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In fact, while
we may be best known for our storytelling, we’ve
long believed that the best stories are those
that motivate people to act, something we like
to call ‘flexing our citizen
muscles.’
So while we’ve
continued to create award-winning media this
year – from Tik-Toks to short documentaries –
we’ve also worked hand-in-hand with our global
Community and movement partners to pass laws,
keep the heat on corporate polluters,
participate in citizen science projects and
generously contribute funds to our frontline,
grassroots partners.
Earlier this
year, when a train derailment in East Palestine,
OH resulted in a toxic release of vinyl
chloride, our Community members raised $10,000
to match a Grassroots Grant commitment we made
to local groups, enabling us to send $20,000 to
the ground within a week to support everything
from door-to-door organizing and public meetings
to air and water monitoring.
When
negotiators gathered in Paris in May for talks
on a global plastics treaty we not only created
a 3-minute explainer that broke down what they
were up to, we also helped several frontline
activists participate directly by offsetting
their travel costs to the summit.
When longtime
partner RISE St. James in Louisiana wanted to
turn the animated short we made with their
founder and activist extraordinaire Sharon
LaVigne into a coloring and activity book for
young people in their Community we jumped in:
developing a concept, hiring a designer and
paying for the printing.
And when our
partners at Valley Improvement Projects in
California’s Central Valley were ramping up
their campaign to shut down one of our home
state’s two remaining solid waste incinerators,
we brought their inspiring story to the big
screen.
Burning
Injustice, our newest short
documentary, profiles their multigenerational
fight to usher in a just transition for the
community – one that invests in a zero waste
future. The film premiered at the San Francisco
Green Film Festival in October and we were
thrilled it was honored with the festival’s
Audience Award for Best Short!
But while a
lot of the activism we encourage and support is
necessarily aimed at ‘stopping the bad,’ we know
we’ve also got to ‘build the good’ – making real
the promise that another world is indeed
possible.
So
I’d like to invite you to join us once again in
this work.
Your financial support makes everything we do
possible and for that we are grateful.
Make your year end gift
today online, via check to our
address below, or with a stock donation. Our
Development Manager Smruti Aravind is available
to answer any questions you may have about
giving at smr...@storyofstuff.org. You can also
reply to this email to reach me
directly.
Thank you for
everything you do to make this world a better
place.
All the
best,
Michael | 
