Current Campaign
Climate Tzedek: Building our Power to Achieve Just, Science-Based Solutions to the Climate Crisis
The Climate Tzedek campaign is an opportunity to set aside despair about the challenges we face and do something with our communities to make the changes we need. We will engage our congregations to put this vital issue at the center of Jewish life and to demand bold policies to create a sustainable world for ourselves and generations to come. We will work with partners across California to focus on solutions that prioritize racial and economic justice.
In 2022, we will integrate our campaign with participation in the RAC's national Every Voice, Every Vote campaign, knowing that the voices most targeted by voter suppression policies are many of the same voices most impacted by climate change.
Get Involved
To learn more and join the campaign, please register for a training and/or contact Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller, jsaxe-taller@rac.org
July 14, 7-8:30pm: Climate Tzedek Training
August 4, 7-8:30pm: Climate Tzedek Online Action on a Statewide Climate Bill
September 7, 4-5:30pm: Climate Tzedek Training
Our Recent Work
RAC-CA 2021 Legislative Agenda
RAC-CA leaders helped to pass SB 62, the Garment Workers Protection Act, to expand wage theft liability and hold retailers responsible to pay minimum wage and create safe working conditions for garment workers, who are primarily immigrant women.
RAC-CA lobbied our legislators to pass SB 731 (Time Done) life-changing legislation to address the hundreds of barriers to reintegration faced by people who have paid their debt to society by creating a mechanism to
seal arrest and conviction records after a person has fully completed their sentence. The bill faced major opposition but we hope it is finally on its way to passage in 2022.
RAC-CA joined the VISION Coalition to press CalGEM, the state oil and gas drilling regulator, to require buffer zones between drilling sites and homes, schools and other places where people are impacted by toxic emissions from drilling. Our Hanukkah action brought us together to contrast the miracle of a small amount of oil symbolizing our freedom with the damaging effects of the long practice of drilling for oil in our own time and place. This campaign has won a proposed buffer zone and is ongoing.
Additional RAC-CA Victories
In 2019, RAC-CA set gun violence prevention and housing as our two top issues. With help from Reform communities across the state, RAC-CA helped triple funding for local gun violence prevention programs in California communities most affected by gun violence. We also backed a package of housing and homeless bills that will help build new affordable housing, protect tenants, and remove barriers for housing production.
Contact and support our team
- Contact Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller to learn more and get involved.
- Join our group in the Tent.
- You can support this critical organizing work in California online.
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Governance of RAC-CA
RAC-CA seeks to build our collective power to create the California of our dreams. Our structure includes professional staff, a statewide leadership team, issue research groups, and congregational social justice teams.
Issue Research Teams
The RAC-CA Research Team looks into upcoming campaigns, including legislation on climate change, criminal justice, immigration, health care, housing, and gun violence prevention and more. Comprised of leaders from our congregations across California, this team seeks bills and ballot measures to set our legislative agenda and mobilize congregational social justice teams behind our priority campaigns. The RAC-CA Campaign Team guides the work of the statewide campaign, leading trainings and mobilizing congregations to work with our partners to build and advance our campaigns.