Meaningful Movie: Awake – A Dream From Standing Rock
The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. While many may know the details, AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. The film is a collaboration between Indigenous filmmakers, Continue Reading
Town Hall Meetings in 11th and 37th LDs – February 17, 2018
Legislative Town Halls SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 11th District • Senator Hasegawa, Representatives Hudgins and Bergquist • When: 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. at • Where: King County Office of Emergency Management (3511 Northeast 2nd Street, Renton, WA) 37th District • Senator Saldana, Representatives Pettigrew, Tomiko Santos • When: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. • Where: Continue Reading
SSCAN Monthly Meeting – No Methanol, No Pipelines Comment Workshop
Please join us at our next monthly meeting on February 15th at the Columbia City Library. Sarah Cornett from Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility will lead an informative workshop about how to write effective public testimony and comments. Learn how you can help stop the world’s largest fracked gas to methanol refinery! We currently have Continue Reading
Love and Civil Disobedience – Michael Foster to speak at WSUU
On January 28th, Michael Foster will be giving the sermon at Westside Unitarian in West Seattle. Michael joins us to reflect on his upcoming incarceration for civil disobedience. For those of you who may not be aware, Michael is the Seattle climate activist who turned off the North Dakota Keystone Pipeline risking his livelihood, his Continue Reading
Fixing Democracy – Civics Skill-Share
SSCAN is co-sponsoring the upcoming Fixing Democracy – Civics Skill-Share Training & Networking Cafe. We can’t solve ANY crisis until we solve the democracy crisis.Ready to take it to the next level? How about system change? Join us January 27 • 9:00 AM to 4:30 PMLocation: West Seattle Unitarian Church 7141 California Ave SW, Seattle, Continue Reading
Inconvenient Sequel
A decade after AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH brought climate change into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate Continue Reading
Climate Lobby Day
Reception: Women’s Crucial Role in WA’s 100% Clean Energy Future SSCAN is joining with numerous other environmental groups to try and bring awareness to our climate crisis on Monday, January 22nd. Please join us for this important opportunity to talk to our legislators and insist on Climate Action Now! AND please join SSCAN members Continue Reading
January 2018 Monthly Meeting
Please join us on January 18, at 6:00pm, at the Columbia City Library. Stacey Oaks, organizer for 350 Seattle, will come to talk about the protest actions against the Tacoma LNG plant and their collaboration with the Puyallup Tribe (see more below). We will also talk about the Taming Bigfoot Campaign (kick-off on January 21) Continue Reading
WE CAN: Ban The Bomb
It’s time to ban nuclear weapons. Actually – it was time to ban nuclear weapons a long time ago. SSCAN is co-sponsoring the upcoming WE CAN: Ban The Bomb event on December 10th at the Leif Erikson Lodge. We hope you will join us as we celebrate the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)! Continue Reading
Seeds of Hope
“Seeds of Hope” tells the extraordinary story of an extraordinary Congolese woman. Her accomplishments are remarkable, and yet, what’s so inspiring about Masika Katsuva is that she is, as she describes herself, an ordinary person – who became a hero. She is driven by love, compassion, courage, and a tireless determination, even in her darkest Continue Reading
How A Climate Scientist Learned to Love Taming Bigfoot
SSCAN is excited to support 1 Sustainable Planet and Taming Bigfoot in Seattle!! We’re grateful for their leadership in helping us all reduce our carbon footprints. Taming Bigfoot in Seattle is a fun way for committed activists and others to learn how best to reduce our carbon footprint. Team sign-ups are underway for this friendly, Continue Reading
SSCAN Monthly Meeting
The upcoming state legislative session starts up again in Jan 2018 and SSCAN is ramping up its plan of action for this short session. We warmly invite you to join the discussions on how to support effective climate justice policies through WA state. At the same time, the Ranier Great Streets workgroup will also be Continue Reading
Mt Baker Meaningful Movie – The Economics of Happiness
“Lonely people have never been happy people. And globalization is creating a very lonely planet.” So says activist and author Vandana Shiva in The Economics of Happiness. The Economics of Happiness, is an incisive documentary that links today’s global crises (climate change, terrorism, the financial crash) with personal malaise (rising levels of depression and the Continue Reading
Port Commissioner Candidate Conversation
Please join us for a conversation with Port Commissioner candidates John Creighton, Ryan Calkins, Peter Steinbrueck and Preeti Shridhar. This will be a chance to learn about the port and ask questions of the candidates. What happens at the Port of Seattle has a huge impact on our environment and decisions that are made by Continue Reading
Mt Baker Meaningful Movies: The Story of Climate Change
Mt Baker Meaningful Movies presents an evening of information and action! We will be showing two short films, The Story of Climate Change and Solutions to Climate Change. These films feature Bill McKibben from http://350.org, Jim Hansen, Katharine Hayhoe and others who provide updates on the science and solutions to climate change. After the films, a speaker from Alliance for Continue Reading
September Monthly SSCAN Meeting
Please join us for this monthly meeting event. John Stafford will give a presentation on the last legislative session in Olympia. As you may know, John is a teacher, and he will grade our legislators’ accomplishments. Did they flunk? Come find out… Next we’ll focus on our new Great Streets program with group discussions to share ideas on how Continue Reading
SSCAN Monthly Meeting
We will have a report on the Climate Reality Project training from attendee, Bogdana Manole, a tour of the new SSCAN website, a report on Phase 2 of the Rainier Corridor Safety Project and a discussion on new SSCAN volunteer opportunities! After the meeting we will move to the Perihelion Brewery for our customary quaff Continue Reading
SSCAN hosts Happy Hour at Perihelion Brewery
Join climate-conscious neighbors and friends for a Happy Hour at Perihelion Brewery. It’s an opportunity to either relax and mingle or talk shop. See you there! Continue Reading
Mount Baker Meaningful Movies Project presents “Nuclear Lands: A Story of Plutonium”
From the Hanford site in Washington State (home to scientists working on the Manhattan Project in 1943), to La Hague in France (a plutonium reprocessing plant), to Rokkasho in northern Japan (a nuclear plant built atop a seismic fault), this film tracks the origin and uses of plutonium. Along the way it questions Continue Reading
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Mt Baker Meaningful Movies: Rikers- an American Jail
The United States is facing a crisis of mass incarceration with over 2.2 million people packed into its jails and prisons. To understand the human toll of this crisis, Rikers Island is a good place to start. Of the more than 7,500 people detained at Rikers Island on any given day, almost 80% have not Continue Reading