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Dear Paul,
I've gone from shocked, to sad, to angry as I try to process the election
results. But I am choosing to be resilient with you by my side.
In the first election in 50 years without the protections of the Voting Rights
Act, the Republican party will now control the House, the Senate and the
White House on a platform that features racism and hate. This is a major
disaster for human rights, civil rights and the environment.
In the short term, we know that the worst impacts of this election will be felt
by those who are most vulnerable to the bigotry that marked the divisive
electoral campaign.
While Trump campaigned as a political outsider, his transition team is filled
with corporate lobbyists. His agriculture advisors are agribusiness insiders.
He has called climate change a hoax, and his energy advisor is a lobbyist for
the Koch Brothers. His reported top pick for energy secretary is a modern-day
oil tycoon.
But we also know that this election is more complex than the analysis we see
from the pundits. It’s the result of the failure of both political parties
to serve the needs of the millions of people who have been left behind by
corporate globalization and policies that benefit Wall Street, not Main Street
or farming communities. It’s the result of a media that has failed our
democracy by failing to cover the issues that are most important to people and
the
planet.
I commit to you that we will work even harder to create the socially,
economically and environmentally just world that we all want.
We will work to bring people together around the protection of the resources
that we all need to live— clean water, safe and affordable food and a climate
that supports life on earth.
We will never give up.
In more than 30 years of advocacy work I've been through a lot of tough
situations, and as a student of history, I know that change happens locally and
when we bridge the divide and bring communities together around the issues that
impact us all, we can win.
In fact, we did have two historic victories last night — our staff and allies
passed Measure Z to ban fracking in Monterey County, CA despite over $5 million
in Oil and Gas industry spending to defeat us, and in Washington state, our
research to expose the sham of the Carbon Tax — an approach endorsed by
ExxonMobil
— helped to defeat a proposal that would do nothing to fight off climate change.
We need to celebrate these victories — and get to work. Our work is more
important than ever.
I'm having our staff at Food & Water Watch put together rapid response plans to
protect our collective victories to ban fracking, keep our food safe and
keep fossil fuels in the ground in this lame duck session, and ambitious plans
for what we'll need to do under a Trump presidency to work for equity and
justice for all communities.
I hope you can join me for a special post-election Telephone Townhall next
Tuesday, November 15 at 8:00 p.m. ET to talk about how we move forward together.
I'll be in touch with more details on next steps, and how we can work together
to build a new path forward.
Onward together,
Wenonah Hauter
Wenonah Hauter
Executive Director
Food & Water Watch
wenonah(at)fwwatch(dot)org
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