Hi everyone,
Join us next Wednesday from 6-8pm for the July 350PDX Action Night – learn more & RSVP here! This is a monthly in-person event at our office (in the Rebuilding Center, 3625 N Mississippi Ave, Portland). This month’s action night will feature opportunities to take action and get plugged in! You’ll get to:
- Main programming: A creativity exercise in preparation for our Climate Fiction art and creative writing competition–Flash Futures!
- Sign a petition to the Department of Forestry about their Habitat Conservation Plan
- Learn about upcoming kayaktivist events from our Fossil Fuel Resistance team
- Pick up flyers and learn how to do outreach about the climate movement in your community
- Meet the staff and team leads. This is a great opportunity for newer folks to chat to us about our various teams and campaigns to start getting involved
- Enjoy food and drink! We’ll be providing some food, and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Bring your own to share too!
- See the 350PDX office – check out our office and pick up flyers, yard signs, posters, to put up in your neighborhood.
Note that we’ll also have a kids area – a space designated for children to hang out with games, snacks, and a volunteer to be there to play games and keep an eye on them.
Hope to see you at the action night!
350PDX Staff (Anissa, Brenna, Chris, Dineen, Eloise, Kiera, & Julia)
Take Action
For quick actions like petitions, check out our Take Action Page. Take the Pledge of Action for more updates.
Sign the Stop Zenith Pledge of Resistance!
For years, community members across the city have been opposing Zenith Energy’s dangerous oil-by-rail operations. Together we’ve rallied, called, wrote, built a garden on the tracks, held a 60-hour vigil at the facility, educated our neighbors about the problem, sued the company, wrote songs, lobbied our elected officials, and so much more. Despite this ongoing organizing, Portland City Council turned its back on the people of Portland when it approved Zenith’s request to continue transporting crude oil through our community. Enough is enough.
Events & Opportunities
350PDX July 2023 Action Night
Wed, July 19, 6-8pm — RSVP here
Come and hear more of what 350PDX is all about, meet staff and volunteers, take action, see our office space, and learn how to get involved!
Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines fundraiser
Sat, July 22 (6-9pm) @ Moreland Presbyterian Church (1814 SE Bybee Blvd, Portland) — learn more and sign up here
Join Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines for a fundraiser dinner party at Moreland Presbyterian Church. They will be serving up a delicious three-course meal accompanied by educational talks and personal stories, conveying the history of unequal free trade deals between the US and the Philippines and the Filipino peoples struggle for national sovereignty and genuine democracy. Proceeds from the dinner will go towards supporting PCHRP’s mobilization with other PNW human rights organizations heading to Seattle during the weekend of July 29-30, where we’ll be protesting the kick-off of the summer’s August APEC meetings that will be beginning that same weekend.
People Over Profit! Seattle Counter Summit Against APEC
July 29-30 — Seattle, WA – learn more here
Youth Climate Organizer Summer Workshop Series
Aug 7-28 (Mondays from 5:30-8pm) — at Green Anchors (8940 N Bradford St. in Portland – Learn more and sign up here for the summer workshop series!
The Breach Collective, in partnership with other PDX organizations and community members, is hosting a weekly workshop series throughout the month of August. Workshops will be every Monday evening from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m at Green Anchors (8940 N Bradford St. in Portland) and are open to people 30 years old and younger.
350PDX Book Club: The Ministry for the Future
Wed, Aug 23, 6:30-8pm — 350PDX office (3625 N Mississippi Ave, Portland) – learn more here
We’ll meet for our monthly book club – this time to talk about The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Actions with Don’t Shoot PDX
Throughout the week, across the city – details here
Worker Solidarity Actions
Throughout the week, across the city – visit the Portland Jobs with Justice page for more info. Also see their list of solidarity actions.
News & Updates
Flash Futures PNW: A Climate Fiction & Art Contest
We’re still gathering submissions for a brand new creative competition – Flash Futures PNW: A Climate Fiction & Art Contest (hosted by 350PDX, the Breach Collective, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Portland Neighbors Welcome)! Submit your art and writing by Aug 31. Contest winners will have their work published in a zine launched in the spring, 2024, and the top three winners in each category (writing and visual art) will also receive cash prizes.
The Prompt: What do you imagine for the future of climate justice work in the Pacific Northwest? Tell us a story (through visual art or in writing) about what that work could look like in the future – 10, 50, 500+ years from now. We invite you to dream boldly!
MVP Forced to Stop Most Construction – but the fight isn’t over
Big news! This week, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered a halt to construction on the section of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) that would go through the Jefferson National Forest. They granted this stay on construction while there is pending litigation on that route of the pipeline. Construction will continue on other sections of the pipeline and the litigation case will continue to unfold. But this is still a big win for the movement to Stop MVP, and a testament to the power that movement has built for almost a decade. Learn more in this statement from POWHR.
In love and gratitude,
The 350PDX staff
