EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - January 24, 2019

1 view
Skip to first unread message

Emerald

unread,
Jan 24, 2019, 8:38:36 AM1/24/19
to OSC - Earth Action Campaign
Occupy Sonoma County

​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.

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 chemicals, and Earth-related topics.
If you wish to reduce email volume switch your membership to the digest or abridged version.
Please refrain from posting petitions or donation requests without OSC approval.  Thank you for joining us.

Go to our Facebook and Twitter pages to share these articles already posted there. 
If you are uncomfortable clicking on links in an email you can cut and paste the link into your browser.


BREAKTHROUGH!
As Planet Heats Further, Even Davos Elite Warns Humanity Is 'Sleepwalking Into Catastrophe'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/16/planet-heats-further-even-davos-elite-warns-humanity-sleepwalking-catastrophe

Climate Change High on Agenda at Davos Summit Despite Privileged Access For Fossil Fuel Industry
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/01/17/climate-change-high-agenda-davos-summit-despite-privileged-access-fossil-fuel-industry

Pentagon: Climate Change Is Real and a 'National Security Issue'
https://www.ecowatch.com/pentagon-report-on-climate-change-2626395731.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=ec26a5cc48-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-ec26a5cc48-86095421

GMOs & GLYPHOSATE
Quevedo Judge Orders Ecuador Government to Burn All GMO Crops
https://sustainablepulse.com/2019/01/17/quevedo-judge-orders-ecuador-government-to-burn-all-gmo-crops/#.XEL37qnLdi8

More Documentation of EPA’s Failures in Allowing Use of Roundup, as French Court Bans It
https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2019/01/more-documentation-of-epas-failures-in-allowing-use-of-roundup-as-french-court-bans-it/

12 Reasons Why Even Low Levels of Glyphosate are Unsafe
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/12-reasons-why-even-low-levels-of-glyphosate-are-unsafe/

OIL & GAS
All Coal-Fired Power Plants in Texas Found Leaking Toxins Into Groundwater
https://www.ecowatch.com/coal-ash-groundwater-texas-2626375241.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=ec26a5cc48-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-ec26a5cc48-86095421

U.S. Oil and Gas Industry Is Drilling Us Towards Climate Disaster
https://www.ecowatch.com/us-fossil-fuels-climate-change-2626171901.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=bde4241e50-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-bde4241e50-86095421

With US 'Drilling Towards Disaster,' Report Warns Anything Less Than Urgent Green New Deal Will Be 'Too Little, Too Late'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/16/us-drilling-towards-disaster-report-warns-anything-less-urgent-green-new-deal-will?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=google_mail&utm_source=email
"If you're in a hole, stop digging."

PIPELINES
'Shameful Day for Canada': First Nations Encampment Violently Raided, Land Protectors Arrested
https://tinyurl.com/ya55r3d2 (original Common Dreams url had 687 characters)

85 Dead in Mexican Pipeline Explosion
https://www.ecowatch.com/mexico-pipeline-explosion-2626607067.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=60252f57fe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-60252f57fe-86095421

ZERO WASTE
London supermarket becomes one of the first mainstream chains to introduce plastic-free zones
https://www.positive.news/environment/london-supermarket-becomes-one-of-the-first-mainstream-chains-to-introduce-plastic-free-zones/

WAKE UP CALL
Mega water crisis ahead, says expert
https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/200119/mega-water-crisis-ahead-says-expert.html

The debate is over: The oceans are in hot, hot water
https://grist.org/article/the-debate-is-over-the-oceans-are-in-hot-hot-water/

Climate change is 'no laughing matter', Fiji's PM Frank Bainimarama tells Australia during Scott Morrison's Pacific trip
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-18/climate-change-is-no-laughing-matter-fiji-pm-says/10724582

‘It’s like hell here’: Australia bakes as record temperatures nudge 50C
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/19/australia-swelters-as-relentless-hot-weather-smashes-records?CMP=share_btn_tw

THINK TANK & STRATEGY
Connecting to nature is a matter of environmental justice
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/nicki-carter/connecting-to-nature-is-matter-of-environmental-justice?utm_source=Transformation&utm_campaign=0a855a7a06-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9f93c95423-0a855a7a06-408171033
Good article!

We Have To Make Sure the “Green New Deal” Doesn’t Become Green Capitalism
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21632/green-new-deal-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-climate-cooperation-jackson-capital
OSC received this tweet (on Twitter) from Naomi Klein: "Occupy Sonoma County, you really need to read the 11 absolutely shocking pages of the #greennewdeal. I want a green new deal, but this plan funnels vast sums into opaque private hands, creates a dangerous ‘smart grid’, gives unlimited wealth to certain groups, no public hearings."

New Analysis Shows Push for Green New Deal Hindered by Silence of Corporate Media
https://tinyurl.com/yby743jk (Common Dreams)

The big lie we're told about climate change is that it's our own fault
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/10/11/17963772/climate-change-global-warming-natural-disasters?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

This State Might Require Public Schools to Teach Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/public-schools-climate-change-2626280511.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=d9f4b072b7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-d9f4b072b7-86095421

In Facing Mass Extinction, We Must Allow Ourselves to Grieve
https://truthout.org/articles/in-facing-mass-extinction-we-dont-need-hope-we-need-to-grieve/

Public Takeover of PG&E: A Radically Common-Sense Proposal
https://truthout.org/articles/public-takeover-of-pge-a-radically-common-sense-proposal/

PG&E says judge’s wildfire safety plan would cost at least $75 billion, lead to huge rate hike

DIRECT ACTIONS
12,000+ Belgian Students Skip School to Demand Climate Action
https://www.ecowatch.com/belgium-students-climate-change-2626356905.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=d9f4b072b7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-d9f4b072b7-86095421

As World Teeters on Brink of Climate Catastrophe,' 600+ Groups Demand Congress Back Visionary Green New Deal
https://tinyurl.com/y6uvza6s (Common Dreams)
Thank you to whoever pulled all these groups together!  This is how we win when we join together.

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
EVs 101: Your Guide to Electric Vehicles
https://www.ecowatch.com/electric-vehicles-guide-2626399908.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=60252f57fe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-60252f57fe-86095421

Scientists Call for 'Global Agricultural Revolution' and 'Planetary Health Diet' to Save Lives—and Earth
https://tinyurl.com/ycx68n2e (Common Dreams)
The intention behind this is good but the diet guidelines look terrible.

ENDING ON A POSITIVE
Marine Mammals and Turtles Protected by the Endangered Species Act Are Bouncing Back
https://www.ecowatch.com/endangered-species-act-turtles-marine-mammals-2626362898.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=d9f4b072b7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-d9f4b072b7-86095421

Take Action - Get Involved!


Saturday, January 26, 1-4pm
Zero Waste Lifestyle Day & Clothing Swap
Community Market Santa Rosa, 1899 Mendocino Ave. at Clement Ave.
For more info contact www.liteinitiatives.org or call 707 579-5811


Saturday, January 26, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop - Free

HARMONY FARM SUPPLY, 3244 Gravenstein Hwy North, Sebastopol, Ca 95472

Register here: http://harmonyfarmsupply.com/calendar-of-events/?action=evregister&event_id=163

 

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

Saturday, ​February 9​, 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, February 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, ​February 20​, 7pm
350 Sonoma Meeting
For more info go to Facebook: 350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sonomacounty@gmail.com


Friday, February 22, 11am-7pm, FREE

Rebuild Green Expo

Showcase for building affordable, sustainable and resilient communities

Santa Rosa Veteran’s Memorial Building

For more info: http://rebuildgreenexpo.com/


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.

Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages