EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - April 18, 2019 - HAPPY EARTH DAY!

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BREAKTHROUGH!
Extinction Rebellion Kicks Off Week of Civil Disobedience to Demand Climate Action
https://www.ecowatch.com/extinction-rebellion-climate-action-2634679823.html

100+ Arrested in London Extinction Rebellion Protests
https://www.ecowatch.com/extinction-rebellion-arrests-2634767072.html

Extinction Rebellion: Meet the Famed Climate Attorney Who Superglued Herself Outside Shell’s U.K. HQ (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/17/extinction_rebellion_climate_activists_glue_themselves?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=3b30a72ef5-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-3b30a72ef5-191276697

Greta Thunberg Chastises European Parliament for Prioritizing Brexit Over Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/greta-thunberg-speech-parliament-2634847425.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e95524f2a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e95524f2a2-86095421

Climate Change Emerges as Key Issue in Close Finland Election
https://www.ecowatch.com/finland-election-climate-change-2634663889.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

BAYER/MONSANTO
US Legal Claims over Glyphosate Health Damage Set to Reach $31 Billion
https://sustainablepulse.com/2019/04/12/us-legal-claims-over-glyphosate-health-damage-set-to-reach-31-billion/#.XLWWVanLdi-
Bayer, who now owns Monsanto and Roundup, is one of the most evil corporations that has ever existed. This company got its start by building the concentration camps in Germany for the slave labor that they exploited to produce their first products including Bayer aspirin. Auschwitz etc. were originally built by Bayer. This was before they passed them on to the Nazis. How much financial loss would it take to bankrupt Bayer?

French Court Rules Monsanto Liable for Farmer's Health Problems
https://www.ecowatch.com/french-court-monsanto-liable-2634441502.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=f827609a71-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-f827609a71-86095421

FOSSIL FUELS
What a Real Coal Ash Cleanup Looks Like
https://www.ecowatch.com/coal-ash-cleanup-2634129268.html

POLLUTION
Windborne Microplastics Are Everywhere
https://www.ecowatch.com/microplastics-wind-health-2634780390.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

GREEN NEW DEAL
Watch: Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out GOP for Attacking Green New Deal as 'Socialism' While Supporting Billions in Big Oil Subsidies
https://tinyurl.com/y2vznlwz (all posts with a TinyURL are from Common Dreams)

Glaciers and Arctic Ice Are Vanishing. Time to Get Radical Before It's Too Late
https://tinyurl.com/yxhxpbaz
"No one should be annoyed when schoolkids start leaving class en masse or surprised that Green New Deal advocates call for dramatic overhaul of American society. We should be grateful." by Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben: Green New Deal Is a Chance to “Remake Not Just a Broken Planet, But a Broken Society” (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/15/bill_mckibben_green_new_deal_is?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=3ed1525095-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-3ed1525095-191276697

WAKE UP CALL
3 Massacres in 12 Days Suspected in Brazilian Amazon
https://www.ecowatch.com/massacres-brazil-amazon-2634319246.html
"A big infrastructure project overheats the real estate market, peasant families and traditional communities are violently evicted by land thieves, who then deforest the area and then sell it to big mining and farming projects... the municipal district of Baião lies within the area of influence of the Tucuruí dam... Inhabitants affected by the dam are still fighting 35 years later for compensation, and the region, suffering from heavy deforestation, regularly sees a high level of violence."

Chomsky: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change & the Undermining of Democracy Threaten Future of Planet (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/12/chomsky_nuclear_weapons_climate_change_the?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=de80f0b3e7-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-de80f0b3e7-191276697

Researchers Warn Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability
https://tinyurl.com/y6mgjdqb

What will you say to your grandchildren?
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/what-will-you-say-your-grandchildren/?utm_source=Transformation&utm_campaign=3d185bde47-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9f93c95423-3d185bde47-408171033

What if We Treated Our Oceans as if They Matter?
https://www.ecowatch.com/oceans-conservation-sanctuaries-greenpeace-2634443096.html?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4

THINK TANK & STRATEGY
Otpor! leader’s new campaign manual shows strategy is for everyone
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2019/04/otpor-campaign-manual-strategy-everyone-ivan-marovic/

How to win: lessons from the Zad
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/how-win-lessons-zad/?utm_source=Transformation&utm_campaign=3d185bde47-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9f93c95423-3d185bde47-408171033
"Successful social movements combine resistance to injustice with the affirmation of alternatives."

Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/15/rebellion-prevent-ecological-apocalypse-civil-disobedience
"No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response."

“Falter”: In New Book, Bill McKibben Asks If the Human Game Has Begun to Play Itself Out (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/15/falter_in_new_book_bill_mckibben?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=3ed1525095-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-3ed1525095-191276697

DIRECT ACTIONS
'Radical Agents of Physical and Social Chaos': Campaigners Target Big Banks Over Destructive Fossil Fuel Projects
https://tinyurl.com/y5ep6x6p

Indigenous Peoples Go to Court to Save the Amazon From Oil Company Greed
https://www.ecowatch.com/waorani-resistance-2634313869.html

With Youth Climate Actions Backed by Leading Experts, Latest Round of Protests Highlights Call for Bold and Urgent Action
https://tinyurl.com/yy3fj4ep

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
These Farmers Are Sowing Seeds of Diversity in the U.S. Food System (and Have Been for Quite Some Time)
https://www.ecowatch.com/these-farmers-are-sowing-seeds-of-diversity-in-the-us-food-system-2634320017.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

5 of the Best TED Talks About Renewable Energy
https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy-ted-talks-2634775197.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e95524f2a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e95524f2a2-86095421

China's $18 Billion Electric Car Bubble Looks Ready to Burst
https://www.ecowatch.com/china-electic-vehicle-bubble-2634693976.html

6 Pressing Questions About Beef and Climate Change, Answered
https://www.ecowatch.com/beef-and-climate-change-2634244134.html
There are differences of opinion on this subject but most people agree that the Standard American Diet with animal products at every meal is not sustainable for the planet. Everyone does not have to become vegan or vegetarian to be part of the solution to greenhouse gas caused by animal agriculture, as this article states. OSC suggests that we all consider an 80-100% plant-based diet, depending on individual preferences, and that all of our food be organic, local, sustainably produced, carbon-farmed, and minimally packaged.

ENDING ON A POSITIVE
In Germany, Consumers Embrace a Shift to Home Batteries
https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-germany-consumers-embrace-a-shift-to-home-batteries
"A growing number of homeowners in Germany are installing batteries to store solar power. As prices for energy storage systems drop, they are adopting a green vision: a solar panel on every roof, an EV in every garage, and a battery in every basement."

Take Action - Get Involved!

Saturday, April 20, 1:30 - 4:30 PM


Wednesday, April 24, 4:30-7:15
Climate Action Night at the JC
Santa Rosa Junior College, Bertolini Student Center, Santa Rosa
The SRJC Eco Leaders Club, with 350 Sonoma, local elected officials, and 350 Bay Area’s Youth vs Apocalypse program, a student-led climate activist group – they’re the ones that met with Senator Feinstein about the Green New Deal.
For more info, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/389695018253839/

City of Santa Rosa 10th Annual Earth Day OnStage Celebration
Saturday, April 27, Noon - 4:00
Courthouse Square - Santa Rosa
The free, family-friendly event draws over 4500 attendees.  Food, live performances, earth-friendly products, eco-friendly crafts and activities for kids.


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

Monday, May 6, 6-9 PM, Free with donations welcome
Occupy Sonoma County presents - Climate Change or Diet Change?: Earth Conscious Eating
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa 95401
6:00-7:00 PM. Plant-based potluck. Everyone who is able - please bring a potluck dish to share
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


Wednesday, ​May 22, 7pm
350 Sonoma Meeting
For more info go to Facebook: 350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sonomacounty@gmail.com

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.

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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