Fossil Free US campaign to launch day after State of the Union

On Jan. 31, the day after the State of the Union, 350.org will launch Fossil Free U.S. in an immediate rebuke of the Trump administration’s assault on climate and communities with a clear call to action and roadmap for resistance.

After a historic year of hurricanes devastating Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico, floods across the South and California and the Pacific Northwest’s wildfires, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Bill McKibben, the Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Cherri Foytlin, Varshini Prakash and others will outline a clear path for the climate resistance leading up to 2020. 

And they are inviting you to watch online. The Jan. 31 event in Washington, D.C., will be livestreamed, with the speakers showing the way to resist the Trump administration’s attacks on our climate and win back power through 2018 and 2020.

Said McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, in a news release: “2017 was tough–we resisted, but we lost a lot of ground. 2018 we take that ground back, and we’ll do it with this Fossil Free campaign that helps unite progressive environmentalists to move us off oil and coal and gas and on to a world that works. We move into high gear on January 31–across organizations, across the arts and sciences, and across the country (with some help from our friends across the planet). If you can’t be there in person, you can still be there live–and you should be.”