Vision
We envision an interfaith community of people who practice unorganized religion, people who hear a call to connect their spiritual journeys more intentionally with nonviolent activism on behalf of our planet home, a community that looks to Jesus and other great spiritual leaders for guidance, a community passionate to leave a safe and habitable planet for our children.
As this website appears, the “we” is me, Paul Weiss, but it only takes one person to begin. I’m praying, picketing, and leafletting, outside the Rosslyn Chase Bank (just across the Potomac from DC and steps from the Rosslyn Metro) on Mondays at noon for one hour. Check the website, print some leaflets, make a sign, and join me.
It is suicidal for Chase Bank, the world’s largest investor in fossil fuel, to be allowed in cities that are actively responding to the climate emergency. We need to make it clear to all Chase Banks, but especially to those in the nation’s Capital communities - some of America’s greenest - that they are not welcome in our communities until they reverse their deadly climate abuse.
Why Chase Bank?
Here’s a big part of the reason you will see me on the sidewalk outside a Chase Bank, my 5-minute video showing what the climate crisis did to my mountain home near Yosemite National Park in California: ChaseExit
In 2022, after the video was made, another disastrous climate event, the Oak Fire, destroyed my home, those of all my neighbors, and 122 others, a clear, deadly consequence of supporting banks like Chase Bank. The passing of my beautiful Starlit Chalet was memorialized by this front page photo in the local Mariposa Gazette. A water tank and propane tank remain.
When I’m not picketing, I’ll be talking to groups and individuals, inviting them to join us. Our goal is 1,000 participants in the first year. As more folks join us, we’ll visit more banks in more of the Capital’s neighboring communities on more days.
Elders
I especially encourage elders to join us. Elders have a special responsibility to our kids and grandkids because we are members of the generations that created much of the climate problem. Elders have more life experience and, hopefully, more wisdom, and certainly more time and resources.
Let’s form an Elders Climate Alliance and find our first 1,000 members. Are you in? Send me an email and let’s share a coffee. (That’s a lot of coffee!)
Open the link to my Amazon Author Page to learn more about my story and my novel, Climate Break. Check out the videos.