San Francisco Bay Area Working Group

Elders in the Third Act SF Bay Area Working Group are motivated to explore how their individual and collective actions can help to stabilize the climate and restore and protect our democracy.

Elders in the Third Act SF Bay Area Working Group are motivated to explore how their individual and collective actions can help to stabilize the climate and restore and protect our democracy.

To build a movement powerful enough to stabilize climate and democracy, Third Act San Francisco Bay Area brings together elders from a broad range of backgrounds, cultures, faiths and traditions. We are determined to leave our future generations a livable planet and a democracy that is equitable and just for all. While we focus on motivating and empowering elders over 60, anyone is welcome to join who shares our values.

To win we will need everyone who shares our values of restoring and passing on a livable planet and a thriving and fully participatory democracy. This is no time for elders to take a back seat and expect others to address these problems that we failed to fix on our watch. Our time is now!

Our Defend Democracy campaign continues through the Georgia Senate runoff December 6. Third Act San Francisco Bay Area is starting our strategic planning for all campaigns in 2023. Look at our meeting schedule here to learn how to engage in planning our 2023 campaigns, including the National Day of Action March 21, 2023.

ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Our generation is unwittingly exacerbating the climate crisis by investing in dirty energy.  Banks and other financial institutions use our money to fund polluting fossil fuel extraction and its associated infrastructure.  Elders, the wealthiest generation in America, have the power to direct our financial resources to divest of all dirty fossil fuels. Join us and take the Third Act Banking On Our Future Pledge to pressure the four biggest banks that bankroll dirty fossil fuels. 

The Pledge is our first step. We will take other impactful and meaningful actions to address the climate crisis.  For example, we support state legislation to require that state pension funds divest from all fossil fuel investments.  Your leadership and ideas on these and other climate actions in the greater San Francisco Bay Area are welcome and encouraged.

PROTECTING OUR DEMOCRACY

Our voting rights are in peril. Our civil rights are threatened.  Progress made in the late 20th Century on voting and civil rights is being eroded.  Anti-democratic forces are curtailing voting rights, gerrymandering voting districts to make our government non-representative, intimidating and harassing election officials, and politicizing the counting and certification of elections to favor one party over another.  For the first time during our lives, a Constitutional right has been eliminated.

We want to defend California from such rollbacks of democracy, and we also must help protect democracy in more vulnerable states and everywhere that anti-democratic initiatives are in play. Third Act SF Bay Area will work with pro-democracy allies to protect the vote for all and to make sure that elections are determined by the vote of the people.

Third Act SF Bay members continue to be engaged in the Midterm elections through the Georgia run-offs on December 6th. We need your participation and leadership in the fight for our democracy. 

Please click here and follow the instructions to sign-up for these activities to Defend our Democracy.