HEROES

Stephen Donzinger_ lawyer who defended Ecuadorian Indigenous people from major pollution by Chevron and was detained on house (and jail time) arrest for over 2 years.
This recently on twitter (Donzinger is free now but was badly maligned and persecuted by a corrupt judge hired by Chevron; he was disbarred after having won a substantial award for his clients, The Ecuadorian Communite.

 Twitter 

Steven Donziger (@SDonziger) tweeted at 3:34 PM on Mon, Jul 11, 2022:
Ecocide must be an international crime. Whether it is the Secretary of the @USNavy or the CEO of @Chevron, persons who destroy our ecosystems and kill life must be held criminally responsible.

My comments from a recent speech in Stockholm:  https://t.co/l4GpVqL0Hw #StopEcocide https://t.co/tOVDF4evsy
(https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1546578707862675462?t=L3-u2cou-UhKg-F4gRzWxg&s=03) 

Sandra Steingraber: arrested and went to jail for protests protecting Seneca Lake from storage of fracked gas; led the NYS no fracking campaign, professor, poet, activist
www.steingraber.com

                                                           NEW YORK STATE OFFICIALS/MEDIA TO CONTACT/PRESSURE: 


NYS GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO CALL HOTLINE FOR: Pipelines, Fossil Fuel divestment, Fracking
​NYS DISTRICT 21 CONGRESSWOMAN ELISE STEFANIK
NYS DISTRICT .... CONGRESSMAN PAUL TONKO
NYS ATTORNEY GENERAL Letitia James
NYS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE HEASTIE
NYS MAJORITY LEADER ANDREA STEWART COUSINS
State Senator Liz Krueger 
​State Assembly Felix Ortiz
NYS GREEN AMENDMENT AND CLCPA COMMITTEE: 
​PETER IWANOWISC
NYS PLASTICS INITIATIVE JUDITH ENCK
SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER
SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND
THOM HARTMANN
MICHAEL MOORE
THE POST STAR
​The Lake George Mirror

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​         NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Environmental Defense Fund (Feliz Stadler)
• The Nature Conservancy
• Sierra Club (Aaron Mair)
• The Conservation Fund
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• National Parks Conservation Association
• League of Conservation Voters
• World Resources Institute
• National Audubon Society
• Trust for Public Land
• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
• Earthjustice
• The Wilderness Society
• Green for All
• Resource Media
• Greenpeace
• Clean Water Action
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• Friends of the Earth
• US Climate Action Network
• River Network
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Center for International Environmental Law
• Society of Environmental Journalists
• The Environmental and Energy Study Institute
• Rails to Trails Conservancy
• Population Connection
• Southwest Research and Info Center
• ​Sunrise

                               Our Children's Trust 
update as of August 2022:


https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/juliana-v-us -
 we are still waiting for a decision from the US District Court - oral argument was June 25th last year! We will have another action following the ruling which can happen at any time - feel free to   join our online mailing list to stay tuned. 


Juliana v US petition sponsored by People vFossil Fuel:

• John Beard and Zanagee Artis, of Zero Hour, will be co-delivering the petition to the DOJ shortly after the ruling comes out, so stay tuned!
  
• More than 16,000 signatures to the PvFF petition telling AG Garland that it’s time for DOJ to end its opposition to the Juliana case proceeding to trial! 
  
• NEXT STEPS: 1. ADD YOUR NAME TO THE PETITION at https://bit.ly/Petition-DOJ-Juliana! 2. AMPLIFY PETITION & SCHEDULE AN EMAIL TO YOUR NETWORKS using this Action Toolkit for Organizations (https://bit.ly/DOJ-OrgPetitionToolkit)! If your org would like to set up your own source code to track your petition outreach on Action Network, use the instructions found here (https://bit.ly/3sSFW6Q). Also, if your org hasn’t already signed on as an ORIGINAL SPONSOR to a petition, sign on at https://bit.ly/OrgPetition-DOJ. 
  

                                                               WWW.OURCHILDRENSTRUST.ORG
 


​based on the ancient principle of the public trust doctrine, on which some U.S. legal cases have been fought and won, that asserts it is in the public trust that government must protect the environment.​

• The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately. Wikipedia
• The public trust doctrine is the principle that the sovereign holds in trust for public use some resources such as shoreline between the high and low tide lines, regardless of private property ownership. Wikipedia
• See www.ourchildrenstrust.org for international lawsuits as well as updates on this particular case

 




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                            NY STATE PROTECTORS/Advocacy (list not finalized, pending)

​Cornell Law (title pending)
​GELF: Mark Dunlea
The Rights of Nature Movement: contact in NY: Ben Price
The Delaware Waterkeeper: May Von Rossum
The Lake George Waterkeeper Fund for Lake George: Chris Navitsky
The Hudson River Waterkeeper:
Adirondacks Protect the Adirondacks: Peter Bauer
The Adirondack Council: Willie: Janeway, John Sheehan
Lake George Land Conservancy: Mike
The Lake George Association: Eric SiyWalt Lender
Assembly Point Water Quality Coalition: Lorraine Ruffing, Bob Carbognin
Clean Air Action Network: Tracy Frisch
North Country Earth Action: The Earth Action Squad

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