Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for joining more than 300 food, farming, fishing, worker, environmental, public health and public interest organizations in signing-onto this letter urging Congress to support a just transition to climate solutions that include food and agriculture via the Green New Deal. The letter was delivered to members of Congress this morning.

Now we need your help to spread the word via social media. Please help amplify the letter!

 Here is a social media toolkit that includes samples posts and graphics (sample posts also included below).

The press release is here and a PDF of the letter is here.

Please share on social media today and as much as you can over the next few weeks. We hope to keep the drumbeat going while Congress is on recess and when they return at the end of April. If your organization indicated that it is interested in participating in additional actions, we will be in touch in the coming days with follow-up information about ways your organization can be part of this important effort.  

A big thanks to our colleagues at the Center for Food Safety who put together these graphics and sample text with input from our multi-organization communications committee.

And many thanks to all of the organizations that worked together to draft this letter, circulate it for sign-on and help with the release.

Thank you!

Sample Facebook Posts:

We can’t solve climate change without transforming our food system! I stand with a coalition of farmers, workers, fishers, and organizations and organizations urging our Congress to

address food and agriculture issues in the Green New Deal. The time is NOW! [link to the letter or action page]

Americans deserve a regenerative food system that ensures good jobs, healthy food, and better health outcomes for all! Tell Congress: Address food and agriculture issues in the

Green New Deal! [Link to your org’s action page]

Humanity is facing the existential threat of the climate crisis with no time to lose. The Green New Deal offers an important opportunity to protect our future. Making fundamental changes

to our food and farming systems will be central to stabilizing our climate and ensuring food security. Tell Congress: food and agriculture issues must be in the Green New Deal! [Link to

your org’s action page]

Sample Tweets:

Action needed! To address the #climate crisis, the #GreenNewDeal must transform our #food system and revitalize Rural America! The time is NOW. Tell Congress: Address food and

#agriculture issues in the Green New Deal! [Link to your org’s action page] #FoodAgGND

We can’t solve #climatechange without transforming our food system! I stand with a coalition of farmers, workers, fishers, and organizations urging our Congress to address #food and

#agriculture issues in the #GreenNewDeal. [link to the letter or action page] #FoodAgGND

A highly consolidated industrial #food system is rapidly depleting the resources and #biodiversity upon which our food future depends. Let’s change that! Tell Congress: Address

food and #agriculture issues in the #GreenNewDeal! [Link to your org’s action page] #FoodAgGND

We deserve a #regenerative #food system that ensures good jobs, healthy food and better health outcomes for all! Tell Congress: Address food and #agriculture issues in the

#GreenNewDeal! [Link to your org’s action page] #FoodAgGND

 

Tiffany Finck-Haynes

Pesticides & Pollinators Program Manager, Food and Technology Program

 Friends of the Earth U.S.

1101 15th St. NW, 11th Floor

Washington, DC 20005

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