Green Corps organizers worked on behalf of Credo Victory Fund Against Prop 23 and Texas Oil Companies this fall to protect California’s landmark global warming law.

From the very beginning, it was the perfect campaign for Green Corps organizers – a clear battle against powerful corporate interests standing in the way of change.

With Texas oil companies spending millions of dollars to fund Proposition 23, a deceptive ballot initiative that would effectively abolish California’s landmark anti-global warming law, the Credo Victory Fund Against Prop 23 and Texas Oil Companies called on Green Corps organizers to help launch a grassroots campaign to mobilize progressive voters across the state.

After our August classroom training, a team of eleven Green Corps organizers opened No on 23 campaign offices across the state of California. They recruited and trained citizen volunteers, distributed lawn signs and bumper stickers, generated earned media, and organized 120 protests at Valero gas stations (Prop 23’s biggest funder).

Heading into October with an army of 1,500 volunteers, the Green Corps organizers shifted to direct voter contact – organizing house-parties and phone-banks to call progressive voters across the state.

By Election Day, Green Corps organizers and their volunteers had contacted more than 110,000 California voters to vote No on Prop 23. And their work paid off. A tidal wave of voters declared a resounding NO on Prop 23, defeating the ballot measure by 61%.