The UU Young Adults for Climate Justice, UUA Green Sanctuary Program, Elders Climate Action, & UU Ministry for Earth are collaborating to host a series of intergenerational climate justice dialogues. The first session occurred in November, but it’s not too late to sign up for the remaining two sessions in January and March. Sign up here.
Senate Environment Committee Met on December 1
The Washington State Senate will be meeting virtually this year and next. In preparation for the session that begins in January, the Senate Environment Committee met virtually on December 1, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. The following topics were be discussed:
1. Washington State Energy Strategy update.
2. Environmental Justice Task Force update.
3. Siting clean energy facilities case study.
4. Plastic packaging.
5. Broadband update.
6. 2020 Cybersecurity overview.
7. Data privacy update.
Information presented in the hearing can be found at https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules/Home/Documents/28034?/Senate/28240/11-23-2020/12-01-2020/Schedule///Bill/ If you have any interest in these topics, please look at the documents. They are PDF format presentations using slides, with very concise and cogent points. They present some important points about climate and environmental justice that will come up in 2021.
Western WA Fellowship of Reconciliation Fall Retreat, November 21, 2020
What’s Next: Moving Into the Great Turning
WWFOR Fall Retreat, November 21, 2020
Register Here
If you have already registered, but have NOT received the login information by email, then click the link above and register again! Computer gremlins have prevented us from tracking registrations between 10/27/20 and 11/11/20.
Participate and listen to leaders working for racial justice, climate action, the end of nuclear weapons, and an equitable, sustainable society. A four hour Zoom schedule is planned, beginning at 9am, running until 1pm with “breakout sessions” and musical interludes included.
Speakers will include:
FOR-USA Director, Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson, equity and social justice consultant Dr. Karen Johnson, Backbone Campaign co-founder Bill Moyer, and a panel of young activists from the Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship.
Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship Basic Training for Peace Teams, Oct. 25, online
How can organizers of nonviolent mass protest actions help ensure those actions won’t be “hijacked”, and thus made less effective, by violent flanks, outside groups, and covert provocateurs? How can we help ensure that health guidelines are followed during protests, to minimize the risk of harm from a deadly virus?
Basic Training for Peace Teams:
Keeping Non-Violent Discipline
October 25, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Dr. Tom Hastings, of Portland State University Conflict Studies Program and Adam Vogal of Portland Peace Team will provide a Zoom training on basic peacekeeping and de-escalation theory and skills to keep mass protests nonviolent. This training is designed for those who want to be trained to serve in a “peace team.”
The Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship is hosting this event as part of our series of elective online workshops for the MYPF, but the event is open to the public.
Sunrise Seattle Hub Strategy Session, Sept. 26, 2020, Online
This Saturday, September 26th from 5-8pm, Sunrise Seattle will be holding a hub strategy session. If you have an interest in helping our hub to craft a strategy for the months leading up to January 2021, we would love for you to join us! You can register here.
Why: We’ve done amazing work since Sunrise Seattle began, especially in the last few months. In order to continue showing up for the uprising for Black Lives and other movements across the city and organizing our generation, and do it even bigger and better over time; we need to unify our work around a long-term strategy. We need a clearer vision for how the Seattle hub will work towards building people power, political power, and the people’s alignment for a Green New Deal this fall, and Sunrise National just released a toolkit to help us do just that.
How: We’ll be having a participatory session open to our entire hub, and we’re also setting up systems for everyone to give input without having to make the meeting. To facilitate that, we’re sharing the agenda for the strategy session, a shorter version of the Sunrise National Fall Strategy Guide, and an example strategy so every member can be involved and propose strategies.
There will be 3 more days for people to develop proposals for strategies or specific goals. These proposals will be discussed in the first strategy session to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses and develop our hub strategy and goals.
Once we have a first draft of our hub’s strategy, it will be posted in the #strategic_planning_session channel on our Slack, and hub members will have a week to provide feedback in that Slack channel before our second strategy session, where we’ll incorporate any feedback and come up with a final strategy. (Slack is a messaging tool we use to share ideas and collaborate – everyone is welcome to join.)
Please join the #strategic_planning_session channel on our Slack! The channel will be a place where people can discuss strategy, view other proposals, and build off each others’ ideas. Even if you can’t come to the strategy session, you can develop proposals or explain your vision for our hub this fall in that channel, and your contributions will be taken into consideration during our planning session.
Excited but unsure of how to draft your own strategy proposal?: The Sunrise National fall strategy guide is a great resource for drafting your own proposals. In addition, our Trainings Team put together a document explaining the Act-Recruit-Train cycle that Sunrise uses, our theory of change, and key questions to keep in mind when drafting a proposal for a strategy or goal.
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