine that have come to aid us in the movement to stop cop city we see economic justice movements like psl and democratic socialists that are moving in tandem and in conjunction with our movement 350 has come to our aid in a big way because this is an issue of environmental justice it's an issue of economic justice it's an issue of reproductive justice and it is an issue of racial and social justice because we know that here in the state of Georgia and honestly all over this country it's black people in black communities just like the one where they're trying to build this facility that are most harmed by law enforcement and public policy here in the united states so the things that we are doing include continued direct action we've launched a referendum campaign just like al and her group have done if you go to copcityvote.com you can learn more about exactly what you can do to help us in this fight thank you so much kiana um and also hope you're seeing all the loves in the chat come in and feel all the reactions of big appreciations to you and I think you're really helping us tie in um the notion about how um the repression that we're seeing against black and brown folks historically how that is going to be used and how that may be used against environmental defenders um going forward so this is a very very important intervention thank you um now I'd just like to ask all of our speakers to um turn on their video and um join us for a little question and answer um want to give some time for y'all to be with each other as well and maybe ask some follow-up questions so um Richard let's see if we can spotlight Richard and al and kiana and crystal again uh and just join us in here and um just everyone give please give some like warm love again in the chat for our amazing speakers yes thank you um I kind of want to first start with um what can you see there we didn't get you on spot there we go um so just yeah just once again sort of appreciation so much for all of you beautiful words um thank you for your energy and the hope that you're giving us um and kiana I kind of wanted to like actually start off with you um just following up on that issue of like repression I think all of our speakers um are you know seeing this in some format um and you know the the the folks in Atlanta and um and black and brown communities in general have been at kind of the um been the the testing grounds you also mentioned Palestine right um and they you know these communities have been at the testing grounds of like repression and increased militarization of the police I'm wondering if you could kind of like just talk to just like you know how a little bit more expound a little bit more on on this repression and how you know this is going to be touching all these other campaigns and other things that we're that we're working on um that is you know it's not just about police repression but environmental as well absolutely so when we talk about repression there are so many avenues that the government uses to repress the voice of people the main thing that is being used here in the city of Atlanta are the domestic terrorism charges that Mayor Andre Dickens Governor Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr have hoped would deter people from participating in the movement against Cop City however ever since the murder of our fallen comrade Manuel Esteban Baestaran who is known as Torchigita this movement has continued to grow and despite that repression people still show up but they do have the understanding that this repression has only reared its head at the inception of this movement because this movement has brought together so many people the intersectionality of this movement is what is really scaring the powers that be because you have people who are just straight environmental activists who have now come together with social justice advocates who now understand the harm that police do in society then you have people who have been strictly reproductive justice advocates all they care about is repro and making sure that we can have what we need reproductively however they see how cop city would impact reproductive justice they see that the basic tenet of reproductive justice that says that I have the right to raise the children that I choose to have in an environmentally safe environment free of state sanction and interpersonal violence would be directly impacted by cop city we see where transgender rights are impacted by cop city because when you think about being charged with domestic terrorism which allows the state to hold you for up to 90 days even without an indictment for nothing other than the accusation and think about how transgender people are often miscategorized mislabeled and then they are denied critical health treatment while they are incarcerated this movement impacts us at every corner of society and how we live and the state is determined to repress our voices what they've done is actually awaken a sleeping giant because they had no idea how people were going to show up when you talk about people's first amendment right to simply raise their voices and criminalize dissent then different people are going to show up in ways that you never thought they would and this is what they're seeing here in Atlanta and it's driven them to the point of desperation where they have even just decided to arrest those people who they thought were the leaders of this movement who provided funding for those who have been incarcerated through a solidarity fund a bell fund the same things that you saw during the civil rights movement are the very same things that you see now and that is what we're up against when we talk about repression in this movement well Reverend come on Reverend preach it um thank you yeah that's and I think that brings you know the question of the intersectionality too um of these movements you know gives us gives me a lot of like hope um about you know and we talk we talked during the beginning about we're in the time of monsters right and and this is a there's a new world that's being struggling to be born uh and it gives us a lot of hope and I and I wanted to actually ask Richard to um maybe like kind of like two questions um one if you could kind of talk about what we could what from the United States here we could do um I got a message to slow down a little bit so I'm going to slow down um if you can just give us a um an idea of what we can do in the United States here to support especially those folks who are in jail um and who are facing repression um in Tanzania and Uganda um and also a little bit of like um kind of what gives you hope in terms of continuing to organize um out there um given given all the things you are up against um so if you if you if that question made sense you I'd appreciate that yeah okay thanks Niko a first of all a what you actually would try to do is we couldn't do like a quick research right now to to understand the magnitude of repression over here in Tanzania to project affected persons in all eight regions uh because right now is and I only I only like you know four to four four to five activists uh who have really experienced the intensive security threats uh here in Tanzania but we yet don't know how much uh in all regions and in all words like how many how many projects affected based on the facts have been affected so at least we could do a quick mapping in all regions of Tanzania at least it will say maybe three quarter a quarter of all regions or a quarter of all words that would at least make make sense but also for the security matters in for saying maybe we could get like a quick we say that a quick images fund because right now we we operate with with with no any images found to support our friends who are sometimes a detainee injured and they also limited resources to pay lawyers and because whenever you consult them they ask you for for a degree to pay uh those those those are the typical challenges right now so quicky to three three things right now to be done a quick and a quicky a quicky mapping to understand the magnitude and how severe it is on the security uh to to see the society organization into activism and the project affected the patients in all in all regions that are affected by the project but it also may be a accessi to emergency funds to support activists you whenever they are critical critical yes thank you so much Richard um and and for folks just for you to know we will be talking a lot more about e-cop um the east african crude oil pipe when you'll be hearing a lot more about it um at the end of july 2 if you are in the new jersey area uh stay tuned or if you're interested in coming to new jersey area stay tuned we're going to be um doing an action at totals subsidiary offices um in in in linden new jersey um so um stay tuned for that um and Richard will definitely be following um following the case of the folks in jail and how we can support um so please stay in touch with us um definitely crystal you know like firstly congratulations on i'm making this fight into like getting into like national headlines in the in the debt deal you know so that means something right um you know one one question is also just kind of like how this pipeline fight looks different from other pipeline fights in your opinion um and then also um another question came in um from someone you know who was asking if you could speak a little bit about how um you all have woven appalachian culture into your um uh fights against the pipeline um if you can speak a little bit to that and i'm not going to say it but denali wanted me to say that so he didn't ask the mom question so i'm like we need more moms in the movement we need to be making more good spaces for moms in this movement um or it's not going to succeed i mean that's my you know main thought um i think the resilience which is also i think me and denali have talked about that word too because uh resilience for some some of us it's like we have no choice but to fight you know so sometimes when people are like oh you're so resilient or thank you for hanging in there it's like well really don't have a choice because folks need clean water and clean air and you know all that um i think yeah that's the the appalachian part is appalachian folks are durable um you know they're they know how to survive and um to get up every day and keep fighting and i think that's had to happen forever and i think that's something that we do have and a lot of us we don't have money so we're more resourceful and uh know how to make little things big thing um does that kind of answer that question yeah i'm curious if um if you like what have been like your conversations to with other pipeline fights if you've had any like what are you're seeing um you know anything different from those other pipeline fights to how y'all they're sharing information um i think what we're seeing that's the same with other pipeline fights is kind of the like them taking pictures of our faces all the time um you know making sure they're getting pictures of our license plates uh constantly targeted by the pipeline company using their easel evil and creative methods to try to silence us it's it's rough you know it's scary and i think that's we're getting a taste of what folks out west have had to deal with um there's been charges for threats of terrorism in west virginia west virginia has um a critical infrastructure law we don't have that in virginia right now but that is in in other states also um so i'm sure we're gonna learn a lot more i'm gonna learn a lot more going forward with you know uh i do do jail work jail solidarity work bail fund um so i'm well aware of that repression and folks who are you know targeted by the police and whatnot but this is different i you know uh i look like i think kiana said everything that i would resay is that there's a group of people who are now finding out things that they didn't really believe were through before or didn't want to see it and now it is older white women and men who are getting thrown to the ground and arrested and it's it's i'm sure it's been hard and i appreciate the people that have stayed in this fight and they're like okay we're in you know um even having a lot of jail and prison talks now people are talking more about abolition with me so i mean we're we are building something great it's not going to be easy we have to keep going yeah thanks crystal and it's it's really interesting to see kind of like in these people's these popular fights around the world too you know when the people are saying what they want um you know you're getting a lot of these criminalization as you and kiana also mentioned in richard talking about like you know criminalization of descent right now in in argentina um where there's um indigenous folks and and and not indigenous folks who are fighting against the uh a law to criminalize protest there right and they're strategically located in the lithium triangle where there'll be a lot of extraction of lithium um so you know these these things that we're talking about are super important to track and see you know and and these are some of the things we want to also be exploring more in future webinars how we just want to we want to ask you a quick question too like um we're excited to be like you know that y'all are launching this campaign and y'all are in the thick of it what can folks you know outside um outside of main do and can can non-main folks be speaking to folks in main about this issue how could we help yeah thank you so much niko and thank you to the 350 us team for supporting and endorsing this campaign it's going to be critical to how we win we have um and in this election every way to beat the utility companies like we come out winning and all of our polling over and over again but the utilities are going to pour millions and millions of dollars of lying to the public one of the way the biggest messages that they've been putting out the last three weeks is that the pine tree power company would be harmful for our work for climate change that they're basically going to sue us for 10 20 years and we're going to get stuck in litigation and that we actually need the investors for any solution and so for folks that are thinking about how to engage like we need your help calling main folks to set the truth right we need people texting folks to remind them to get out the vote because it's an off-year election so this is going to be all about how we can turn people out um the pine tree power company here pine tree power campaign in main and then the 350 team is going to be having field programs canvases for folks that are local but phone and text banks virtually for folks who aren't and we really would love any support um you can check out our website for how to get involved and we're really looking forward to helping getting to connect with you all on this campaign season um i wanted to give like the last words to everyone everyone to get you know a minute or so to say a few last words um and i just want to remind you before we do that too um al you know is talking about the our power the pine tree initiative the our main and and the work the ways you can get involved in there i know there's a referendum work happening in atlanta as well um and other ways to get plugged into cop city um you know crystal and tanner tanner mentioned the the um direct action work that's going to be happening and there's a sign-up sheet that you can fill out as well and richard you know we'll be doing actions here in the united states to lift up the east african crude oil pipeline and make those links between what's happening here and what's happening outside of the empire um so i just wanted to maybe we can go um we'll start in the order we we heard uh we'll have richard then crystal al and we'll end with qiana if you can all just take one minute literally um to some finding closing words um that you or any final thoughts um so if that works um richard did you want to start us off hello yeah thank you so much uh because when my voice is heard you just understand the voice of voice the voice of the voice received from the local community the perhaps the project of the persons in the in rural tanzanas have been heard over here today so much is still we could continue to talk but i think time is not different with us there are a lot of particular operations on land regressions and we are also considering to file a case before 30 first of july because like you know the project affected persons has been have been given eviction notes to vacate the lands before 30 first of july 2020 there are still a lot of grievances they still have clubs in the field which are set to invest the uh rating September and November so uh for for communities which are actually depending on local cultivations as the main livelihood and the main income generating activities it is still very very very very very less so we are considering to file a case we are still communicating with zaki who is the stock equal for coalition coordinator uh east africa to see the possibility of filing a case but also we are considering now to have actions such as glories and planning campaigns and then to light a first and first ever unique petition signed by project affected persons in the local community at the grassroot field so i hope we shall continue to communicate we shall continue to collaborate to see these things are really happening and it's so this this this is a dangerous dangerous ever to happen in project so thank you so much it's a much richer crystal one minute closing out um i would say uh helping us uh you can always go to power.org powhr.org or stop nvp.org for all our uh up-to-date actions and uh just yesterday there was a furt commenting party because that stuff is so hard right like nobody understands how hard this is until you have to do it and uh power has an amazing team of people who um just want to help people be able to use their voices in whatever ways that are we are going to have a maybe a get-together in this area in september reach out to us you can reach out to me at crystal at power.org um and for if you want to come down and see this beautiful place and what this pipe looks like and the the sensitive areas that it's going through um any of that or you know write biden and tell him he's an idiot for you know he is not the climate president this is not going to go well and i hear there's going to be a little gathering in new york in september so stay posted about that let's pack these streets and let them know this is bullshit we're not standing for it thank you thank you everybody thank you crystal thank you so al minute from you yeah thank you all so much um it's really inspiring to hear from everyone who is campaigning and organizing against big corporate money and i think what we're learning from all of each other is that the power and the whole drive that we're seeing in our people is beyond anything that these corporate executives have um we continue need to get as smart as possible because it is clear that the democratic party and our local state officials are not going to save us um it is clear that we could continue to engage in those systems over and over again they are not going to get us what we need um but we have all of these examples of people who are collectively fighting for their rights and their dignity um and so wherever you are i hope you all get involved in whatever that fight looks like thank you al and kiana you want to finish this off with closing thoughts absolutely thank you again to everybody plus one plus one plus one to everything that has been said what we have seen tonight is that the power of the people is not like anything else that the establishment has ever seen they have no idea how to contain us so the things that they are going to try to do is weaponize the law against us weaponize the very freedoms that allow us to do the work that we do against us but al has said it best the democrats won't save us capitalism won't save us being a part of a corrupt establishment won't save us only we can save us and it's up to us to make sure that the work keeps getting done well thank you all let's get some uh love and appreciations for our panelists in the chat y'all i'm very much appreciated and also some love and appreciations to our interpreters and to the 350 staff for doing all the troubleshooting behind the scenes and making it happen jeff natasha jl mel um all the folks um and just wanted to make sure that everyone reminds there's uh jl just dropped it there's the survey please fill it out we're gonna be hearing we want to hear your thoughts on direct action for 350 around being part of the international solidarity working group um and being connected to local groups um and being part of you know we want to hear your thoughts on utilities as well so this is not gonna end here we want you to stay plugged in um you know be connected um you're gonna hear more about these struggles um and i'm i feel like i'm i'm on fire i don't know about folks but i'm ready to take it to the street so we're gonna be supporting all these campaigns and continue to build and create that hope and lean on each other and love and joy so uh thank you all and have a really great night