Tell Gov. Brown and CA legislators: Latinos reject fracking!

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This summer, the state legislature could have passed a bill that would have stopped all fracking in California — but legislators and Gov. Brown spent more time listening to their contributors in the oil and gas industry than to the people suffering from the effects of fracking. That's why we're launching a new campaign with our friends at Azul and other allies. Together, we'll organize Latino opposition to fracking and hold accountable the politicians who think it's ok to poison our communities!

Our message to California elected leaders:

Honorable Gov. Brown and California legislators,

We, the undersigned, call on you to reject fracking in our state.

Allowing fracking to continue in our state only endorses continued harm to California’s most vulnerable residents through the placement of hazardous fracking operations near Latinos and other low-income communities of color. Unlike what the oil industry may otherwise claim, families living near fracking sites are already experiencing serious and extensive health problems, including headaches, rare cancers, and respiratory diseases associated with oil drilling and extraction.

We have to stop fracking right now. In light of the record drought and the negative impacts on agricultural workers, ending fracking is more urgent than ever. Fracking not only requires an obscene amount of water, but the chemicals used are known to make their way into aquifers and drinking water too.

There is a clear mandate to ban fracking. 64% of Latinos in California already support a moratorium to be lifted only after an environmental study is completed. City-by-city and community-by-community, thousands are rising up and are pushing for local bans on fracking like in the cases of Santa Cruz where a permanent ban was recently approved and in Los Angeles where the City Council is moving fast to pass a fracking moratorium.

We are deeply troubled to learn that corporate groups like the Western States Petroleum Association continue to spend millions buying off our state leaders and our Governor’s support to expand fracking in Los Angeles, Monterey County, and the Central Valley — where Latinos live in high numbers.

As we rapidly approach election season in California, we call on you to remember that we, as informed voters, will consider this — along with the public health and well-being implications of your support or opposition to the powerful oil lobby’s poisoning of our communities — when we go to the polls.