Global Climate Strike Friday, Sept. 20th
Have you heard about the Global Climate Strike? Bring your friends, family and neighbors to join many Seattle climate leaders and groups on Friday, Sept. 20th! Statement from the coalition of youth organizers and allies: Youth around the world have been striking for their right to a healthy future, and they are calling on all Continue Reading
City Council: Create Green New Deal Committee!
Last month, the Seattle City Council passed a resolution to create a Green New Deal (GND) for Seattle. To move forward, the city council needs to create an Oversight Committee. Comprised of 11 people from frontline communities, 3 people from the labor movement and 3 climate pollution reduction specialists, the GND Oversight Committee will create Continue Reading
Safety Pop-Up Tues. Sept. 10, 2019
Traffic safety changes are coming to Rainier Ave. S! Join us for a party on the plaza! Games, giveaways, donuts and music! Learn more about the Rainier Improvement project, Vision Zero, Neighborhood Street Fund, Your Voice, your Choice, and more. Tuesday, Sept. 10th 2:30 -4:30 pm at Rainier S. & S. Henderson Continue Reading
Join action mtg. Wed. Sept. 4th 6pm at Columbia Library
Are you ready to do more to protect our planet? Good news! We need you to join the Global Climate Strike and other important events fir climate action in September. Please join us at our next action meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 4th at 6 pm at the Columbia City Library, 4721 Rainier Ave. S Our Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie: Never Give Up
“Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice” relates the life history of an American hero. Minoru (Min) Yasui was born and raised in the small farming town of Hood River, Oregon in 1916, by Japanese immigrant parents, Masuo and Shidzuyo Yasui. He was the first Japanese American attorney in Oregon and during Continue Reading
Ancestral Waters Thursday, July 11th 6:30 pm
For two years, the Puyallup Tribe has led the movement resisting LNG, liquefied natural gas facility being built on the Tribe’s ancestral lands, known today as the Tacoma Tideflats. Ancestral wars, the Native Daily Network’s documentary film tells the story of the Puyallup Tribe and Water Warriors’ movement to resist this climate-wrecking, polluting project on Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie – I Am Not Your Negro
Please note: Location and Day Change. For this event, Mt Baker Meaningful Movies will be at the Northwest African American Museum AND the event will be held on a Friday. Details: Join the Northwest African American Museum, Mt Baker Meaningful Movies, American Civil Liberties Union, Social Justice Film Institute, the Mt. Baker Conversations About Race Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie: Soundtrack for a Revolution
This film tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music – the freedom songs that protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in paddy wagons and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality. These songs evolved from slave chants, from the labor movement, and especially from Continue Reading
Climate Science on Tap at Royal Room
Would you like mingle with other climate justice neighbors, enjoy a snack, and find out about the kids who are suing the federal government for a sustainable climate? Cascadia Climate Action is bringing Climate Science on Tap to Columbia City’s Royal Room for the first time with a fascinating presentation and moderated discussion on how Continue Reading
Celebrate Signing 100 % Clean Energy Law!
Please join us to celebrate the signing of the 100% Clean Energy Law! We did it! You did it! Thank you for your hard work for many years. Join our friends, neighbors, and allies while our Governor Jay Inslee signs the bill into law. Meet at 2:30 pm at the Rainier Vista Neighborhood House, 4410 Continue Reading
Free Mt Baker Meaningful Movie: Trickle Down Town
Tomasz Biernacki’s new documentary about the homeless crisis in Seattle is a must-see. It deftly interweaves in-depth stories and interviews of community members who are living the crisis on the streets with interviews of political leaders and community advocates, vivid images of the current state of affairs and a poignant examination of the roots of Continue Reading
SSCAN Meeting April 18th
Celebrate Earth Day with your friends & neighbors at our next SSCAN meeting. Our program will include legislative updates, proposed Green Town Hall, and the Got Green annual Green-A-Thon. Continue Reading
This Living Salish Sea at Beacon Hill MM
This Living Salish Seat explores the living treasurers of the Salish Sea and the powerful undercurrents of resistance to the corporate fossil fuel agenda that threaten it. Free movie. Doors open at 6:30 pm, movie at 7 pm Continue Reading
Free Mt Baker Meaningful Movie: Paris to Pittsburgh
From coastal cities to our country’s heartland, National Geographic documentary, Paris to Pittsburgh, celebrates how people are demanding and developing real solutions to the climate emergency. As the weather grows more deadly and destructive, many of us aren’t waiting on Washington, D.C. to act. Set against the national debate over the United States’ energy future — Continue Reading
Join new friends: 37th District Town Hall – Saturday, March 23, 10AM
Ask your state legislators what they have done and will do to stop climate change & protect our planet. Join with other S. Seattle Climate Action leaders to ask Senator Rebecca Saldana, Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos, and Rep. Eric Pettigrew what we can do to help win environmental priorities including 100% clean energy, etc. Make Continue Reading
SSCAN mtg: Come meet new friends, share ideas, and take action to protect our climate
Do you want to connect with neighbors who share your passion to save the planet? Please join our next S. Seattle Climate Action Network meeting to meet new friends, share climate solutions, and take action to win environmental priorities at the local, state and national levels. When? Thursday, March 21st at 6:30 pm Where? Columbia Continue Reading
Public Hearing on the #FossilFreeKC Moratorium
Hi All, We have been working with 350Seattle on the Fossil Free King County Ordinance. Please save the date for the upcoming hearing! Below is a message from Jess Wallach about this… Last month, we passed the #FossilFreeKC ordinance – some of the strongest anti-fossil fuel legislation of anywhere in the US – and won Continue Reading
Free Meaningful Movie – A Plastic Ocean
In the center of the Pacific Ocean gyre, researchers are finding more plastic than plankton. “A Plastic Ocean” documents the newest science, proving how plastics, once they enter the oceans, break up into small particulates that enter the food chain where they attract toxins like a magnet. These toxins are stored in seafood’s fatty tissues, and Continue Reading
Green New Deal Day of Action
You are invited to join the Sunrise Movement and others to visit the offices of our two U.S. Senators Murray and Cantwell to ask them to support the Green New Deal. The event will be on Tuesday, Feb. 26th, 3:30 pm at the Downtown Seattle Federal Building, 915 2nd Ave. Continue Reading
Green New Deal Town Hall
The Sunrise Movement invites all to join in working for the Green New Deal. They are hosting a Town Hall this Friday, at Gethsemane Lutheran Church to offer information and action options. Soon the U.S. Senate will vote on the resolution. Our two U.S. Senators Murray and Cantwell have not yet made a commitment to Continue Reading
SSCAN Meeting, Feb. 21st – Find out how you can help protect our climate!
You can learn how to help make our city, county, and state fossil fuel free, safe, and healthy for all at our our next South Seattle Climate Action Network (SSCAN) meeting on March 21. *Hear about our recent meetings with elected representatives; *Practice how to write, call and discuss about climate justice with electeds and Continue Reading