Tom DeWeese, CFACT’s new National Grassroots Coordinator, has been busy connecting with activist leaders from across the nation. His goal is to help local citizens learn the history and backgrounds, processes, and goals of government policies and environmental regulations, particularly those attached to climate change now being imposed through local and state governments. In addition, Tom is teaching citizens and showing them how to organize effectively in their own communities to defend their rights. He has created a term for it…“Building Freedom Pods.”
Tom DeWeese meets with farmer Jared Bossly and his wife in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he discusses the need to organize “Freedom Pods”.
In June, Tom traveled to Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, speaking to six independent local activist groups, totalling over 400 total in attendance. In addition, he was interviewed on five local radio programs to discuss the policies and call out to local citizens to get involved. Tom also appeared on national programs, including VCY America with Jim Schneider, and with Brannon Howse on the new Lindell Free Speech Network.
In Billings, Montana, Tom met with two members of the city council who confirmed that more than 100 Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) operate behind the scenes to pressure local officials to support and impose their climate change policies, just as Tom has revealed to his audiences. In South Dakota, Tom met with State Senator Julie Frye-Muller, who pledged to work with Tom to promote property rights protection legislation.
In July, Tom began to organize a plan to provide local activists a direct line of communication to answer questions and help in organizing as they work to build a permanent infrastructure for instant response to government action. The communication plan will include a monthly conference call and a regular online newsletter called the Freedom Pod Insiders Report. In addition, Tom is working on plans to connect CFACT with the efforts of Patrick Wood and his Coalition for Free Speech. Wood’s organization provides intensive organization training for local activists. As Tom connects with new volunteers and Freedom Pod leaders, Patrick will supply the training necessary to make CFACT Freedom Pods the most effective and impactful freedom-oriented grassroots operation they can be. This is a powerful alliance.
Talking with local activists after his call to organize during a recent trip to the Dakotas.
Actions in July proved the Freedom Pod efforts are beginning to have an effect. For the past year, Tom has worked to organize activists to stop the dangerous Carbon Capture pipeline that is planned to run through North and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota. Some of the nation’s most vital farmland is threatened to be taken and shut down by private corporations. In South Dakota, local activists and farmers have worked closely with Tom and have since risen up in united opposition to aggressive intimidation tactics being employed by the corporations attempting to silence opposition. Hundreds of activists converged on the state legislature, demanding they enact property rights legislation to protect them.
The effort of forging CFACT and local activist leadership into a fighting force to combat the radical Green Left is underway. Stay tuned for future updates!