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Hello John,
We hope you had a restorative Labor Day. Welcome back.
Climate Justice is Racial Justice
Join us and our friends at 350 Seattle next Thursday (9/10) at 6pm for the first of our Climate Justice is Racial Justice webinars — a learning series on the ways racial inequities intersect with the threats of climate change. These fights are deeply interconnected, and the way to build a healthy, resilient future is to learn, understand, and support one another in the fight against the systems of oppression that we've all been enmeshed in. Each week for four weeks, a 350 Seattle team will host a guest speaker who will draw connections between racial justice issues and the work we do here at 350 Seattle. Attendees will have the chance to ask questions, and be offered a clear way to learn more and support each issue. REGISTER HERE! Sign up for one or all! "Without a focus on correcting injustice, work on climate change addresses only symptoms, and not root causes."—grassroots advocacy group Bronx Climate Justice North. Webinar Schedule:
Follow the link to sign up so you don't miss any of the series. For each webinar we will offer closed captioning and will be recording each one to have available afterwards. Please contact Shemona for any further accessibility needs or questions. There is no climate justice without racial justice! Join hands with us in educating ourselves.
Resources: Seattle: Black Lives Matter Solidarity: curated list of Seattle protests, petitions, and donations, updated periodically. Calendar of all BLM events in Seattle in all neighborhoods, by many groups. Important protest guides and safety info: Keeping Yourself Healthy & Safe at a Protest–350 Seattle webinar recording. The Seattle-King County Black Lives Matter Protest Guide. A guide put together by local Seattle street medics, with graphics.
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Pledge of Resistance - Training Series It’s always a good time to build up your nonviolent resistance skills, but especially now as we head into what is likely to be a tumultuous election and aftermath. All trainings are FREE—please register in advance. Want to share? Send your friends to our Trainings page. Take to the Streets! How Movements Can and Do Win Friday, September 11, 12:00–1:30pm An interactive webinar discussing where social movement power and leverage comes and how we can learn from past movements to be effective in building power to address our current historical moment. Staying Safe and Healthy at Protests with 350.org Tuesday, September 15, 4:00–6:00pm Know Your Rights, with the National Lawyers Guild Wednesday, September 16, 6:00–7:30pm Tuesday, September 22, 6:00–8:00pm De-Escalation and Peacekeeping at Protests Saturday, September 26, 11:00–1:30pm |
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Climate Vote Project We all know this election couldn’t be more consequential. Join 350.org volunteers from across the country to call infrequent voters who care about the environment. Let's make all our votes count this year! Training and tech support provided. You'll need a phone and computer to make calls. We are all about helping people vote successfully—no pro-candidate electioneering required. Climate Vote Project: Get Out the Vote with 350.org Wednesdays, September 9th and 16th, 3:00 PST – Pre-register here Saturdays, September 13th and 20th, 1:00 PST – Pre-register here (Note: registration forms list east coast times)
Emily Southard’s Nonpartisan Get Out the Vote presentation! 350.org partnered with the Environmental Voter Project to put together this powerful phone banking campaign that supports disenfranchised voters in key states. This Sunday we launched the Climate Vote Project with our first virtual phone bank featuring 350.org’s North America Director Tamara Toles O’Laughlin. Together, this project will help make sure voters in states impacted by climate chaos and voter suppression are signed up to vote-by-mail. We have 40,000 such voters in North Carolina who need to be contacted this week – so we’re asking for your help. |
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Trainings from 350 - Get Ready for the Revolution! New online training series: Get Ready for the Revolution! These four trainings in the next couple of months are to help prepare members of your local group to face the increasingly chaotic election season with resiliency and power. Each two-hour session will be led by an experienced trainer from a local 350 group, in coordination with 350.org US. As always, these trainings are free. Here's the training lineup:
Come learn or hone skills that can boost the effectiveness and sustainability of your group! It will also be a chance to connect with members of other local 350 groups across the country. Here is a one page flyer, here is a promotional toolkit with sample email and social media posts, and here is the link to register. P.S. Don’t miss the second session of Solidarity School coming up on Wednesday, Sep. 9: Defund, Abolish & Divest: Climate, Racial & Economic Justice. |
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Skill Up - 350 WA Network We are SO excited for the first-ever 350 PNW Regional Skill Up on Movement Building Volunteer Engagement with 350 Seattle's Shemona Moreno.
Monday, September 14th at 6pm-7:30 PST you can register for it HERE.
Climate Grief and Empowerment So many of us long to take effective action on climate crisis and injustice, but become paralyzed with fear and grief with the vastness of the scope of these challenges. Especially in these extraordinary times of planetary crisis amidst the coronavirus and racial and social injustice, many of us feel overwhelmed and scared. Finding tools to face, feel, and transform this overwhelm can be relieving, empowering, and transformative. Coming together in community practice can strengthen us and give us the energy to make change and be truly present to our families and world. Using The Work That Reconnects practices developed by Joanna Macy and drawing on longstanding wisdom traditions, folks will gather to deeply feel, process and move through grief to empowerment. This form of group work allows us to transmute and release our pain, fear and grief so we can show up for our ourselves, our families and our communities with presence and courage. *While this fantastic monthly gathering, co-sponsored by 350 Seattle and Climate Action Families, will offer tools for emotional support, it is not psychotherapy. Please check out the Facebook Event Page for details and registration. |
PSE’s Dirty Practices
PSE Tweetstorm, September 10th: There will be a social media storm on September 10th calling out Puget Sound Energy (PSE) and their dirty practices. Help us amplify this message!
Use the hashtag #FrackOffPSE
PSE as a statewide bad actor: Read all about how the gas industry is waging war against climate action Ancestral Waters ScreeningsThere are several opportunities this month to see the film and participate in discussion. Come learn about the Tacoma Liquefied Natural Gas plant and the history of the Puyallup Tribe’s resistance to PSE’s dangerous project. September 15th - with 350 Spokane 6pm screening, 8pm discussion September 16th - with 350 Seattle 6:30pm screening, 8pm discussion September 30th - with East Shore Unitarian Church’s Earth and Climate Action Ministry Team 5:30pm screening, 7pm discussion If you've seen Ancestral Waters before, or want to watch in advance and join in during the discussions, feel free to watch on Youtube: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NFPMnF9hhQ) |
Tacoma LNG ResistanceOk, so you know that Puget Sound Energy plays dirty. And you’re fired up from the film about the heinous LNG terminal in Tacoma. And you want to help. Well... The legal appeal of the final permit for the Tacoma LNG fracked gas refinery and storage operation was set for next month, but recently got pushed back until March next year. According to the press statement by Advocates for a Cleaner Tacoma: "There are a number of variables that have led to this delay, including legal tactical maneuvers by PSE, which we interpret as an attempt to overwhelm and wear down our resolve. We won’t be worn down and are fervently resolved to continue. We choose, instead, to view the delay as an opportunity to continue to gather evidence, build awareness, and call out the disingenuous and self-serving narratives of fossil fuel companies like PSE. We will continue to stand in solidarity with the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and will continue the work necessary to protect the community from the devastating effects of an LNG refinery in our region." PSE was also featured in the Guardian article, The gas industry is waging war against climate action, for their role in holding back the transition to renewable energy. Our for-profit gas company that pretends to be a friendly, local public utility is in reality spending millions to defeat local attempts at banning gas hookups in new construction, lobbying at all levels of government, making attempts to intimidate grassroots activists, targeting children with coloring pages and online games, building infrastructure before permits are granted, and violating Constitutionally protected Treaty rights. Can you answer the call to build awareness and shine a light on both this dangerous, racist fracked gas facility and Puget Sound Energy's overall bad practices? Sign up here to join the fracked gas social media amplification squad. To get more deeply involved, fill out this volunteer form or email Anna, and become part of 350 Seattle's Tacoma LNG Resistance Team, currently planning artful actions, education and outreach through documentary screenings and discussion forums, social media storms and more! Tacoma LNG Resistance Team Meeting Thursday, September 10, 12:00pm |
PSE’s Dirty Dealings - Colstrip
Oh you wanted MORE reason to oppose PSE? Our pleasure. If PSE sells off their remaining stake in the most polluting coal power plant in the west to NorthWestern Corp, that sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? NOPE! There’s a lot more to it than that. Hold your hats:
So, what to do? Register for a virtual public comment hearing where the Utilities and Transportation Commission will “gather input from customers” on PSE’s attempted sale of Colstrip assets. UTC Hearing on the Sale of Colstrip Unit 4 Thursday, October 8, 1:30pm and 6:00pm Audio only, to register call 888-333-9882 Sign up now. And don’t forget to save these talking points somewhere handy for later use! Can’t make that date? Submit comments in writing here, or email [email protected] Be sure to reference Docket UE-200115. |
Stop the Money PipelineBlackRock The campaign against the world’s largest investor in fossil fuels is heating up. Organizers are calling for a swarm of actions at BlackRock offices around the world this month. Learn more about the actions here and about the campaign here. Chase Miss beating up on the world’s largest funder of fossil fuels? Our friends at 350PDX have launched the Takeover Chase Online: together activists across the country are leaving thousands of educational reviews of every Chase bank branch all across the internet. Soon anyone using the internet to find a Chase branch will also be learning about its role in the climate crisis. Click here to join the action! Trans Mountain & Insurance Trans Mountain’s insurance policy expired at the end of August, and though we won’t know for sure which companies renewed their coverage until the official certificate is published next April, it’s clear that our calls, emails, and tweets were heard across the world: three global insurance giants, including Trans Mountain’s lead insurer Zurich, all cut ties with the destructive pipeline this summer! Watch and share this video to learn more about how 350 Seattle and our partners are taking on Trans Mountain’s remaining insurers. Stay up-to-date with everything happening with Stop the Money Pipeline by signing up here. |
Indigenous Online Film Festival!For the first time, Vision Maker Media is hosting an online, five-week-long celebration of American Indian, Alaska Native and worldwide Indigenous films. The festival started August 31 and continues all the way until October 5, 2020! Sign up for updates on films, Q&A's, prizes and more! #OnlineVMFF https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GDFD8R8
Sponsored by the Meaningful Movies Project. |
COVID - NEIGHBORHOOD PODSAs COVID-19 rates climb higher still, due to reopenings state- and nationwide, we ask you to consider helping those in your local community more heavily impacted by the virus. We now have 40 neighborhood pods and growing in a city-wide network of Mutual Aid to cultivate community resilience. We invite you to take leadership to help grow community within your own neighborhood so that people can help each other where there is need. We’re connected with COVID-19 Mutual Aid, so our pods respond to the needs requested through that site. We’ve shared requests for mask-making, supplies for striking farmworkers fighting for social distancing conditions, and other opportunities to address the huge impacts the pandemic is having on the most vulnerable communities. If this resonates with you, contact Lin Hagedorn ([email protected]) or Neal Anderson ([email protected]). You can Join a neighborhood pod here, or better yet, sign up to be a pod captain and lead your neighborhood organizing efforts! We are in plenty of need for more community captains on the Eastside. |
NEXT GENERAL MEETINGPlease join us for our next general meeting on Wednesday, September 16th at 7pm. We’ll have a video and presentation by Don Marsh with 300 Trees, followed by a Q+A about increasing the rapidly-shrinking tree canopy in Bellevue with the Environmental Stewardship department.
Zoom info: Time: Sep 16, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87844955647?pwd=TXg3R2Z4OVJtZnB4SlpINFVVS3p6UT09 Meeting ID: 878 4495 5647 Passcode: 725475 ************ In solidarity, 350 Eastside Steering Lin, Sara, Marilyn, Phil, Lynn and Emily |
