Climate and Racial Justice Online Action Meeting
Racial and climate justice now, how? Bring your ideas to our next SSCAN meeting Thursday, June 11th, 7 P.M. on Zoom How can we support racial justice as we fight for climate justice? Please join us as we face our health, climate and racial violence crises to share what we can do and demand that our leaders Continue Reading
Meaningful Movie: Our Island’s Treasure & on line discussion
Mount Baker MM Presents: Our Island’s Treasure & on line discussion Okinawan-American high school student, Kaiya Yonamine, has filmed and directed a video, Our Island’s Treasure, documenting Okinawa, people’s resistance to the construction and expansion of a U.S. military base in Oura Bay. The ocean landfill work for the base is destroying thousand year old Continue Reading
Climate Action On line Meeting: Thurs. May 21, 2020
Join our next SSCAN meeting: Thursday, May 21st, 7;00 pm. We’ll discuss breaking news including: expanding the new Seattle “Safe Streets” project; state legislation most worth fighting for; winning a People’s Bailout; and passing Federal Green New Deal laws including saving our Post Office, Vote By Mail, etc. After our program, we will invite you Continue Reading
Online Discussion of Suppressed: The Fight to Vote
Weaves together personal stories from the experiences of voters in the 2018 midterm elections in Georgia and exposes how the basic constitutional right to vote continues to be under siege in America. Continue Reading
Free Mount Baker Meaningful Movie: Activized (online)
Activized follows a handful of ordinary Americans who have surprised themselves by becoming political activists. The subjects of this film are passionate newcomers to the political arena; people who never saw themselves as rabble-rousers or trouble-makers. But something in the past three years inspired each of them to step up, put themselves on the front lines, and make a decision to defend American values and democratic institutions they believe are under threat. The half dozen characters in this film are everyday people, not politicians or celebrities. Some are young — one is 17 — others are middle-aged. They come from... Continue Reading
Meaningful Movie: Cooked: Survival by Zipcode-videoconference
Because we are unable to meet in person, we are shifting to an online Meaningful Movie event for Cooked: Survival By Zipcode. We are grateful that Kartemquin Films, the film distributor, has agreed to allow us to provide you with free access to the movie (see below for details) and then – on Thursday, March 26th- we will be hosting a videoconference discussion using Zoom. The Continue Reading
Sen. Saldana Town Hall: Sat. Feb. 29th at New Holly Gathering Hall
Message from Senator Saldana: Dear neighbors, This year is a short legislative session, yet we had more bills introduced than last year! Needless to say, your 37th Legislative District delegation has been extremely busy. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find a date and time that worked for the three of us to hold a joint town hall: Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie: Feb. 27th, The Best of Enemies
Mount Baker Meaningful Movies Presents: The Best of Enemies Thursday, 27th, 2020 6:30 pm Free Screening Mt. Baker Community Club, 2811 Mt. Rainier Dr. S, Seattle, WA 98144 True story: In 1971 Durham North Carolina, a community organizer set up a series of community meetings in hopes of averting what many feared was imminent violence Continue Reading
Action Meeting: Thursday, Feb. 13th at 6pm
Come join our next action meetup! Find out how you can help win local, state and national green new deals in 2020. Find out how you can help stop a new military base on the ocean by Okinawan islands. Bring your ideas, questions and energy. Thursday, Feb. 13th at 6 pm at the Columbia City Continue Reading
Free Mt. Baker Meaningful Movie: The True Cost
The True Cost reveals the high price of the low-cost “fast” fashion industry, from toxic production to rapid waste, from low-wage workers to carcinogenic pollution, pesticides, and death. Showing more environmentally just and wiser options, the film includes people organizing for fair trade and sustainable clothing production. After the film, speakers from Seattle Zero Waste and Continue Reading
SSCAN Action Meeting – Tues. Jan. 14 Cancelled! See you Feb. 13th, etc.
Due to ice, tonight’s meeting has been cancelled. Please join us at our next action meetup on Feb. 13th to find out how you can help win greener local, state and national laws in 2020. Bring your ideas and questions, hear about upcoming actions. In the meantime, please check our newsletter and website and to Continue Reading
Action Meeting Wed. Dec. 4th 6 pm
Please join our next SSCAN action meeting on Wed. Dec. 4th, 6 pm at the Columbia City Branch Library. Find out how you can help win greener laws in 2020. SSCAN State Legislative Team Chair John Stafford will review last year’s legislative wins such as the 100% clean energy bill and the next session’s priorities Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie – Biggest Little Farm
FEELING CONCERNED ABOUT THE STATE OF THE WORLD? This is an incredibly hopeful true story and it is THE feel-good movie of the year. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll walk away feeling like the world is a more hopeful place. THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they Continue Reading
SSCAN Action meeting: Wed. Nov. 6 at 6 pm
Come join our next action meetup! We will be learning about upcoming legislation to increase electric vehicles, prevent nuclear war, and pay for climate justice with fairer taxes and then we will be taking action by writing letters to our legislators about the issues we care about…” Take action to increase electric vehicles, prevent nuclear Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie: Delores
The documentary, Delores, reveals Delores Huerta as among the most important, yet least known, activist in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farmworkers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Delores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie: Rigged
Come see Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook to find out the Republican strategy to undermine voting rights. Narrated by award-winning action Jeffrey Wright, the film reveals the dark, partisan efforts to disenfranchise and intimidate non-white and other voters and how to take action to protect our democracy. Continue Reading
Join SSCAN next action mtg. Wed. Oct. 2nd
What’s next after the Climate Strike? What more can we do to create the Seattle Green New Deal? Please come share your experiences and ideas for how to win green new deal policies for our city, state and planet! Continue Reading
Declare Climate Emergency: Rally in Olympia, Sat. Oct. 5
Please join us to ask Gov. Inslee to declare a climate emergency on Saturday, October 5th on the steps of the Washington State Capitol at 11 am: “Words on our climate are good and truthful but now is the time to come together to put meaningful action behind those words. Come stand with us and Continue Reading
People’s Town Hall on Nuclear Weapons Sunday, Sept. 29th
Have you heard about the threat of a new nuclear arms race? The Trump administration plans to spend billions on new nukes, abrogate nuclear testing treaties, and change from deterrence to first use of nuclear weapons in war. Please attend the People’s Town Hall on Nuclear Weapons on Sunday, Sept. 29th at 2 pm at Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie: Friends of the Children
Why are some children permanently damaged by early adversity while others thrive as adults? Veteran filmmaker Roger Weisberg mined his extensive film archives (33 films over 40 years) to update the stories of some of the children growing up in difficult circumstances who appeared in these films. At the time of filming Broken Places, some Continue Reading
Climate Strike event at Mt. Baker Station
Looking for a way to protect and restore our climate on the Climate Strike Day, Sept. 20th? Here is an activity here near our Mt. Baker Light Rail Station which brings high school students together with our Mt. Baker Hub Alliance to discuss transit and other climate-friendly urban design. Have you seen the gorgeous mural Continue Reading