Mighty Earth Long Beach Sustainable Fisheries Campaign Volunteer

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Mighty Earth (www.mightyearth.org) is looking for motivated individuals to help us on an exciting campaign to protect our sustainable fishery laws keep oceans healthy for future generations. As volunteers, folks will help us to build grassroots power, work with local organizations, and participate in environmental advocacy. Over the next several months, we will be organizing community events, working with the media, collecting petition signatures and photo petitions, and building a broad coalition of local groups.

The issue:
Oceans are a critical source of food, livelihood, recreation and biodiversity. They are the lungs of our planet: incredibly important regulators to combat climate change and support diverse and abundant forms of life. Unfortunately, from plastic pollution to oil spills, our oceans face serious threats.

Overfishing is one such problem across all the world’s oceans but, thanks to our management systems, the U.S. has been a real leader in keeping our oceans healthy and our fisheries sustainable.

Unfortunately, in an effort to sell more boat motors, Yamaha has been pushing legislators for policies that would undermine the core principles that have kept our oceans full of fish.

Musicians who play Yamaha instruments, their fans, and other potential Yamaha customers around the country know that conservation is critical to the health of our oceans and don’t want Yamaha lobbying to destroy them.

The campaign:
Our team has hit the ground in Long Beach, California, a city near Yamaha’s corporate Headquarters. Over the next few months we will be building visibility around this campaign, exposing the bad policies Yamaha is pushing for and calling attention to the company’s corporate influence over our elected officials.

Term:
We are looking for volunteers starting immediately! The campaign is just getting started and we are looking to build momentum!