EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - February 28, 2019
Emerald
EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS
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https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-hearings-congress-2628254656.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=17b706f51d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-17b706f51d-86095421
https://www.ecowatch.com/glyphosate-cancer-2628948966.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=93ef8e2f56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-93ef8e2f56-86095421
"Mining waste and sludge engulfed the town of Brumadinho, Brazil with over a hundred people confirmed dead and more than 200 missing."
https://www.ecowatch.com/coal-plants-closing-economics-trump-2629047562.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=65e64be6b2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-65e64be6b2-86095421
North Dakota Seeks to Restrict Access to Public Records After Standing Rock Reporting Exposed Law Enforcement Abuses
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/30/enbridge-line-3-pipeline-minnesota/
https://www.ecowatch.com/pipelines-oil-leak-missouri-2628360262.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e47d8afff1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e47d8afff1-86095421
How We’re Collaborating to Eliminate Plastic in Washington DC
https://www.ecowatch.com/how-were-collaborating-to-eliminate-plastic-in-washington-dc-2629422429.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=a7180a804c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-a7180a804c-86095421
https://www.ecowatch.com/ocasio-cortez-trump-green-new-deal-2628745810.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=9922c1e857-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-9922c1e857-86095421
https://www.ecowatch.com/nasa-2018-hottest-on-record-2628183961.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=17b706f51d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-17b706f51d-86095421
https://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-rain-methane-2629292227.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=b1b3add306-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-b1b3add306-86095421
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
"Sea Shepherd is 100 percent committed to continuing retrieval operations of illegal ghost nets and active illegal gillnets to protect the vaquita marina from extinction at the hands of poachers and criminal gangs," Locky Maclean, Sea Shepherd's director of ship operations and campaigns, said in the release. "We look forward to working closely with the new government and are grateful in playing a part in the protection and preservation of such a special region of the world, and such an iconic species, the vaquita marina."
https://www.livinginperu.com/making-a-stand-for-water-rights-in-the-sacred-valley-of-peru/
https://www.ecowatch.com/greenpeace-ships-plastic-pollution-2628640357.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=5db0be179a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-5db0be179a-86095421
https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/full-tilt/Content?oid=8289819
https://www.ecowatch.com/bike-friendly-cities-design-2628379356.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=bde79200dc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-bde79200dc-86095421
Clothesline comeback: Clean, green and free as the breeze
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/clothesline-comeback-clean-green-and-free-as-the-breeze-1.1401788?fbclid=IwAR24Abfdfq-jYCc7b6MlMdtGHzNEyudGNag1HZhKOIKki5Tebm-j3IQX3_E
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 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, March 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, March 20, 7pm
350 Sonoma Meeting
For more info go to
Facebook: 350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sonomacounty@gmail.com
Saturday, March 30 (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
9-12:30 Seed Library
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.