The GOP Tax Plan (or “Deficit Augmentation to Enrich Super Rich (DATES Rich) Act) is horrid on so many grounds — from devastating graduate education, to massively increasing economic inequality, to setting the path for destruction of Social Security and Medicare, to … well, the list of horrors would take many pages of scribbling on the margins (as the bill was written). Amid the horror — worsening even further climate devastation and climate risks through additional subsidies to fossil fuels, opening up the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling, to …
With this in mind — recognizing both the reality of the challenge and the additional devastation that the #GOPTaxScam would cause the climate — the activist Sunrise Movement (which has done some great actions, such as during the climate talks in Germany) put together a team and are occupying House offices this morning.
#GOPTaxScam is a disaster for climate: It opens up Arctic drilling, slashes clean energy incentives, & ups Big Oil handouts.
We are sitting in at co-chair of Climate Solutions Caucus @RepCurbelo demanding he vote against this Big Oil Bailout #ProtectTheArctic pic.twitter.com/ejo1tgmrGc
— Anthony Vidal Torres (@avtorres4) December 4, 2017
The following is from the office of Congressman Curbelo.
Who is Sunrise targeting this morning? GOP members who
- are members of the Climate Solutions Caucus
- voted for the Tax Bill on the first round and, especially,
- sign a letter to the Senate calling on protection of ANWR from drilling.
BREAKING: Young people demand House Republicans vote against #GOPTaxScam for the 1% and fossil fuel billionaires.
Call your representative: 877-796-1948
Sign the petition to Republicans who say they care about climate change but might vote for this #BigOilBailOut: bit.ly/BigOilBailOut
"Whose side are you on, Curbelo? Whose side are you on?"@SunriseMvmt activists occupying #ClimateSolutionCaucus offices to highlight ways #TaxBill devastates #climate.
"Stand with people, not fossil fools."
(Note: @RepCurbelo was originator of Caucus, @CitizensClimate.) https://t.co/bfSrK3P5pI
— A Siegel (@A_Siegel) December 4, 2017
Will @CitizensClimate call on all members of the #ClimateSolutionsCaucus to act?
Or, is #CSC simply a fig leaf cover enabling at risk @GOP Representatives, like @RepComstock #VA10, to vote for #climate destruction?
Can't be serious about #ClimateSolutions & vote 4 #TaxBill. https://t.co/bfSrK3P5pI
— A Siegel (@A_Siegel) December 4, 2017
Sign the petition to Republicans who say they care about climate change but might vote for this #BigOilBailOut: https://t.co/5B4TCB2Yt1 https://t.co/mdtexHGfrt
— Sunrise Movement ? (@sunrisemvmt) December 4, 2017