BREAKTHROUGH!
Government orders Tesoro Pipeline to shut down, pay landowners millions
'24 Hours. 3 Dirty Pipelines Delayed': Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to Greenlight Keystone XL Construction
BAYER/MONSANTO
Roundup Cancer Settlement Hits Snag Over Future Plaintiffs' Rights
Bayer-Monsanto
Chalks Up Court Victory that Takes Cancer Warning Off
Roundup™-Glyphosate in California, Makes Case for Fundamental Overhaul
of Pesticide Law
GMOs, GLYPHOSATE & TOXINS
Mexico Announces Phase-Out and Ban on Glyphosate Herbicides
FOSSIL FUELS
World's largest oil firm agrees to carbon cuts to tackle climate crisis
Fracking Firms Fail, Rewarding Executives and Raising Climate Fears
"Oil and gas companies are hurtling toward bankruptcy, raising fears that
wells will be left leaking planet-warming pollutants, with cleanup
costs left to taxpayers."
Looking Shell in the eye: Ken Saro-Wiwa's last writings
Renewable Natural Gas Isn't a Green Solution for Climate Change
Exposed: West Virginia and Other States Relying on ‘House of Cards’ to Pay for Coal Mine Cleanup
PIPELINES
PLASTIC & POLLUTION
For some environmentalists, 'I can't breathe' is about more than police brutality
Germany bans single-use plastic straws, food containers
Air pollution, heat linked to increased risk of premature birth
GREEN NEW DEAL
What if a ‘green’ economic recovery isn’t the best thing for the climate?
Labour split claims as Ed Miliband calls on state
to take shares in bailed-out airlines but Starmer stops short of radical
policy
Naomi Klein: 'We must not return to the pre-Covid status quo, only worse'
Will the Democratic Party’s Climate Platform Address Injustice?
Noam Chomsky: Trump’s Inaction on Climate Change Makes Him “the Worst Criminal in History, Undeniably”
by Justin Onwenu, a Detroit-based climate organizer and
member of the DNC Climate Council’s Platform Advisory Committee and D
Garcia, a California-based youth organizer and the Council’s Youth
Engagement Director
WAKE UP CALL
Methane rises to highest level on record
How to Stop the Next Pandemic: U.N. Report Links Outbreaks to Climate Crisis & Industrial Farming (video)
Pink Snow in the Italian Alps Means Trouble, Scientists Say
Government climate advisers running scared of change, says leading scientist
“If we were serious about this crisis we could do this in a year – if we
were really serious we could do it in a month, but we are not and our
emissions just keep rising.”
Affluence is killing the planet, warn scientists
Global warming will cause ecosystems to produce more methane than first predicted
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
Carbon pricing works: the largest-ever study puts it beyond doubt
Four ways to redesign democracy for future generations
"The disturbing truth is that we have colonised the future. Especially
in wealthy nations, we treat it is a dumping ground for ecological
degradation, technological risk and nuclear waste – as if there is
nobody there. And there is little that the unborn citizens of tomorrow
can do about it... The good news is that a pioneering generation of time rebels is now emerging to challenge the myopic political presentism
at the heart of representative government, where politicians can barely
see past the next election or even the latest tweet. This vanguard movement of political activists... has proposed... a new kind of politics (called)
‘deep democracy.’
Ocean Scientists Create Global Network to Help Save Biodiversity
Rock Dust Could Remove Billions of Tons of CO2 From the Atmosphere, Scientists Say
4 Ways to Be a Real Youth Activist
"The 2008 financial crisis spurred a number of youth movements
including Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring. A decade later, this
anger resurfaced in a new wave of global protests, from Hong Kong to
Beirut to London, only this time driven by the children of the 2008 financial crisis. These movements enjoy mass popularity, but how effective are they? Greta Thunberg proclaimed that "pretty much nothing [had] been done" since staging school strikes to raise awareness of the climate crisis in 2018, while Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, has said that social change as we know it is dead."
Parks vs. People: In Guatemala, Communities Take Best Care of the Forest
"When Guatemala created a major reserve 30 years ago, environmentalists
complained that too much land was entrusted to local people and not
converted to parks. Now, the parks have been overrun by ranches linked
to drug traffickers, while the community-run lands are well preserved."
Hip-hop artist and activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez on why it’s so important to support indigenous communities right now
"The 20-year-old, who sued the US government for failing to act on the
climate crisis back in 2015, tells us why frontline communities are at
risk from both COVID-19 and climate change... The indigenous American activist was just six when he spoke at his first
climate event, making his debut speech at the United Nations aged 12.
He made headlines three years later when he became one of 21 young
people to file a landmark lawsuit against the US government for failing
to act on climate change... "The climate crisis is so far from just an environmental issue; it
encapsulates everything that humanity is facing, specifically frontline
communities... We really are the last generation that’s going to be able to turn things around; we are very quickly running out of time... If the climate movement isn’t intersectional, we are going to lose; we
are going to fail to ignite the momentum that we need. If we look at the
most powerful movements in history, it’s been when people from many
walks of life come together to fight for something in common.”
How to shut down urban oil drilling? This city has an unusual idea
Extra £14bn needed a year for climate, report says
DIRECT ACTIONS
Winona LaDuke, Honor the Earth, joins Attorney General Keith Ellison and allies in announcing lawsuit against big oil companies
SUSTAINABLE LIVING
How renewable energy could emerge on top after the pandemic
A Love Letter to My Induction Cooktop
"While I liked the idea of moving away from fossil fuels like natural
gas, I had been using gas cooktops my entire life... after two years, hundreds of
meals, dozens of sauces, and gallons of homemade stock, I wouldn’t trade
my induction range for any other type of cooktop."
Life in a Gold Medallion All-Electric Home
ENDING ON A POSITIVE
Printed solar panels a shining light for saving energy
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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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.
