Life on Richthofen: June 2024

Sunday, June 30, 2024

MIDNIGHT DEADLINE: fuel the fight against Dove’s dirty lies

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A group of activists protesting in front of a sculpture of a faucet with plastic flowing out of it | 83% to goal | MIDNIGHT DEADLINE: DON'T LET DOVE DROWN US OUT [DONATE NOW]

Kathleen — did you see the news?

We've been vocal about how throwaway plastics like Dove's sachets were clogging communities in the Global South and poisoning people and the planet.

We've been loud about how major corporations like Dove's parent company, Unilever, would stop at nothing in pursuit of profit.

We've been clear that to win a strong Global Plastics Treaty, we have to stop asking corporations to do the right thing and take collective action to make them.

And we know that our people-powered campaigning to end the plastics crisis rides on whether we reach major fundraising deadlines like the one at 11:59 p.m. TONIGHT.

But right now, we're still 17% short of our $30,000 June goal. And when we checked your June Supporter Record, this is what we saw — does this look right to you?

GREENPEACE USA: JUNE GRASSROOTS CONTRIBUTION RECORD

GREENPEACER: Kathleen
GRASSROOTS CONTRIBUTION: PENDING
DEADLINE: 11:‌59 P.M. TONIGHT

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Please, Kathleen — your grassroots support will make or break our ability to overcome industrial interests and win a Global Plastics Treaty that can transform our single-use economy from the ground up. Rush $10 or more to fuel the fight for our planet's future by 11:59 p.m. tonight.

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We hope we can count on you.

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Thursday, June 27, 2024

Dove’s determined to keep poisoning us with plastics >>

Activists hold messages for the delegates as they arrive for the INC4 negotiations. |

Greenpeacer, we CANNOT end the plastics crisis threatening our planet without a strong, legally binding U.N. Global Plastics Treaty. But right now, negotiations are at a STANDSTILL due to pressure from plastic-loving lobbyists in cahoots with big corporate polluters.

There's still time to turn the tides — but we need your help before June 30 to keep the pressure on Dove to live up to their proclaimed "waste-free" ambitions, empower those who've been impacted the worst by their pollution, and finally end the age of plastics. Will you please chip in toward our $30,000 goal to help fight causes like Dove's plastic pollution and win the Global Plastics Treaty our planet urgently needs?

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Thanks to your help, we took our people-powered movement to Ottawa for the fourth session of treaty talks. With protests, brochures, and banners, we made sure world leaders got the message — that plastic emits deadly toxins at every stage of its life cycle, and total production must be cut by at least 75% by 2040 to keep global temperatures below 1.5° C — loud and clear.

But after nearly 200 lobbyists descended on the talks, delegates again failed to ban the plastics poisoning our bodies, destroying natural habitats, and fueling the climate crisis.

And if industry giants like Dove's parent company, Unilever, get their way, plastic production is projected to triple by 2050!

Now, the clock is ticking. This was the fourth out of five treaty meetings, so world leaders must nail down a plan to end the plastics crisis come the final session this November.

For the sake of our collective future, we can't let this once-in-a-generation opportunity go to waste. But without your support ahead of our June monthly deadline at midnight this Sunday, Big Plastic Polluters could drown us out once more.

Our voices won't be heard over Dove's army of lobbyists if we miss big grassroots fundraising goals like this — so please, rush $10 or more now to help us continue the fight for the future of people and the planet over corporate profits.

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Thanks for taking action with us,

Greenpeace USA

Big Oil is suing Greenpeace USA. We need your help to fight back and keep this movement alive — for people, and for our planet.

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Monday, June 24, 2024

Dove’s ‘Real Beauty’ is really toxic

Dove Plastic Waste at Semarang Landfill in Indonesia | © Tri Wahyu Susanto / Greenpeace

Greenpeacer — the C-suite execs at Dove want us to think they care about women.

They want us to believe their soaps will empower buyers to feel beautiful in their own skin.

They want us to perceive Dove as a force for good in the world.

But we aren't so easily fooled.

With the billions of single-use plastic wrappers, sachets, and bottles they pump into the global market each year, all for the waste to end up poisoning the planet, we don't just think they're one of the world's biggest polluters — we know it.

Until Dove stops relying on plastics for profit, we've got to make them pay for the havoc their products are wreaking on our planet and people. But with under a week until our $30,000 June fundraising deadline, we can't win against a brand this big without a surge of support — so please, will you rush $10 or anything you can to help us close the gap on our goals like getting Dove to turn off the toxic plastics tap?

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We'll come clean: Dove isn't the lone culprit of the plastics crisis. But they are one of the most profitable brands owned by Unilever — 2023's THIRD biggest corporate plastic polluter worldwide.

Despite their pledge to use "less plastic, better plastic or no plastic," starting with sachets in 2010, they made 475 BILLION more over the next decade.

Each year, over 1 in 10 of them bore the Dove logo — while more ended up clogging flood drains, or leaching toxins into the air of nearby at-risk neighborhoods when burnt upon disposal in the Global South.

If anything, their public image as champions against toxic beauty standards is little more than a cynical ploy to generate profits — all while the world's most vulnerable women and girls suffer the consequences. Worst of all, they don't care enough to stop.

So if Dove won't turn off the plastics tap, it's on Greenpeace USA to do it for them. We've been campaigning for Dove and Unilever to ditch the sachets for years — but to take it to the next level, we can't afford to fall short of our $30,000 June goal.

Please Greenpeacer, will you help us stop companies like Dove's toxic pollution and continue the fight for environmental protections like the Global Plastics Treaty our planet needs with your urgent donation of $10, $20, or more before midnight on June 30?

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Thanks for taking action with us,

Greenpeace USA