EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - February 7, 2019
Emerald
EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS
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https://www.ecowatch.com/johnsons-baby-powder-asbestos-2623643052.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=858b8d4629-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-858b8d4629-86095421
https://www.fastcompany.com/90288934/how-soon-will-climate-change-force-you-to-move
Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’
https://truthout.org/articles/the-biggest-issues-for-wildlife-and-endangered-species-in-2019/
https://www.ecowatch.com/environmental-journalism-dangers-2625358139.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=ad8319fb63-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-ad8319fb63-86095421
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/01/mangroves-help-protect-us-from-climate-impacts/
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
Here’s What a Green New Deal Looks Like in Practice
35,000 Protestors in Berlin Call for Agricultural Revolution
Belgium climate protests: Children skip school to demonstrate
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47070853
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/22/chase_iron_eyes_trumps_mocking_of?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=28dee77517-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-28dee77517-191276697
https://truthout.org/articles/why-germany-leads-in-renewables-it-has-its-own-green-bank/
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/opinion/9250139-181/leonard-and-bourque-berkeley-declares?bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiZGY4NDcwY2ItYzQ4NC00MzYxLTk3MDUtNGUyYTIxYmFmOGQyIn0%3D&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_term=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&utm_source=boomtrain&bt_ee=aForAyh0pjrG9yMn5eUadD8%2FctcgvfDPeB30BL2%2F39Fs5yJsGYsCrS8sxj6MU%2F5J&bt_ts=1549466231594&utm_campaign=pd_daily
Saturday, February 9, 1:30 - 4:30 PM
Sonoma Solidarity With Standing Rock meeting
Peace and Justice Center - 467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa
1:30 to 3:00 PM - Public Banking meeting
3:00 to 4:30 PM - Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock admin/divestment meeting
For more info, visit: www.sonomasolidarity.org
Sunday, February 10, from 10 am
- 1:30 pm (every second Sunday)
Acorn Bites Launch at Sonoma County Farmers Markets
Sebastopol Farmers
Market
CIMCC Tribal Youth
Ambassadors will be selling their acorn bites in Sonoma County Farmers Markets
For details see: https://www.facebook.com/events/243193549947638/
For more information: https://madelocalmagazine.com/2018/11/acorn-awareness/
and https://www.gofundme.com/acornbar
Tuesday, February 12, 7:00 pm
Anne Jacopetti and Philip Beard discuss the Green New Deal and a Public Bank in
Sonoma County
KOWS Radio 92.5
Philip, professor emeritus at SSU, co-designed and coordinated the Global
Studies BA., is an advocate for public banking and a member of the Alliance for
a Just Recovery.
Studio phone to call in with questions: 707-755-9250
Wednesday, February 13, 6-9 PM Free
Can We Reverse Global Warming?
The Bank Hub (Old Seed Bank location) 199 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma
For more info contact: SonomaCountyPachamama@gmail.com
Monday, February 18, 7-9 PM
Occupy Sonoma County Earth Action Campaign Meeting
Peace &
Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
For more
information go to http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or
call 707-877-6650
Wednesday, February 20, 7pm
350 Sonoma Meeting
For more info go to
Facebook: 350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sonomacounty@gmail.com
Friday,
February 22, 11am-7pm, FREE
Rebuild
Green Expo
Showcase for building affordable, sustainable and resilient communities
Santa Rosa Veteran’s Memorial Building
For more info: http://rebuildgreenexpo.com/
Saturday, February 23, 10 AM – 1
PM
Sonoma County B-Rad Beach Clean Up
2019: Goat Rock
Goat
Rock Beach, Sonoma Coast State Park, Jenner 95401
A day of community, stewardship and fun. Kids games, art projects,
informational presentations, mobile exhibits, and raffle prizes.
For
more info contact in...@b-radfoundation.org or
call (707) 321-8990
Saturday, February 23 (the last Saturday every
month)
Community
Seed Exchange
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 500 Robinson Rd., Sebastopol
For more info: communityseedexchange@gmail.com
9-10:30 Optional Work Party
11-12 Free Workshop: Intro To Seed Saving
9-12:30 Seed Library
February 25-March 1
Sonoma State University: Social Justice Week
Student Center Ballroom A
For program see: https://web.sonoma.edu/sociology/PDFs/Sonoma%20State%20University%20SJ%20Week%202019.pdf
Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (SoCoCAN!)
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa 95401
Please submit campaign proposals in writing: SonomaC...@gmail.com or to the SoCoCAN listserv (preferred)
Facilitator for this meeting: Emerald
Notetaker: Jory Adamson
Volunteer Opportunities
• We are updating our May Meat Challenge campaign and would like to include the best thinking of everyone. Please share your ideas and suggestions. To view last year's flyer go to http://occupysonomacounty.org/maymeatchallenge. Be sure to look at both sides of the flyer. We will be discussing this at our next Earth Action campaign meeting on February 18, 7 PM at the Peace & Justice Center.
• OSC puts on six events
every year. Can you agree to post our event flyers to the bulletin boards
where you already shop? Please let us know what bulletin boards you can
cover. Flyers can always be downloaded from our website or we can get
them to you.
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.