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October 13, 2023 at 4:00 PM

Climate Horrors Party in Portland 👻

Climate Horrors Party in Portland 👻 You’re invited!Join us to celebrate the spooky season and all of the important climate and environmental justice work happening in the city! You’re invited to Portland’s climate justice themed Halloween party on Friday, October 27, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.…

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October 3, 2023 at 6:00 PM

Reminder 👉 Why Your Nonprofit Needs a Union

Reminder 👉 Why Your Nonprofit Needs a Union Free webinar this Thursday!Join Green Union Hall this Thursday, October 5 at 5pm PT/8pm ET for a moderated panel discussion of seasoned labor organizers. This event will kickoff a new workshop series on unionizing nonprofits for the union curio…

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September 21, 2023 at 5:00 PM

Wall Street wants to own our forests

Wall Street wants to own our forests Let’s put polluters and clear-cutters on noticeHello friends, Some of the biggest climate polluters, corporate forest clear-cutters, and false climate solutions peddlers are gathering in Portland next week. Wall Street investors will join timber corpo…

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September 19, 2023 at 7:15 PM

Why Your Nonprofit Needs a Union ✊

Why Your Nonprofit Needs a Union ✊ Exciting stuff happening in the nonprofit labor spaceOrganizers and union-members from environmental nonprofits (including Breach!) have come together to form Green Union Hall - a hub of solidarity and support for organizing efforts in the nonprofit sec…

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September 12, 2023 at 5:59 PM

A global mobilization to #EndFossilFuels

A global mobilization to #EndFossilFuels Oregon youth have strong demands for Gov. Kotek Marches planned for September 15-17Dear friend,The climate crisis is escalating and so is the movement for climate justice. This weekend millions of people around the world will take to the streets …

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September 7, 2023 at 5:54 PM

Portlanders are outraged.

Portlanders are outraged. Two actions in one week 🚤 The Zenith scandal heats upYesterday, Portlanders packed City Hall to give eviscerating testimony against the City’s backroom dealings with Zenith Energy. This only days after a protest on Sunday, in which activists effectively blocked…

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September 1, 2023 at 6:38 PM

DEADLINE EXTENDED

DEADLINE EXTENDED Submit to Flash Futures PNW by Sept. 30 Deadline extended to September 30You still have another month to submit your writing or art to Flash Futures PNW: A Climate Fiction & Art Contest – we’re extending the deadline for submissions to September 30, 2023. Contest w…

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August 30, 2023 at 5:58 PM

Help us expose the Zenith scandal

Help us expose the Zenith scandal It’s time to speak truth to powerFriends,The Zenith scandal continues to escalate as more details emerge about the cozy relationship between Portland City Officials and executives from the Houston-based fossil fuel corporation. It’s time to speak truth t…

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August 27, 2023 at 2:59 PM

Join us tomorrow for our last August workshop!🌻

Join us tomorrow for our last August workshop!🌻 another Monday by the river View this email in your browserThank you for making this workshop series so special!Tomorrow we wrap up our August Youth Climate Organizing Workshop series with a “Know Your Rights” workshop led by Sarah Alvarez…

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August 20, 2023 at 3:59 PM

Our next riverside rendezvous 🌊

Our next riverside rendezvous 🌊 another free workshop tomorrow! View this email in your browserCome hang with us tomorrow evening!Our August Youth Climate Organizing Workshop series continues tomorrow with a special doubleheader. Join us along the Willamette river for two free workshops…

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August 13, 2023 at 2:01 PM

Next free workshop!

Next free workshop! Where can we go from here? Up next in our free workshop seriesregister Join us tomorrow, Monday, August 14 for the next in our series of free workshops for young climate organizers in the Portland area! Tomorrow you’ll learn from 350PDX Campaign Manager Dineen O’Rou…

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August 9, 2023 at 4:33 PM

It's a Hot Labor Summer🔥✊

It's a Hot Labor Summer🔥✊ comrades at Fair Housing Council of Oregon just launched their campaign Oregon nonprofit workers keep unionizing and we’re here for itJohn,This morning our comrades at the Fair Housing Council of Oregon announced their intent to unionize with Communications Wor…

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August 7, 2023 at 10:15 PM

Deadline Aug 31!

Deadline Aug 31! Submit to Flash Futures PNW: A Climate Fiction & Art Contest View this email in your browserGet your work published in a Zine!There's still time to submit your writing or art to Flash Futures PNW: A Climate Fiction & Art Contest! Contest winners will have their …

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August 3, 2023 at 9:20 PM

PDX City Council went behind our backs

PDX City Council went behind our backs Dirty details on Portland City Council’s backroom deal with ZenithJohn,We write with important action you can take to help stop the expansion of Zenith and its dangerous oil by rail operations in Portland. We also have shocking revelations about Por…

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July 31, 2023 at 11:13 PM

*Free* workshop series in August 👀

*Free* workshop series in August 👀 For young PDX organizers 📣 View this email in your browserAttention young PDX organizers!Our August Youth Climate Organizing workshop series kicks off one week from today! Have you registered yet? On Monday, August 7 at 5:30 pm PST Sterling Stokes and …

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July 18, 2023 at 7:42 PM

Remember Standing Rock?

Remember Standing Rock? View this email in your browserRemember the historic protests at Standing Rock?Hi Friends,The company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline is still trying to punish those who challenged it – with a “SLAPP” suit. This impacts all of us who believe in speaking out agai…

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July 13, 2023 at 5:20 PM

Important Update on Fossil Free Eugene.

The fight for electrification is forced to pivot. Friends, On Monday, Eugene City Council made the difficult decision to withdraw its recently-passed building electrification ordinance. While disappointing for all of us who worked hard to pass this climate p…

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July 11, 2023 at 5:20 PM

Free summer workshop series.

For PDX youth climate organizers. Dear Friends,   In partnership with other PDX organizations and community members, Breach Collective is hosting a weekly workshop series for people 30 years old and younger throughout the month of August on Mo…

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July 3, 2023 at 6:34 PM

Solidarity with #StopCopCity.

Hi friends,   Protect the Protest is a coalition composed of more than 30 civil liberties, social, and environmental justice organizations, including Breach. It was founded to support individuals and communities that resist the use of illegi…

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June 28, 2023 at 6:52 PM

Submissions are open for Flash Futures PNW!

A Climate Fiction & Art Contest ✍️🎨🖼️📖 Hello!   We have been excited to share this news with you. Along with our friends and movement partners 350PDX, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Portland Neighbors Welcome, we are host…

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June 21, 2023 at 2:04 AM

You won't want to miss this

Big Oil is going down✨ Friends,    Join us in Portland this Thursday, June 22 at 11:45 am for a celebration you won't want to miss: Big Oil will be held accountable by Multnomah County for causing widespread harm and destruction to our region. Wear red, brin…

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June 9, 2023 at 1:20 PM

Gas company at it again.

Hello friends,    Another gas company is trying to make their customers help cover the cost of keeping us hooked on fossil fuels. It’s happening to Southern Oregonians, and they need our help.    Avista Gas, the gas utility serving most of Southern Oregon, …

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June 6, 2023 at 10:28 PM

🚣🏼‍♂️Paddle Zenith out of Portland with us this Sunday! 🚣🏼‍♀️

Friends,    Join us this Sunday, June 11 from 11 am to 4 pm at Cathedral Park to Paddle Zenith Out of Portland! Oregon and Washington residents will gather on the Willamette River in Portland to join a nationwide mass mobilization to demand a…

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May 25, 2023 at 10:13 PM

Important update on terrorism bill 🚨

Urgent action needed! TAKE ACTION Friends,   We write with an update on HB 2772 and to encourage you to keep the pressure on our leaders to oppose this dangerous and controversial bill.    This ‘domestic terrorism’ bill is cont…

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April 26, 2023 at 6:59 PM

In the News

Coverage of the 'domestic terrorism' bill Hello friends,    We are writing to share some great reporting that has come out in the past week about House Bill 2772, the dangerous and controversial ‘domestic terrorism’ bill that is making its way…

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April 21, 2023 at 12:56 AM

Show up for young Portlanders tomorrow

Youth demand Gov. Kotek stop fossil fuel expansion statewide Friends,   Tomorrow there's an important opportunity for Portlanders to show up for young people. Join us in supporting the Portland Youth Climate Strike as students from around the city take to th…

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April 18, 2023 at 7:06 PM

Protest ≠ Terrorism

Help stop HB 2772 Friends,   A controversial bill is moving through the Oregon State Legislature that has grave implications for the right to protest and the safety of already over-policed communities, including Black, Indigenous, and other O…

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April 14, 2023 at 5:00 PM

This Sunday! Ancestral Waters Film Screening at Portland's Hollywood Theatre

You're invited 📽🎟🍿 WHAT: A screening of Ancestral Waters, a powerful film about the Tribal-led effort to resist a massive LNG project on Puyallup Tribal land in Tacoma, Washington. WHERE: Portland's Hollywood Theatre 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. WHEN: Sunday, April 1…

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March 24, 2023 at 6:04 PM

So your nonprofit staff are unionizing?

Here's how to be a good, pro-union boss. Happy Friday and Happy Spring, Comrades ☀️🌱   Operating within the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, even the best-intentioned nonprofits can create strict hierarchies and perpetuate harmful practices in the workplace, an…

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March 17, 2023 at 4:23 PM

So you want to unionize?

Here's how. Happy Friday Comrades!   Breach is a unionized, worker-led organization. In 2020, after a successful unionizing campaign at another nonprofit, our founders got together to create an organization with a progressive workplace model that attempts to…

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March 13, 2023 at 9:28 PM

🎧 Listen: Breach's Progressive Union Contract

A conversation with our CWA union rep Friends,   Earlier this year, our staff ratified a highly progressive two-year collective bargaining agreement. Breach is a proud member of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 7901 and we worked in partner…

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March 11, 2023 at 5:00 PM

Donate now to help us take on NW Natural.

They have deep pockets; we have all of you. Friends,   Last weekend we left the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference positively buzzing. The return of the conference after a three-year hiatus and the ability to be in community with so many of you ga…

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March 2, 2023 at 7:50 PM

Tonight we party!💃🏻

6pm @ WildCraft in Eugene Friends,   Join us tonight from 6:00 - 9:00 pm at WildCraft Cider Works as Breach and Fossil Free Eugene kick off the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) with a cider-pizza-karaoke party!   We are ce…

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March 1, 2023 at 12:11 AM

T-minus two days to party time ⏳

6pm on Thursday @ WildCraft in Eugene Friends,   Breach and Fossil Free Eugene are kicking off the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) with a cider-pizza-karaoke party on Thursday, March 2 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm at WildCraft Cid…

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February 25, 2023 at 12:18 AM

It's time to party!

Join us for pizza, karaoke, raffle prizes, and more. Friends,   Earlier this month, Eugene became the first city in Oregon to pass a policy that phases out “natural” gas in new low-rise residential building construction. This historic win was…

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February 21, 2023 at 8:17 PM

We are recruiting board members!

Attention friends! 🚨 We are recruiting board members and would love your help getting connected with candidates. As a unionized, worker self-directed climate justice organization that partners with communities at the front lines of the clima…

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February 12, 2023 at 6:55 PM

In case you missed it...

A big week at Breach Collective Hey Friends,    We have two big victories to share! This past week we ratified our union contract and celebrated Eugene City Council’s passage of an ordinance that phases out gas in new residential construction.   Union Strong…

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December 29, 2022 at 9:09 PM

A year-end message from Breach

Hello friends,   We can hardly believe it, but 2022 is almost over and we’re about to ring in a new year 🥳🥂  There is so much to celebrate as Breach turns two and we reflect on a year packed with new and deepening partnerships, major wins against the fossil…

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December 15, 2022 at 10:51 PM

Buy Books📚 Support Breach💰

Hi dear friends,   We hope you are keeping cozy as the Northern Hemisphere enters the darkest days of the year. If you’re like us, cozying up means being in the company of a good book. (Unless you’re on the other side of the globe and, like Danny Noonan, ou…

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November 29, 2022 at 3:50 PM

🌊 Support Climate Justice this #GivingTuesday

Your tax-deductible donation directly supports critical climate fights Dear Friend,   This #GivingTuesday we are sharing some highlights from the past year -- the work our team is most proud of.   We hope that today you will make a tax-deductible donation t…

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November 25, 2022 at 4:31 PM

Some highlights 😎

Celebrating success and ready to keep up the fight Dear Friend,   As we near the end of our second full year as an organization, we are sharing some highlights from the past year and a look at what’s to come for Breach in 2023.    First, we want to thank you…

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November 18, 2022 at 9:17 PM

Send new methane reports to your political leaders! 📨

Use this tool to advocate for a just transition away from fossil fuels. Hello,   Do you want your elected officials to advocate for a just transition away from fossil fuels to protect our climate and public health? Two major reports have been published recen…

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November 10, 2022 at 7:02 PM

New report confirms gas stoves pose health hazard

Multnomah County Health Dept. releases report on public health risks of gas stoves   Hi there,   The Multnomah County Health Department just released a report detailing how gas stoves release dangerous air pollutants that increase the risk of …

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October 11, 2022 at 7:03 PM

Rumble on the River - Thursday at 6:30pm

What’s up with Zenith Energy and the CEI Hub in Portland   Join us for the first in a series of community-driven forums to educate and activate around the threats to public health, safety, and our environment stemming from the Critical Energy Infrastructure …

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October 3, 2022 at 4:54 PM

Free event on October 4!

About an issue affects all of us in the PNW.   Dear Friend,    You’re invited to an important, free, and virtual event tomorrow, Tuesday, October 4! The Columbia River Treaty is a 1964 agreement between the U.S. an…

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September 22, 2022 at 5:13 PM

🎧 Listen: Movement Lawyering

An audio story from Breach Collective   We're excited to bring you an audio story produced by our Communications and Storytelling Intern, Anya Moore!   Featuring interviews with Breach Board Member Camila Bustos, Memphis Community Against P…

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September 14, 2022 at 7:00 PM

Take action for a modernized Treaty and a healthy Columbia River

  Today, 32 Pacific Northwest-based conservation, clean energy, faith, fishing, and civic organizations have sent a letter urging the U.S. government to inform the region on efforts to update - or ‘modernize’ - the 1964 U.S.-Canada Columbia…

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August 17, 2022 at 6:46 PM

Hold NW Natural accountable!

Letter to AG Rosenblum asks for investigation into NW Natural. Breaking 🚨   Six Oregon elected officials and more than 30 organizations signed onto a petition calling on the Oregon Department of Justice to investigate the state’s largest gas utility, NW Nat…

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June 14, 2022 at 9:21 PM

Fossil Free Eugene webinar on electrification

Tune in tomorrow, June 15 at 6 p.m. Hi friend,   The first part of Fossil Free Eugene's two-part webinar series is tomorrow, Wednesday, June 15. The series is geared toward the Eugene/Lane County public and local businesses. This first panel will cover the …

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May 17, 2022 at 4:20 PM

Show up for young Portlanders this Friday.

Youth call for massive multigenerational mobilization. Hi friend,   We have an important opportunity for Portlanders to show up for young people.   Portland area high school students are organizing a city-wide strike this Friday, May 20. Unlike past climate …

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