Sierra Club Board of Directors: We Need to Unite!

A few weeks ago, we delivered a letter to the Sierra Club’s Oakland office inviting them to join our movement. The Sierra Club is one of the largest, oldest, and most influential climate organizations in the country. It has millions of members, many of whom are already putting together the dots and working to spotlight the cost of war and militarism on the planet. However, the national organization has not taken the same stance as these members, nor has it spoken against U.S.-led wars, genocide, and Pentagon expenditures as a climate threat. We have not heard back from our petition delivery, so we’re trying again – we’re not going to give up on a united front against the greatest threats to our existence.  

We need to unify our movements, amidst growing repression, increasingly deadly environmental disasters, and global escalation of wars, all for the sake of continuing to extract resources. That’s why we’re asking some of the largest and most influential organizations in the country to join the movement, starting with the Sierra Club. 

Recently, the New York Times published an article about the Sierra Club – an attack framed as an inside scoop. This article was written by one of the same authors who wrote a story a few years ago attacking CODEPINK for our uncompromising stance against war. The New York Times has always been on the side of the war economy throughout its history, and we don’t want to add to its mission. Rather, in times like these, when Empire seeks to divide the movement for the people and the planet, we need to reach out, bring it together, sharpen our collective clarity, and move forward. 

If you are affiliated with the Sierra Club, feel free to add a personal note in the email you send. Join us in writing to the board of directors to emphasize what is needed to help one another and fight for our future together.