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<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">In early
November I traveled to San Bernardino, CA to
celebrate the victory in our campaign to end the
bottling of water from springs in a National
Forest that straddles the mountains between the
hard-scrabble Inland Empire city on one side and
the Mojave Desert on the other. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">I’ve been
making the voyage for eight years now – for
court hearings, meetings with Forest Service
officials, hikes down to the springs and tours
with journalists and donors – but this visit was
different; under a canopy of pines and cedars
five thousand feet above the city below,
mountain residents ebullient with pride in their
accomplishment plotted the restoration of
Strawberry Creek, which Nestle, BlueTriton and
their predecessors have systematically dewatered
since the early 1930s. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">In a time of
accelerating climate change impacts, massive
threats to democracy and growing wealth
inequality, one could see the restoration of a
mountain stream to its natural state as an
infinitesimally small intervention. But these
citizens’ David and Goliath defense of the
commons – water and land that belong to all of
us – is anything but. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">In the sixteen
years since </SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">The Story of
Stuff</SPAN></EM><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">
first took the world by storm, our team has
supported and encouraged just the kind of
inspiring civic action that led California’s
Water Board to order BlueTriton to cease the
removal of water from the San Bernardino
National Forest in September.</SPAN></P>
<P><A
href="https://action.storyofstuff.org/donate/make-end-year-gift-today/?t=62&akid=423482%2E1827115%2ElTpv27"
rel=noopener target=_blank><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">If our work inspires
you, we invite you to join us once again. Your
support powers all that we
do.</SPAN></EM></A></P><IMG alt=""
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">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.’</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">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.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">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. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">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.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">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. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">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. </SPAN></P>
<P><EM><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">Burning
Injustice</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">, 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! </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">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. </SPAN></P>
<P><A
href="https://action.storyofstuff.org/donate/make-end-year-gift-today/?t=67&akid=423482%2E1827115%2ElTpv27"><STRONG>So
I’d like to invite you to join us once again in
this w</STRONG></A><STRONG><A
href="https://action.storyofstuff.org/donate/make-end-year-gift-today/?t=68&akid=423482%2E1827115%2ElTpv27">ork</A>.</STRONG><STRONG>
Your financial support makes everything we do
possible and for that we are grateful.</STRONG>
<A
href="https://action.storyofstuff.org/donate/make-end-year-gift-today/?t=69&akid=423482%2E1827115%2ElTpv27"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">Make your year end gift
today online</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">, 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 smruti@storyofstuff.org. You can also
reply to this email to reach me
directly.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">Thank you for
everything you do to make this world a better
place. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">All the
best,</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
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