On January 28th, King County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove will introduce an ordinance that prohibits all new major fossil fuel infrastructure projects - such as gas pipeline expansion and new oil terminals - in King County. Can you sign our petition calling on King County leaders to … [Read more...]
Wet’suwet’en Blockade and the Challenge of Reconciliation
CUC (Canadian Unitarian Council) eNews: January 15, 2019 – Issue 73 The Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC) recognizes the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and their authority to make decisions about what happens on their land. In the case of the Wet’suwet’en, who are opposing the development of a … [Read more...]
‘Shameful Day for Canada’: First Nations Encampment Violently Raided, Land Protectors Arrested
What you haven’t heard from inside the battle of Gidimt’en checkpoint Toronto Star, Jan. 12, 2019 https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/01/12/what-you-havent-heard-from-inside-the-battle-of-gidimten-checkpoint.html StarMetro reporters spent five days inside and outside the fortified lines … [Read more...]
Your Gift Empowers Us All
Reach beyond the mundane Contribute, today Now is the time to help us reach beyond the mundane. Our vision to empower people, with a new and more powerful thrust, to build a just world in which all people thrive. By supporting JUUstice Washington right now, you will be helping us to achieve … [Read more...]
Canadian Court gives Coastal Gasoline permission to violate Indigenous rights
The Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship and other UU congregations have supported the Unist'ot'en Camp in the past and the Camp will be needing more help as the BC Supreme Court moves against them. Watch for more … [Read more...]
COP24 of the Climate Convention Sets Emissions Rules
The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded its work in Katowice, Poland on December 15, 2018. COP24 debated the rules concerning measurement and reporting of emissions under the Paris Agreement (2015), discussed financing of emissions … [Read more...]
Ensure a Livable Planet Letter Writing Campaign
During this very short legislative session, we are reaching out to our legislatures to make sure they know that we believe that action must be taken now to ensure a livable planet in the future. We have organized a letter writing campaign that we hope you will consider signing, joining in the … [Read more...]
Pacific Northwest tribe enlists unusual allies in fight to save the Salish Sea from fossil fuel threats: museums
https://lastrealindians.com/pacific-northwest-tribe-enlists-unusual-allies-in-fight-to-save-the-salish-sea-from-fossil-fuel-threats-museums/mattremle/ … [Read more...]
Pop-Up Museums as Political Organizing: Can Totem Poles Help Turn the Tide on Fossil Fuels?
For the last six years, the new totem poles have focused on issues relating to the fossil fuel industry. The newest carving emphasizes risks to the Salish Sea (off northwest Washington and southwest British Columbia) and its dwindling population of orcas, or killer whales, if proposed industry … [Read more...]
From skiing to salmon runs, the national climate report predicts a Northwest in peril
Climate change’s effects – among them, increasing wildfires, disease outbreak and drought – are taking a toll on the Northwest, and what’s to come will threaten and transform our way of life from the salmon streams to ski slopes, according to a new federal climate assessment released Friday. The … [Read more...]
NORTHWEST TRIBAL LEADERS TESTIFY IN OPPOSITION TO CANADIAN PIPELINE EXPANSION
Opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline from Coast Salish Tribes on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border continued today with indigenous people of the Salish Sea region testifying before the Canadian National Energy Board. Four U.S. Coast Salish Tribes — the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, … [Read more...]
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
Harry Taylor, 6, played with the bones of dead livestock on his family’s farm in New South Wales, Australia, an area that has faced severe drought. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the … [Read more...]
UUSC – First Peoples’ Convening on Climate-Forced Displacement
https://www.uusc.org/initiatives/first-peoples-convening-on-climate-forced-displacement/ UUSC’s Environmental Justice & Climate Action work focuses on advancing and protecting the rights of populations at risk of climate-forced displacement caused by slow-onset climate impacts. … [Read more...]
Angry at plight of southern-resident orcas, speakers rebuke NOAA in public meetings
Mon., Sept. 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m. Samish Nation member Leslie Eastwood, center, raises her arms with others at Deception Pass Park’s Bowman Bay on Sunday after completing a love song performed for those gathering for a vigil to remember the dead baby orca and her mother, Tahlequah, as … [Read more...]
Climate Displacement, Climate Justice and Indigenous Communities
The following text is from the UU Service Committee report on climate displacement (see Resources for the link to the full report). Also see Climate-forced Displacement Initiative for more info. The threat of climate-forced displacement is disproportionately acute in small developing states and … [Read more...]
Environmental Justice and Climate Change in Greensboro, NC
Rev. William J. Barber II, a Baptist minister who addressed the Unitarian-Universalist Association’s General Assembly in 2017, is fighting for environmental justice in Greensboro. A coal-fired power plant is polluting the waters of a lower-income colored community with coal ash, disposed in unlined … [Read more...]
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