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BREAKTHROUGH!
California Rebukes Predatory Wall Street Megabanks With New Public Bank Law
How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies
"For Sicangu Lakota water protector Cheryl Angel, Standing Rock helped her define what she stands against: an economy rooted in extraction of resources and exploitation of people and planet. It wasn't until she'd had some distance that the vision of what she stands for came into focus.
"Now I understand that sustainable sovereign economies are needed to replace the system we support with our purchasing power," she said. "Our ancient teachings have all of those economies passed down in traditional families."
Peru to End Palm Oil Driven Deforestation by 2021
There is no such thing as sustainable palm oil. Check ingredients of packaged baked goods to eliminate this destructive oil.
GMOs, GLYPHOSATE & TOXINS
How U.S. Government Conceals Truth About 'Forever Chemicals' and How You Can Help Avoid Exposure
"A handful of multibillion-dollar chemical companies have waged war on our bodies and our environment for nearly 70 years without our knowledge or consent. Although the federal government — tasked with protecting the public and upholding the law — became aware of this chemical assault 20 years ago, it chose to conceal the truth, downplay the threat, and expand the use of a class of chemicals known to endanger the health of present and future generations."
PIPELINES
Wisconsin Lawmakers Seek to Criminalize Environmental Protests
"Senate Bill 386 echoes similar “critical infrastructure protection” model bills pushed out by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Council of State Governments over the last two years to prevent future protests like the one against the Dakota Access Pipeline."
Wet’suwet’en Land Reclamation
"Over the last decade, the Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation
have been re-occupying their traditional territories and defending
their lands and waters from industry. We caught up with the Gidimt’en
and Likht’samisyu clans who have also been building on their respective
territories."
GREEN NEW DEAL
Neither Democrats Nor Republicans Will Admit the Problem Is Capitalism Itself
"While proposals for a Green New Deal address environmental as well as
anti-recessionary needs, they once again hesitate to go beyond them to
propose basic system change. Genuine “realism” would admit those policies’ failures and open the
public and professional discussion of capitalism’s recurring recessions
to systemic critiques and solutions involving systemic change." by Richard Wolff.
WAKE UP CALL
Oil Industry Aimed to Set Agenda During UN Climate Summit
For Many Reporters Covering Climate, Population Remains the Elephant in the Room
There Is No Economic Justification for Drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge
'There's a danger of losing our tenure on this planet' (video)
"James Lovelock is one of the most influential environmental thinkers of
our time. Now aged 99, he reflects on the climate change challenge."
Climate change is more than just economics
"Health-care providers are on the front lines. Our patients’ health is
impacted by extreme weather events. We know leveraging the potential of
new, clean and emerging technologies will demonstrate a transformation
of health care in line with sustainable development goals." by Dr. Sandy Buchman, president of the Canadian Medical Association.
[Act Out! 221] (video)
"As ecosystems around the world fall into death spirals and scientists
cry out that the point of no return is upon us, a look at our justice
systems highlight the pitfalls and fallacies in our thinking."
Warning: May contain adult language
US and Canadian Bird Population Dropped by Nearly 3 Billion in 48 Years
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
What's the Difference Between Global Warming and Climate Change?
4 Climate Activists Explain Why the Climate-Justice Movement Needs Feminism
"Feminism
is an essential part of climate justice because it illuminates how our
extractive, dominating relationship with nature stems from patriarchy.
Real climate justice demands radically transforming how we, as humans,
treat the nonhuman world. It means recognizing how our current system is
shaped by patriarchy."
Global Climate Action’s Biggest Obstacle Is US Foreign Policy
"The U.S. ruling class rationalizes its destructive environmental policies as part of its neoliberal ideology,
which elevates “the magic of the market” to a quasi-religious article
of faith. This shields politics and economics in the United States from
any aspect of reality that conflicts with the narrow financial interests
of the plutocratic U.S. ruling class and increasingly monopolistic
corporations, including a handful of big oil and weapons companies. A
soaring stock market (between crashes) makes it seem as though the
economy is “booming,” even as it destroys the natural world whose real
magic sustains us all." by Medea Benjamin
Greta Thunberg’s enemies are right to be scared. Her new political allies should be too
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
We Cannot Afford to Gamble on Geoengineering to Achieve Net Zero
John McDonnell announces interest free loans for electric cars
We Can Save the Planet by Defunding the Pentagon
DIRECT ACTIONS
16 Youth Activists File Suit Claiming Climate Crisis Violates Children’s Rights
Why Greenpeace Activists Dangled From a Bridge in Texas — and Face 2 Years in Prison
Sea Levels Are Rising, and So Are We
In the Face of Ageist Attacks, Greta Thunberg Is Still Leading by Example
SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Trees could replace air con: buildings around trees are cooler, study by Forestry Commission finds
Battery storage systems at ‘the edge of profitability,’ as German households reach 1GWh of capacity
ENDING ON A POSITIVE
The world's largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete. It can power 1 million homes (video)
Take Action - Get Involved!
October 7-21
International Rebellion
To Governments of the World, we declared a Climate and Ecological Emergency. You did not do enough.
To everybody else, rebel. See you on the streets.
Wednesday October 16, 7 - 9 PM (Every 3rd Wednesday)
350 Sonoma monthly organizing meeting
Peace and Justice Center - 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
Monday, October 21, 7-9 PM (Every 3rd Monday)
Occupy Sonoma County Earth Action Campaign Meeting
OSC
will be discussing our Earth Action campaigns and event plans for next
year. Bring your ideas and proposals to this meeting.
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
For more information go to http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650
(website contact preferred)
Saturday, October 26 (the last Saturday every month)
Community Seed ExchangeSt. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 500 Robinson Rd., Sebastopol
9-10:30 Optional Work Party
11-12 Free Workshop: Growing Great Garlic in Sonoma CountyWednesday, November 6 (every first Wednesday) No Dogs
Sonoma County Permaculture Guild Monthly Potluck
Family Friendly & Fun. Swap
seeds/plants, & explore the PSC
Permaculture Skills Center, 2185 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol 95472
For more info contact: permacultureskillscenter.org or 707-824-0836Monday, December 9, 7-9 PM
Sonoma County Climate Activist Network
(SoCoCAN!)
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa 95401
This meeting will be discussing and planning a summit for 2020 to bring together and expand the network
Time will be allocated for all groups to make reports and request help with their campaigns
Facilitator for this meeting: Amanda
Notetaker: Maya
For more info: SonomaC...@gmail.com
or to the SoCoCAN listserv (preferred)
Volunteer
• Make phone calls
from home for 1 hour every other month as follow up to our press releases.
No skill needed other
than a pleasant phone demeanor.
Even once would be helpful.
• Please post flyers for our September teach-in at the bulletin boards where you already shop.
Download
event flyers from our website or pick them up at the Peace & Justice Center Monday-Friday 1-4 PM.
Let us know what bulletin boards you can
cover. Thank you.
• Experienced builder to
help us build raised bed garden boxes.
• Help delivering them if you have a truck.
• Help editing our teach-in videos.
•
We need an email list of bars and restaurants in Sonoma County.
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
