EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - April 11, 2019

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Apr 11, 2019, 7:09:07 AM4/11/19
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EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS  

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BREAKTHROUGH!
Early Forecasts Suggest ‘Quiet’ 2019 Hurricane Season

BAYER/MONSANTO
Bayer and Monsanto Defend Themselves With Science They Funded

PIPELINES
More States Crack Down on Pipeline Protesters, Including Supporters Who Aren’t Even on the Scene

POLLUTION
Top 10 Single-Use Plastics Clogging European Rivers

GREEN NEW DEAL
Union Locals Build Support for the Green New Deal’s “Just Transition”

WAKE UP CALL
Global Warming Is Pushing Arctic Toward ‘Unprecedented State,’ Research Shows

Melting Glaciers Causing 25 to 30% of Sea Level Rise

Researchers Warn Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability

NAACP Shows How Fossil Fuel Industry Manipulates Communities of Color

The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming: Here Are Five Lessons We Must Learn

Why the Guardian is putting global CO2 levels in the weather forecast

Ruby Mountains: A Push to Drill, a Failure to Consult Native Peoples
https://www.ecowatch.com/ruby-mountains-a-push-to-drill-a-failure-to-consult-native-peoples-2633604606.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

CO2 Levels Are Now at a 3 Million-Year High


‘Dead Corals Don’t Make Babies’: New Great Barrier Reef Coral Growth Declined 89% After Back-to-Back Bleaching Events

THINK TANK & STRATEGY

US Capitalism Was Born in the Destruction of the Commons


Children Are Demanding Dramatic Climate Action. Listen to Them.

Visionary Study Shows How 30% of World's Oceans Could Be Made Sanctuaries by 2030

'Defend the Living Planet': Bold Campaign Says Healing the Earth Can Fight Climate Breakdown


DIRECT ACTIONS

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
WATCH: You've Been Challenged! #Vegan4TenDays
https://www.ecowatch.com/vegan-challenge-2633789105.html

The climate solution right beneath our feet

This Urban Farm Grows Strawberries in Shipping Containers in Central Paris

ENDING ON A POSITIVE
Supermarkets in Thailand and Vietnam Swap Plastic Packaging for Banana Leaves
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-waste-banana-leaf-2634135600.html

Take Action - Get Involved!

Monday, April 15, 7-9 PM
Occupy Sonoma County Earth Action Campaign Meeting
We will be discussing our plans for Plastic Free July - and other stuff.
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
For more information go to http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650


Wednesday, ​April 17, 7pm
350 Sonoma Meeting
For more info go to Facebook: 350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sonomacounty@gmail.com


Wednesday, April 24, 4:30-7:15
Climate Action Night at the JC
Santa Rosa Junior College, Bertolini Student Center, Santa Rosa
The SRJC Eco Leaders Club, with 350 Sonoma, local elected officials, and 350 Bay Area’s Youth vs Apocalypse program, a student-led climate activist group – they’re the ones that met with Senator Feinstein about the Green New Deal.
For more info, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/389695018253839/


City of Santa Rosa 10th Annual Earth Day OnStage Celebration
Saturday, April 27, Noon - 4:00
Courthouse Square - Santa Rosa
The free, family-friendly event draws over 4500 attendees.  Food, live performances, earth-friendly products, eco-friendly crafts and activities for kids.


Monday, April 29, 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: Emerald
Notetaker: Jory

Volunteer

• OSC is putting on teach-ins on May 6 (plant-based eating for climate change), and July 22 (zero waste).  Please adopt the bulletin boards where you already shop.  Download flyers from our website or pick them up at the Peace & Justice Center Monday-Friday 1-4 PM.  Please let us know what bulletin boards you can cover.  Thank 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
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http://www.facebook.com/OccupySonomaCounty

https://twitter.com/OcSoCo

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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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