[ESIP-all] Third Act and National Day of Action

[William Teng]

Hi Everyone! I trust everything is completely well with you all!

I'm writing to inform everyone of the upcoming National Day of Action to
Stop Dirty Banks on March 21 (https://thirdact.org/national-day-of-action/).
I'm supporting this effort through Third Act's nascent Maryland Working
Group (kind of like an ESIP cluster 😃).

As some of you know, I left ADNET Systems at NASA Goddard in the spring of
last year, sort of retired (or "rewired"?). In the almost one year since,
I've made good progress on my post-NASA list of to-dos. Among the top of
the list is how best to continue the kind of work I'd been doing at NASA in
other spaces and via other means.

It just so happened that, a few months before I left Goddard, Third Act (
https://thirdact.org/) was founded by Bill McKibben (who also had founded
https://350.org/). Third Act is a fast-growing community of aging hippies
and other third actors (😆), as well as younger generations, currently
engaged in two related campaigns: (1) Banking on our Future (
https://thirdact.org/our-work/banking-on-our-future/) and (2) Safeguarding
our Democracy (https://thirdact.org/our-work/safeguarding-our-democracy/).
The current focus of Banking on our Future is the upcoming National Day of
Action to Stop Dirty Banks on March 21.

There are now over 80 such actions around the country, the largest two of
which are in NYC and here in Wash., DC.; and more than 50 partner
organizations, from Sierra Club to Sunrise Movement. When both
https://www.sierraclub.org/ and https://www.sunrisemovement.org/ are
supporting something, that says a lot. The National Day of Action will be
peaceful, joyful, and impactful, as we aim to raise the awareness in
people's minds of the connection between dirty banks and the climate crisis.

With more than 80 actions around the country, there's likely to be an
action at or near where you live. Please see the map at
https://thirdact.org/national-day-of-action/.

For those of you in the DC area, here is a link to more information about
the March 21 National Day of Action and its event schedule,
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19F1D103Z2J-KqhgMeE862D3ca3wWeyAEkrJZ8vbpTQw/edit

Please let me know if you've any questions and/or if you plan to
participate. Thanks!

Bill Teng
Third Act Maryland
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