Notices by Mark Ruffalo (markruffalo@mastodon.social)

For all my fellow SAG-AFTRA members on strike who need financial support during this time, please check out this article. #UnionStrong

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-18/what-financial-assistance-is-available-for-actors-sag-aftra-strike

Dear POTUS, The Justice Department, and the FCC. By eliminating the Paramount Decrees, you have made way for the strikes and shutdown of our industry. That was an antiquated antitrust law that held back studios and streamers from forming monopolies. They are now crushing labor because there is no competition—there is no recourse to their demands. Please reinstate or better your antitrust laws for the entertainment industry.

https://www.culawreview.org/current-events-2/terminations-of-the-paramount-decrees-a-greenlight-for-monopolies

When your home burns, floods, or is destroyed in an extreme climate weather event, when someone in your family dies from heat waves, or when crops fail and people starve—come for these three people: Wael Sawan (Shell CEO), Darren Woods (Exxon CEO), and Patrick Pouyanne (TotalEnergies CEO). They knew what was coming and did it to you anyway. Sue them, shame them, heckle them, despise them. These are choices. They are to blame, not society.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel

“‘Congress cannot mandate that federal regulators throw caution to the wind—environmental laws are more than just mere suggestions, and must be adhered to,’ said Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club, one of the plaintiffs.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/court-halts-mountain-valley-pipeline-championed-by-sen-joe-manchin-c5cc2d7

Kudos to Sarah Silverman! This will most likely become a landmark case.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sarah-silverman-copyright-suit-chatgpt_n_64ab2ce5e4b02fb0e6f94a1b

“The clean energy subsidies that undergird President Joe Biden’s climate agenda have just prompted one Norwegian manufacturer to choose Michigan, not Europe, as the site of a nearly $500M factory that will produce the equipment needed to extract hydrogen from water.”
😀 Biden is smashing it.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/biden-hydrogen-europe-00104024

Okay. So we all understand that the Supreme Court has become a right-wing ideological political institution under Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, Kavanaugh, & Roberts. They're for sale & illegitimate. Now, we have to beat them in the executive branch & the legislature.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-2023-term_n_649f25b7e4b030efa12065d4

Organize the vote. They're taking us backward. We have already left them behind. Now we keep building people's power. We have the people. We are far more mighty. Hold on tight & keep organizing. Drown out the noise. Keep pushing forward. The only way to freedom is forward.

“Anyone insisting that you ‘calm down’ about climate change is living in denial about the catastrophes that are at our doorstep.”

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/calm-down-narrative-climate-change-crisis-oil-industry-environment

I’m so proud to have been a part of this film and the uplifting strength, wisdom, and love of Mother Earth and all creation that is displayed in the relatively unknown story of the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota people’s history. You do not know the history of America without the revelations of this film told by the side of those who have lived it.

Lakota Nation vs. United States is coming to theaters on July 14th.

"'We have to be much more aggressive in regard to fossil fuel expansions,' Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat, told the online gathering. 'If we don't get the policies we need, if our legislative process is failing us, then direct action gets the goods.'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12210657/Squad-member-Rashida-Tlaib-urges-eco-activists-aggressive-secret-pep-talk.html?utm_source=Yellow+Dot+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b6cc39fc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_06_13_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c242c953ee-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

Thanks for having Sarah Eagle Heart, Laura Tomaselli, & me on Morning Joe to discuss Lakota Nation vs. United States. This doc was made for people to get the full history of the Lakota's story of US history, their treaties, & their sacred Black Hills. In school, we only hear half of the story. Please go check out this film, in theaters July 14.

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/the-struggle-to-regain-home-land-at-the-heart-of-lakota-nation-vs-united-states-185145413885?fbclid=IwAR3cRHl9DmhWINFU92qqsWeXwe9bkCbMRHYWPNJCl8wKJJ68ca1jiBoFE_o

"The report found that about 93% of the carbon offsets that Chevron is investing in – mostly forests, plantations or large dams – are worthless, meaning they don’t lead to greenhouse gas reductions, they exaggerate any benefits or they risk actually emitting emissions. 'They just don't stand up,' said Nina Lakhani..."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/chevron-carbon-offset-climate-crisis?utm_source=eml&utm_medium=emlf&utm_campaign=Email_MB_US&utm_content=variantA

Like this is news… it’s what we have been saying for a decade now.

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-mexicos-fracking-water-contains-cancer-causing-chemicals-study-says/article_b881d5b0-f37f-11ed-970a-f32aced7259f.html

It’s time for those involved to be brought to justice for the CIA and FBI’s torture programs, instituted by the Bush-Cheney administration and not prosecuted by the Obama administration. We mustn’t forget the horrors of the illegal and amoral Iraq war—the moral injury it has caused our nation and the harm it caused to our victims. It was worse and more criminal than even Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/may/11/abu-zubaydah-drawings-guantanamo-bay-us-torture-policy?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1683799554

You have to see this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USqBg4-_XOo&feature=youtu.be

#PoorThings is coming this fall, and I cannot wait for you to see this film. A perfect blast! See you at the theater September 8th.

https://deadline.com/2023/04/emma-stone-poor-things-yorgos-lanthimos-fall-release-1235340677/

Young people sue for state constitutional violations to fight fossil fuels and a cleaner environment. Join a lawsuit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_fxt9SHH9E&feature=youtu.be

Please join us in celebrating the other honorees: Vanessa Nakate, Former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres!

Physical copies of the magazine will be on newsstands April 28!

Gloria Walton and I are honored to be recognized by the inaugural #TIME CO2 Earth Awards! We are grateful that they see the work The Solutions Project and our grantee partners are doing to create a more equitable and sustainable world. This award is for all the frontline leaders, organizers, movement builders, and the power that the grassroots has been building for decades.

https://time.com/6272886/introducing-time-co2-earth-awards-2023/