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*** Attention: Imminent Event February 15th – Community Meeting ***
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350 Eastside Community Meeting When: Wednesday, February 15th @ 7pm Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ Meeting ID: 828 7707 3725 Passcode: 798154 Focus: Legislative Session – How to Get Involved
This month we will be focusing on how to empower you to participate in the 2023 legislative session in a way that is effective, powerful, and filled with options to meet your availability and passions. We will begin the information session with a short video from 350 Seattle’s Civic Action Team’s (CAT) launch followed by a presentation from a CAT representative. There will be time for you to bring your questions and have them addressed so you will be ready to participate in the remaining 66 days of the 2023 legislative session!!
JANUARY MEETING RECORDING: Last month we were joined by Lisa Howe Verhovek to talk about the organization Third Act Puget Sound and the Third Act National Program, which gives those over 60 an opportunity to support the mostly younger folks leading the climate movement today. Check out the recording here if you weren’t able to attend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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KCLS Black History Month Books & Programs
Educate Yourself! ✊
In honor of Black History month, please take some time to check out these resources from the King County Library System. You can find books for all ages at www.kcls.org/BlackHistoryMonth
Please participate online and share widely with your network!
ONLINE Octavia's First Afronaut: History, Resistance and Black Futures (Signage Attached) Sunday, February 19, 2-3:15pm, Please register Octavia Butler scholar, Dr. Briana Whiteside, will provide insight into the author's earliest efforts to (re)imagine black women’s lives and futures by discussing the groundbreaking character Alanna, from Butler's novel, Survivor… Survivor (1978), was not included in the re-published series compilation, Seed to Harvest (2007). Dr. Whiteside will talk about why that novel was rescinded (at Butler's request), and why the novel is an important touchstone in Butler's remarkable career.
ONLINE Precarious Lives of Free Blacks Pre-1865 Tuesday, February 21, 6-7:15pm, Please register What was life like for Free Blacks prior to 1865? This presentation discusses how freedom was obtained pre-Emancipation in British, French and Spanish colonies as well as the new nation of the United States… Speaker Janice Lovelace, PhD, has more than thirty years of experience in genealogical research and has presented nationally on methodology, DNA, and ethnic minority genealogy. She is author of the National Genealogical Society's course African American Roots: A Historical Perspective.
ONLINE Author Voices: Clyde W. Ford (Signage Attached) Wednesday, February 22, 7:30-8:30pm, Please register Join a discussion with Clyde W. Ford, author of Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth. As Ford reveals, in tracing the history of almost any major American institution of power and wealth you’ll find it was created by Black Americans, or created to control them.
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Ask Congress to Break Up with Big Oil! With the climate crisis escalating, we need Congress to act now – but first, we need to get Big Oil out of the picture.
With Valentine’s Day next week, love is in the air… but so is CO2! That’s why we’re sending our members of Congress a very special valentine: |
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It’s no secret that Congress has an unhealthy relationship with Big Oil. That’s why, this Valentine’s Day, we’re calling on Congress to break up with Big Oil. Error! Filename not specified.
Some people show their love and appreciation with flowers or chocolates, but Big Oil does things differently. Every year, they spend millions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions to buy off our politicians. Companies like ExxonMobil set up secret meetings and secure support from our elected representatives to block meaningful climate legislation. And to make matters worse: Reports prove that Exxon has known for decades how much burning fossil fuels would warm and harm our planet.1 Our representatives are elected with a duty to work for us and represent our best interests – not Big Oil’s. For our members of Congress to do that, they have to break up with Big Oil, which means:
Big Oil has done enough damage to our political system and our planet. With the climate crisis escalating, we need Congress to act now – but first, we need to get Big Oil out of the picture.
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Breakups are never easy. But this toxic relationship between Congress and Big Oil has to end. Thanks for helping us make it happen.
– Team 350
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Meaningful Movies Bellevue Please Join Meaningful Movies Bellevue for a screening of Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World, a powerful documentary about five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate.
“From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the US are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. The five stories include sustaining traditions of Hopi dryland farming in Arizona; restoring buffalo to the Blackfoot reservation in Montana; maintaining sustainable forestry on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin; reviving native food forests in Hawaii; and returning prescribed fire to the landscape by the Karuk Tribe of California.”
Tuesday February 28th 7PM ZOOM event Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World
We’ll have a lively discussion immediately after the film, so grab a snack and join this family-friendly screening! See you at the movies!
-Dave Isaak and the Meaningful Movies Bellevue Team
Trailer HERE
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Third Act – Dis-credit Bad Banks Day of Action Save the Date! – 3/21/23
350 Eastside is planning an action. Stay tuned for more updates about how to get involved east of the lake! We hope you can join us! Learn more below:
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Third Act has spent much of the last year collecting Banking on our Future pledges from thousands and thousands of people across America: pledges to move our money out of the big, dirty fossil-fueled banks – Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo – if they don’t move their investments out of fossil fuels. And we’ve learned more about how important this is: new data makes it clear that these banks are using your money to fund the climate crisis in a big way.
If you have $62,500 in one of these banks, that amount loaned for pipelines, frack wells, coal, and oil exploration produces more carbon than all the driving, cooking, heating, cooling, and flying an average American will do in 6 months. In other words, your bank may well be the largest part of your carbon footprint.
Together we will help make visible the invisible connection between cash and carbon. We will pressure the big, dirty fossil-fueled banks – Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo – to move their investments out of fossil fuels by moving our money out of their banks, actually and symbolically. That’s what this Day of Action is about. TO DIS-CREDIT THE BAD BANKS MEANS WE NEED TO ESCALATE! So on March 21 (3.21.23) we’ll have a nationwide Day of Action. It’s got to be broad and beautiful to engage people’s minds and hearts in defunding climate destruction. Read more about the epic vision for this day of action HERE as well as how many ways you can get involved!
You do not need to be a cardholder or account-holder to participate, and if you are, you do not yet have to have figured out how to make the switch. We know this takes time and involves many personal decisions. (Here are some materials to help making the switch easier.) So even if you haven’t finished the switch it doesn’t matter. We’ve known all along we’re not going to solve this one person at a time. The point of the Banking on our Future pledge and this Day of Action – and of the actions that will follow – is to collectively make some noise, raise the visibility of the dirty banks’ role in climate destruction, and grow our movement for climate justice and solutions. |
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Explore more resources available through Third Act’s toolkit, including how to switch to better banks and credits cards, what to including what to consider when switching to greener cards, and other useful FAQs, articles and videos. |
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Move Redmond
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At 350 Eastside, we cherish the health and environmental benefits of biking instead of driving. To reduce stress from sitting in traffic and get some great exercise and fresh air, all while helping reduce emissions for your community, check out Move Redmond’s series of events in March centered around biking:
“Redmond is on the precipice of major transportation changes with light rail coming soon and the investments in Eastrail. These regional connections will make Redmond more accessible from around the region for people who live, work and go to school in Redmond. Not only do we advocate for better walking, rolling, & transit in Redmond, we also aim to support people shifting their transportation habits by providing people the tools they need to transform their commutes!
Move Redmond, Redmond Library, and Brian Watson, a certified League Cycling Instructor & Cycling Savvy Instructor, are collaborating on a series of biking events, highly subsidized by Move Redmond, to help you get a start in transforming your trips to Redmond through biking! By pairing biking with transit, your bus stops just got a whole lot closer!” |
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Biking 101: Intro to Learning How to Ride a Bike March 4th 2023 9:30am – 12:30pm Redmond City Hall Parking Garage
Biking 201: Bike Handling Brush Up March 11th 2023 9:30am – 12:30pm Redmond City Hall Parking Garage
How to Buy a Bike & Bicycle Petting Zoo March 18th 2023 10:30am – 12pm Redmond Library
Driver’s Ed for Bicyclists: Essentials of Bicycle Driving March 25th 2023 10:30am – 12:30pm Redmond Library
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Spread the Word! Kenmore Job Position – Climate Action Plan Manager
Kenmore is hiring a Manager for its Climate Action Plan. This person is going to have colossal authority over the direction of Kenmore's fight against climate change.
If we can get the right person in this seat who is genuinely committed to fighting climate change, we could evolve a mediocre plan into something impactful, instead of someone looking to blow smoke about the work the city is doing to tick a box.
Job Listings: https://jobs.crelate.com/portal/cityofkenmore/job/ywc41jaj6e9enkmrsuhaqcxtjw?r=28
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350.org Fossil Free Campaign (https://350.org/fossil-free-newsletter-73/) All over the world, the climate movement is raising our voices to put an end to the destructive fossil fuels era. Come with us on this issue to know more about what happened in the last month, and how you can join us for what comes next! Why don’t you join our Fossil Free mailing list for all the latest stories on climate organizing from around the world. Stories that matter. Campaigns that inspire. All delivered directly to you every month.
Sunrise Movement (https://www.sunrisemovement.org/) After a lengthy period of self-reflection and reorganization this group of under-35 young people have an ambitious post-Covid agenda. Check out their website! Efforts are underway to organize a Sunrise Hub in Bellevue and to create hubs in local middle and high schools.
In Solidarity, your 350 Eastside Steering Committee |
