Olympia climate activists from several organizations and members of the Olympia Coalition to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons are working with three powerful speakers to put together a retreat that addresses the intersectionality of climate and nuclear issues. Save the date, November 16th, 2019/More information to come.
For The Wild is an anthology of the Anthropocene; focused on land based protection, co-liberation and intersectional storytelling rooted in a paradigm shift from human supremacy towards deep ecology. This is a series of radio programs interviewing a number of activists and leaders on a variety of justice issues, most particular those of indigenous communities…
Crosscut, by Shauna Sowersby / January 17, 2020 Twelve years after the Washington Legislature first codified limits on greenhouse gas emissions, lawmakers are considering a new bill that would establish even stricter state targets. The original legislation, passed in 2008, sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, a goal that the…
The King County Council Friday approved changes to its land use and development regulations that make it more difficult to expand or develop major fossil fuel infrastructure in the county. The county in 2019 passed a moratorium on developing such infrastructure. The new measures make it more difficult to construct pipelines or storage facilities for…
The climate strikes of September 20, 2019 involved millions of people all over the world: at least 900 strikes in the U.S. and more than a dozen in Washington State. In Seattle, the largest strike in Washington involved more than 5000, including 2000 from Amazon who converged with those coming from Capitol Hill to city…
US REBELLION DAY The US Extinction Rebellion begins on January 26th through a nationwide day of nonviolent civil disobedience and protest. Extinction Rebellion is an international movement dedicated to raising the alarm about the dire threat of climate change and using mass nonviolent civil disobedience to force governments to take action. Sign up here to be part…
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 later. https://intercontinentalcry.org/canadian-court-gives-coastal-gaslink-permission-to-violate-indigenous-rights/?fbclid=IwAR1itKDFD6FjKP1NTL4BZPRxPfMGBlgwV2SB1iJD6FZ81A3dRhxfJ1rfw5U
