EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - April 25, 2019
Emerald
EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS
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.
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https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/04/19/sunrise-movement-green-new-deal-tour-boston
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/22/dallas_goldtooth_hold_banks_accountable_for?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=237c1230d5-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-237c1230d5-191276697
https://tinyurl.com/y2u9k26c (Common Dreams)
https://www.ecowatch.com/plant-and-animal-species-loss-societal-crisis-2634883655.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=aebf0bbf48-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-aebf0bbf48-86095421
https://truthout.org/articles/protecting-sea-creatures-could-help-slow-climate-change/
City of Santa Rosa 10th Annual Earth Day OnStage Celebration
Community Seed Exchange
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 500 Robinson Rd., Sebastopol
9-10:30 Optional Work Party
11-12 Free Workshop: Wide World of Heirloom Beans
9-12:30 Seed Library
For more info: communityseedexchange@gmail.com
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
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa 95401
7:00-9:00 PM Teach-in with Cyrelle McDonald, natural foods chef and health educator at Bauman College
We will share recipes, meal plans, and how-to information on switching to a healthy plant-based diet, for one or for a family on a budget
Free seed exchange - bring your extra seeds to share
For more information go to http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650 (website contact preferred)
Monday, May 20, 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
350 Sonoma Meeting
For more info go to Facebook: 350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sonomacounty@gmail.com
Saturday, May 25, 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
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.
• If you are an experienced builder who can help us build raised bed garden boxes please contact us. We also need help delivering them if you have a truck. This could be an occasional or ongoing project. Sadly, our garden box builder is no longer with us.
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.