Panel on Carbon Trading & Carbon Offsets
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When
Postponed, TBA
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Carbon trading and carbon offsets are being promoted as solutions to the climate crisis. The flip side to carbon offsets are that they are harming Indigenous forest dwelling peoples around the world. Many Indigenous people refer to carbon offsets as another form of colonization. Panelists include Gary Graham Hughes who is the California Policy Monitor at Biofuelwatch, and members of Idle No More SF Bay, Daniel Ilario and Pennie Opal Plant. This is a free event.
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Visioning Climate Justice
Visioning Climate Justice! An evening of learning, inspiration, and art.
Featuring Sogorea Te Land Trust co-founder Corrina Gould, youth activists Isha Clarke (Youth vs. Apocalypse), Isabella Zizi (Idle No More), Hannah Freedman (Jewish Youth for Community Action), Rabbi Dev Noily, and others as we explore how to co-create a livable future for all.
Featuring a performance from Dance Brigade’s “Butterfly Effect”.
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IMPORTANT UPDATE ON ALL OF OUR MARCH EVENTS and
ACTIONS in Northern California:
IMPORTANT UPDATE ON ALL OF OUR MARCH EVENTS and ACTIONS in Northern
California:
Idle No More SF Bay has been in deep conversation and prayer to determine
how to respond in a good way to the challenges of the COVID-19 virus, to
protect our communities and all of humanity.
March 15th CARBON TRADING PANEL
Idle No More SF Bay will be postponing the panel on Carbon Trading and
Carbon Offsets on Wednesday, March 15th. It will be reschedule later in the
spring.
March 10th ART PARTY
We are also cancelling the Art Party on Tuesday, March 10th to create art
for our Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty
Spring Equinox Action. We encourage everyone to take some time to put your
messages on signs you make at home to post on the 19th on social media.
MARCH 19th SPRING EQUINOX ACTION
Instead of having an in-person Treaty Action on March 19th, we will be
sharing ways to do a collective direct action from our homes on our Event
Page. We plan still to bring attention to the harms of the proposed
dredging of our beautiful San Francisco Bay and it's connection to the
struggles of the Unist'ot'en and Wet'suwet'en relatives in Canada who are
working to stop the Trans Mountain and Coastal Link pipelines. More
information to come.
OUR PERSPECTIVE
As Native people, we have experienced through our ancestors the impact of
having illnesses arrive from Europe to the Americas that we had no immunity
or resistance to. We carry inter-generational trauma from the effects of
those devastating epidemics, which wiped out so many of our people and were
also actively used as tools of policies of genocide.
We are living in a time in history when we are collectively facing a virus
that no humans have any kind of acquired resistance to or immunity to. This
virus is spreading rapidly across Mother Earth. The COVID 19 virus puts
all of humanity at risk, especially our elders and those whose health is
more vulnerable. The opportunity here is to notice that we are all in this
together.
Climate scientists have been warning us for a long time that these
pandemics would accompany climate chaos. We get to use our minds and hearts
to respond in the best way possible.
TAKING POWER IN A GOOD WAY FOR THE WELLBEING OF EVERYONE CROSS MOTHER
EARTH:
As Native people, we are living at a time when, instead of being powerless
against a virus, we can come together with all people to take leadership to
keep our our communities, our movements and our human community across
Mother Earth as safe as possible. Unlike our ancestors, who had no warning
or information, we have access to information. We get to model the
behaviors that public health experts are sharing with us. We get to do
everything possible to limit the spread of this virus and in particular
it's impact on the most vulnerable communities. This is a wonderful
opportunity for all of us to get to practice having a "good mind" and do
what is best for the whole of humanity rather than putting our individual
needs or projects first.
Please share this with anyone you know who was planning to attend any of
our upcoming March events.
We invite all of you who were planning to be part of our MARCH 19 EQUINOX
ACTION to spend time this week making signs with your messages, based in
love for all that we hold dear, to post on the 19th along with other
from-home actions that we will be sharing in the days to come on this page
and our Treaty Evite page. Thank you!
Please wash your hands, get lots of sleep, and boost your immune systems
with your traditional remedies, with zinc, elderberry and vitamins. We
need everyone healthy and strong for the ongoing work of ensuring clean
air, water, soil and a just society for all of the generation to come. You
are all precious and important and we want all of us around for the long
haul.
Thank you for your support.
Spring Equinox Action to Protect the Bay
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When
Spring Equinox
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If you love the San Francisco Bay and do not want to see even larger oil tankers filled with Alberta tar sands bitumen from coming through the Golden Gate Bridge, then join your Indigenous sisters! Please use the above form to write a letter to the editor in response to the Trump administration policy to expand fossil fuel and tar sands processing in the Bay Area.
Trump has asked the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the Bay 13 miles in order for these larger oil tankers to come through to the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo. Tar sands bitumen cannot be completely cleaned from water. There is still tar sands in the Kalamazoo River from a spill there in 2015. We do not want this to happen here.
This action is organized by signatories on the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty.
There are several obligations to signing the Treaty. One of them is to conduct a nonviolent direct action on each solstice and equinox at a place where harms to the sacred system of life are occurring, or where the decisions are being to allow the harms. This will be the spring equinox action.
From the Treaty - To read the entire Treaty go here.
"As Indigenous Women of the Americas, we understand the responsibilities toward the sacred system of life given to us by the Creator to protect the territorial integrity of Mother Earth and Indigenous Peoples. These responsibilities include the safety, health and well-being of our children and those yet to come, as well as the children of all of our non‐human relatives, the seeds of the plants and those unseen.
These responsibilities demand that we act to ensure healthy air, water, soil, seeds and a safe climate so that life may continue. There are those who have forgotten that we live in a natural system with natural laws that govern that system: the Laws of Mother Earth & Father Sky. These laws have been violated to such an extreme degree that the sacred system of life is now threatened and does not have the capacity for life to continue safely in the way in which it has existed for millions of years."
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Women's Rights Forum at USF
Panel - Youth Rising and Environmental Emergency
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When
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
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Panel to include:
Isabella Zizi of Idle No More
Black, Indigenous & People of Color (BIPOC)
Students for the Environment @ USF
Sunrise Movement, Bay Area Chapter
Globally, youth are stepping up to create a more sustainable world! Hear several youth environmental activists speak about why they believe in youth-led change and how they are leading transformational efforts in the Bay Area and beyond.
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Pull-Together.com Webinar: Trans Mountain Pipeline Impacts
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When
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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Isabella Zizi of the Protect the Bay Coalition and Stand.Earth will be speaking about the impacts of the Trans Mountain pipeline and tankers down in California: the plan to dredge San Francisco Bay to make room for more supertankers, the impacts of the refinery expansion, and what resistance looks like where she lives.
55th New Moon Ceremony
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When
Sunday, February 23, 2020
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"We call upon our sisters and their allies around the world to gather together on each new moon to pray for the sacred system of life, guidance and wisdom." These words come from the historic Indigenous Women of the Americas - Defending Mother Earth Treaty Compact of 2015, which was signed on the day of the fourth Blood Moon, the Harvest Moon and the total lunar eclipse on Sunday, September 27, 2015 on Lenape Territory in New York City. Read the entire Treaty here:
IndigenousWomenRising.org
This will be the 55th New Moon ceremony conducted by Bay Area signatories to the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty.
You are invited to join us in this prayer from wherever you are on Mother Earth's belly. In the San Francisco Bay Area, we will be meeting on the shoreline of Berkeley, California at Cesar Chavez Park, at the end of the road where the parking circle is, on the right side near the waterfront. Feel free to bring water from your watershed or a favorite place to share with the waters of the Bay. We will share good news, and updates on opportunities to work on behalf of Mother Earth, the Air, Waters and all of life. We will join our waters and have prayers for the water and prayers for guidance as we work together as defenders and protectors of Mother Earth.
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Solstice Action: Brasilian and Colombian Consulates
When
Friday, December 20th
8:50 am - 12 pm
Where
Meet at the Brasilian Consulate
300 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA
We will begin promptly at 9 am.
We will be holding a water ceremony at the Brasilian Consulate and then
prayerfully walking to the Colombian Consulate where we will hold a small
prayer, teach in and offering, then prayerfully walking to the Chilean
consulate where we will be holding a small prayer, teach in and offering,
then closing in prayer and song. For those wish to join in we will then
walk the water bucket to the join the water in the Bay.
December 6 Youth-Led Climate Strike
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When
Friday, December 6th
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In San Francisco, there will be a youth strike speak-out from 10am to Noon outside BlackRock HQ at 400 Howard Street. At noon, there will be a march from BlackRock HQ to a Congressperson’s office (to be announced.)
BlackRock is an investment firm that has funded the destruction of our planet and the oppression of black and brown people. BlackRock has funded the burning of the Amazon, leading to environmental catastrophe and the murder of indigenous people, and have invested in private prisons and detention centers. BlackRock must be held accountable.
youthvsapocalypse.org/december-6-climate-strike/
No Coal at the Council!
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When
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
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Fingers crossed! On Tuesday, December 3 the Richmond City Council will (finally) vote on the Richmond Coal Ordinance, a land-use measure that would phase out coal and petroleum coke (pet coke) handling and storage at the Levin-Richmond Terminal.
We expect many people to show up in opposition, so plan to arrive early. In July, faced with a rowdy show of force from the building trades, the Richmond Planning Commission voted to delay approval of the ordinance. This time we need to show the council that the community supports passing the ordinance without delay and transitioning the terminal to other commodities that won’t endanger the health of residents and workers.
No Coal in Richmond has collected more than 2,000 signatures on a letter to the City Council urging them to act now. Richmond already suffers from the areas’s highest levels of asthma and other health problems caused by bad air quality. The terminal is one of only two West Coast ports that ship coal overseas.
Richmond residents, business owners, workers, and health professionals are encouraged to come testify about health impacts, visible dust, lost business, and other concerns. The best testimony is your story! Be sure to mention past or present union membership. To make the point that this issue affects children most of all, many of us will be bringing our kids. For talking points or other guidance, and to help us coordinate testimony, please email [email protected] and put “City Council testimony” in the subject line.
—> Visit the No Coal in Richmond website, www.ncir.weebly.com, for updates, talking points, letters of support, and ways to participate.
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20th Anniversary Emeryville Shellmound Gathering
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When
Friday, November 29, 2019
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Please join us on our 20th Anniversary of gathering/praying/sign waving and giving out information to the public about this sacred site that has been destroyed for development. This was the largest of all 425+ shellmounds (burial sites) in the Bay Area. Please bring cookies or other snacks to share. Family friendly event
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52nd New Moon Ceremony
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When
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
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"We call upon our sisters and their allies around the world to gather together on each new moon to pray for the sacred system of life, guidance and wisdom." These words come from the historic Indigenous Women of the Americas - Defending Mother Earth Treaty Compact of 2015, which was signed on the day of the fourth Blood Moon, the Harvest Moon and the total lunar eclipse on Sunday, September 27, 2015 on Lenape Territory in New York City. Read the entire Treaty here:
www.IndigenousWomenRising.org
This will be the 52nd New Moon ceremony conducted by Bay Area signatories to the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty.
You are invited to join us in this prayer from wherever you are on Mother Earth's belly. In the San Francisco Bay Area, we will be meeting on the shoreline of Berkeley, California at Cesar Chavez Park, at the end of the road where the parking circle is, on the right side near the waterfront. Feel free to bring water from your watershed or a favorite place to share with the waters of the Bay. We will share good news, and updates on opportunities to work on behalf of Mother Earth, the Air, Waters and all of life. We will join our waters and have prayers for the water and prayers for guidance as we work together as defenders and protectors of Mother Earth.
Save the date for the upcoming ceremony!
Wed/Dec 25th
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Youth Climate Strike at Chevron Headquarters
When
Friday September 27
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Where
Chevron Headquarters:
6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd, San Ramon
Join the youth as we protest Chevron’s irresponsibility. Chevron knowingly
pollutes the Richmond area, the Central Valley, the Earth, and many other
communities. And to no one’s surprise, Chevron is getting away with it. Even
when they are put on trial, our government fails to hold them responsible.
Thus, the responsibility is now ours. We will be demanding that Chevron
gets off of fossil fuels by 2025 and that they stop using their influence
to lie and harm front line communities, and the future. We are also
demanding that the governor speak up about this and stop Chevron from
further destroying the Earth. More details are soon to come.
Strike for Climate Justice
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When
Wednesday September 25
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DISRUPT: CLIMATE DESTRUCTION IN THE SUITES
CREATE: SOLUTIONS IN THE STREETS
Join us when you can for as long as you can.
Initiated by Idle No More SF Bay, Extinction Rebellion SF Bay, Diablo Rising Tide, 1000 Grandmothers, and the Society of Fearless Grandmothers
Call to action:
We understand that the beautiful system of life that has supported humanity for hundreds of thousands of years is being destroyed by capitalism, greed, and misguided leadership. Most of our elected officials have been co-opted by corporate directors and do not act according to the will of the people. They have utilized vast sums of money to discredit concerned groups of citizens and confuse the public.
There are millions of children, Indigenous people, people of color, rural and urban frontline communities, and citizens rising up around the world to ensure a safe, healthy, and sustainable future for ourselves and generations to come. We invite everyone to join us during the Climate Strike in September.
In addition to actions during the rest of the week, on September 25th, we name those responsible for destroying life as we know it. We call on you to speak the truth of our awakening to all those who are still caught in the nets of profit. Join us to disrupt business-as-usual in the offices of those institutions profiting off the destruction of the system of life we need to simply survive.
Other options on this day include creating 20 street murals, each one representing a part of the whole vision we have for an immediate transition to the resilient, sustainable, and safe world necessary for survival. Join us to dream, paint, and share how we move forward at this time.
On this day we will put on large display of the depth of our love and commitment to Mother Earth and all the generations to come.
Get involved at www.climatejusticesf.org
SF Youth And Allies Climate Strike
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When
Friday September 20
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We call for a youth-led climate strike march, going to different targets that are contributing to climate breakdown, leaving our mark to let these places know what we are fighting for. We will again start at the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and will connect targets in government, finance, and energy. For those that can’t join in person, we will be asking people to post on social media and tag our targets.
Demands:
1.WE DEMAND A SAFE, HEALTHY AND JUST PLANET.
This climate crisis threatens our ability to live. If climate change continues on this course, we won’t be able to eat, breathe, or have safe shelter. In order to successfully fight the climate crisis we are facing, we must also fight the systems of white supremacy, racism, greed, and exploitation that have led us to it. Fighting for climate justice means fighting for a world that is safe, healthy, and just for all of its inhabitants. We must enact climate emergency plans at the local, national, and international level.
2. WE DEMAND JUSTICE AND ASYLUM FOR PEOPLE DIAPLACED BY CLIMATE CHANGE.
Individuals and families displaced by climate change seek asylum in a safe place because they have nowhere else to go. Climate justice means abolishing ICE, closing concentration camps at the border, ending family separation, and creating inclusive new laws and regulations that treat everyone as human.
3. WE DEMAND POLICY BASED ON SCIENCE.
We have eleven years before the effects of the climate emergency are irreversible. We can’t afford to compromise with climate change deniers. We must enact immediate legislation based on scientific analysis of carbon emissions and the ways that climate disasters impact certain communities. Science clearly shows that global temperatures are rising dangerously, and that we are on track to face unprecedented climate disasters. We demand a Green New Deal, a resolution that lays out a science-based plan to reach negative carbon emissions by 2030.
4. WE DEMAND THAT PEOPLE, NOT CORPORATIONS, INFLUENCE POLICY.
Representation and transparency are vital for successful democracies; corporate money must be taken out of politics. We demand all politicians sign the “No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge.” We demand Citizens United must be overturned and super PAC’s be abolished. Corporate funding and donations from millionaires and billionaires must be replaced with public funding of elections in addition to small-dollar donations. To ensure that every vote counts, we must restore the Voting Rights Act, secure automatic registration for every citizen above 18, and re-enfranchise those convicted of felonies.
5. WE DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL.
The government must be for the people, by the people; all policies and decisions made must be for the benefit of all. Black and trans lives matter; the Equality Act must be passed. The rights of Brown, Black, and Middle Eastern migrants must be respected. Women deserve full reproductive justice, and equity in the workplace. We demand universal background checks and Medicare for All in order to ensure a safe and secure environment for everyone. We demand diversity and representation, and intersectionality must fuel the climate justice movement. Frontline communities must have a voice and leadership role, and we look to indigenous communities to lead the transition to a just and sustainable world.
6. WE DEMAND THAT HUMANS PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF NATURE.
Just as humans have rights, nature has rights. Humans have a moral obligation to respect and protect plants, animals, and ecosystems. We demand that the rights of nature be legally represented. This includes legislation to provide sanctuary for endangered species, regulate hunting, and end deforestation, pollution, destructive fuel extraction, fracking, factory farming, and unsustainable agriculture. All life is interconnected, and we must live in harmony with the Earth.
7. WE DEMAND A JUST TRANSITION
Countries and individuals that have contributed the most to climate change must be held accountable. We demand urgent climate action, including the GND, that protects vulnerable communities and create economic justice. Policies must respect workers’ rights ’to living wages and health care, young people’s rights to free, relevant education, and everyone’s right to affordable housing. To quote Movement Generation:
Transition is inevitable. Justice is not. A just transition is the process of getting from where we are to where we need to be by transforming the systems of economy and governance.
A just transition requires moving from a globalized capitalist industrial economy to linked local living participatory economies that provide well-being for all.
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September Climate Justice Week Calendar of Events
September 14th, 3pm-6pm: Spokescouncil Meeting*
-Called for by Idle No More SF Bay, The Society of Fearless Grandmothers, Extinction Rebellion SF Bay, Diablo Rising Tide and the 1000 Grandmothers Bay Area.
-Omni Ballroom, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland
-*For Spokescouncils, we are encouraging groups, organizations and individuals to organize affinity groups (AG) and send spokespeople who represent affinity groups or clusters of affinity groups. These will be the ‘empowered’ representatives who represent and are responsible for consulting others in their AG or cluster for input and decisions.
September 15th, 11am-3pm: Non-Violent Direct Action Training
-Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA. Event RSVP.
September 17th, 6:30pm-9pm: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance
-With mass action organizer & author Lisa Fithian.
-The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics, 518 Valencia, San Francisco. Event details here.
***September 20th, 10am: San Francisco Youth And Allies Climate Strike.***
-Event details below on this page or here.
September 21st, 11am-3pm: Non-Violent Direct Action Training.
-California Institute for Integral Studies. Room 421. 1453 Mission St, San Francisco, CA. Event RSVP.
September 22nd, 11am-3pm: Non-Violent Direct Action Training.
-Greenpeace Warehouse, 955 7th St, Oakland, CA. Event RSVP.
September 22nd 4pm-7pm: Spokescouncil Meeting*
-Called for by Idle No More SF Bay, The Society of Fearless Grandmothers, Extinction Rebellion SF Bay, Diablo Rising Tide and the 1000 Grandmothers Bay Area.
-Details TBD.
-*For Spokescouncils, we are encouraging groups, organizations and individuals to organize affinity groups (AG) and send spokespeople who represent affinity groups or clusters of affinity groups. These will be the ‘empowered’ representatives who represent and are responsible for consulting others in their AG or cluster for input and decisions.
September 23rd 7pm-9pm: An Evening With Land & Water Protectors.
-523 International Blvd, Oakland. Event details here.
***September 25th 7am-5pm: Strike for Climate Justice!***
-With the Climate Justice SF Coalition
-Montgomery & Market Streets, SF. Event details below on this page or here.
September 27th 9am-12pm: Youth Climate Strike at Chevron Headquarters
-Chevron Headquarters: 6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd, San Ramon
-See event listing below on this page.
Know Your Rights and Digital Security for Activists
When
Sunday, September 8
3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Where
The Warehouse •955 7th St
Oakland, CA 94607
RSVP only, please sign up on the Diablo Rising Tide event page to attend. For more info email [email protected]
Diablo Rising Tide is excited to host friends from the Civil Liberties Defense Center for a two-part training - specifically geared towards people doing climate justice organizing. The training will be held at The Warehouse (955 7th St) in West Oakland Oakland, beginning at 3pm. The space is ADA accessible, and just a 10-minute walk from West Oakland BART station. There is limited street parking. If you require translation or other assistance - please let Diablo Rising Tide know in advance!
- Part 1: Know Your Rights - 3:00 - 5:00 Tips for understanding your First Amendment Rights, dealing with police, and other legal issues related to demonstrations, protests, non-violent direct action and civil disobedience. Learn how corporations and the government are attempting to undercut your activism and what you can do to better protect you and your community.
- Part 2: Digital Security for Activists - 5:30 - 7:00 Between government surveillance, private companies infiltrating movements, and public doxing - learn how you can better safeguard your information, communicate more securely, and protect yourself digitally. Feel free to bring your laptop or phone - and you can start to implement some of these tips on the spot.
There will be a 30-minute break between the sessions, and you can attend either training or both.
Community Toxics Tour
When
Saturday August 24, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Where
Rodeo, California
RSVP for location
Protect the Bay Coalition will be hosting
an RSVP only community toxics tour in rodeo to learn about the Phillips 66
Refinery and other potential threats to our San Francisco Bay.
Please RSVP at protectthebay.org
Brasil Solidarity Network Rally
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When
Friday, August 30, 2019
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It’s time for our August rally!! Please join Brasil Solidarity Network in front of the Brasilian consulate for our monthly rally.
Month of Momentum: 30 Days of Action to Close the Camps (ICE SF)
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When
Starting August 1, 12:00 pm
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A month of daily actions every day in August from Noon to 1pm at ICE (630 Sansome Street) in San Francisco.
***Saturday, August 24th Idle no more sf Bay will be partnering with Ocupella for an ice action and a mural.***
#ClosetheCamps
#AugustAction
#FamiliesBelongTogether
Each daily action will be conducted by a different sector or community group (librarians, health care workers, poets, musicians, dancers...).
Interested in participating/organizing/taking a day?
Let us know your group and your first two choices of dates. This Google Calendar (scroll to August) shows what dates have been taken. Please note you can view but can’t edit.
https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
Actions can be whatever you’d like, with your own specific message — it’s up to each group.
We’ll be sending out a Media Alert to the press about the month of actions and will include a calendar and media contact person for each group.
There may also be a culmination demo of ALL groups (whoever wants to participate) on Sat Aug 31 at Noon.
Keep an eye out here for more details.
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Non-Violent Direct Action Training
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When
August 4
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This training will take participants through many of the strategies, tools and considerations of non-violent direct action, including power and privilege, de-escalation, blockades, legal, direct action organizing models, and the opportunity to form affinity groups. This training will be an important place to get plugged in for upcoming actions around the Climate Strike Week of Action beginning on September 20.
WHO: DiRT (Diablo Rising Tide, the San Francisco bay area chapter of Rising Tide North America
Accessibility: This site is wheelchair accessible.
Please REGISTER in advance here.
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Art Build #TarSandsFreeSFBay
When
Saturday, July 27, 2019
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Where
Bridge Storage and ArtSpace
23 Maine Ave, Richmond, California 94804
Join Protect the Bay Coalition, Stand.earth and many others Saturday, July 27th for story telling followed by creating beautiful art for the movement!
Closest public transportation options: Richmond Bart and a 20 minute walk, 72M bus line headed towards Point Richmond and get off at 2nd street and MacDonald Ave and walk 5-7 minutes.
Protect the Bay Coalition is newly formed with a targeted campaign to stop more tar sands tanker ships from crossing through our San Francisco Bay and exporting heavy tar sands crude oil from a proposed wharf expansion project at the Phillips 66 refinery located in Rodeo.
https://www.protectthebay.org/
We will start our Saturday afternoon with an informal storytelling session connecting the resistance of fossil fuels and weaving in the importance of art, music/songs and the impact it makes in our movement.
Join us in painting banners, screenprint patches and flags. Wear clothes you don't mind getting paint on, sunblock, hats, and bring a water bottle. Open to the public, family friendly, please RSVP by clicking GOING on this event page.
**Volunteers needed and appreciated** they will receive a Bay Protector sticker featuring Jackie Fawn's tar sands tanker graphic!
Please send protectthebay a direct message if you are interested in volunteering!
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Defend the Amazon and Support Brasil's Indigenous Women's March!
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When
Friday, July 26, 2019
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It’s time for our July rally!! Please join Brasil Solidarity Network in front of the Brasilian consulate for our monthly rally. This month we will be lifting and supporting the August 9-13 march of Indigenous Women in Brasil.
It will be the 1st March of Indigenous Women, which will bring together 2,000 women from all over Brasil.
“With the theme "Territory: our body, our spirit", the objective is to give visibility to the actions of indigenous women, discussing issues inherent to their diverse realities, recognizing and strengthening their prominence and capacities in the defense and guarantee of human rights, in especially the care for the mother earth, the territory, the body and the spirit.”
We stand with Indigenous women!
http://apib.info/2019/07/08/marcha-das-mulheres-indigenas-reunira-2-mil-em-brasilia-em-agosto/
We will be also sharing ways that people can monetarily support as well.
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Indigenous people and allies across the Americas are strongly opposed to Brasilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s actions to eliminate the rights and commit genocide of indigenous people while opening up the Amazon to corporate interests. Brasil Solidarity Network (BSN) has been organizing rallies at the Brasilian Consulate in San Francisco to stand up to Bolsonaro’s policies and to lift up the harms to Indigenous people, marginalized communities and the Amazon.
We stand together for our relatives in Brasil, including our non-human relatives in the Amazon. We stand for the Amazon, Indigenous rights, human rights, the rights of nature, and against violence toward the sacred system of life which includes humanity.
We invite you to stand with us for clean air, water, soil, a survivable climate and a safe, healthy future for life in perpetuity.
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Why action & solidarity is needed:
Bolsonaro has stated plans to identify rights activists as terrorists. This includes allies as well as indigenous peoples standing up for their sovereign rights in territory that has been theirs for as long as the Amazon has had guardians. Brasil is currently considered the deadliest country for environmental activists.
Bolsonaro is openly racist against black people, and indigenous people. Saying both “It's a shame that the Brasilian cavalry wasn't as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated their Indians" and that "They don't do anything. I don't think they're even good for procreation anymore" referring to the descendants of the African slaves.
Bolsonaro supports militarizing the government towards a fascist dictatorship. He is a firm supporter of violent torture and claims that the people of Brasil support his stance.
President Jair Bolsonaro issued MP870 which dismantles FUNAI, the agency responsible for the Brasilian state’s Indigenous policy, transferring it from the Ministry of Justice to the newly created Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights, commanded by Minister Damares Alves, a conservative, Evangelical preacher.
Damares Alves’ Atini foundation was the primary suspect of an Indigenous sex trafficking and pedophilia scandal in Brasil. “In 2016, the federal police asked the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) for information on alleged cases of “sexual exploitation and trafficking in Indians”. [1] FUNAI is the organization dismantled by President Jair Bolsonaro on his first day in office.
This same measure (MP870) removes Indigenous land demarcation from FUNAI and handed it to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) under the command Uniao Democratica Ruralista, the last remnant of the fascist dictatorship. This is a Brasilian right wing association supported by corporate agriculture. Bolsonaro gave MAPA the power to remove Indigenous people from their ancestral territory in order to support corporations moving in to clear land for cattle and agriculture, as well as mining.
In addition to handing over Indigenous land to private interests, Bolsonaro named Luiz Antonio Nabhan Garcia, the former leader of Uniao Democratica Ruralista (who formerly swore to stop indigenous and peasant land demarcation), as the 2nd in command of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, the organization in charge of land demarcation.
Some of the demands from the TERRA LIVRE CAMP: (At the Consulate rally in April we stood in solidarity with the Terra Livre camp in Brasil where thousands of indigenous people gathered to assert their rights and mobilize.)
- Demarcation of all indigenous territory
- Remove the power of demarcation from Ministry of Ag and return it to FUNAI
- That uncontacted tribes remain uncontacted.
- Reinstate Indigenous Health Subsystem
- Improvements in the indigenous education system
- Implementation of social programs to guarantee indigenous food sovereignty, multiple modes of production, and their well-being.
- End violence, criminalization and discrimination against indigenous people and leadership.
- Ensure the punishment of those responsible (see 7) redressing the damages caused and the commitment of government bodies to protect indigenous lives.
On May 9th Brazilian lawmakers voted to reverse Bolsonaro’s executive order (MP870) give the Ministry of Agriculture the power to demarcate indigenous and Quilombola territory lines and returns this power to FUNAI (National Indian Foundation) while simultaneously voting for the reinstatement of FUNAI which had been dissolved under the same order.
*1 https://naaju.com/brazil/damares-alves-establishes-ngo-accused-of-child-trafficking *
Save the Bay from the Army Corps of Engineers Dredging
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When
Friday, July 19, 2019
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See the post on our blog for information.
The Amazon is not for Sale.
Respect Indigenous Rights
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When
Friday, June 21, 2019
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Indigenous people and allies across the Americas are strongly opposed to Brasilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s actions to eliminate the rights and commit genocide of indigenous people while opening up the Amazon to corporate interests. Brasil Solidarity Network (BSN) has been organizing rallies at the Brasilian Consulate in San Francisco to stand up to Bolsonaro’s policies and to lift up the harms to Indigenous people, marginalized communities and the Amazon. Idle No More SF Bay and local signatories on the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty are collaborating on this action which is the Solstice obligation of the Treaty. We invite you to join us.
This action will include speakers, music and the creation of a mural in front of the Brasilian Consulate. You are invited to bring musical instruments, handmade banners and your open heart. Organizers do not expect arrests, but we encourage everyone to attend a training on nonviolent civil disobedience. These trainings also share the many supporting roles that one can take other than risking arrest.
We stand together for our relatives in Brasil, including our non-human relatives in the Amazon. We stand for the Amazon, Indigenous rights, human rights, the rights of nature, and against violence toward the sacred system of life which includes humanity.
We invite you to stand with us for clean air, water, soil, a survivable climate and a safe, healthy future for life in perpetuity. There is no ending time for this event.
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Why action & solidarity is needed:
Bolsonaro has stated plans to identify rights activists as terrorists. This includes allies as well as indigenous peoples standing up for their sovereign rights in territory that has been theirs for as long as the Amazon has had guardians. Brasil is currently considered the deadliest country for environmental activists.
Bolsonaro is openly racist against black people, and indigenous people. Saying both “It's a shame that the Brasilian cavalry wasn't as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated their Indians" and that "They don't do anything. I don't think they're even good for procreation anymore" referring to the descendants of the African slaves.
Bolsonaro supports militarizing the government towards a fascist dictatorship. He is a firm supporter of violent torture and claims that the people of Brasil support his stance.
President Jair Bolsonaro issued MP870 which dismantles FUNAI, the agency responsible for the Brasilian state’s Indigenous policy, transferring it from the Ministry of Justice to the newly created Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights, commanded by Minister Damares Alves, a conservative, Evangelical preacher.
Damares Alves’ Atini foundation was the primary suspect of an Indigenous sex trafficking and pedophilia scandal in Brasil. “In 2016, the federal police asked the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) for information on alleged cases of “sexual exploitation and trafficking in Indians”. (naaju.com 1) FUNAI is the organization dismantled by President Jair Bolsonaro on his first day in office.
This same measure (MP870) removes Indigenous land demarcation from FUNAI and handed it to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) under the command Uniao Democratica Ruralista, the last remnant of the fascist dictatorship. This is a Brasilian right wing association supported by corporate agriculture. Bolsonaro gave MAPA the power to remove Indigenous people from their ancestral territory in order to support corporations moving in to clear land for cattle and agriculture, as well as mining.
In addition to handing over Indigenous land to private interests, Bolsonaro named Luiz Antonio Nabhan Garcia, the former leader of Uniao Democratica Ruralista (who formerly swore to stop indigenous and peasant land demarcation), as the 2nd in command of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, the organization in charge of land demarcation.
Some of the demands from the TERRA LIVRE CAMP: (At the Consulate rally in April we stood in solidarity with the Terra Livre camp in Brasil where thousands of indigenous people gathered to assert their rights and mobilize.)
1. Demarcation of all indigenous territory
2. Remove the power of demarcation from Ministry of Ag and return it to FUNAI
3. That uncontacted tribes remain uncontacted.
4. Reinstate Indigenous Health Subsystem
5. Improvements in the indigenous education system
6. Implementation of social programs to guarantee indigenous food sovereignty, multiple modes of production, and their well-being.
7. End violence, criminalization and discrimination against indigenous people and leadership.
8. Ensure the punishment of those responsible (see 7) redressing the damages caused and the commitment of government bodies to protect indigenous lives.
On May 9th Brazilian lawmakers voted to reverse Bolsonaro’s executive order (MP870) give the Ministry of Agriculture the power to demarcate indigenous and Quilombola territory lines and returns this power to FUNAI (National Indian Foundation) while simultaneously voting for the reinstatement of FUNAI which had been dissolved under the same order.
*1 https://naaju.com/brazil/damares-alves-establishes-ngo-accused-of-child-trafficking *
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NoMoreColumbus Court Support Request
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When
June 17, 18, 19
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**SAVE THE DATES**
JUNE 17, 18, & 19th!
California Highway Patrol and the Sacramento District Attorney plan on wasting TAXPAYER DOLLARS on an absurd case based around the arrest of two demonstrators with Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival ONE YEAR AGO on June 4th, 2018.
We are asking people to save the dates and show up as court support as we work to dismiss charges of this case and use it as a platform to take the awful statue glorifying Columbus DOWN!
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Back Off, Chevron!
Chevron Annual General Meeting
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When
Wednesday, May 29
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We will meet at Peet's Coffee and then head over together to the Chevron Park Auditorium on 6001 Bollinger Canyon Road.
This rally will include an art build as we ask Chevron to stay away from the Arctic Refuge and look towards renewable energy.
As banks and oil companies are gathering for their annual shareholders meetings, they’re facing growing pressure to pledge not to support drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Chevron has suggested that the company might be interested in drilling in the Arctic Refuge. They must pledge not to move forward with these plans!
Oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Refuge is wildly unpopular among the American public because it would threaten the human rights of the Gwich’in Nation, industrialize one of America’s last wild places, and exacerbate climate change. It would also be bad business. The remote nature of the Refuge, combined with global appetite to limit climate pollution, make drilling in the coastal plain an expensive risk that’s not worth taking.
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Anti-Chevron Day: Confronting Corporate Bullies
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When
Tuesday, May 21
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May 21 has been declared Global Anti-Chevron Day by the many communities around the world affected by Chevron's human rights and environmental crimes. Join us to protest in global solidarity at its Richmond refinery.
Chevron is a corrupt company that has not only done unthinkable damage to our planet but has engaged in a strategic, relentless campaign of legal harassment and intimidation towards those who have chosen to speak out against their wrongdoings. We must stand up against their bullying tactics and continue to fight for our right to dissent and protect our planet.
Learn more at: https://truecostofchevron.com/
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WATER & Winnemem Wintu Tribe vs Siskiyou County & Crystal Geyser
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When
Friday May 10th
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The Crystal Geyser bottling facility project Environmental Impact Report
was approved by Siskiyou County on December 12, 2017 without any upper
limit on the amount of water Crystal Geyser may pump out of the ground and
with a faulty and inadequate environmental review of water supply, water
quality, traffic, noise, hazards and hazardous materials, air quality, climate
change, aesthetics, light and glare, and land use.
They also inappropriately stopped the AB52 consultation with the Winnemem Wintu
Tribe. In doing so the County violated fundamental mandates of the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and its own land use plans and
ordinances forcing W.A.T.E.R. and the Tribe to sue to protect the water,
the community and neighboring homeowners located in the Gateway
Neighborhood Association.
This is the first of two courts cases. The second case against the City of Mt. Shasta is scheduled for June 7th, same time
and place.
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Film Screening Benefiting "Necessity" and Climate Defense Project
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When
6:30 pm
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Please join us to support completion of "Necessity: Oil, Water and Climate
Resistance" and the work of Climate Defense Project.
Watch the trailer.
The documentary features the legal defense work of Climate Defense Project
attorneys at a trial in Minnesota with Indigenous activists and
non-Indigenous allies fighting the oil pipelines in the region. The event
includes a wine reception and a panel with Alice Cherry, an attorney with
CDP; Isabella Zizi, a climate activist and signatory on the Indigenous
Women of the America’s Defending Mother Earth treaty; and Jan Haaken,
psychologist, documentary filmmaker and "Necessity" co-director.
Reception starts at 6:30 PM. Panel begins at 6:45.
Screening of the rough cut of "Necessity" (58 minutes running time) at 7:15 PM.
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Solidarity Rally: Terra Livre & Indigenous Healthcare Protection
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When
9:00am to 12:00pm
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Brasil Solidarity Network hosts monthly rallies in front of the Brasilian Consulate in San Francisco to highlight the harms being committed under the leadership of the new Brasilian president, Jair Bolsonaro and his administration.
The April rally will uplift the 15th annual gathering of Indigenous Peoples from all over Brasil, in Brasilia, called the Terra Livre (Free Land) camp happening April 24-26.
If you feel moved and able to, please click this link to support the travel and expenses to gather thousands of Indigenous leaders from all regions of Brasil, in Brasilia, to reaffirm their resistance and to articulate strategies for struggling for their rights, lives, lands, and protecting the environment, and the Amazon for everyone.
We stand in solidarity with the issues the camp is focusing on this year:
The Minister of Health, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, announced changes in Indigenous healthcare with a clear intention to dismantle the National Policy on Healthcare For Indigenous Peoples (PNASPI), leading to the extinction of the Indigenous Health Subsystem.
President Jair Bolsonaro issued MP870 which dismantles FUNAI, the agency responsible for the Brasilian state’s Indigenous policy, transferring it from the Ministry of Justice to the newly created Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights, commanded by Minister Damares Alves, a conservative, Evangelical preacher.
Damares Aves’ Atini foundation was the primary suspect of an Indigenous sex trafficking and pedophilia scandal in Brasil. “In 2016, the federal police asked the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) for information on alleged cases of “sexual exploitation and trafficking in Indians”.
[1] FUNAI is the organization dismantled by President Jair Bolsonaro on his first day in office.
This same measure (MP870) removes Indigenous land demarcation from FUNAI and handed it to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) under the command Uniao Democratica Ruralista, the last remnant of the fascist dictatorship. This is a Brasilian right wing association supported by corporate Big Agriculture. Bolsonaro gave MAPA the power to remove ancestral territory from Brasil’s Indigenous Peoples to make a profit via cattle, soy, extractivism and sugarcane production (to name a few).
In addition to handing over Indigenous land to private interests, Bolsonaro named Luiz Antonio Nabhan Garcia, the former leader of Uniao Democratica Ruralista (who formerly swore to stop indigenous and peasant land demarcation), as the 2nd in command of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, the organization in charge of land demarcation.
We will be gathering in front of the consulate from 9am-12pm.
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[1]
https://naaju.com/brazil/damares-alves-establishes-ngo-accused-of-child-trafficking
Brasil Art Build
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When
10:00am to 1:00pm
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Extinction rebellion SF: Sound the Alarm for a living future!
When
4:00pm to 7:00pm
Monday, April 15
Where
United Nations Plaza
50 United Nations Plz
San Francisco, CA
On March 15th, more than one million of our children marched worldwide to demand action on climate change. They told us we cannot carry on living as we have been living - and they are right. They told us we have to focus on what MUST be done rather than what is politically possible or there is no hope for them - and they are right. They told us we are stealing their future with every minute of our inaction - and they are right. On March 15th, one million children around the world told us we have less than 11 years to save them and all life from assured destruction this century... And our leaders told them to go back to school. Will you let that stand? We will not.
Join Extinction Rebellion, and declare that when our children call us to action, we will answer!
Join us on April 15th to rise up for a living future. We will not gather to beg our leaders to care. We will gather to declare that change is coming, whether our governments like it or not. This is an emergency and it's time we all started acting like it, adults included. So come out on April 15th as we raise our voices, our trumpets and cookware, bike bells, and boomboxes with the truth on our lips! to declare this emergency for what it is and to demand that our governments worldwide do the same.
PLEASE BRING:
- As many additional people as possible.
- Noisemakers of every variety
TRAININGS:
- There will be 2 trainings for this demonstration: MARCH 31st & APRIL 7th. These will be posted as separate events, please look out for them.
Extinction Rebellion is a 100% non-violent civil disobedience movement aimed at nothing less than radical system change. Our rebellion is fueled by our love for humanity and for all life on earth. We face the greatest existential crisis in history, but we already have the solutions we need to prevent the suffering of billions, and we will not allow a lack of political will to bring about our extinction. Join us on April 15th and onward to Rebel for Life!
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Promise to Protect Tour Training
When
9:00am to 6:30pm
Saturday, April 13 or Sunday, April 14
Where
Oakland
Promise to Protect Tour is a campaign that launched out of 350.org whose
focus is to train land defenders and water protectors in non-violent direct
action trainings across nine different cities in the United States in
preparation for a call to action to help stop the Keystone XL Pipeline. The
Bay Area is included in this Promise to Protect tour and will be having two
all day non-violent direct action trainings on April 13th and April 14th in
Oakland.
Each training will be facilitated and run by Lakota trainers and trainer
supporters which include Harmony Lambert, Cy Wagoner, Joseph WhiteEyes and
Robert Chanate. The days will be split up into different categories with
Indigenous awareness about the Lakota culture and traditions, and “How we win”.
The local organizers involved in this tour, from Stand.earth, are
Isabella Zizi and Mary Zeiser. On the evening of April 13th they will be
organizing an art build for the local struggle to stop fossil
fuel projects like the Phillips 66 refineries wharf expansion proposed in
Rodeo, CA.
Please join us and bring a friend. With the times as they are, more action
from us all is needed. Please RSVP for the days you are available
to participate, whether that’s both days, Saturday or just Sunday. There
will also be childcare and food provided for both days, check it out here :
Saturday Training
Sunday Training
To join the art build RSVP here.
Public Banking 101
When
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Thursday, April 11
Where
350 Alabama St.
San Francisco, CA
-Hosted by SF Public Bank
-These are monthly meetings that go on until October
People in San Francisco are pushing for a movement to divest our city
taxpayer money from Wall Street and reinvest that money into permanently
affordable housing, green energy infrastructure, schools and more.
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Contra Costa County Planning Department Meeting
When
6:30 pm
Thursday, April 11
Where
Rodeo Senior Center
189 Parker Avenue
Rodeo, CA
Roughly 40 people showed up last week in Crockett at a similar meeting.
They told planning department staffers that the general plan absolutely
needs to address the health and safety impacts of the dangerous refinery
expansion we talked about at the March 7th Town hall on Phillips 66.
The county is hosting a series of community meetings to listen to our
ideas about the future of our community and issues that need to be
addressed, and to help everyone understand the role and importance of these
plans and the update process. (More information on this can be read
here.)
National Day of Action at Chase Banks
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When
4:30pm to 6:00pm
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Let JP Morgan Chase know we are done with its lies and corrupt policies
that even now, continue to intensely ramp funding of climate disaster for
profit. We need to all do our part and stop letting our money be used by
this dangerous corporation! JP Morgan Chase is the number one banker
supporting ramping climate destruction on earth, representing 29% of all
global fossil fuel funding. Read a coalition study
here and RSVP.
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Non-Violent Direct Action Training
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When
1:00pm to 4:00pm
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RSVP
This training will take participants through the
strategies and tools used in non-violent direct action. It will include a know your rights training.This training will be an important place to get plugged into for upcoming actions around the Extinction Rebellion Week of Action beginning on April 15th.
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March for Fossil Fuel Freedom
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*Wells Fargo Bank has a dirty-energy secret: it’s a leading lender to the fossil-fuel industry. That’s why we’re ramping up our new campaign against “Oily Wells ” by marching 34 miles over 3 days from Palo Alto to San Francisco. *
This will be the Equinox action for the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty
Read the treaty here.
*We’ll make 12 “stagecoach stops” along the way – one for every year that remains to take urgent action on climate change– and arrive at the bank’s world headquarters just in time to crash their annual founding day celebration.*
See the oilywells.com website for all of the details.
Warrior Women Film with Madonna Thunder Hawk
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Film followed by Q&A and Reception with Madonna Thunder Hawk and 4 other Lakota Grandmothers.
Warrior women is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, an early leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and veteran of the occupation of Alcatraz and her daughter Marcy who has been involved in the drive for Native Liberation since childhood. Madonna was part of the group that started the Sacred Stone Camp at Standing Rock and is a founder of the Lakota People’s Law Project. Both women are still in the forefront of indigenous issues and work with a group of Grandmothers on Cheyenne River Reservation.
A Lakota Grandmothers’ current Climate Justice campaign is working for energy independence/decolonization on the Reservation. This includes weatherizing and adding solar to homes and reclaiming traditional farming practices. Madonna and a group of Lakota Grandmothers will be in the Bay area March 3-13 Organizing/Fundraising for “Greening” the Reservation.
- More details: facebook page
-About the film-
No Tar Sands Refining in Rodeo
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Refinery town residents and Bay Area allies are hosting a regional town hall in Rodeo on Thursday, March 7th, to address Phillips 66’s dangerous plans to expand tar sands refining at its Rodeo facility. Increased tar sands crude in the refinery slate means vastly increased tar sands oil tanker traffic in the Bay, an increased risk of spills that can’t be mitigated, and increased assaults on community health and the worsening climate. Oil industry mega-profits are being made at the expense of our well-being, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Come learn about the two linked P66 proposals and what we can do to stop them!
Health professionals, expert scientists and community leaders will discuss threats to our climate and the health of surrounding communities already suffering from intense industrial pollution. Together we’ll explore solutions that will protect our health and safety, as well as Bay Area air and water quality. Come join us in Rodeo on March 7th!
An interpreter will be provided, and food and beverages served.
Speaker list:
- Andres Soto, Communities for a Better Environment
- Pennie Opal Plant [and or Alison Ehara Brown], Idle No More SF Bay
- LaDonna Williams, All Positives Possible and Fresh Air Vallejo
- Janice Kirsch, MD, 350 Bay Area
- Janet Pygeorge, President, Rodeo Citizens Association
- Greg Karris, Senior Scientist, Communities for a Better Environment
This event is sponsored by Rodeo Citizens Association, Crockett-Rodeo United to Defend the Environment, Fresh Air Vallejo, Idle No More SF Bay, Sunflower Alliance, 350 Bay Area, Communities for a Better Environment, and Stand.earth.
WATCH ONLINE: Visit facebook.com/standearth at 6:00 PM PST on Thursday, March 7th.
Sign and share this petition
ATTEND IN PERSON:
Room capacity is 200, so seating may be limited. Please arrive early, and allow elders access to the front rows. This event is wheelchair accessible. Even if you arrive early, there is no guarantee you will be seated. Doors open promptly at 6:00pm.
Posters, signs, outside food and drink, and large bags are not allowed inside the town hall. Aisles must be kept free.
Questions, comments and concerns can be directed to Mary Zeiser, Extreme Oil Climate Campaigner at Stand.earth via email: [email protected] .
- More details: facebook page
Extinction Rebellion San Francisco (XRSF)
Opening Event: Grief & Solidarity Gathering
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In the spirit of grief, love, and compassion, we will gather to honor Earth and to affirm our commitment to rebel nonviolently against government inaction on climate change. The gathering is the first step in a series of XR events this spring as we build up to International Rebellion Week in April.
BRING A CANDLE: Please bring A CANDLE, one for each person coming. It may be windy, so we suggest a candle in a glass, or a taper candle with an improvised shield - we trust your ingenuity.
GENERAL: This is an outdoor event, so layers, an umbrella and comfortable shoes, water and your own snacks. We gather rain and shine. KIDS: This is a kid friendly event, though there will not be specific programming for children.
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2018 New Moon Ceremonies
Monthly at 7:30 at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley California
January New Moon -16th July New Moon -12th
February New Moon -15th August New Moon -11th
March New Moon -17th September New Moon -9th
April New Moon -15th October New Moon -8th
May New Moon -15th November New Moon -7th
June New Moon -13th December New Moon -6th
We call upon our sisters and their allies around the world to gather together on each new moon to pray for the sacred system of life, guidance and wisdom." These words come from the historic Indigenous Women of the Americas - Defending Mother Earth Treaty Compact of 2015, which was signed on the day of the fourth Blood Moon, the Harvest Moon and the total eclipse
on Sunday, September 27, 2015 on Lenape Territory in New York City.
February New Moon -15th August New Moon -11th
March New Moon -17th September New Moon -9th
April New Moon -15th October New Moon -8th
May New Moon -15th November New Moon -7th
June New Moon -13th December New Moon -6th
We call upon our sisters and their allies around the world to gather together on each new moon to pray for the sacred system of life, guidance and wisdom." These words come from the historic Indigenous Women of the Americas - Defending Mother Earth Treaty Compact of 2015, which was signed on the day of the fourth Blood Moon, the Harvest Moon and the total eclipse
on Sunday, September 27, 2015 on Lenape Territory in New York City.
You are invited to join us in this prayer from wherever you are on Mother Earth's belly. In the San Francisco Bay Area, we will be meeting on the shoreline of Berkeley, California at Cesar Chavez Park, right at the end of the road where the parking circle is, at the waterfront. Feel free to bring some water from your watershed or a favorite place to share with the waters of the bay. We will have prayers for the water and prayers for guidance as we work together as defenders and protectors of Mother Earth.
Indigenous Red Market
When
Monday, Dec 2
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM · PDT
Where
3124 International Blvd
Oakland, CA
The Native American Health Center and Urban Native Era are bringing together Indigenous Bay Area artists, designers, and entrepreneurs, for the first Indigenous Red Market in Oakland, CA.
Join us every first Sunday of the month for native vendors, music, food, and more!
FREE + ALL AGES + VENDORS
MORE INFO:
CONTACT: [email protected] & [email protected]
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Public Banking 101 with SF Public Bank
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When
6:00 - 7:30 pm
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A public bank is a bank owned by the public, created for the public good. Public banking is where many divestment efforts like prison divestment, fossil fuel divestment, and weapons divestment converge.
RE-Investment via public banking has re-emerged as an avenue to fulfill to these calls for divestment while simultaneously taking back control of our own city's money. Here in San Francisco, people are pushing for a movement to divest our city taxpayer money from Wall Street, and reinvest that money into permanently affordable housing, green energy infrastructure, schools and more.
ZERO financial background required to come learn how we can take $11 BILLION of SF taxpayer money Out of Wall Street and Into Our Streets!
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Report on Tar Sands - Bay Area Air Quality Management District
When
Monday, November 19, 2018
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Where
375 Beale St.
Sacramento, CA 95105
In August, several Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board (BAAQMD) staff members went to British Columbia and Alberta to see the tar sands extraction sites for themselves, and to visit with government officials and First Nations people resisting the Trans Mountain Pipeline. This meeting is the report back from the delegation.
Speakers will include the BAAQMD delegation and some of the people the delegation met with in Canada: Charlene Aleck, elected Councilor from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in British Columbia, Tzephorah Berman from Stand.earth, and Dave Collier, as well as Pennie Opal Plant from Idle No More SF Bay.
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Forest Offsets are Carbon Trading = Climate Disruption
When
8:00 am
Nov 16th
Where
1001 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Carbon trading mechanisms allow the fossil fuel industry to continue to
emit carbon into the atmosphere, as well as devastate the health of
communities living near extraction sites, infrastructure projects and
refineries. Tropical forest offsets impact Indigenous people who have
protected their living forests for thousands of years and have been shown
to be ineffective & divide communities. The tropical forest offsets that
the California Air Resources Board (CARB) are promoting are false solutions
in light of the recent Intercontinental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)
report which indicates that to prevent climate catastrophe the world must
decarbonize within 12 years.
You are invited to join us at the CARB meeting on November 15th to say NO
to the Tropical Forest Standard (TFS) for a rally at 8am. We will announce
where this issue is on the agenda when it is posted on the CARB website.
Notable Attendees:
Chief Ninawa, from the Amazon in Brazil
Ana Valadez, social movement scholar from Chiapas, Mexico
Isaac Osoume, Cross River State, Nigeria
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Stop Insuring Climate Change
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Insurance companies are supposed to protect us from catastrophic risks. Yet when it comes to the largest threat to humanity – climate change – U.S. insurance companies are actually doing the exact opposite. Through their massive investments in fossil fuel companies & insuring of drilling and mining projects the U,S. insurance industry is making the problem worse. This has to stop. Hundreds of lobbyists for the US insurance industry are coming to downtown San Francisco for a convention. Join us at lunch time to send them a message:
Insure Our Future: Stop Insuring Climate Change!
Meet us at the corner of Taylor & O'Farrell at 11:45am. We’ll have colorful costumes, signage & some great guest speakers including:
Isabella Zizi, Idle No More SF Bay & /Stand.earth
Mike Mattoch, Consumer Watchdog, formerly Senior Legislative Counsel to USAA
Thomas Joseph, Co-Director of California Kitchen & resident of the Hoopa Valley Reservation in Humboldt County
For more information on the campaign visit www.insureourfuture.us
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No More Refinery Expansions: Yes to Clean Air, Water & Soil!
When
Saturday, September 22, 2018
11:00 AM
Where
Phillips 66 Refinery in Rodeo, CA
(Meet at Lone Tree Point in Rodeo)
What
Join signatories of the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty, Idle No More SF Bay, Stand.earth, our First Nations guests Cedar George-Parker and Charlene Aleck and many others for a prayer, prayer walk and teach in at Phillips 66 in Rodeo, CA
Oil Pipelines Connecting Resistance: Panel Discussion
When
Thursday, September 20, 2018
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM with light snacks.
Where
Cedar Center in the Native American Health Center
3124 International Blvd Oakland, CA
What
Join Idle No More SF Bay with the support of Stand in a powerful discussion
about how resistance to oil pipelines, oil tankers, and refinery expansions
connects frontline communities in Canada and the US who are rising to stop
climate change.
Capacity: Space is limited to 75 seats. Reserved seats will be up front for
elders, first come first serve. If you aren't able to make it, Stand.earth
will be Facebook live streaming.
We invite you to save September 22nd for a fall equinox prayer and teach in
at the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo with the Indigenous Women of the
Americas Defending Mother Earth signatories, Idle No More SF Bay, Stand,
and many more! to find out more information, follow this link (soon to be
posted)
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Moderator: Isabella Zizi
Member of Idle No More SF Bay and organizer with Stand
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Charlene Aleck
Charlene’s ancestral name is Ts’simtelot and she is the daughter of the
late Joe (Siyamelelexw) and Irene (Te-aktenaw) nee George, Aleck. She holds
the Sacred Trust Initiative portfolio and works with the STI team to oppose
the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline and protect TWN lands and
waters for future generations. Charlene is carrying on her family tradition
as a member of the Children of Takaya dance group and has a great interest
in reviving our Henqeminem language.
Her goals for the future are to uphold the integrity of her ancestors in
practicing cultural traditions; being a strong, clear voice with respect
and dignity; providing leadership for our people to be represented at all
levels; and empowering our youth to be successful.
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Cedar George-Parker
Cedar is 21 years old. He is a member of the Tsleil Waututh Nation and
Tulalip Tribes from the Salish Sea. Recently his nation won a victory in
the courts to stand up against Kinder Morgan to protect the Burrard Inlet.
Cedar has been doing environmental work from an early age. Which sparked a
strong determination in him to make a change and to stick up for the land
and the people. From Paris to New Zealand, Cedar has travelled to help
Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups stick up for the land and the people
too. This also led him to working with United Nations and doing divestment
work from the United States to Europe.
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Dr. Melinda Micco
Melinda Micco (Seminole/Creek/Choctaw) received her doctorate in Ethnic
Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research has focused
on multiracial identity in American Indian and African American
communities, primarily in the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. She is the
author of several articles on African Americans and American Indians. Her
documentary about Native women Killing the 7th Generation: Reproductive
Abuses against Indigenous Women has been shown in many areas, including the
Bioneers Conference, Intertribal Friendship House, The Queer Women of Color
Film Festival, and the University of California, Santa Barbara and Bay Area
libraries. She is also working on a book Seminole Voices in Indian Country
and a film on the Refinery Healing Walks with Chihiro Wimbush.
She is a member of Idle No More SF Bay Solidarity Group that is dedicated
to affirming treaty rights for First Nations peoples in Canada and American
Indian peoples in the US. She is also a signer of the Indigenous Women of
the Americas ‐ Defenders of Mother Earth Treaty Compact 2015 and supporter
and defender of the Standing Rock Sioux camps in North Dakota.
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Shoshana Wechsler
Shoshana is a founding mother of the Sunflower Alliance, a group dedicated
to environmental justice and fossil fuel resistance in the Bay Area. She
has contributed over the course of her lifetime to the messy, glorious and
often frustrating collective project of remaking the world from the bottom
up.
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John Gioia
John is a Contra Costa County Supervisor whose District includes the
Richmond Chevron Refinery. He is also a Board Member of the Bay Air Quality
Management District (BAAQMD). John recently returned from Alberta and
British Columbia as a member of a fact finding delegation on the Kinder
Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline and the Alberta tar sands.
Pathway to Paris Concert
When
Friday, September 14, 2018
7:00 PM
Where
The Masonic
San Francisco
What
Leading musicians, artists, thinkers, and policymakers, this concert will
serve as a call to action, urging the international community to ramp up
ambition towards a climate safe future for all. Line up includes: Patty
Smith, Bob Weir, Eric Burden, Flea, Tenzin Choegyal, Bill McKibbon, Steven
Sebring, Idle No More SF Bay's Pennie Opal Plant, and many others.
Ban Fracking Rally
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What
Pro-fracking, pro-oil Governor Jerry Brown announced a Global Climate Action Summit in September 2018 in San Francisco.
Sounds like a good opportunity to make our voice heard and make sure that the next Governor is willing to stand up to big oil!
The Center for Public Integrity on "Big Oil’s grip on California"
Consumer Watchdog "Dirty Hands" report
"Oil Money Out, People Power In" by Dan Bacher
Mass Action: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations!
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What
Protect Mother Earth.
End Climate Capitalism.
Support Community Solutions.
San Francisco, CA.
September 10th and September 13th, 2018
In September, Governor Jerry Brown is convening the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco to promote his “real climate leadership” credentials on a global stage. But Jerry Brown’s promotion of continued fossil fuel production, carbon trading markets and other incentives to oil, gas and other polluting corporations, perpetuates climate change and decimates Indigenous communities and Native nations, communities of color and other working class peoples throughout California and around the world.
Such perverse subsidies for “climate capitalism” will turn frontline communities into sacrifice zones for decades to come. Despite Brown’s efforts to show he is different from Trump and the forces of climate denial, his “climate leadership” promotes a similar corporate agenda – aimed at expanding the dig, burn, drive, dump industries, and the banks and tanks economy destroying our communities and the air, land and water we depend on.
Join us to stand in solidarity with Indigenous and frontline communities protecting Mother Earth, and cultivating real solutions to the twin crises of climate change and capitalism. Join us to demand that elected leaders stand with our communities on the streets, and not the climate profiteers gathered inside.
On September 13th, join us in mass action at the Global Climate Action Summit. (more details soon)
Our actions will be wrapped in prayer and committed with love for all we hold dear. We call for all peoples around the world to join us on the streets of San Francisco as we tell Jerry Brown and his friends that “real climate leaders” stand with people, not the pollution profiteers.
Mass action at the Governor’s Task Force on Climate and Forests meeting.
September 10th. 8am
55 Cyril Magnin St. San Francisco
RSVP
March and mass action at the Global Climate Action Summit.
September 13th. 7am
Jessie Square. 736 Mission St. San Francisco
RSVP
JOIN US AS WE TAKE BOLD ACTION!
Organized by Idle No More SF Bay, Diablo Rising Tide, the Ruckus Society, It Takes Roots, Indigenous Environmental Network and Brown's Last Chance.
For more info, go here.
**We've scheduled a number of direct action trainings to help prep folks for action, please check them out here: http://diablorisingtide.org/take-action-diablo-rising-tide-calendar-of-direct-action-events-and-trainings/
Tear Down White Supremacy 2.0
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What
This is the final opportunity to testify and demand that the Early Days statue is removed. The Arts Commission, the Historic Preservation Commission, the Human Rights Commission, and the Board of Supervisors all agree that this statue perpetuates a Manifest Injustice towards Native Americans. Help to remove monuments that glorify the oppression and genocide towards indigenous peoples.
Sol2Sol Summit
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When
Tuesday, September 11
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What
The Solidarity to Solutions Summit (#Sol2Sol Summit) will highlight frontline communities’ solutions that address the interlinked crises of climate, economic, and racial justice. Through cross-sector, solutionary strategy exchange, community leadership development, creative actions, and democratic popular assembly, we will provide direction on bold and transformative pathways for change and shift the narrative around false top-down marketdriven solutions and techno-fixes.
The #Sol2Sol Summit is part of the #ItTakesRoots Solidarity to Solutions Week
Sol2Sol Week is taking place from September 8-14, 2018, parallel to the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), where California Governor Jerry Brown and global business leaders will push corporate schemes as their answer to climate change.
At #Sol2Sol, we will illustrate how the most regenerative solutions to the climate crisis require not only decarbonization, but also strategies to decolonize, detoxify, demilitarize, de-gentrify and democratize our economies and our communities.
Women's Assembly for Climate Justice
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When
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
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What
'Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Climate Change', will be an extraordinary gathering of women leaders from across the United States and around the world, joined in solidarity to speak out against environmental and social injustice, draw attention to root causes of the climate crisis, and present the diverse array of visions and strategies with which they are working to shape a healthy and equitable world.
International advocates, grassroots, Indigenous, and frontline women leaders, and policy-makers, will discuss topics including the intersectionality of gender and environment; Indigenous rights; a just transition to renewable energy; women and forest protection and regeneration; fossil fuel resistance efforts; women and agro-ecology/soils; environmental racism; and women’s leadership and calls for action within a climate justice framework.
This dynamic public Forum, organized by the Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, is to be presented the day before the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in California. A list of collective key Calls to Action from the Women's Assembly for Climate Justice will be presented to the leadership of the GCAS the following day.
This event is free, and is open to the public. RSVP encouraged but not required.
***PLEASE RSVP BY REGISTERING ON THIS EVENTBRITE PAGE***
Receive updates and invite friends and allies via the facebook event page.
Full details also available via the WECAN International webpage.
Rise Against Climate Capitalism Action
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When
Monday, September 10 |
What
People of the world are being led astray by polluting industries and elected officials promoting climate capitalist systems like carbon trading and carbon tax shell games. These systems do nothing to stop the fossil fuel industry from continuing to cause climate disruption. They allow the fossil fuel industry to continue to harm Indigenous people and communities around the world from extraction to transport to refining.
You are invited to join us in a nonviolent action that will include prayer, teach-in, painting a street mural and direct action at one of the places where climate profiteers will be meeting prior to the Global Climate Action Summit. This action will be wrapped in prayer and committed with love for all we hold dear.
We are imagining a vibrantly safe and healthy future for generations to come. We are inviting those committed to acts of climate capitalism to join us in creating an immediate just transition off of fossil fuels. We demand real solutions to climate disruption, not a continuation of business as usual which has resulted in droughts, wildfires, increasing tornadoes, hurricanes and floods.
#NoClimateCapitalism #StopClimateProfiteers #ClimateDisruption #IndigenousRising #keepitintheground #standuptobigoil #HoldThemAccountable #MakeThemPay #sol2sol #ittakesroots #RiseForClimate
37th Indigenous Women New Moon Ceremony
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What
This will be the 37th Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty New Moon Ceremony since the signing of the treaty on September 27, 2015. The ceremony is led by signatories on the Treaty. Everyone is invited.
"We call upon our sisters and their allies around the world to gather together on each new moon to pray for the sacred system of life, guidance and wisdom." These words come from the historic Indigenous Women of the Americas - Defending Mother Earth Treaty Compact of 2015, which was signed on the day of the fourth Blood Moon, the Harvest Moon and the total eclipse on Sunday, September 27, 2015 on Lenape Territory in New York City.
Read the entire Treaty here: IndigenousWomenRising.org
You are invited to join us in this prayer from wherever you are on Mother Earth's belly. In the San Francisco Bay Area, we will be meeting on the shoreline of Berkeley, California at Cesar Chavez Park, right at the end of the road where the parking circle is, at the waterfront. Feel free to bring some water from your watershed or a favorite place to share with the waters of the bay. We will have prayers for the water and prayers for guidance as we work together as defenders and protectors of Mother Earth.
We are committed to conducting these ceremonies on each new moon. Dates from the NASA website:
2018 Dates: Mark Your Calendars!
Monday, October 8
Wednesday, November 7
Thursday, December 6
October, November, and December ceremonies are at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley.
Intertribal Prayer, Teach-in and Direct Action Trainiing
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When
Sunday, September 9
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What
Please Join us at the Oldest Bay Area Sacred Site that we have been working on saving for the last 2.5 years. Come to lay down prayers, offer songs and learn about the struggle to protect this ancient burial/ceremonial and village site of the Lisjan/Ohlone people. We are asking our Indigenous Sisters and Brothers to add their prayers with ours to protect this sacred place.
A direct action training will follow directly after the ceremony. There are many events happening during this week of Global Climate Action and we want everyone to be prepared in assisting in the work at hand here in the Bay and want you to take the lessons learned here back to their home communities.
Warrior Women with Madonna Thunder Hawk at SF Green Film Fest
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When
Saturday, September 8
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What
Join us for celebration after the Rise for Climate March!
California Premiere – Famed Indigenous activist Madonna Thunder Hawk and her daughter Marcella are highlighted in this uplifting documentary about an indomitable spirit undeterred by age or government apathy. From the rise of the American Indian Movement (AIM) to the Wounded Knee incident of 1973, and most recently the North Dakota Access Pipeline protest, WARRIOR WOMEN rekindles the memories and long-standing legacy of the Red Power movement's matriarchs. (Elizabeth A. Castle and Christina D. King, USA, 2018, 67 min)
Expected guests: Directors Elizabeth Castle and Christina King; film’s subjects Marcella Gilbert and Madonna Thunder Hawk
California Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice March
When
Saturday, September 8
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
Where
4 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA
What
Join thousands of Californians on Saturday, September 8th in San Francisco to Rise for Climate, Jobs, & Justice.
We're marching as part of a global day of action before Governor Jerry Brown welcomes the world to San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit.
There is no time left for false solutions and empty promises - we're demanding real climate leadership from Governor Brown and all elected officials. That means no new fossil fuel projects and a just transition to 100% renewable energy.
It will take all of us to make this the largest climate march the west coast has ever seen.
Will we see you there? RSVP to march on September 8th here: ca.riseforclimate.org
Diablo Rising Tide (DIRT)
Non-Violent Direct Action Trainings
| Place | Time |
|---|---|
| Bethany United Methodist Church 1270 Sanchez St, San Francisco |
Saturday, September 1 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| --- | --- |
| 955 7th St Oakland, CA |
Sunday, September 2 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| --- | --- |
| 955 7th St Oakland, CA |
Thursday, September 6 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
| --- | --- |
| San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Church 1187 Franklin St, San Francisco |
Friday, September 7 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
Diablo Rising Tide is holding a series of Non-Violent Direct Action Trainings.
Each training will take participants through the strategies and tools used in non-violent direct action. It will include a a know your rights training.
These trainings will be important places to get plugged into for upcoming street actions around the Global Climate Action Summit in September.
Diablo Rising Tide calendar of events for summer and fall 2018
For more information, email [email protected]
No Tar Sands!
When
Wednesday, September 5th
8 AM to 11 AM
Where
Bay Area Air Quality Management District
375 Beale Street, San Francisco
What
Join Us to Protect the Bay: BAAQMD Collusion with Phillips 66 Tar Sands
Staff of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District—whose job it is to
ensure healthy air and protect the climate—has just secretly approved a
fundamental part of the massive San Francisco Refinery tar sands expansion
project proposed by Phillips 66.
While the Chief Executive Officer/Air Pollution Control Officer, Jack
Broadbent, was in Canada on a tar sands fact finding trip with Bay Area Air
Quality Management District Board Members, staff issued the permit. Sound
fishy? We think so too, and so should you.
The administrative permit staff which issued the permit to P66 increases
heavy gas oil hydrocracking at its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo by 61.3
million gallons per year. This greater hydrocracking capacity will enable
P66 to refine the increased quantities of tar sands oil it wants to bring
in via nearly tripled tanker traffic across the San Francisco Bay. This
project is directly related to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline
project that our First Nations Relatives are resisting from Alberta to
British Columbia.
This alarming move comes almost exactly five years after the Air District
passed a resolution condemning the KXL pipeline and warned against the more
intensive processing required by tar sands oil, which causes enormous
quantities of toxic, criteria and greenhouse gas pollutants to spew from
refinery smokestacks. As that 2013 resolution made clear, ”any increase” of
these pollutants will cause serious negative impacts on the health of local
residents.
Without this first level of permitting, P66’s proposed wharf expansion
cannot go forward. Air District staff brandished its rubberstamp for the
project on August 16, 2018, without any review by its own Board of
Directors, or by the public. This is a reckless and dangerous shortcut.
Join us—impacted community members, regional allies, environmental justice
and climate protection groups, First Nations and local Indigenous
supporters—to protest this dirty deal!
The heavy-oil processing expansion the District has approved is an
essential part of the refiner’s plan to switch its Rodeo refinery over to
imported Canadian tar sands oil. This is a project Phillips 66 has touted
to investors, tried to lock in using oil trains, and now seeks to advance
by expanding oil imports over its Rodeo Wharf.
Tar sands bitumen is the most carbon-intensive, hazardous, and polluting
major oil resource on the planet to extract, transport, and refine. This
project alone could increase by a factor of 35 times the total volume of
Canadian tar sands oil that all refiners in the region import across San
Francisco Bay and refine.
But the bad news doesn’t stop here. The Air District’s secret permit
approval also directly attacks one of California’s greatest environmental
regulatory protections. The Air District is now intentionally evading
mitigation, evaluation, or even disclosure of the climate impacts from
refinery projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
because of the state’s cap-and-trade program. It’s citing California’s
climate pollution-trading scheme as its primary alibi for refusing to
protect our climate from oil pollution.
Join us at the Air District on September 5th!
When he was Attorney General, Governor Brown actually championed demands to
disclose and mitigate under CEQA the climate impacts from oil projects at
the Rodeo and other refineries. As Governor, however, Brown has supported
cap and trade, which allows the exchange of money for permits to pollute
and now, as of the passage of AB 398 last summer, actually prohibits the
direct regulation of carbon dioxide pollution at the emissions source. He
has been silent about the Air District’s attack on the CEQA disclosure he
once championed.
In a related and equally dire development, the Air District staff revealed
on August 7, 2018 an agreement its Air Pollution Control Officer (APCO)
signed on March 28, 2017 with Phillips 66, Tesoro (now Marathon), and
Valero. That agreement commits the District’s APCO to propose and advocate
for weakening crucial refinery emission control requirements. But we say
this relentless collusion with the oil industry must stop. Demand that
BAAQMD do its job instead of sabotaging public health and climate
protections. 2
No more climate cowardice! No more abandonment of refinery communities!
Join us on Wednesday, September 5th!
- Thanks to our allies at the Sunflower Alliance for most of the
information! Check them out
here.
What
Join Us to Protect the Bay: BAAQMD Collusion with Phillips 66 Tar Sands
Staff of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District—whose job it is to
ensure healthy air and protect the climate—has just secretly approved a
fundamental part of the massive San Francisco Refinery tar sands expansion
project proposed by Phillips 66.
While the Chief Executive Officer/Air Pollution Control Officer, Jack
Broadbent, was in Canada on a tar sands fact finding trip with Bay Area Air
Quality Management District Board Members, staff issued the permit. Sound
fishy? We think so too, and so should you.
The administrative permit staff which issued the permit to P66 increases
heavy gas oil hydrocracking at its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo by 61.3
million gallons per year. This greater hydrocracking capacity will enable
P66 to refine the increased quantities of tar sands oil it wants to bring
in via nearly tripled tanker traffic across the San Francisco Bay. This
project is directly related to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline
project that our First Nations Relatives are resisting from Alberta to
British Columbia.
This alarming move comes almost exactly five years after the Air District
passed a resolution condemning the KXL pipeline and warned against the more
intensive processing required by tar sands oil, which causes enormous
quantities of toxic, criteria and greenhouse gas pollutants to spew from
refinery smokestacks. As that 2013 resolution made clear, ”any increase” of
these pollutants will cause serious negative impacts on the health of local
residents.
Without this first level of permitting, P66’s proposed wharf expansion
cannot go forward. Air District staff brandished its rubberstamp for the
project on August 16, 2018, without any review by its own Board of
Directors, or by the public. This is a reckless and dangerous shortcut.
Join us—impacted community members, regional allies, environmental justice
and climate protection groups, First Nations and local Indigenous
supporters—to protest this dirty deal!
The heavy-oil processing expansion the District has approved is an
essential part of the refiner’s plan to switch its Rodeo refinery over to
imported Canadian tar sands oil. This is a project Phillips 66 has touted
to investors, tried to lock in using oil trains, and now seeks to advance
by expanding oil imports over its Rodeo Wharf.
Tar sands bitumen is the most carbon-intensive, hazardous, and polluting
major oil resource on the planet to extract, transport, and refine. This
project alone could increase by a factor of 35 times the total volume of
Canadian tar sands oil that all refiners in the region import across San
Francisco Bay and refine.
But the bad news doesn’t stop here. The Air District’s secret permit
approval also directly attacks one of California’s greatest environmental
regulatory protections. The Air District is now intentionally evading
mitigation, evaluation, or even disclosure of the climate impacts from
refinery projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
because of the state’s cap-and-trade program. It’s citing California’s
climate pollution-trading scheme as its primary alibi for refusing to
protect our climate from oil pollution.
Join us at the Air District on September 5th!
When he was Attorney General, Governor Brown actually championed demands to
disclose and mitigate under CEQA the climate impacts from oil projects at
the Rodeo and other refineries. As Governor, however, Brown has supported
cap and trade, which allows the exchange of money for permits to pollute
and now, as of the passage of AB 398 last summer, actually prohibits the
direct regulation of carbon dioxide pollution at the emissions source. He
has been silent about the Air District’s attack on the CEQA disclosure he
once championed.
In a related and equally dire development, the Air District staff revealed
on August 7, 2018 an agreement its Air Pollution Control Officer (APCO)
signed on March 28, 2017 with Phillips 66, Tesoro (now Marathon), and
Valero. That agreement commits the District’s APCO to propose and advocate
for weakening crucial refinery emission control requirements. But we say
this relentless collusion with the oil industry must stop. Demand that
BAAQMD do its job instead of sabotaging public health and climate
protections. 2
No more climate cowardice! No more abandonment of refinery communities!
Join us on Wednesday, September 5th!
- Thanks to our allies at the Sunflower Alliance for most of the
information! Check them out
here.
Song Leading & Street Choir Training
RISE for Climate Justice
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When
Thursday, August 30
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What
Join the Thrive Street Choir (Oakland) and the Peace Poets (Brooklyn) for a dynamic song leading workshop, a week before RISE for Climate Jobs & Justice 9/8.
The Peace Poets are LEGENDS, coming to Oakland for a short time and will grace us with a performance and workshop!
We will gearing up for a 50k person Choral Flashmob, the largest singing climate mobilization in history! Come learn and practice the movement songs that we will be singing together in the streets of San Francisco (in harmony!).
We will be teaching techniques for being an effective song leader for this mobilization and beyond, and teaching some legendary and fresh new funky songs for (climate) justice - our present day movements need more songs!
Climate Change, False Solutions & Indigenous Rise!
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When
Saturday, August 25
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What
• Lunch • Speakers • Art • Nonviolence Training
On Saturday, September 8th thousands of people will be arriving to San Francisco from all over the world for the largest climate march on the West Coast: Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice
Afterward there will be events and actions demanding real solutions to the climate crisis. This is all in response to the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco Sept 12-14, where Gov. Jerry Brown, UN Officials and World Leaders will meet to discuss the climate crisis.
California Indians will lead the march followed by the Indigenous Bloc. Join us to learn what’s happening and why, and what you can do about it!
T-Shirt Decorating for Climate, Jobs, and Justice
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When
Sunday, August 19
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What
Join the Sierra Club at their Annual Chapter Picnic for a day of t-shirt decorating, cape making, and umbrella upcycling for the RISE for Climate, Jobs & Justice march on September 8th. They will provide t-shirts and decorating supplies for you to create messages and designs to wear while you march for the transition to 100% clean energy! It’ll be a fun and creative space to brainstorm witty slogans and powerful messages to showcase on the big day. They will provide art making materials but feel free to be resourceful and bring any materials you’d like to incorporate!
This is part of a potluck picnic so feel free to bring your best potluck dish or beverage to share, as well as reusable dishes and flatware (let's go zero waste!)
Non-Violent Direct Action Training
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When
Saturday, August 18
RSVP |
What
There will be non-violent direct action training on August 18th from 130pm-5pm at the Omni Commons in Oakland, CA.
This training will take participants through the
strategies and tools used in non-violent direct action. It will include a know your rights training.This training will be an important place to get plugged into for upcoming street actions around the Global Climate Action Summit in September.
Diablo Rising Tide calendar of events for summer and fall 2018 is here
For more information, email [email protected]
Join Members of the Society of Fearless Grandmothers
for a training on Street Safety and Police Liaison
When
Sunday, August 12
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Where
Berkeley, California
What
Are you a woman of "grandmother" age? Are you excited about the climate justice movement, the immigrant movement, peace/disarmament and other social justice and environmental movements? Would you like to be of service in ensuring the streets are safe during actions and speaking to law enforcement from the grandmother perspective? Then this training is for you.
Pennie Opal Plant has been ensuring safe streets and creating good relationships with law enforcement for many years. She will be offering what she has learned in keeping people safe during nonviolent direct actions, as well as how to speak with law enforcement in maintaining the peace. Attendees will be messaged the address when they RSVP.
Pennie's goal is to train 40 grandmother age women to take the lead on street safety and police liaison during the Sept 8th Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice march in San Francisco. At the end of the march there will be 50+ street murals being painted around the Civic Center. Women who commit to keeping the streets safe will take the lead in keeping the streets closed during the mural painting from 9am to when the murals are completed, probably between 2pm and 3pm. It is ok to bring a chair and take breaks.
There will be additional trainings happening before the march on Sept 8th. ca.riseforclimate.org
Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice!
Organizing Meeting
When
Monday, June 25, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
Where
The Episcopal Church of Saint John the Evangelist
1661 15th Street and Julian St, San Francisco, California 94103
What
Join the APEN, California Allegory Youth Fellowship, CEJA, Idle No More SF Bay, Jobs With Justice, North Bay Organizing Project, PODER, SEIU 1021, 350.org and over 50 other organizations at a mass meeting on June 25th. We are organizing to build the largest march for climate, jobs and justice on the West Coast! Everyone is invited to ensure that everyone is represented as we build a bold, visionary action that will channel power to the people through the Rise for Climate Jobs & Justice March.
On Saturday, September 8th, the largest mobilization for climate, jobs, and justice on the West Coast will grace the streets of San Francisco. This action will not be your ordinary march - we will shift power to demand real climate leadership that protects vulnerable communities, workers, and future generations; keep fossil fuels in the ground; develop a just, equitable, resilient 100% renewable energy economy that rapidly expands economic opportunity; and create family sustaining jobs for a thriving society that does not sacrifice any community around the world.
The whole world is coming to San Francisco for the Global Climate Summit from Sep 12-14. Because of this, it is important that we show up not only for our state, but in solidarity with all those impacted by the climate crisis internationally.
We know that the environmental, economic, and social issues we see day-to-day are very interconnected. On June 25th, we are inviting you, your organizations, your friends, and your family to rise up with the world on September 8th to demand real solutions.
This is the second community grassroots organizing meeting. We will be updating everyone on the working groups progress and then breaking down into those groups giving opportunity to plug in and network for those who are just joining us as well!
Join communities of all identities, spanning interracial, indigenous, faith, labor, environmental groups, youth and elders, and many more as we look forward to creating a world of equity, justice, and a sustainable and safe future for the next seven generations to come. It's up to us.
The story of a better future is unfolding as we make it possible. Are you part of this story?
Summer Solstice Prayer and Teach-In
When
Thursday, June 21, 6:00-8:30 pm
Where
Save the West Berkeley Shellmound
1900 4th St, Berkeley, California 94710
What
Join Ohlone leader, Corrina Gould, and signatories on the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty for Summer Solstice prayers and a Teach-In of upcoming actions to protect and defend Mother Earth and the sacred system of life!
We will begin with prayers led by Corrina Gould on the West Berkeley Shellmound which is still at risk of being harmed. She will also share information about the Run 4 Salmon taking place in September.
Treaty sisters and members of Idle No More SF Bay will lead a teach-in on the Phillips 66 refinery permitting process to bring 90 to 123 oil tankers filled with tar sands into the San Francisco Bay and the Global Climate Action Summit, the Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice March, and the It Takes Roots Solidarity to Solutions week of actions in San Francisco in September.
Thousands of people from around the world will be in San Francisco this September! We are planning exciting events and actions to show them all what real climate leadership is and how much we love our Mother the Earth.
Feel free to bring a blanket or chair to sit on!
Protect the American Indian Freedom of Religion Act!
When
Wednesday, June 20, 5:45-8:45 pm
Where
Oscar Grant Plaza
1 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, California 94612
What
The Oakland Planning Dept Staff has been making it very difficult for a sweat lodge to be conducted at the Nafsi ya Jamii center. This is a violation of the American Indian Freedom of Religion Act.
On July 19, 2017, the Planning Commission approved our appeal, unanimously overturning the staff’s denial of the permit. They directed the staff to bring findings for approval, so that the Commission could have a final vote.
To date, staff has refused to comply, instead creating one burden after another for to overcome before they will bring it back to the Commission.
On Wed. June 6th, a small group of us went before the Commission asking to be put back on their agenda. Staff response was to send us another letter, with even MORE requirements for us to fulfill.
We are preparing a law suit. In the meantime, a few of the Commissioners have indicated their strong support for us.
Please join us on June 20th to insist that this issue is put Our Haudenosaunee Treaty sister, Patricia St. Onge, and her family operate a cultural/urban farm/ceremony center on their land in Oakland, California called Nafsi ya Jamii.
BACKGROUND:
For six years, the community at Nafsi ya Jamii, has been living into a beautiful vision of living according to our Original Instructions. Sweat lodge ceremonies were being conducted there until neighbors complained and the City told them to stop. This is a violation of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 (Yes, it was illegal for Native Americans to practice our religions until then).
Because a few neighbors complained, the City told them that the ceremonies must stop. They have done their best to work with the City to asserts their rights, but it has postponed making a decision for almost 2 1/2 years! We must pressure the decision makers to make the correct decision.
We have a constitutional right to pray and practice our life ways; it's time for public action.
Rights of Nature: Protecting and Defending the Places We Live
When
Thursday, May 31 11:00am-12:30pm PDT
Where
Online, Worldwide
What
Join us for 'Rights of Nature: Protecting and Defending the Places We Live' - part of this year's series of free, online WECAN Education and Advocacy Trainings for Women for Climate Justice!
During this training we will explore the paradigm-shifting work of Rights of Nature, and explain how this transformative legal framework is already being used around the world to challenge legal systems based on dominion over and exploitation of the Earth, and instead usher in a legal, social, political and economic framework based upon the inherent rights and natural laws of the Earth’s living systems. We will delve into examples of how U.S. and international communities are successfully enacting local Rights of Nature legislation as a tool to protect ecosystems, their communities and just climate solutions. Presenters will also share stories of the growing global movement for the Rights of Nature and the dynamic Rights of Nature Tribunals that have been held in countries worldwide.
Speakers include: Shannon Biggs (Co-Director of Movement Rights) and Osprey Orielle Lake (Executive Director of WECAN International).
Full information on this and other 2018 WECAN Education and Advocacy Trainings For Women For Climate Justice are available here: wecaninternational.org/pages/international-climate-justice-calls
WHERE & HOW: This training is free and open to all. All WECAN trainings and international organizing calls are hosted on Zoom, a program similar to Skype. To join, please use the instructions below to dial in by phone, or download the free Zoom application and join via internet.
OPTION A. Join via your computer or smart phone internet connection:
1. Click to download the free Zoom program: zoom launcher
2. Click to join the call: https://zoom.us/j/4154152016
OPTION B. OR join by phone: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) Enter the Meeting ID: 415 415 2016 ** If you are calling from outside the U.S. - click to find your international dial-in numbers.
We encourage and welcome participants from all regions and all levels of experience to join us. If you can connect via computer, that is preferable.
Please direct any and all questions to Emily (WECAN Communications Coordinator) – [email protected]
Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice Mass Meeting
When
Tuesday, May 22, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Where
274 14th St.
Oakland, CA
What
Rise for Climate Jobs & Justice!
Join APEN, CEJA, Idle No More SF Bay, Jobs With Justice, North Bay Organizing Project, PODER, SEIU 1021, 350.org and over 50 other organizations at a meeting on May 22. We are organizing to ensure that everyone is represented as we build a bold, visionary action that demands real climate leadership that protects vulnerable communities, workers, and future generations: keep fossil fuels in the ground; develop a just, equitable, resilient 100% renewable energy economy that rapidly expands economic opportunity; create family sustaining jobs: Rise for Climate Jobs & Justice March on Saturday September 8th.
The whole world is coming to San Francisco for the Global Climate Summit from Sep 12-14.
Climate disruption is impacting all of our communities from jobs to justice and everything in between. And we want you, your organizations, friends, and family to rise up with the world on September 8th to demand real solutions.
You are invited to come to a meeting to build the movement leading up to the largest march for climate jobs & justice on the West Coast. There's lots to do and your talents and gifts are welcomed!
Join your sisters and brothers as we look forward to creating a world of equity, justice, and a sustainable and safe future for the next seven generations to come. It's up to us.
This will be a powerful day you won't want to miss.
Water Walk 2018
When
Tuesday, May 22, 10:30am-1:30pm
Where
Ocean Beach, Stairwell 20
San Francisco, CA
Refreshments Provided
For more information contact:
Michele Maas (415) 621-4371 or
[email protected]
Aurora Mamea (415) 660-2700 or
[email protected]
Richmond People's Assembly
When
Saturday, May 19, 9:30am-3:00pm
Where
Richmond High School
1250 23rd St., Richmond CA
What
Come together as a community to organize and mobilize our people power to impact the change we want to see in our community.
Rally: Amazonian Leaders Tell California to go Fossil Free
When
Thursday, May 17, 8:00-9:00am
Where
Front Gate of Richmond Chevron Refinery
I-580 and Castro Street, Richmond CA
What
California’s oil and gas production is harming communities from the Ecuadorian Amazon to Richmond, California. Gloria and Manari Ushigua, Sapara indigenous leaders from the Ecuadorian Amazon, will join Bay Area allies to expose the impacts that the fossil fuel economy causes to people and planet.
These powerful leaders will share their stories resisting oil extraction in Ecuador and California, and call on California to be a real climate leader by phasing out oil and gas production in the state, including its importation of Amazon crude oil.
We will gather outside of the Richmond Chevron refinery, one of the state’s biggest polluters, to highlight that company’s toxic legacy in Ecuador and its role in causing ongoing destruction from the Amazon to California.
Real Climate Leadership Panel Event
When
Monday, May 14, 7:00-9:00pm
Where
Scottish Rite Center
1547 Lakeside Drive, Oakland
Who
- Bill McKibben
- Juan Flores
- Pennie Opal Plant
- Kathryn Lybarger
- Antonia Juhasz
Reserve your seat at 350.org
Tickets must be purchased in advance.
Protect the Water - Join Idle No More SF Bay to say
NO TAR SANDS IN OUR BAY!
Monday, April 9th - 8:30 am to 12:00 pm
Bay Area Air Quality Management District: 375 Beale St., San Francisco CA
Bay Area Air Quality Management District: 375 Beale St., San Francisco CA
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a permit to the Phillips 66 Refinery for the Refinery Expansion Project. This is the first part of a project leading toward the refinery processing more Alberta tar sands and allowing an additional 93+ oil tankers a year filled with tar sands (also called oil sands or dilbit) into the Bay. This permit is the subject of an appeal filed by Communities for a Better Environment, San Francisco Baykeeper, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Stand.Earth, and the Sierra Club.
This project is directly related to the Kinder Morgan pipeline in Canada which our First Nations relatives & allies are resisting. Over 10,000 People protested the proposed Kinder Morgan Pipeline on March 10th and protests and arrests are ongoing.
This would be a disaster in our beautiful bay. Join your Indigenous water protectors and land defenders to protect and defend the Bay! Tar sands are impossible to completely clean up when accidents occur.
Indigenous Women of the Americas Spring Treaty Action
Native Gathering for Indigenous Peoples' Day!
Tuesday, March 20th
4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
915 I Street, Sacramento 95815
After over a year of negotiations, the Sacramento Coalition for Indigenous Peoples' Day has achieved getting the Sacramento City Council to put Indigenous Peoples' Day, as October 12th, on the agenda for a vote.
For the occasion we are planning a native gathering, so please stay tuned for more information.**The date was chosen very specifically and symbolically, it is the Spring Equinox so we will be celebrating this new beginning together.**
If you're interested in volunteering, holding an indigenous ceremony/prayer and/or performance, email us at [email protected].
4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
915 I Street, Sacramento 95815
After over a year of negotiations, the Sacramento Coalition for Indigenous Peoples' Day has achieved getting the Sacramento City Council to put Indigenous Peoples' Day, as October 12th, on the agenda for a vote.
For the occasion we are planning a native gathering, so please stay tuned for more information.**The date was chosen very specifically and symbolically, it is the Spring Equinox so we will be celebrating this new beginning together.**
If you're interested in volunteering, holding an indigenous ceremony/prayer and/or performance, email us at [email protected].
Equinox Prayer Ceremony and Save the Shellmound
Tuesday, March 20th - 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
1900 4th Street, Berkeley 94710
ALERT: The campaign to #SaveTheShellmound is escalating, and your support is needed now. Ohlone families are maintaining their resolve to defend the West Berkeley Shellmound burial ground and sacred site. But cynical developers looking to buy and build on this priceless land are now trying to use a new law, SB35, to expedite approval in 90 days — under the guise of affordable ($80k/yr income) housing.
"Blake Griggs plans to construct a 260-unit apartment complex, half of which would be affordable to households earning 80 percent of area median income, which is $80,400 for a family of four."
Blake Griggs Properties needs to understand that their divide-and-conquer tactics will not work. Community is asked now to send a strong, clear message that this land is SACRED and off-limits for their development. We will not allow Griggs to commit this crime of desecration, explicitly violating the stated wishes of the Ohlone people.
***Please come out on the Equinox,*** joining Ohlone leader Corrina Gould and others, to gather in the parking lot on this small part of the larger shellmound. Now is the time to grow this prayerful movement that is 100% determined to do what is right.
1900 4th Street, Berkeley 94710
ALERT: The campaign to #SaveTheShellmound is escalating, and your support is needed now. Ohlone families are maintaining their resolve to defend the West Berkeley Shellmound burial ground and sacred site. But cynical developers looking to buy and build on this priceless land are now trying to use a new law, SB35, to expedite approval in 90 days — under the guise of affordable ($80k/yr income) housing.
"Blake Griggs plans to construct a 260-unit apartment complex, half of which would be affordable to households earning 80 percent of area median income, which is $80,400 for a family of four."
Blake Griggs Properties needs to understand that their divide-and-conquer tactics will not work. Community is asked now to send a strong, clear message that this land is SACRED and off-limits for their development. We will not allow Griggs to commit this crime of desecration, explicitly violating the stated wishes of the Ohlone people.
***Please come out on the Equinox,*** joining Ohlone leader Corrina Gould and others, to gather in the parking lot on this small part of the larger shellmound. Now is the time to grow this prayerful movement that is 100% determined to do what is right.
2018 New Moon Ceremonies
Monthly at 7:30 at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, California
January New Moon -16th July New Moon -12th
February New Moon -15th August New Moon -11th
March New Moon -17th September New Moon -9th
April New Moon -15th October New Moon -8th
May New Moon -15th November New Moon -7th
June New Moon -13th December New Moon -6th
We call upon our sisters and their allies around the world to gather together on each new moon to pray for the sacred system of life, guidance and wisdom." These words come from the historic Indigenous Women of the Americas - Defending Mother Earth Treaty Compact of 2015, which was signed on the day of the fourth Blood Moon, the Harvest Moon and the total eclipse
on Sunday, September 27, 2015 on Lenape Territory in New York City.
February New Moon -15th August New Moon -11th
March New Moon -17th September New Moon -9th
April New Moon -15th October New Moon -8th
May New Moon -15th November New Moon -7th
June New Moon -13th December New Moon -6th
We call upon our sisters and their allies around the world to gather together on each new moon to pray for the sacred system of life, guidance and wisdom." These words come from the historic Indigenous Women of the Americas - Defending Mother Earth Treaty Compact of 2015, which was signed on the day of the fourth Blood Moon, the Harvest Moon and the total eclipse
on Sunday, September 27, 2015 on Lenape Territory in New York City.
You are invited to join us in this prayer from wherever you are on Mother Earth's belly. In the San Francisco Bay Area, we will be meeting on the shoreline of Berkeley, California at Cesar Chavez Park, right at the end of the road where the parking circle is, at the waterfront. Feel free to bring some water from your watershed or a favorite place to share with the waters of the bay. We will have prayers for the water and prayers for guidance as we work together as defenders and protectors of Mother Earth.
No Tar Sands in San Francisco Bay
Monday, March 19th
8:00 a.m. to Noon
375 Beale Street, San Francisco
(easily BART accessible)
Protect the Water - Join Idle No More SF Bay to say NO TAR SANDS IN OUR BAY!
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a permit to the Phillips 66 Refinery for the Refinery Expansion Project. This is the first part of a project leading the refinery to process more Alberta tar sands and bring in over 93 oil tankers a year filled with tar sands (also called oil sands or dilbit). Tar sands are impossible to completely clean up when accidents occur.
8:00 a.m. to Noon
375 Beale Street, San Francisco
(easily BART accessible)
Protect the Water - Join Idle No More SF Bay to say NO TAR SANDS IN OUR BAY!
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a permit to the Phillips 66 Refinery for the Refinery Expansion Project. This is the first part of a project leading the refinery to process more Alberta tar sands and bring in over 93 oil tankers a year filled with tar sands (also called oil sands or dilbit). Tar sands are impossible to completely clean up when accidents occur.
The issuing of the permit came as a complete surprise. The groups working on stopping this permit had no idea that a DEIR had been put out for public comment which resulted in the only comment coming from Phillips 66.
Oil tankers spill. This would be a disaster in our beautiful bay. Join your Indigenous water protectors and land defenders to protect and defend the Bay!
Protect the Sacred Action: Divest Wells Fargo
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Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 10 AM - 12 PM
420 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA Join Idle No More SF Bay and Indigenous Environmental Network as we paint a giant image and sing and pray and demand that Wells Fargo divest from fossil fuels, fossil fuel infrastructure, and projects that threaten the sacred system of life and violate the rights of Indigenous Peoples to free, prior and informed consent. We will also send a message that their grant announcement to give $50 million to Native American communities shows their hypocrisy. It is an attempt to green wash their record. They recently agreed to extend $1.5 billion in credit to the Canadian oil corporation, TransCanada, to build the Keystone XL pipeline. We are honored to have Joseph White Eyes, Joye Braun, Karen Little Wounded, Mabel Ann Eagle Hunter and Madonna Thunder Hawk join us as special guests from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. |
Water Protectors Panel:
Divest from Fossil Fuels and Protect the Sacred
Friday, February 23, 2018 at 6 PM - 8 PM
1089 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
Join Idle No More SF Bay and the youth program at the San Francisco Native American Health Center as we warm heartedly welcome Cheyenne River Water Protectors Joye Braun, Madonna Thunder Hawk, Mabel Ann, Karen Little Wounded and Joseph White Eyes to the Bay Area! We will have a beautiful line up of questions and a report back about previous actions that they have organized or been part of around divestment from banks like US Bank and Wells Fargo. There will be time at the end for Q & A.
*IMPORTANT*
~ Street cleaning 4pm - 6pm
~ One block away from Civic Center Bart Station
~ Parking garage 1 minute walk $15 - $20
**There is limited seating space of 30 to view for the panel. Don't feel discouraged though! There will be a live stream on a projector just downstairs for up to 60 people.
Refreshments will be provided. You are more than welcome to bring a potluck style dish to this event.
1089 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
Join Idle No More SF Bay and the youth program at the San Francisco Native American Health Center as we warm heartedly welcome Cheyenne River Water Protectors Joye Braun, Madonna Thunder Hawk, Mabel Ann, Karen Little Wounded and Joseph White Eyes to the Bay Area! We will have a beautiful line up of questions and a report back about previous actions that they have organized or been part of around divestment from banks like US Bank and Wells Fargo. There will be time at the end for Q & A.
*IMPORTANT*
~ Street cleaning 4pm - 6pm
~ One block away from Civic Center Bart Station
~ Parking garage 1 minute walk $15 - $20
**There is limited seating space of 30 to view for the panel. Don't feel discouraged though! There will be a live stream on a projector just downstairs for up to 60 people.
Refreshments will be provided. You are more than welcome to bring a potluck style dish to this event.
Creative Caroling for a Clean California
Thursday, December 21 at 7 PM - 8:30 PM
Governor's Mansion, 1526 H St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Join us for this fun evening of very creative Christmas caroling, signing some special Christmas cards, and learning more about what we all want for Christmas.
The Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty signers and members of Idle No More SF Bay invite you to join us at Governor Jerry Brown's house in Sacramento for this special event on the Winter Solstice. A carpool link is below and lyrics to the songs will be posted soon so you can all practice together on the way.
We stand for clean air, water, soil and a vibrantly healthy future for coming generations. Unfortunately, our Governor has colluded with the fossil fuel industry in writing AB398 and has accepted millions of dollars in campaign contributions from Big Oil.
He is also in favor of fracking, has allowed hundreds of aquifers to be poisoned with fracking fluid and is commodifying the very air we breathe with the Cap and Trade carbon shell game which allows toxic corporations to continue polluting communities by buying carbon credits.
Please feel free to bring your friends and family, musical instruments (bells would be great!), and candles to keep our spirits bright.
CARPOOL: - Give a ride or get a ride by signing up here (please leave in plenty time to get there with rush hour traffic)
Governor's Mansion, 1526 H St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Join us for this fun evening of very creative Christmas caroling, signing some special Christmas cards, and learning more about what we all want for Christmas.
The Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty signers and members of Idle No More SF Bay invite you to join us at Governor Jerry Brown's house in Sacramento for this special event on the Winter Solstice. A carpool link is below and lyrics to the songs will be posted soon so you can all practice together on the way.
We stand for clean air, water, soil and a vibrantly healthy future for coming generations. Unfortunately, our Governor has colluded with the fossil fuel industry in writing AB398 and has accepted millions of dollars in campaign contributions from Big Oil.
He is also in favor of fracking, has allowed hundreds of aquifers to be poisoned with fracking fluid and is commodifying the very air we breathe with the Cap and Trade carbon shell game which allows toxic corporations to continue polluting communities by buying carbon credits.
Please feel free to bring your friends and family, musical instruments (bells would be great!), and candles to keep our spirits bright.
CARPOOL: - Give a ride or get a ride by signing up here (please leave in plenty time to get there with rush hour traffic)
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2017 New Moon Ceremonies
Monthly at 7:30 at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, California
**November 18th time has been changed to 5:00**