EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - January 5, 2019 - Happy New Year From OSC!

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​EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS   

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM OCCUPY SONOMA COUNTY! 
MAY 2019 BE THE YEAR THAT ALL OF HUMANITY WAKES UP TO THE URGENCY OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND JOINS TOGETHER TO LOVE AND HEAL OUR PRECIOUS MOTHER EARTH.

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BREAKTHROUGH!
Climate Heroes and Villains of 2018
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2018/12/20/climate-heroes-and-villains-2018

9 Renewable Energy Highlights of 2018
https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy-highlights2018-2624509287.html?utm_campaign=RebelMouse&socialux=facebook&share_id=4280563&utm_medium=social&utm_content=EcoWatch&utm_source=facebook

Climate and energy news in 2018 actually wasn’t all bad
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/28/18136795/climate-change-2018-100-percent-renewable-energy-green-new-deal

NBC’s Meet the Press Devotes Entire Show to Climate Change With No Time for Deniers
https://www.ecowatch.com/meet-the-press-climate-change-2624807867.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=c669446345-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-c669446345-86095421

GMOs & GLYPHOSATE
Is Roundup Safe For Dogs?
https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/is-roundup-safe-for-dogs/
I researched all of the health food brand pet foods sold at Whole Foods for our shopper's guide and found GMOs in all but two of them, and one of those two (Organix) is owned by Nestle. The only commercial pet food I found that I recommend so far is Newman's Own Organic. There are some small companies making clean pet foods, including some made locally, that I have not had time to research further. Here is a link to our shopper's guide: http://OccupySonomaCounty.org.

OIL & GAS
Louisiana Offers Fossil Fuel Exporter Largest Local Tax Giveaway in History
https://truthout.org/articles/louisiana-offers-fossil-fuel-exporter-largest-local-tax-giveaway-in-history/

PLASTIC POLLUTION
2018: A Year of Fighting Plastic Waste
https://www.ecowatch.com/2018-fighting-plastic-waste-2624606566.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=c669446345-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-c669446345-86095421

You Can't Just "Clean Up" the Plastic in the Ocean. Here's Why.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/you-cant-just-clean-up-the-plastic-in-the-ocean?verso=true

Plastic Straws Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-straws-oceans-greenpeace-2624495298.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=bc70dd2a5d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-bc70dd2a5d-86095421

Could a Seaweed-Eating Microbe Help Solve the Ocean Plastic Crisis?
https://www.ecowatch.com/seaweed-eating-microbe-plastic-pollution-2624454540.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=5d47a54c25-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-5d47a54c25-86095421

WAKE UP CALL

This Is Not a Dress Rehearsal: Climate Can No Longer Wait






The Continued Clearing of Rainforests Spells Disaster for Curbing Climate Change
https://psmag.com/environment/continued-loss-of-rainforests-will-lead-to-climate-doom

Feeling Blue About Climate Change? You’re Not Alone
https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-grief-2624799890.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=1f27cee512-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-1f27cee512-86095421

THINK TANK & STRATEGY
A Carbon Tax Wave? 7 States Considering Carbon Pricing to Fight Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28112018/state-carbon-pricing-tax-fee-climate-change-washington-oregon-new-jersey-virginia-hawaii-massachusetts-new-york?mc_cid=d98153fda0&mc_eid=d8ad08450e&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Questioning the Logic of Capital: A Conversation With Richard D. Wolff
https://truthout.org/articles/questioning-the-logic-of-capital-a-conversation-with-richard-d-wolff/

DIRECT ACTIONS
Indigenous Group Sues Exxon, Energy Majors Over Fracking Waste Contamination in Patagonia
https://www.ecowatch.com/argentina-fracking-indigenous-lawsuit-2623742584.html?xrs=RebelMouse_fb&ts=1545156326

The Optimistic Activists for a Green New Deal: Inside the Youth-Led Singing Sunrise Movement
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-optimistic-activists-for-a-green-new-deal-inside-the-youth-led-singing-sunrise-movement

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
How 'Agricultural Intelligence' Is Using Tech to Fight Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/agricultural-intelligence-terramera-2624424595.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=5d47a54c25-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-5d47a54c25-86095421

‘There Will Be an Increase in Deforestation’: Brazil’s New President Signs Order Endangering Amazon and Indigenous Rights
https://www.ecowatch.com/jair-bolsonaro-deforestation-amazon-indigenous-2625049379.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=61558048c4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-61558048c4-86095421

Carpool decals set to expire for hundreds of thousands of California drivers with clean-air vehicles
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9089030-181/carpool-decals-set-to-expire?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_daily&bt_ee=GvHkqoeXII1Z/wuCcIT9uz/9jqlRh1Ov+6ml6+kB5nRJs1lyjqRM5TDcawTJJM43&bt_ts=1545925802449&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_term=ZW1lcmFsZEBvY2N1cHlzb25vbWFjb3VudHkub3Jn%0A&utm_content&bt_ee=0bZS9HGEAmHcz3FmHd%2F18fZjRJVqglokQD1sbmwoDv9DMokZMhP02Ci5onATaw%2BC&bt_ts=1545925802376

ENDING ON A POSITIVE
This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work
https://truthout.org/articles/this-radical-plan-to-fund-the-green-new-deal-just-might-work/?utm_source=sharebuttons&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=mashshare&fbclid=IwAR3Izki9ODK_owm_VYiuvY0Yn_YyN2H20bkJ601plEqb5bul6udDwmLNDmQ

Take Action - Get Involved!

Sunday, January 6
Forest Unlimited 22nd Annual Redwood Tree Planting
Lunch and all necessary equipment will be provided
RSVP to receive more details
Wildwood Conservation Foundation

Saturday, January 12, 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


Monday, January 14
Our event that we planned for this date has been canceled


Wednesday, January 16, 7pm
350 Sonoma Meeting
For more info go to Facebook: 350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sonomacounty@gmail.com

Monday, January 21, 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


Saturday, January 26 (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
12-1 Free Workshop
9-12 Seed Library

Monday, February 4, 7-9 PM
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: Anne Jacopetti
Notetaker: Jory Adamson

 

Volunteer Opportunities

• 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.
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