EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - September 27, 2018
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https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-straws-california-2606762227.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=de8156c57d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-de8156c57d-86095421
A total of 242 volunteers collectively removed 15,500 lbs of garbage from the Russian River watershed. This breaks out to 64 lbs of trash removed per person! In addition, volunteers also removed and properly disposed of 51 tires! (Report from their newsletter.)
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/20/south_carolina_prisoners_were_left_in?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=33369bce51-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-33369bce51-191276697
https://www.ecowatch.com/air-pollution-dementia-2602268931.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=23b12e6904-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-23b12e6904-86095421
5) 'Treating protest as terrorism': US plans crackdown on Keystone XL activists
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/20/keystone-pipeline-protest-activism-crackdown-standing-rock
Journalist Dies in Clash Over Dirty Coal in Germany
https://www.ecowatch.com/journalist-dies-coal-germany-2606537206.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=de8156c57d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-de8156c57d-86095421
https://www.ecowatch.com/enbridge-pipeline-great-lakes-lawsuit-2598464630.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=23b12e6904-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-23b12e6904-86095421
Only 11% of Pennsylvania's Natural Gas Pipelines Are Mapped for the Public
https://www.ecowatch.com/pennsylvania-natural-gas-pipelines-2606520798.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=85650e30e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-85650e30e4-86095421
https://www.ecowatch.com/pipeline-leak-north-dakota-2606794453.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=be49481189-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-be49481189-86095421
World's Largest River Floods Five Times More Often Than It Used to
https://www.ecowatch.com/amazon-river-flooding-2606509078.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=de8156c57d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-de8156c57d-86095421
https://www.ecowatch.com/water-world-peace-2606809053.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=85650e30e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-85650e30e4-86095421
12) Could Paper Power the Next Generation of Devices?
https://www.ecowatch.com/paper-batteries-electronics-2606785570.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=be49481189-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-be49481189-86095421
14) China Seeks To Achieve “Grid Price Parity” For Wind & Solar
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/21/china-seeks-to-achieve-grid-price-parity-for-wind-solar/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29
15) What’s at Stake: Organic Agriculture
http://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/whats-at-stake-organic-farming/
16) Lithuania Bans GM Crops as Biotech Industry Loses More Ground
https://sustainablepulse.com/2015/09/21/lithuania-bans-gm-crops-as-green-wave-continues-to-sweep-across-europe/#.W6yTG6nLdi-
17) Electing Democrats in November without confronting neoliberalism will not be enough
https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/electing-democrats-not-enough-neoliberalism/
"In such a rapid news cycle, Occupy Wall Street really hit on the fact that protest actions have to be around-the-clock and indefinite to grab the national imagination. If something that widespread and sustained were to happen today — and incorporated the demands and leadership of, say, Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, Sanctuary, the Women’s March, the high school walk-outs, the teacher strikes, the prisoner strikes, etc. — it might very well force major changes. Both political parties are fractured and vulnerable in ways that they weren’t in 2011, and, frankly, protest movements have gotten smarter."
18) KXL Pipeline Developer Plans to Start Construction in 2019
https://www.ecowatch.com/keystone-pipeline-construction-begins-2607609388.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=17945923b5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-17945923b5-86095421
19) NASA's New Space Laser to Measure Earth's Changing Ice
https://www.ecowatch.com/nasa-space-laser-2607578536.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=17945923b5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-17945923b5-86095421
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%!
Take Action - Get Involved!
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 500 Robinson Rd., Sebastopol
For more info: communityseedexchange@gmail.com
9-10:30 Optional Work Party
11-12 Free Tending Your Seeds Workshop
9-12 Seed Library
Saturday, October 13, 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, October 15, 7-9 PM
Occupy Sonoma County Earth Action Campaign MeetingPeace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
For more information go to http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650
Wednesday, October 17, 7pm
350 Sonoma
For more info go to Facebook350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sono...@gmail.com
Monday, October 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: Terri Moon
Thursday, November 8, 7-9 PM
Arlene Francis Center, 99 6th Street, Santa Rosa
December 6, 5-8 PM
Holiday Networking Party & Awards for Leadership in Post-fire Ecosystem Regeneration
Sebastopol
Grange
Sonoma County Conservation Council: sc...@sonic.net
Volunteer Opportunities
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We need a list of all Sonoma County bars, clubs, restaurants, food
trucks, food vendors, caterers - any company that serves food and
drinks. First we are doing a mailing to Mexican restaurants and
taquerias about GMOs in corn and then in a few months we are doing a
large mailing requesting that food vendors use paper straws and not the
new so-called compostable plastic which is only slightly better than
regular plastic. We need help compiling these mailing lists.
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.