1.0Mothers Out Fronthttps://www.mothersoutfront.orgDanyelle Dosunmuhttps://www.mothersoutfront.org/author/danyelle-dosunmumothersoutfront-org/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="sjGpZXNiHD"><a href="https://www.mothersoutfront.org/take-action/open-letter-to-san-jose-mayor-mahan/">Open Letter to San José Mayor Mahan</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.mothersoutfront.org/take-action/open-letter-to-san-jose-mayor-mahan/embed/#?secret=sjGpZXNiHD" width="600" height="338" title="“Open Letter to San José Mayor Mahan” — Mothers Out Front" data-secret="sjGpZXNiHD" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> Dear San Jose Mayor Mahan,  Congratulations on your inauguration! I appreciate your promise to deliver results—like your dad delivered the mail. In your back-to-basics speech, you urged focus on three priorities: homelessness, blight, and crime. While these issues rightly deserve attention, I was struck by a troubling omission. You never mentioned climate. Yet over the past decade, San José has endured climate impacts that directly harmed residents’ health, safety and economic security.  The 2017 Coyote Creek flood forced 14,000 residents to evacuate, causing $100,000,000 in damages. Dangerous air quality from the 2018 Camp Fire made it unsafe to venture outside for days on end. The 2020 SCU fire turned the sky eerily orange and forced evacuations from our foothills. In ...https://www.mothersoutfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/mof-logo-square.png24002556