PDX Climate Strike – Sept 20
Earlier this year, Greta Thunberg and dozens of other youth activists issued a call to everyone around the globe to join them in a massive climate strike on September 20th. The Climate Strike will kick-off a week of mass, escalated actions between Sept 20-28.
School strikers are calling on everyone ― young people, parents, workers, and all concerned people ― to join a massive climate strike on September 20th to demand an end to the age of fossil fuels.
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Are you ready to protect the climate?
Now more than ever we need a people powered movement to take on corporate polluters and climate deniers.
There is so much work to do and many ways to engage!
- Make sure you’re on our email list. We’ll keep you current on what’s going on.
- Check the calendar for upcoming events and immediate ways to plug in. Add your voice, and connect with others. We’d love to meet you in person!
- Sign up on our Volunteer page. See where you would like to contribute. Whether you have 10 hours a week or an hour a month, 350PDX is people-powered and your contribution is valuable!
- Donate money. It takes money to keep our office open, pay staff, and fund the incredible actions and campaigns our volunteers run.
350PDX Weekly Update – 2 weeks until Climate Strike! – Sept 6 2019
/in Newsletters /by Chris PalmerHi everyone,
Are you feeling it? In the book This Is An Uprising this is called The Moment of The Whirlwind. When hundreds or thousands of people are pouring their effort, energy and passion into one new, exciting, and powerful thing. It is in these times that we can significantly build our movement, broaden our movement, and win historic campaigns. It is exciting to be here with you, and I’m glad you are a part of it.
Here’s your 350PDX weekly update!
I’m temporarily dispensing with my usual Volunteer Boards to present our new Climate Strike Volunteer Opportunities board. Lots of stuff to do, and all hands needed on deck!
Updates
New Flyers & Posters – Climate Strike
You can pick up flyers and posters tomorrow at the Sierra Club (1821 SE Ankeny) where an Art Build will be happening tomorrow (Saturday) between 1.30pm – 4pm. Or come into the 350PDX office Mon-Fri 9-5, or text Chris (971-712-4152) to get some delivered to you!
See the Outreach Guide here, and download and print flyers yourself here.
I have printed thousands of flyers but I keep running out because you volunteers are so amazing at giving them out. I’m running out of money in the outreach budget to print more, so if you would like to donate to get more flyers and posters printed please let me know at chris@350pdx.org and we can make that happen. Thank you!!
Requests
Comfort Captains! Help us make the festival sittable!
The Climate Strike Festival is taking place outside OMSI near the river, which is an idyllic general location, but the specific lot we have has a gravel floor. Not the most pleasant for sitting on! We will have enough chairs for workshops and general sitting, but to make this a comfortable, fun, enjoyable festival, we need comfortable seating! Do you have access to beanbags, outdoor carpets, cushioned chairs, sofas, straw bales, fake grass, or anything to make it nicer? We can set things up the day before so you can drop anything off then and pick it up after the festival is over. Any questions let me know – chris@350pdx.org. Thanks!
Volunteer on the day – Climate Strike
One of our biggest needs right now is for folks to step up and take a shift volunteering on the day. This is a grassroots, non-corporation-funded festival and we’ll need to pull together as a community to make it happen. It will be scrappy, but through that scrappiness it will be powerful and beautiful. Sign up here.
Share the fundraiser on social media – Climate Strike
The scale and scope and the timeline we are putting this Strike Rally, March and Festival together is unprecedented for 350PDX, and to make it happen we need your help. Please take a moment to share the youth’s fundraiser on your Facebook, Twitter or just email it to your friends, and write why this personally matters to you. See the fundraiser here. Thank you!
Opportunities
Civil Disobedience Workshop
TOMORROW Sat Sept 7, 1:00PM – 6:00PM @ NE Portland
Another opportunity to join Bonnie McKinlay’s excellent training. This is a great introduction to civil disobedience and is relevant for those who may wish to someday risk arrest, those who want to support others risking arrest, or just for those who want a greater understanding of why civil disobedience is an effective tactic. RSVP for location details -> contact Bonnie: (503) 705-1943, or goto350pdx@gmail.com
Portland Youth Climate Council – Portland Tree Code
Wed Sept 11, 9:30AM @ City Hall Chamber, 1221 SW 4th Ave, Portland
Support our Climate Strike youth colleagues in the PYCC. Wear Green. “If you or I want to cut down a tree, we must pay a fee to acquire a permit. Owners of commercial and industrial land do not. That means they are allowed – by the City – to cut down trees whenever they want without protection for those trees. We will be asking the city to change this.”
Know Your Rights Training
Wed Sept 11, 6:30PM – 8:30PM @ Cramer Hall Room 271, PSU
Learn what your constitutional rights are and how they apply to protest, direct action and demonstration. Learn the “magic words” to say while interacting with law enforcement in order to keep you and your friends safe. We will walk you through the legal system and what to expect if you are arrested. Finally this training focuses on ways the government and law enforcement try to suppress our movements, and how you can stay resilient to repression.
Beach Party to #StopJordanCove
Thurs Sept 12, 5:30PM – 7:30PM @ Poet’s Beach, west side of Marquam Bridge
Join us for a Beach Party to take action to protect the Southern Oregon coast from the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal! We will give you more information about the Coastal Zone Management Act review of Jordan Cove LNG and help you write comments to the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development asking them to deny Jordan Cove LNG. Facebook event here
Thank you all for the work that you do, and for being part of this organized and Oregonian movement,
Chris – 350PDX Volunteer & Communications Coordinator
350PDX Weekly Update – Strike Countdown! August 28 2019
/in Newsletters /by Chris PalmerHi everyone,
The Amazon is on fire, and the DNC voted against allowing a Climate Debate, but at the same time presidential candidates are coming out with frankly amazing climate plans, and our local movement is growing in number and energy every day. In many ways we’ve never been closer to a climate justice revolution, and I’m so glad you’re here with us.
Here’s your 350PDX weekly update!
I’m temporarily dispensing with my usual Volunteer Boards to present our new Climate Strike Volunteer Opportunities board. Lots of stuff to do, and all hands needed on deck!
Updates
Climate Strike Outreach
We have a big stack of flyers and posters here in the office just waiting to get handed out! Come in any time 10-5 Mon-Fri and pick up as many as you’d like, and we also have a team of volunteers who are happy to deliver flyers to you outside of work hours and all over the Portland metro area! Text Chris 971-712-4152.
Also check out the website for a load of outreach advice and printable flyers and posters.
Labor Day Solidarity
Mon Sept 2 is Labor Day, and with the labor movement-inspired Climate Strike looming, this is a great opportunity to show solidarity and form closer connections with our friends in the labor movement.
1. Attend the Labor Day Picnic at Oaks Amusement Park 10am-5pm (Facebook event)
2. Volunteer at the picnic for the Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) – RSVP and more details here
ClimateStrikeOregon.org is live!
An amazing volunteer, Dustin, made this amazing website where all events in Oregon on Sept 20 and during the week of action can live. Please share it far and wide!
If you know of any events happening as part of the week of action that aren’t on this website, please ask them to register their event on the site, so they can get some widespread publicity from all the outreach we’re all doing!
Requests
Festival of Dankness – Climate Strike Volunteers
On Saturday Aug 31st we’re partnering with a beer festival and we have the opportunity to do lots of outreach to the 500-1000 attendees to turn them into 500-1000 climate strikers. We need your help to do this! This means talking to beer drinkers about the strike and just having conversations with folks about how they feel about the climate crisis and offering them opportunities to get involved. You’ll get trained up on how to do this! I’ll be there and so will a few other 350PDX staff and volunteers, and if you join us you’ll get beer, an invitation to a big volunteer party next week, and a fun Saturday afternoon. 2-7pm but come for any of those hours. Let Chris know! Chris@350pdx.org or 971-712-4152 (text is best)
Climate Strike Help Needed
Check the big growing list of stuff to help with here! We’ll also need help on the day, and I’ll send a separate dedicated email about that soon! But if you can’t wait, give me an email and I’ll make a note!
Fundraising – Climate Strike Help Needed
The ideas are in place and the whole strike is coming together, but we need money to pull this thing off! Are you a fundraising pro, or even a development beginner? Contact Ashley@350pdx.org, or come to the mass meeting tonight (see below) and join the fundraising team!
Graphic Designer – Climate Strike Help Needed
We need to make a site map for the Climate Strike Festival, for the permit and also so festival-goers can find their way around. Got these skills? Contact Sarah – sarah.lou.carlberg@gmail.com
Fall Development Intern
Join 350PDX as a development intern and learn all about our climate justice work, while learning critical research, marketing, writing, and fundraising skills. Apply here, or pass it onto folks who might be interested!
Opportunities
Climate Strike Mass Meeting
TONIGHT Wed Aug 28, 5:30PM – 7:30PM @ 350PDX Fellowship Room, 1820 NE 21st Ave
Join us tonight for our next Climate Strike Mass Meeting, where youth organizers will present their plan and give tangible ways for everyone to get involved.
This is a working meeting, where we’ll hear the plan for Portland’s Climate Strike, directly from youth organizers, and then get down to actually doing the organizing to make it happen. You’ll be able to join working groups and teams, such as Arts, Outreach, Programming, Logistics, and Development.
Civil Disobedience Workshop
Sat Sept 7, 1:00PM – 6:00PM @ NE Portland
Another opportunity to join Bonnie McKinlay’s excellent training. This is a great introduction to civil disobedience and is relevant for those who may wish to someday risk arrest, those who want to support others risking arrest, or just for those who want a greater understanding of why civil disobedience is an effective tactic. RSVP for location details -> contact Bonnie: (503) 705-1943, or goto350pdx@gmail.com
Thank you all for the work that you do, and for being part of this necessary and noisy movement,
Chris – 350PDX Volunteer & Communications Coordinator
Attentive Silence: The role of listening in the environmental justice movement
/in News /by nicoleI’ve always been slightly obsessed with listening or making sure that I listen well, do not interrupt, and in general, do not occupy undue space in a conversation. In a world that privileges originality and assertiveness, listening to understand what someone is saying, rather than listening to respond, or come up with a unique perspective or interjection, has become a lost art.
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350PDX Weekly Update – Eco-fascism on the rise… – August 14 2019
/in Newsletters /by Chris PalmerHi everyone,
In the past month, the United States has been ravaged by a series of shooters influenced by the far-right. An increasingly dangerous pattern in these shootings is the influence of eco-fascism on the shooters (re: El Paso, Christchurch).
Eco-fascism is a form of environmentalism influenced by Malthusian theory and the idea that we must “get rid of people” to protect our ever-dwindling resources. See this article for a deeper look into the growing white nationalism and environmentalism.
We can’t let the far-right co-opt our environmental struggle. Fighting for climate justice means fighting for racial justice, migrant justice, and economic justice. Fighting for climate justice means fighting for an anti-fascist future for all of us.
This Saturday far right groups will descend on Portland, and anti-fascist counter-protesters will be there to meet them. These protests have often turned violent so be careful if you’re downtown on Saturday. For a peaceful way to show solidarity there is The Exchange: A Multicultural Day Market happening in SE Portland from 12-6pm.
Here’s your 350PDX weekly update!
Remember to check out the Volunteer Boards for all our current volunteer opportunities, including Tasks, Roles, Representing 350PDX, Stuff we need. And let me know any suggestions or additions!
Updates
Last Weekend at Alberta Street Fair
The wonderful Eileen, Amy and 10 other signature gatherers collected 869 petition signatures for the Stop Zenith campaign. Incredible work, thank you amazing volunteers!
Want to do tabling and outreach like this? There are loads of opportunities! Let chris@350pdx.org know!
In The News: Revealed: FBI and police monitoring Oregon anti-pipeline activists
“Law enforcement groups, including the FBI, have been monitoring opponents of a natural gas infrastructure project in Oregon and circulated intelligence to an email list that included a Republican-aligned anti-environmental PR operative, emails obtained by the Guardian show.”
Oregon’s public officials should be focused on how they can protect our communities from the Jordan Cove fracked gas project, not work hand in hand with the private fossil fuel corporation backing it by spying on our community.
We won’t back down. We’ll continue to work in coalition with groups across the state on building momentum to stop Jordan Cove once and for all.
TAKE ACTION – Call Governor Kate Brown (503-378-4582) to tell her what you think about this news that Oregon public officials are working to silence our communities and to ask her to stop Jordan Cove for good.
Requests
Help Needed: Permits and Logistics for Climate Strike
Do you have experience running events, getting permits, or being involved with big public mobilizations? We need all hands on deck for the next month to make this Climate Strike as good as it can be, and the more help we can get the better. Contact misha@350pdx.org and let them know that you can help. Thank you!
Help Needed: Food Trucks or Food Donations Assistance
Do you have a connection to someone with a food truck, or a restaurant who might want to help provide food for striking young people and adults on Sept 20 or through the week of action? Or do you want to do outreach to food trucks to see if they’d be willing to help? Please let me (chris@350pdx.org) know!
Help needed for the Multnomah Days Parade!
Want to march in a parade raising awareness of the Climate Strike? This is your chance! Marching in this parade with the 350PDX Southwest Team is a wonderful opportunity for someone new to the movement and for seasoned veterans both to practice having a visual impact in support of the Climate Movement. The parade is just a 20 minute walk and hundreds will see our message.
When – Meet at 9:30 AM, Saturday, August 17. (Parade begins at 10:00 AM)
Where – Meet across the street from the defunct Andy’s Garage located at 7991 SW Capitol Highway, Portland, 97219
Contact – Bob Kaminski, robertwkaminski@gmail.com; Text: 510-610-1705
Opportunities
Climate Strike Webinars from 350.org
To help prepare for this major mobilization and to share skills, provide key tools and resources and the support of peer learning, 350.org are putting together a great training series of five webinars. Interested in skilling up? Register here. All webinars at 5pm and run for 1.5 hours.
– TONIGHT August 14th: Centering Equity & Justice (including how to best support youth leadership) in Climate Strike Organizing
– August 21st: Communications & Digital Tools for Climate Strike Organizing
– August 28th: Utilizing the Strikes to Build Our Movement: Strategies for Leadership Development & Plugging People In Post-Sept 20th
– September 4th: Know Your Rights to Stand Up for Climate Justice! (with the Civil Liberties Defense Center)
– September 11th: Opportunities & Challenges: Bring your ideas and questions around Sept 20th-27th Organizing
August Volunteer Orientation
TONIGHT Wed Aug 14, 6:00PM – 7:45PM @ 350PDX Fellowship Room, 1820 NE 21st Ave
Come and learn about climate justice, how people power is changing the world, how you can get involved, and meet other cool people in the climate movement. For those completely new to the climate justice movement, or those wanting a refresher. Looking forward to meeting you! Please RSVP so we know how PIZZA to buy. Thanks!
Climate Justice Knows No Borders: Portland to the Philippines
Thurs Aug 15, 7:00PM – 9:00PM @ Social Justice Action Center, 400 SE 12th Ave
Join PCHRP (Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines) for this open house. The Philippines was just named the deadliest country for environmental defenders with 30 killings in 2018 alone. As one of the most biodiverse and resource rich countries in the world, the Philippines is a target of foreign mining, logging agricultural industries committing corporate theft and perpetuating the global climate crisis.
Facilitating Just Organizing Spaces Training
Sat Aug 17, 3:00PM – 5:00PM @ 350PDX, 1820 NE 21st Ave
This training will share information about how to plan a meeting, facilitate a meeting, and provide space for feedback and conversations about skills folks have in the room. More info here!
Civil Disobedience Workshop
Sat Aug 24, 10:00AM – 3:00PM @ SE Portland
Another opportunity to join Bonnie McKinlay’s excellent training. This is a great introduction to civil disobedience and is relevant for those who may wish to someday risk arrest, those who want to support others risking arrest, or just for those who want a greater understanding of why civil disobedience is an effective tactic. RSVP for location details -> contact Bonnie: (503) 705-1943, or goto350pdx@gmail.com
Thank you all for the work that you do, and for being part of this notorious and nurturing movement,
Chris – 350PDX Volunteer & Communications Coordinator