Re: Our Keystone XL news

We need your help to fight against Keystone XL.

Dear Lorelei,

On Tuesday we announced the next, game-changing phase of our fight against the Keystone XL pipeline with the Promise to Protect training tour.

The Promise to Protect tour will take our movement to the next level: training and mobilizing thousands to follow the call of Indigenous leaders and effectively block the Keystone XL pipeline from ever being built. We'll show companies like TransCanada that people-powered movements are going to make all pipeline projects too costly to even attempt.

But we need your help to make it work, so I need to ask: Will you make a gift of $5 or more right now to help us reach and train as many people as possible, and to scale up our fights against fossil fuel projects everywhere?

Over 20,000 people have signed the Promise to travel to the Keystone XL route and resist when Indigenous leaders call on us. And with TransCanada threatening to start construction as soon as this year, we have to be ready now.

With your help, we will work with our partners to:

• Support Lakota trainers from the Keystone XL route and local trainers at every event to educate and empower our movement.
• Teach best practices of nonviolent direct action, which will make our movement as cohesive, powerful, and safe as possible.
• Educate supporters about the national strategy to stop the expansion of pipelines and set goals for both halting Keystone XL and other local fossil fuel projects.
• Share protocols for how to be respectful and effective allies if invited as a guest on Lakota territory.

In a moment when a livable climate hangs in the balance, this tour is a powerful piece of our plan to resist Trump's fossil fuel agenda, keep fossil fuels in the ground, and achieve environmental justice for communities most affected by climate change.

Please support the Promise to Protect and all of our work with a donation today.

Thank you,

May

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Accountability

Lorelei -- U.S cities like New York and Los Angeles, U.S counties like King County, farmers, crab fishermen and young people, all have one thing in common: They are suing the oil industry for knowingly causing the devastating impacts of global warming.   Along with our friends at Mazaska Talks and the Seattle Peoples Party, we are calling on Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes to file claims against the fossil fuel corporations that have profited from knowingly causing global warming. As it will everywhere else on the planet, global warming is going to take a huge economic toll on Seattle: 0.9% of Seattle's current housing stock, worth $2.3B, will be inundated by sea-level rise by 2100; the increased frequency of storm surges, flooding, and decreased hydro-electric capacity will cost our city millions. And the smoke in our lungs each summer may take years off our lives. These are harms that have been knowingly caused by the fossil fuel industry. The five fossil fuel companies targeted by New York City's lawsuit are responsible for over 11% of all human-caused climate pollution. These are the same companies that knew for decades that their product was causing major climate destabilization, and chose to spend tens of millions of dollars deceiving the public about the reality of climate science, and tens or hundreds of millions more buying our elected officials. Can you take two minutes today to sign our petition calling on Pete Holmes to use his power to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable? As New York Mayor, Bill de Blasio put it when announcing New York City's decision to sue: "They are the first ones responsible for this crisis, and they should not get away with it anymore. It's time for them to start paying for the damage they've done." Once you have signed the petition, can you help us spread this further by sharing our Facebook post and our tweet? Here's to justice being served, Alec PS: Are you a representative of another Seattle-based community organization, or a small business owner in the city? Then add your name to our community endorsement letter as well as the petition! -=-=- 350Seattle.org · 1919 E Prospect St, Seattle, WA 98112, United States This email was sent to loriwantsrss@gmail.com. To stop receiving emails or to update your email preferences, click here. You can also keep up with 350 Seattle on Twitter or Facebook. Donations always appreciated and put to good use.

The More Things Change

a gem from the 90s

View this email in your browser Dear subscribers and super-scribers, About once every week or so, WNYC archivist Andy Lanset strides over to the OTM area to give us an audio gift. This week: a December 1995 episode of On the Media featuring a certain third-term Vermont congressman, already distinctly raspy, explaining why it is that a political figure outside the mainstream might have some difficulty attracting the attention of the traditional press.  The panel, which included Bernie Sanders along with USA Today reporter Judi Hasson and Minneapolis Star-Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Tom Hamburger, sought to answer the host's question: "Do the media limit the terms of public debate? If you are a candidate whose views are outside mainstream politics, will you ever read about them in the mainstream media?" (That host was the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Alex Jones, who is far and away our favorite of the Alex Joneses. No contest.) The guests all wonder about questions — which should be very interesting for us, especially now, as we dive headfirst into an overflowing pool of presidential candidates — such as: At what point does a candidate merit coverage? Does someone need to raise a certain amount of money to enter the conversation? Or, do they have to shout and wave and hope someone notices?  In many ways this episode is a conversation that we've had over and over again. As Jones himself points out, "every year after every election, the press beats itself up thoroughly for not covering ideas." The press promises to do its best the next time around, Jones says, "and then we have the same breast-beating another time." Oh, heyyyyy.  Sanders spends his time on the panel making points that should be familiar to us by now: The press have abdicated their responsibility to ask why "the vast majority of people are seeing and have seen over the last twenty years a decline in their standard of living." He warns about the role of corporate ownership — then, General Electric, Disney, and News Corp — in our political media. And he bemoans that a billionaire — sorry, person of means — can declare their candidacy and end up on Larry King, with ease.  And he reminds the panel that, even then, he was lucky to be speaking with them:   "As a United States congressman, I certainly get into the national media every once in a while, and certainly in Vermont I'm in the media as much as I want. What I am saying, though, is if somebody were not a United States congressman, had not been a mayor for eight years — holding that [socialist] perspective, that would be determined a fringe perspective because Bill Clinton doesn't talk about it and Bob Dole doesn't talk about it and Dan Rather doesn't talk about it." Anyway, if you have an hour to burn and an aching need for 25-year-old-and-still-eerily-relevant media analysis... boy, do we have the back-catalog show for you. Onwards. Listen To The Latest Show: Twitch and Shout [ In Case You Missed It ] Streaming While Homeless In this piece from last week's show, Brooke tackles the murky ethics of Twitch's IRL (in real life) section, where streamers invite the internet to view — and, increasingly, shape — their lives in real time. First, she speaks with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad about how he became obsessed with watching Deadmau5's music production stream. Then, she speaks with "VP Gloves," a homeless man who was fed, housed, and emotionally supported by his Twitch followers during his darkest hour. Back on his feet, VP Gloves then found himself beholden to a temperamental online mob that often robs him of his autonomy and dignity. Listen here. [ Read This ] The Secret Lives of Facebook Moderators In 2014, Adrian Chen wrote an eye-opening piece for Wired about how content moderators are subjected to traumatizing work as they sort through what is and isn't allowed on the internet. His piece focused on workers in the Philippines. This week, The Verge has a similarly dark and essential look at the graphic nature of the job -- this time with contractors in the US. Some moderators say watching conspiracy videos led them to embrace fringe views. Others are struggling with anxiety and panic attacks brought on by disturbing material they have to screen. And on top of that, many of these contractors have punitive bathroom policies and confusing moderation guidelines. For all the talk of algorithms these days, here's an essential read about the real humans making our internet run... and suffering for it.  [ Check This Out ] What's Next for New Yorker Reporter Jane Mayer? We're reading this fun new profile of super-star investigative reporter Jane Mayer in Elle. Come for the discussion of her *ongoing* reporting on accusations of sexual misconduct made against Justice Brett Kavanaugh... and stay for the story of Mayer breaking into a home to rescue her dog from Laura Ingraham. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. [ From the Archives ] Longing for Wakanda On Sunday night, three Oscars went to a few of the artists who helped bring Wakanda, the mystical homeland in Marvel's Black Panther, to life. A persistent site for utopian longing, Wakanda has once more captured the public imagination: endowed with unlimited access to the most precious natural resource in the world, unsullied by the ravages of colonialism, Wakanda has reignited conversations about what black liberation can and should look like. According to Johns Hopkins University history professor Nathan Connolly, this latest chapter is part of a much longer tradition of imagining and reimagining black utopias. He spoke with Brooke earlier this year; check out their conversation here. 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This is a political earthquake

Mitch McConnell is afraid of the Green New Deal — and of you. Speak up to keep up the pressure and fight for the climate solutions we need.

Lorelei,

Grassroots climate action is creating a political earthquake — and its impacts will reverberate into 2020 and beyond.

On Monday, 42 young activists with our allies at the Sunrise Movement were arrested in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office, with a crowd of supporters standing behind them.

Dozens traveled all the way to DC from McConnell's home state of Kentucky to give him a choice: support the Green New Deal — or look his young constituents in the eye and admit he thinks his fossil fuel billionaire donors' profits are more important than their futures.

Oily politicians like Mitch McConnell are trying to ignore the movement fighting for the just climate solutions we need — so let's speak up and make it clear we're not going away. Add your name to call on all members of Congress to support the Green New Deal.

True to form, Mitch McConnell refused to show his face to the brave young leaders in his office. But these actions are having an impact: today, McConnell backtracked on his threat to hold a sham vote on the Green New Deal this week. Make no mistake: he's afraid of this movement.  

No matter what: If McConnell thinks ignoring and dismissing the movement for a Green New Deal is going to work, he's dead wrong.

Resolutions supporting a Green New Deal now have 100 co-sponsors (and counting) in the House and Senate — including all 6 Democratic Senators running for President against Donald Trump.

The Green New Deal will create millions of good jobs building a just, renewable energy-powered economy where all of us can thrive. It's the only policy plan on the table that meets the scale and urgency of the climate crisis, and it remains overwhelmingly popular with voters across the political spectrum.

All we need now is the political leadership to make the Green New Deal a reality. Add your name now to send a strong message to all our members of Congress: the real climate leadership we need means supporting a Green New Deal now.

Onward,

Jenny

PS: If you're ready to take an even bigger step to support the Green New Deal, there's one more really important way you can take action today: call your Senators and ask them to co-sponsor Senator Markey's resolution for a Green New Deal. Click here to make a quick call — we have a script and all the information you need to make it easy for you to speak up today.

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Sources:

1. CNN: "Protesters rally at McConnell's office in support of Green New Deal"
2. Refinery29: "Students Ask Mitch McConnell To Back The Green New Deal, Saying It's 'Our Only Hope'"
3. The Hill: "McConnell plans vote on Green New Deal before August recess"
4. Green New Deal - Sunrise Movement

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Speak for our fossil free future!

Lorelei -- Last month, King County passed some of the strongest anti-fossil fuel legislation of anywhere in the U.S., including a six month moratorium on all new fossil fuel infrastructure. Next month, King County Council is holding a public hearing on moratorium — and while this may be standard administrative procedure, we see it as a BIG opportunity to continue building energy behind the moratorium, the long-term planning to prohibit new fossil fuel infrastructure, and more bold climate action in King County. We're planning for powerful community testimony that lifts up diverse voices and perspectives on why we need a Fossil Free KC. Will you show up and speak up for our fossil free future? Public Hearing on the #FossilFreeKC Moratorium Wednesday, March 13, 9:30–11:00am King County Council, 516 Third Avenue, 10th Floor, Seattle 98104 RSVP and more info here. We were blown away by the power of last month's testimony, and we've heard from many King County Councilmembers that they were too. Let's keep that momentum building! Towards our fossil free future, Jess -=-=- 350Seattle.org · 1919 E Prospect St, Seattle, WA 98112, United States This email was sent to loriwantsrss@gmail.com. To stop receiving emails or to update your email preferences, click here. You can also keep up with 350 Seattle on Twitter or Facebook. Donations always appreciated and put to good use.

2019 CSPC Update: Your Journey, Your Center

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What a wild ride we’ve been on! Not just the last year, with the new building and the return of events, but the whole 19 year history of the organization that was kicked off when some inspired, subversive individuals gathered in a Capitol Hill cafe basement and invited the community to celebrate who they were. Regardless of how long you have been with the Center for Sex Positive Culture, your wild ride started long before and has a ways to go yet. Thank you so much for making this community, in whatever capacity, a part of your grand adventure. This year, we ask that you consider new ways to participate at the Center, as you continue to pursue caring relationships, moments of euphoria, and self-acceptance. In 2018, we worked hard to get back to serving our mission and the tens of thousands of people who have come into contact with the CSPC throughout its history. Dozens of people have stepped up to power this 100% volunteer run organization. As a result, parties have gone from 0 up to 7 per month, 28 parties total, and nearly a thousand new members have joined. Additionally we are settling into a prominent new home in downtown Seattle. While we still face many hurdles, we are so proud of what this community has accomplished. Numbers aside, our wish is that you are able to find meaningful connection, quality people, growth, and enrichment. All of our programming decisions, financial decisions, and marketing are in the service of building connection. The more you engage in interesting, respectful, self-aware interaction, the healthier the ecosystem and the more opportunity for all of us to meaningfully advance along our personal journeys. It is this economy of connection and initiative that the Center for Sex Positive Culture is built on. Beyond your first or second attendance, a play party is only as engaging as the depth and breadth of connection you have with the people around you. Truth be told, building this connection may be easiest not at play parties, but through volunteering, munches, or similar lower stakes social opportunities. Taking a look at our calendar you will see these opportunities to connect are sparse. This is where your initiative will be key. CSPC leadership and existing volunteers have reached their capacity. Our equilibrium is currently at 7 parties a month. If we want to grow or shift our offering, it will require us to reawaken our community center roots. The Center can go only so far as a production company that serves clientele. Where we will thrive and where we will make the biggest impact in the community and the world is as a hub where individuals are empowered to converge and to actualize their journeys. In 2019, the CSPC calendar is a reflection of community interest and initiative, and effectively determined by you. The Board of Directors and leadership serve as stewards: managing resources, offering guidance, and promoting engaging, ethical, and ultimately connection-building programing. All of this is to support you in building and participating in the events you hope to see. We are shifting the model to get back to our community center roots. Do you want the Center to offer a movie night discussion, a knitting circle, a BDSM furniture construction sprint, or a special interest caucus? Take the lead and the organization will support you. Do you want more parties? Throw one! The Programming Team will usher you through the process. Would you like to contribute or gain experience behind the scenes with writing, fundraising, UX design, etc? Reach out. The more initiative you are willing to take, the richer the experience for everybody, including yourself. Let us bridge the gulf between those who serve and those who partake. Both are essential. I urge you to speak up, to participate, and to organize, all in the spirit of connection and personal growth. Let us journey together this new year and further strengthen the CSPC and the larger sex-positive communities. This is your journey, and your Center. Nick Vu, Executive Director & the CSPC Board of Directors   If you would like to volunteer at a party, visit our website.   If you would like to throw an event, contact the programming team.   If you have an initiative you would like to organize, or would like to get involved behind the scenes, contact the Executive Director.

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