California Coast is Under Attack!

Protect the California Coast From Special Interests!

Here's the scoop, plain and simple without all the jargon –

1. You love our California coast: beauty, economy, a place to play.

2. Under the Coastal Act, the California Coastal Commission's two jobs are to stop bad building ideas from ruining our coast and to make sure nobody interferes with our right to go to the beach.

3. Some people would prefer the coast to belong to only a select few instead of all people. (Greed!)

4. Those people are trying to undo the Coastal Commission by firing the Executive Director, Charles Lester, who works hard to protect our coast and make sure the Commission is doing the best job possible.

5. If this select few wins, we lose our coast.

6. You can help Save Our Coast by doing these things:

Action Alert! - Sign the Petition
Call the Governor's office and tell him to support the Coastal Act by keeping Dr. Lester as Executive Director
Email the Commission at StatusOfExecutiveDirector@coastal.ca.gov and tell them the same thing
Show up at the Coastal Commission meeting in Morro Bay on Wednesday, Feb. 10 and say this to the Commission in person! (There may be a bus traveling to this, stay tuned for more info for how to hop on)

For more information, background, further action, etc., go here.

From Surfrider HQ:
California's coastal protection legacy is under attack. We need your help! A behind-the-scenes effort to terminate Dr. Charles Lester, the California Coastal Commission's Executive Director of the California Coastal Commission has just come to light. All Californians need to join together, stand up for the coast, and defend the Coastal Commission leadership and independent staff.

The attack on Executive Director Lester is an attack on the Coastal Act. This attempted coup d'états is a power grab designed to undermine the integrity of the Coastal Program and put California's long legacy of coastal protection at risk.

Join us in asking Governor Brown to stand up for the Coastal Act and support Executive Director Lester.

Our coast is at stake-help us uphold the integrity of the Coastal Act and maintain world-class protection of coastal access and coastal resources-now and in the future. For more information and to stay up to date, visit ActCoastal.

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