EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - April 4, 2019

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​EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS  

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BREAKTHROUGH!
‘People Will Wonder Why We Didn’t Do This Sooner’: New York Becomes Second State to Ban Plastic Bags
https://www.ecowatch.com/new-york-plastic-bag-ban-2633370385.html

Federal Judge Halts Drilling on Public Lands Over Climate Concerns
https://truthout.org/articles/federal-judge-halts-drilling-on-public-lands-over-climate-concerns/

Federal judge declares Trump’s push to open up Arctic, Atlantic oceans to drilling illegal
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9447639-181/federal-judge-declares-trumps-push?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_term=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&bt_ee=COUA5P/PS7Cqe92uPvh0Shnb8arqrAvAG8QCPQEtrV3oOSy0fsM7AvtB0YPSxTe+&bt_ts=1554045603219&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_term=ad8e6cac3284183e0c31c7abd0557b09&bt_ee=d9KJ0bE8MwY8rly0XarYvijz91H8r4E4SOu7LTnZuJTuiX1sdIVWkY7Xzobveu8b&bt_ts=1554045603155

EU Parliament Bans Plastics Responsible for 70% of Ocean Trash
https://www.ecowatch.com/europe-plastics-ban-2633124406.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=615d53a32c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-615d53a32c-86095421

Rep. Jared Huffman becoming key Democratic leader on the environment
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9444172-181/rep-jared-huffman-gains-a?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_term=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&bt_ee=COUA5P/PS7Cqe92uPvh0Shnb8arqrAvAG8QCPQEtrV3oOSy0fsM7AvtB0YPSxTe+&bt_ts=1554045603219&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_term=ad8e6cac3284183e0c31c7abd0557b09&bt_ee=d9KJ0bE8MwY8rly0XarYvijz91H8r4E4SOu7LTnZuJTuiX1sdIVWkY7Xzobveu8b&bt_ts=1554045603155

BAYER/MONSANTO
Man Who Developed Cancer After Roundup Use Awarded More Than $80 Million in Damages
https://www.ecowatch.com/roundup-cancer-lawsuit-2633020482.html
Edwin Hardeman developed cancer after using the glyphosate-containing weedkiller to control poison oak, weeds and overgrowth on his Sonoma property.

FOSSIL FUELS
Opponents to Expanding Petrochemical Industry in Louisiana Fight Back
https://truthout.org/articles/opponents-to-expanding-petrochemical-industry-in-louisiana-fight-back/

Push to Reverse Obscure Shipping Law Could Flood Puerto Rico with Fracked Gas
Global 'collapse' in number of new coal-fired power plants
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/28/global-collapse-in-number-of-new-coal-fired-power-plants?CMP=share_btn_tw

PIPELINES
Trump Issues New Presidential Permit for Keystone XL Pipeline
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-keystone-xl-2633379906.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=95039121f8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-95039121f8-86095421

GREEN NEW DEAL
Emissions inequality: there is a gulf between global rich and poor
https://theconversation.com/emissions-inequality-there-is-a-gulf-between-global-rich-and-poor-113804?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton

Green New Deal Policy Writer: Senate Vote Against Climate Plan Was Attempt to Stifle Growing Momentum (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/28/green_new_deal_policy_writer_senate?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=be005efb28-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-be005efb28-191276697

“Tell That to the Families in Flint”: AOC Demolishes GOP Claim That Green New Deal Is “Elitist” (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/28/tell_that_to_the_families_in?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=be005efb28-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-be005efb28-191276697

How Do the 2020 Candidates Rate on Climate Action?
https://www.ecowatch.com/2020-climate-test-2633060915.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

Green New Deal Policy Writer: Senate Vote Against Climate Plan Was Attempt to Stifle Growing Momentum (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/28/green_new_deal_policy_writer_senate?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=1796d7b7eb-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-1796d7b7eb-191276697

3 ways Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats are changing what is winnable
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2019/03/how-sunrise-justice-democrats-are-changing-what-is-winnable/

WAKE UP CALL
State commissioners meet in Santa Rosa to discuss how to pay for future fires
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9461769-181/state-commissioners-meet-in-santa?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_term=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&utm_content&bt_ee=EAe3SNDKrlXjIqjolA8K/joK+tTFUPKHFxEo6tBhr8R5qvykcKupucq9MCyBWREQ&bt_ts=1554338405824&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_term=ad8e6cac3284183e0c31c7abd0557b09&utm_content&bt_ee=wuau7sD4gUd4gOFMDV9AxKrQzdD99m%2F0M%2BRScwaDpbQyd9HW1rFZ6GXC2zbvRwO9&bt_ts=1554338405760

Second Houston-Area Chemical Plant Fire in Weeks Kills One, Injures Two
https://www.ecowatch.com/chemical-plant-fire-houston-2633565576.html

'Tragic showcase' of how climate change could affect world's poorest
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/31/africa/poorest-hit-the-hardest-climate-change-mozambique-intl/index.html

Study Links Air Pollution and Teenage Psychotic Experiences
https://www.ecowatch.com/air-pollution-mental-health-psychosis-2633026418.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=615d53a32c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-615d53a32c-86095421

Oceans Do Us a ‘Huge Service’ by Absorbing Nearly a Third of Global CO2 Emissions, but at What Cost?
https://www.ecowatch.com/oceans-absorb-co2-2631712140.html

Hear the Song of the Earth While You Still Can
https://truthout.org/articles/hear-the-song-of-the-earth-while-you-still-can/

THINK TANK & STRATEGY
From Science to Art, US Teachers Educate Students on Climate Change
https://truthout.org/articles/from-science-to-art-us-teachers-educate-students-on-climate-change/

DIRECT ACTIONS
Blessed are the youth, they have the purity of message
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/oped/comment/Blessed-are-the-youth-they-have-the-purity-of-message/434750-5046776-df9tet/index.html

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Rail Travel Is Cleaner Than Driving or Flying, but Will Americans Buy In?
https://www.ecowatch.com/transport-emissions-rail-air-road-2633378470.html

Latest Agriculture Emissions Data Show Rise of Factory Farms
https://www.ecowatch.com/rise-of-factory-farms-2633387679.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

Protect the Integrity of Organic Food Production and Continuous Improvement
https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2019/04/protect-the-integrity-of-organic-food-production-and-continuous-improvement/

ENDING ON A POSITIVE
Puerto Rico passes 100% renewable energy bill as it aims for storm resilience
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/puerto-rico-passes-100-renewable-energy-bill-as-it-aims-for-storm-resilien/551303/?fbclid=IwAR2s79m6uXqe7tqXDi47laCs5pTTpGbhJjc5xgYkNBpmpOsvdsENe_3Ge2E

Take Action - Get Involved!

Friday, April 5, 7-9 PM

Occupy Sonoma County Presents

Giants: The Global Power Elite with Peter Phillips
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa 95401

Free with donations welcome

For more info go to OccupySonomaCounty.org


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



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 April 5 (the global power elite), 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
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.

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