Join us to celebrate the launch of Third Act Georgia!
About this event
We are the Georgia Working Group of Third Act. We are organizing people over the age of 60 to work on protecting our democracy and our climate. We need your help! Our state has enacted some of the most restrictive election laws in the nation, and the outcome of the 2024 Presidential election may depend on Georgia voters. As well, our Governor, State Legislature, and Public Service Commission refuse to address urgent climate change. Join us and learn how we can make a difference together!
Bill McKibben
Bill is founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubble’s Today’s Edition Newsletter is a free daily newsletter on Substack.com. It has 100,000 subscribers. As Robert describes it, “The newsletter started in February 2017 as my effort (as a father and husband) to provide hope and perspective to my family after the unexpected results of the 2016 election. Over time, my family email was shared among friends and became a community of like-minded citizens devoted to preserving American democracy.”
Bill Sapp
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) is the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan environmental legal advocacy organization rooted in and focused on the South. Since 2007, Bill has been fighting to protect and preserve wetlands throughout SELC’s region. A major achievement in his career involves the largest blackwater wetland in North America: the Okefenokee Swamp in south Georgia. He built a coalition of environmental organizations, with more than 5 million members, that advocates for long-term protection for that 438,000-acre Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and opposes efforts to mine adjacent to the refuge.
