EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - September 26, 2019

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​EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS  

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CLIMATE STRIKE NEWS WILL BE IN A SEPARATE SPECIAL EDITION


BREAKTHROUGH!

Ireland to Reduce Waste by Cutting out All Single-Use Plastic
https://www.ecowatch.com/ireland-plastics-ban-2640399563.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

How Cape Town Avoided a Water Crisis at the Eleventh Hour
https://www.ecowatch.com/water-crisis-cape-town-2640060687.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2
Conservation!



7 Amazon Rainforest Countries Sign Pact to Come Together in Response to Wildfires
https://www.ecowatch.com/amazon-rainforest-pact-2640269323.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

GMOs, GLYPHOSATE & TOXINS
Does Certified Organic Mean What We Think It Does?
https://www.ecowatch.com/certified-organic-meaning-2640397690.html?rebelltitem=7#rebelltitem7
USDA Certified Organic legally means that it is 95% organic.
There is way too much leeway for toxins to slip under the radar for foods that we think are safe.
To eat food that is really organic buy it from an organic farmer.  Go to the farmers markets or join a CSA if you can.  If that is not an option for you look for other organic certifications such as CCOF and Oregon Tilthe.
Yes, organic foods cost more but it is cheaper than getting sick.  Save money by buying from the bulk bins.

PIPELINES
Water Protectors Are Prepared for Battle. Join Us.
https://truthout.org/articles/water-protectors-are-prepared-for-battle-join-us/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=dad40e05-03ec-497b-bc43-1b0ed0621259

PLASTIC POLLUTION
India Set to Ban 6 Single-Use Plastics on Gandhi's Birthday
https://www.ecowatch.com/india-ban-single-use-plastics-2640207733.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

Plastics in Fossil Record: ‘This Is What Our Generations Will Be Remembered for’
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-fossil-record-2640206447.html

Alarming Level of Plastic in Children's Bodies, German Study Shows
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-in-childrens-bodies-german-study-2640361898.html

GREEN NEW DEAL
Naomi Klein: Greta Thunberg Is a “Prophetic Voice” in Fight for Climate Justice (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/17/naomi_klein_greta_thunberg_youth_activists?utm_source=Democracy+Now!&utm_campaign=b296d9093e-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-b296d9093e-191276697

Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: If We Want a Future, Green New Deal Is Key
https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-and-robert-pollin-if-we-want-a-future-green-new-deal-is-key/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=dad40e05-03ec-497b-bc43-1b0ed0621259
Noam Chomsky is coming to the next Social Justice Week at SSU!

WAKE UP CALL
Greta Thunberg's full speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit (video)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/KAJsdgTPJpU?fbclid=IwAR0-eifqxulkvNRbBa-gShj9PF5HlrX29wyBnjrX5zoKQ4sORR7ReZNQ1ZQ

Scientists’ Advice to People Living in Coastal Areas? Move.
https://truthout.org/articles/scientists-advice-to-people-living-in-coastal-areas-move/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=71335bf4-cce6-4441-8e31-9d83556a88ff

Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', former chief scientist says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-49689018?__twitter_impression=true

Fighting Water Privatization With ‘Blue Communities’
https://www.ecowatch.com/fighting-water-privatization-2640206378.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=ddf339222a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-ddf339222a-86095421

THINK TANK & STRATEGY
Ecofascism: Naomi Klein Warns the Far Right’s Embrace of White Supremacy Is Tied to Climate Crisis (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/17/naomi_klein_eco_fascism?utm_source=Democracy+Now!&utm_campaign=b296d9093e-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-b296d9093e-191276697

Climate Crisis Plan
https://www.ecowatch.com/the-perfect-climate-plan-in-5-bullet-points-2640207432.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
Yes to this plan from Food & Water Watch!

Germany's Ruling Coalition Plans to Spend $44.6 Billion on Climate Protection
https://www.ecowatch.com/germany-climate-action-plan-2640377568.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=90256a8e27-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-90256a8e27-86095421

Surveying Archaeologists Across the Globe Reveals Deeper and More Widespread Roots of the Human Age, the Anthropocene
https://www.ecowatch.com/archaeology-anthropocene-human-history-2640119367.html?rebelltitem=10#rebelltitem10

It’s Time for Universities to Stop Being “Neutral” About the Climate Crisis
https://truthout.org/articles/its-time-for-universities-to-stop-being-neutral-about-the-climate-crisis/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=71335bf4-cce6-4441-8e31-9d83556a88ff

New Climate Crisis Report: Invest $1.8 Trillion Now or Pay Heavier Price Later
https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-crisis-invest-2640306918.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

DIRECT ACTIONS
Kelsey Juliana v. U.S.: Meet the Young Woman Suing the Federal Government over the Climate Crisis
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/20/youth_climate_lawsuit_juliana_v_united?utm_source=Democracy+Now!&utm_campaign=07c271884b-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-07c271884b-191276697

Being Arrested Scares Me, But the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Me to Act
https://truthout.org/articles/being-arrested-scares-me-but-the-climate-crisis-is-pushing-me-to-act/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=cea503c8-3faa-4731-ad8b-b83e698521c9

25K Climate Protestors Disrupt Frankfurt Motor Show
https://www.ecowatch.com/frankfurt-motor-show-climate-protestors-2640381392.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=90256a8e27-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-90256a8e27-86095421

While the Amazon burns, Brazil’s indigenous peoples rise up
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2019/09/while-amazon-burns-brazil-indigenous-peoples-rise-up/

Attacks on Greta Thunberg Are About More Than Anti-Environmentalism
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/09/15/attacks-greta-thunberg-right-wing-free-market-network?fbclid=IwAR3KUd-HJv8_14_V3PNwG5tpExSqp5VcqLM7k7HFlts7VIdrY6KiGFI877U

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
On Climate and Food, What’s the Lesson We Insist on Missing?
https://truthout.org/articles/on-climate-and-food-whats-the-lesson-we-insist-on-missing/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=dad40e05-03ec-497b-bc43-1b0ed0621259
"For me, choosing a plant-and-planet-centered diet became an act of rebel reason. I’d reframed the hunger crisis: Its root is not scarcity of food but scarcity of democracy. And I wanted my daily choices to reject the illogic of our anti-democracy system." Frances Moore Lappe

ENDING ON A POSITIVE
Seaweed Farming Could Help Battle Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/seaweed-farming-climate-change-2640260162.html

Take Action - Get Involved!

Saturday, September 28 (the last Saturday every month)
Community Seed Exchange
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 500 Robinson Rd., Sebastopol
9-10:30 Optional Work Party
11-12 Free Workshop on Dry Seed Processing
9-12:30 Seed Library
For more info: communityseedexchange@gmail.com

Wednesday, October 2 (every first Wednesday) No Dogs
Sonoma County Permaculture Guild Monthly Potluck
Family Friendly & Fun. Swap
seeds/plants, & explore the PSC
Permaculture Skills Center, 2185 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol 95472
For more info contact: permacultureskillscenter.org or 707-824-0836


Monday, October 7, 7-9 PM
Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (SoCoCAN!)
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa 95401
This meeting will be discussing and planning a summit for 2020 to bring together and expand the network

Time will be allocated for all groups to make reports and request help with their campaigns

Facilitator for this meeting: Woody
Notetaker: Jenny

For more info: SonomaC...@gmail.com or to the SoCoCAN listserv (preferred)


Wednesday October 16, 7 - 9 PM (Every 3rd Wednesday)
350 Sonoma monthly organizing meeting
Peace and Justice Center - 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa

Saturday, October 19, 3-5 PM (third Saturday every month)
Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock meeting
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
For more info: www.sonomasolidarity.org and www.facebook.com/SonomaNoDAPL/


Monday, October 21, 7-9 PM (Every 3rd Monday)
Occupy Sonoma County Earth Action Campaign Meeting
OSC will be discussing our Earth Action campaigns and event plans for next year.  Bring your ideas and proposals to this meeting.
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
For more information go to http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650 (website contact preferred)


Volunteer

• Make phone calls from home for 1 hour every other month as follow up to our press releases. 

   No skill needed other than a pleasant phone demeanor.

   Even once would be helpful.

• Please post flyers for our September teach-in at the bulletin boards where you already shop. 

   Download event flyers from our website or pick them up at the Peace & Justice Center Monday-Friday 1-4 PM. 

   Let us know what bulletin boards you can cover.  Thank you.
• Experienced builder to help us build raised bed garden boxes. 
• Help delivering them if you have a truck.

• Help editing our teach-in videos.

• We need an email list of bars and restaurants in Sonoma County.

Call To Action! 
We urge all groups including schools, neighborhood associations, organizations, clubs and groups of any kind to adopt a Climate Declaration.  Adopt ours or write your own.  Share your Climate Declaration with local governments, the media, write articles, and share information. 
Occupy Sonoma County Climate Declaration

Occupy Sonoma County, along with concerned, forward thinking people all over the world, declares that climate change has reached catastrophic proportions as evidenced by the current level of CO2 in the atmosphere, the melting of polar ice caps, and the continual rising of global temperatures.  This is a global emergency, and we must act immediately.​  We invite all forces of life to join together for our survival.  We stand up for life.

We recognize that the root of climate change is a capitalist system run by money greedy corporations and the governments that they control.  We actively oppose greenhouse gas producers, nuclear power investors, and fossil fuel companies by boycotting their products, developing alternatives, divesting from corporations that endorse them and insisting that governments at all levels take action.  We call on all governments and corporations to adopt life-sustaining practices immediately.

The people must act now to stop this destruction from continuing and reverse the damage this has caused​.  The future is in our hands.  We are the 99%!

What Earth Actions are you taking?


707-877-6650
http://OccupySonomaCounty.org
http://OccupySonomaCounty.org/es ​ (en español)
http://www.facebook.com/OccupySonomaCounty
https://twitter.com/OcSoCo
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmJoCP-ePUTPWNgHZwtBelg


Occupy Sonoma County embraces the egalitarian, deep democracy principles of the Occupy Movement with a regional strategy for effectively organizing countywide social justice campaigns that are globally relevant

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