Free Mt Baker Meaningful Movie – Whose Streets
Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing racial tensions and Continue Reading
Next SSCAN Meeting: Thurs. Jan. 17th 6:30 pm
Are you ready to step up for climate justice? Come to our next South Seattle Climate Action Network meeting to find out how you can help make our city, county, state and world free of fossil fuels and more safe & healthy for all. Hear about how you can support the Fossil Fuel King County Continue Reading
Free Mt Baker Meaningful Movie – Groundswell Rising
Watch Groundswell Rising and then learn how you can take action to keep fracked gas out of the PNW! Doors Open: 6 pm for snacks and conversation. Movie starts at 6:30 pm. Stay for speakers & audience discussion after the movie. This award-winning film tells the powerful story of local communities fighting to protect their Continue Reading
SSCAN Supports Meaningful Movie Special Event – “The People vs the Politicians”
Fix Democracy First and the Meaningful Movies Project presents: “The People vs the Politicians” – Documentary by Hedrick Smith Join us for the very special event to watch and discuss the new film by Hedrick Smith and Northern Lights Productions. For every flaw in our politics – dark money, vote suppression, gerrymandering, Citizens United, Mega-Donors, Continue Reading
Mt Baker Meaningful Movies 3 Year Anniversary and Documentary: Happy!
Happy! Thursday, Nov 29th, 2018 6:30 pm Mt. Baker Community Club, 2811 Mt. Rainier Dr. S. Seattle, 98144 Please join us to see an award winning documentary, Happy, at the Mt. Baker Community Clubhouse, at 2811 Mt. Rainier Drive South on Thursday, Nov. 29th at 6:30 pm. Doors open at 6:00 pm. The movie Happy Continue Reading
SSCAN Meeting – Nov 7, 6pm, Douglass Truth Library – Let’s Celebrate
Next SSCAN meeting Wednesday November 7: Celebrate the election results & decide what’s next. Douglas Truth Library Please note change of date & place for our next mtg. Join us for a meeting about next steps. We will be talking about the upcoming legislative session. We have also invited speakers from the 350 Transportation Team, and from Continue Reading
Free Movie – Indivisible: Love Knows No Borders
“Indivisible: Love Knows No Borders” is an award-winning documentary about the real people at the heart of our nation’s immigration debate. Renata, Evelyn, and Antonio were young children when their parents brought them to the U.S. in search of a better life; they were teenagers when their mothers, fathers, and siblings were deported. Today, they Continue Reading
Call for Clean Air and Energy Now
Please join us Thursday, Oct. 4th at 6 pm to call for Clean Energy! At our meeting, you will learn how to inspire out neighbors to vote “Yes” for Clean Air & Energy Initiative 1631. For your convenience, we will meet in the Conference Rm. at Hillman City Collaboratory, 5623 Rainier Ave. After a brief campaign update, we’ll Continue Reading
Free Mt Baker Meaningful Movie – Reinventing Power
We are excited to partner with the Sierra Club with their new movie, “Reinventing Power”, showing how can we switch to clean energy while protecting our jobs and economic security. Reinventing Power: America’s Renewable Energy Boom takes us across the country to hear directly from the people making our clean energy future achievable. These individuals Continue Reading
September 6th Monthly Meeting – (At SSCAN’s new home in the Hillman City Collaboratory!)
South Seattle Climate Action Network has a new home at the Hillman City Collaboratory and we have changed our monthly meeting time to the First Thursday of every month (except August and December). The agenda will include canvassing tips from the new 1631 Field Organizer; fall movie updates; and a sneak preview of our legislative Continue Reading
ACTION AND DISCUSSION GROUP – DEFEND OUR CLIMATE!
Please join us for an empowering conversation about the state of our climate and how we can cultivate hope so that we can work to protect and restore our planet. We will meet at the Beacon Hill Library in South Seattle at 6pm on August 30. As we suffer unprecedented heat waves, ferocious fires, and Continue Reading
Join us Sat. Aug. 11th for I-1631 Voter Turnout
Join us now to win Clean Energy, 1631! We did it! Now we have Clean Energy on the ballot, we need to make sure folks vote for I-1631! We are outraged to discover that Big Oil fossil fuel corporations like Shell and Exxon plan to spend over $25 million to pay a California consultant firm Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie-Environmental Footprint of War
Please join us for the next movie, Scarred Lands, Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War. This film shows how wars and preparation for war threaten our planet. From production of weapons through combat to cleanup and restoration, war pollutes land, air, and water, destroys biodiversity, and drains natural resources. Yet the environmental damage of Continue Reading
You are invited: I-1631 Volunteer Appreciation Party
Hey All – In place of our July meeting, we will be heading to the 1631 Volunteer Appreciation Party at Washington Hall on July 19th! We are re-posting a letter from Ahmed Gaya which provides details about the upcoming PARTY and next steps! See below! Getting on the ballot was just the first step. The Continue Reading
June Meaningful Movie – The Mask You Live In
This documentary was written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom and explores what Newsom perceives to be harmful notions about masculinity in American culture. The film follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and Continue Reading
1631 Speed Dating – Round 2 and other fun stuff!
Breaking News: Initiative 1631 needs our help now! We have changed our upcoming meeting agenda to include signature gathering during the meeting. We will have a quick update by John Stafford about our meeting with the Governor’s climate change policy advisor and then we will move on to 1631 speed dating AND signature gathering! (Still Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie – Traces of the Trade
Please join us for the next event on race and social justice from the Mount Baker Community Club. This will be an opportunity for in-depth discussion reflecting on the North American slave trade. Traces of the Trade sets out to plumb contentious questions: What is the full story of the northern slave trade? What responsibility Continue Reading
1631 Speed Dating
WHAT IS 1631 SPEED DATING? South Seattle Climate Action Network is helping 1631 signature gatherers find partners for signature gathering events! WHY? Because taking climate action and gathering signatures should be FUN! And hanging out with new or old friends who care about the planet is a beautiful thing to do! WHERE? We’ll give you Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie – Making A Killing: Guns Greed and the NRA
Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and The NRA tells the stories of how guns, and the billions made off of them, affect the lives of everyday Americans. It features personal stories from people across the country who have been affected by gun violence, including survivors and victims’ families. The film exposes how the powerful gun Continue Reading
SSCAN Monthly Meeting
Please join us at our next monthly meeting at the Columbia City Library on April 19th at 6pm. We have a number of things on the agenda. We will be discussing what happened during this past legislative session then Sophia Hoffacker who is an organizer with the 1631 campaign will be joining us to provide Continue Reading
Meaningful Movie: The Trans List
Award-winning filmmaker, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, brings us, “A bracing hour of personal history, struggle and liberation.” (L.A. Times) The Trans List explores the range of experiences lived by Americans who identify as transgender (an umbrella term for people whose gender identity does not conform to that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth). Continue Reading