Whereas, the multiple wildfires in Los Angeles County, which penetrated urban areas in unprecedented ways and caused death, destruction, financial damages, and related problems (houselessness, displacement, insurance scams, impoverishment, etc.) are the latest reminder that we need profound structural change in order to save our students, co-workers, and the planet. It will take a bottom-up, democratic, systematic, strategic campaign, anchored by powerful, mass-based, statewide organizations like CFT to address these profound threats;

Therefore, be it resolved, that CFT build a campaign for climate change resilience and climate change reversal, including:

1. training and supporting locals in common good bargaining regarding these issues,
2. building coalitions with other unions, and community and independent political organizations to put mass pressure on Sacramento to pass legislation or place initiatives on the state ballot on these topics and the issue of dramatically expanding funding for the public sector,
3. working with California for the Common Good (https://www.cacommongood.com/) on leveraging our pensions to be used for good rather than destruction, relating to climate change / fossil fuel and other union and social justice issues, and
4. training and supporting locals to organize using super-majority organizing methods in order to move all of the above forward in a way that is democratic, strengthens locals, and builds mass power.

Submitted by United Teachers Los Angeles, AFT Local 1021