Pledge to receive voting instructions from your state, key dates, local priorities, actions to take and assets to help change the sea from Red to Blue.
Because protecting our oceans starts with the pledge.
Started in 2018, we hold the core belief that politicians from coastal congressional districts must believe in climate change, oppose offshore drilling, and be ready to fight like hell to protect our oceans and beaches.
"We can't have Congressional members building seawalls to protect their coastal home and then deny climate change. That's hypocrisy at its best"
- Rob "Birdlegs" Caughlan, former Surfrider President and Blue Uprising Chairman.
Photo: Don Montgomery
The oil industry spent $19,998,012,349 on lobbying in the past 10 years.
The U.S Chamber of Commerce spent $90,000,000 to argue against climate change in 2014 alone.
Americans use 29 million water bottles water every year - only 13% of these bottles are recycled.
232 out of the 435 Congressional Members do not believe in climate change. We are focusing on the most hypocritical climate change deniers, the politicians who represent coastal congressional districts. Especially those who have sea walls protecting their beach homes from climate change.
There are more pieces of micro-plastic in the ocean right now than there are stars in the milky way. The plastic lobby is hard at work keeping the status quo, we are hard at work to eliminate single use plastic entirely.
The oil spill in 2010 by BP’s Deepwater Horizon led to over 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. Fish, bird and marine mammals were depleted, jobs were lost, coastal economies were shut down. It is not worth the risk.
Using wind, solar, tides and other green energy sources will increase the lifespan of all of earth's inhabitants. Yes, it might put a dent in oil companies profits, but they didn't seem to care when they killed the Gulf of Mexico’s fishing industry.
Global fisheries are on the verge of collapse. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), three quarters of the world’s fisheries are now overexploited, fully exploited, significantly depleted or recovering from overexploitation. With further deregulation, we will only be left with Chicken or Beef for dinner.
Opening up Marine Protected Areas will benefit a few politicians and billionaires, but it could mean extinction for our under the sea friends. When our oceans are healthy, we are healthy.
In 2018, Blue Uprising provided its proof of concept by helping flip four coastal congressional districts. We worked with local leaders in each congressional district and developed a message that we knew voters in that community would be receptive to. We are extremely thoughtful and diligent with the way we talk to voters and it showed in November of 2018.
