EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - August 29, 2019
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EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS
Welcome
to the people who have joined recently. This is a simple weekly
newsletter. Your participation is encouraged. Please share information
and actions about climate change, climate justice, GMOs, toxic
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OSC is on summer break. There
will be no OSC meetings or events in
August.
We will continue the weekly
newsletter.
Check out
the new OSC video on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
https://youtu.be/QAN4xg8-rrg
Where Your Recycled Plastic Ends Up (video)
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/08/how-plastics-contribute-to-climate-change/?utm_campaign=CarbonBriefDailyBriefing
https://www.mlive.com/weather/2019/08/researchers-find-plastic-in-raindrops.html
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
"We should be focused on dealing with the environmental crisis while we still have time to do so, says Noam Chomsky."
https://www.sonomanews.com/business/9848936-181/new-app-shows-where-in?sba=AAS
Check out the new OSC video on Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle (video)
https://youtu.be/QAN4xg8-rrg
Saturday, August 31 (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 Garden Round Table and Summer Harvest Potluck
9-12:30 Seed Library
For more info: communityseedexchange@gmail.com
Tuesday,
September 3, 4pm
Santa Rosa City Council
Climate Subcommittee Meeting
The subcommittee
has agreed to pursue an Electric Reach Code (formerly called All Electric Ready Ordinance), study Zero
Waste and a possible Evergreen opt-up for city water
accounts.
Fill the
room to let the council know how important this new
subcommittee is.
Council Chamber, 50 Santa Rosa Ave., Santa Rosa
For more info: 350 Sonoma · www.350Sonoma.org
Wednesday, September 4 (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, California 95472
For more info contact: permacultureskillscenter.org or 707-824-0836
Monday, September 16, 7-9 PM (There is NO Earth Action meeting in August)
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)
Friday, September 20 noon
Millions of school strikers have shown us they’re serious about climate action. Adults, will you join our youth?
https://globalclimatestrike.net/
Saturday, September 21, 8:30–11:30 AM
Russian Riverkeeper clean up
Ukiah to Monte Rio on the same day as the California Coastal Cleanup
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/32nd-annual-russian-river-watershed-cleanup-tickets-68532862637?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=1ad8876823&mc_eid=f2dea150de
UNITED STATES OF DISTRACTION
MEDIA MANIPULATION IN POST-TRUTH AMERICA
(AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT)
Peace and Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
For more info: http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650 (website contact preferred)
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)
Volunteer
• 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.
• Make phone calls
from home for 1-2 hours every other month.
No skill needed other
than a pleasant phone demeanor.
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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