SAF: Students Against Fracking
CSSC works alongside our coalition partners in resisting local and regional investment and development of hydraulic fracturing and fossil fuel import/export infrastructure. To do so, CSSC focuses on helping support communities to ban fracking at the local and county level (e.g. Santa Barbara, Alameda, San Benito, Mendocino, and Butte counties), researching and disseminating information, and working with local communities in resisting infrastructure. These regional efforts will be coordinated with the Californians Against Fracking campaign to generate further momentum for a statewide ban. With the general election this November, we plan to leverage these local and county bans to put further public pressure on Governor Jerry Brown to renounce his support for extreme energy extraction. To accomplish this, we plan to utilize academic research to enable our organizing teams with accessible and clear science around the local, regional and global impacts of fossil fuel dirty energy.
The following are the 4 areas of focus of SAF:
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Research, Education, and Dissemination. Students harness their campus resources to bolster local campaigns with appropriate research that clearly outlines the impacts of extreme energy extraction on communities and the environment. This component aims to develop student research skills, improve the campaign voice with up to date scientific conclusions, and connect student activists with career researchers.
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Legislative Engagement. Students engage with their local and state representatives on the issue and will seek to obtain their support for and/or the creation of legislation that curtails hydraulic fracturing at the local, county or state level.
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Solidarity and Resistance Organizing. CSSC sent California students to Utah to engage in a week-long training camp for solidarity organizing. Students will come back to California and apply that training to organizing with frontline communities in resisting fracking infrastructure.
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Statewide Reform and Targeted Campaigning. Students will also focus on targeting Jerry Brown to apply pressure to his public image and get him to stop supporting fracking in California.
Across California Students Against Fracking is growing fast. We currently have chapters on the campuses below, but we are always looking to add more! If you are wanting to launch one on your campus contact Shoshanna Howard, Campaign Director at [email protected]
Cal State Bakersfield SAF
Cal Poly SAF
Chico State SAF
Butte College SAF
LMU SAF
UCSB SAF
UCB SAF
UC Northridge SAF USC SAF in affiliation with the Environmental Affairs Organization.
Ventura College SAF