| Welcome to the September Edition of the 350 Seattle newsletter! Read on for: Organizing trainings! Action Camps! Town Halls! We have urgent need to find a new home for our protest art library. Reach out if you have space to offer. A huge thank you the 170 people who joined 350 Seattle as Members! We’ve wrapped our first membership drive, but we’d still love for you join. Wishing you all a happy, drizzly morning.- 350 Seattle |
| Calling all community builders! Do you like meeting new people? Do you enjoy making community connections? Do you want to play an essential role in building our movement and power? Join us for a Community-Building 1:1s Training! 1:1s are peer-to-peer conversations that build an organizing relationship. Behind every successful campaign, there are hundreds and sometimes thousands of 1:1s! This 2hr, in-person training at the 350 Seattle office will break down the art of a 1:1, share best practices and provide plenty of hands-on learning opportunities. And if you’re looking to get (more) involved with 350 Seattle, this training is a great first step for plugging in with one of our volunteer-led movement building teams: the Welcome Team, the Tabling Team and the Climate Community Night Planning Crew. We’re hosting a short info session where you can learn more and get all your questions answered in advance. This info session is optional – if you know you’re ready to jump in, go ahead and RSVP for the training here.Community-Building 1:1s Training Saturday, Sept 27, 11-1pm U-Heights Center, 5031 University Way NE Getting there, accessibility, covid safety & more here.Info session Mon Sept 8, 6-6:30pm Zoom, RSVP here. |
| Fundraisers & Membership We have wrapped up our Membership drive and we are thrilled to welcome 170 Members into 350 Seattle! Have you signed up to be a 350 Seattle Member yet, or converted your monthly donation to a Membership? These “Meet the Campaign Director” events are a special perk for 350 Seattle Members only, and we’d love to see you there! We are cruising into our 10th year with our legislative advocacy campaign, the 350 WA Civic Action Team! Have you ever wondered what it takes behind the scenes to pull off this herculean effort? Want to learn more about what’s happening at the state level? And how you can be a part of making a difference in passing the good policies we need for addressing the climate crisis here in Washington in the 2026 legislative session? Come meet the 350 WA Campaign Director, Grace Hope (they/them) in this fun and informative conversation. Meet Grace Hope, our 350 WA Civic Action Team (CAT) Campaign Director Thursday, September 18, 2-3:30pm Become a Member to RSVP |
| UW: We need cooling, not climate pollution! Did you know that the University of Washington (UW) has it’s own gas plant on campus and is one of the largest polluters in Seattle? There are plans to kick gas off campus, bring cooling to everyone on campus and create hundred of green union jobs – but these plans are stuck on paper. The problem is funding. It’s up to the state legislature to fund this work and invest in our healthy climate future. Our Climate & Worker cohort is tackling this problem head on and making big moves. After surveying campus workers and students, we learned that heat waves and buildings without cooling are disrupting learning, reducing staff productivity, ruining research experiments and even making people sick. Now, we’re bringing those stories to key decision-makers and putting THEM in the hot seat. Join us for a town hall with WA Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen to learn about UW’s big pollution problem, hear from impacted workers and students, and show that there’s broad community support for getting the UW off fossil fuels. Town Hall with Senator Jamie Pedersen Thursday October 2nd, 6-7 PM Mary Gates Hall room 389 on UW’s campus RSVP Here |
| Divest Musk & Boycott T-Mobile We’re still mad about Musk, DOGE and the general downward spiral of tech companies. If you are too, we got a couple of way you can join the fight.We are calling for Seattle and King County to divest from all companies controlled by Elon Musk. Please sign the petition if you agree. If you want more context for this campaign, check out Emily’s great article on our blog. T-mobile is siding with the Trump administration and far-right extremists like Elon Musk. In July, T-mobile launched their partnership with the fascist CEO’s satellite company Starlink. Our friends are organizing a boycott of T-Mobile and are hosting a kick off call on Sept. 10th for those who want to join the campaign. |
| The Seattle Comprehensive Plan Our friends House Our Neighbors are mobilizing turn for the Seattle Comprehensive Plan, the city’s plan for the next 20 years of Seattle’s growth. The mayor already put his draft forward and city council responded with over 100 amendments to his plan. Many amendments are crucial for ensuring social housing can flourish throughout our city in the coming years! City council will vote on these amendments by September 30th. The council needs to hear from you and your neighbors about the importance of prioritizing social housing and housing affordability. Lot’s of ways to be involved. Send an email to city council. Rally at City Hall! Join House Our Neighbors for a rally outside City Hall this Friday at 1:00pm. City Council is holding a public hearing on the comp plan amendments and they need to hear from you!You can sign up for virtual comments in the morning. Sign up begins at 8:30am and comments will begin at 9:30am. RSVP here. |
| Volunteer with the 350 WA Civic Action Team The 350 WA Civic Action Team campaign is heading into our 10th year!! And we’re inviting you to join us for our New Volunteer Welcome on October 6th from 6-7pm on zoom. Ready to make an impact for climate justice in Washington State law? Last year we mobilized 670 folks across the state to take a collective total of 100,401 legislative advocacy actions! We helped pass 35 bills and stop 12 bad ones. In the upcoming short law making session, we hope to get more great climate justice bills across the finish line. Whether you end up joining us as a Volunteer or simply want to take legislative action with us beginning in January, we’d love to see you at our kickoff event. The 350 WA Civic Action Team Campaign, New Volunteer Welcome Monday, October 6th from 6-7pm RSVP |
| Artful Activism Join our Artful team! Art, performance, and music are critical parts of movements for social change. Got skills you want to share? Or just enjoy making art, singing, or drumming? Or want to do some back-end non-art type of art support role? We need you! Put Art into Action – Can you help with art at amazing events in SEPTEMBER? We need more people to make these events art great and it’s a very rewarding role at actions and events!! No experience needed; we’ll teach you how! Wednesday, Sept 17 Seattle Solidarity Budget roundtable at Jefferson Park Shelter 3, 4-10pm (or part of), with giant banners and others that need many people to set up and hold. Saturday, Sept 20, 4-10 pm: Join our wonderful lit up Art Installation at Luminata – a beautiful Fremont Art’s Council outdoor lantern and light festival for the Fall Equinox at Greenlake, We will have a 3-part participatory art installation, including a labyrinth, to invite people to connect and find ways to take action for Climate and Social Justice, please join us for part or all! Saturday, Sept 27-30th, or any part of it: No Tarsands Oil Tankers Protect the Salish Sea Indigenous led multi-day prayer walk on “San Juan” Island where we will bring requested art and supporting with setup.And often things after these and more that come up on short notice, so sign up with Interest! RSVP for Upcoming Art Builds to get details and updates! No experience needed, just energy and smiles! Join us for camaraderie, snacks, and music while doing meaningful, beautiful and powerful art work! Dates and Locations TBD for the rest of Sept and Oct, but if you want to check it out, please sign up with Interest! And we’ll let you know when we do!Sign up here to get on the Artful email list for monthly info on upcoming community art opportunities and to let us know your skill sets! (Scroll all the way down that web page to sign up.) Skills welcome and appreciated! AND… no art experience yet? no problem! |
| Policy Action Team This month the Policy Action Team wants to celebrate the organizational and individual comments 350 Seattle volunteers submitted on Washington State’s draft Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP). Volunteers from both the Civic Action Team and Policy Action Team contributed detailed comments which you can read by clicking here. Thank you so much to all those who contributed to this project and submitted comments as individuals! Join the Policy Action Team every Friday in front of the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building, 915 2nd Ave, from 11:30 am-1:30 pm for Federal Building Fridays to rally, chant, sing and speak. This rally happens every week to show solidarity with federal workers and every vulnerable group scapegoated by the Trump administration, and each week a different set of issues is highlighted. Our group’s aim to make sure climate justice is still on our leaders’ minds despite the chaos. Join us at our next meeting on Wednesday October 1st from 5-6pm to find out more and take more actions! To get the Zoom link, contact Beth or Linnea. If you’d like to get a sense of the type of actions we take, check out our rolling agenda and notes by clicking here (Google doc). |
| Book Club Join the 350 Book Club this September as we dig into Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth! While we know that the topic of economics might seem daunting (or boring), this book is very approachable. We promise you don’t have to have any economics background to understand it. In addition, we have a podcast alternative for those who want to hear the basics of the book without reading the whole thing. Our first meeting on September 7th will be in Cal Anderson Park to enjoy the nice weather together. Our second meeting on October 21st will be hybrid with the in-person portion in the 350 Office and a Zoom option. We meet from 2:30-4:30PM and you are more than welcome to join us even if you haven’t read or listened to anything! 9/7: Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth, Opening-Chapter 4 Podcast Alternative 9/21: Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth, Chapter 5-End 10/5: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer If you are interested in getting our weekly email with updates and more details, please sign up for the Book Club Email List! |
| Coming Back to Life Remember The Climate Grief and Empowerment Group? We changed our name to better reflect the ways in which we’re engaging to meet this moment. The group is now called Coming Back to Life: Connection, Grief, and Action for these times. Drawing from Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, we engage in collective practices that deepen our capacity for dwelling with difficult emotions and strengthen our strategies for coping in uncertain times. We still meet monthly, but we’ll be meeting on the third Saturday, rather than the second Saturday, of every month, and our online sessions will run from 10 am to noon (rather than ending a little earlier). On a quarterly basis, we’ll be gathering in person for a longer session! You can join us for the first in-person session in November 🙂 Our next Coming Back to Life Collective gathering will be Saturday, September 20th, from 10AM to noon. Mark your calendars for October, too–we’ll be meeting on Saturday, October 18th.Register here for each session you plan to attend. |
| The Aviation Team The Aviation Team will be pausing most of its usual activities for the rest of the year in order to do some strategic planning. While this is underway, check the 350 Seattle Calendar to see if we are holding our second Tuesday at 7 pm meeting in a given month or not. We are considering broadening our scope to envision an interconnected transportation system that facilitates a shift away from aviation. If you want to share your ideas on how to create an equitable and just transportation system, reach out to aviation@350seattle.org and one of the co-leads, Brandon or Laura, will set up a virtual or in-person chat with you. We would love to hear from you. |
| Defend the Roadless Rule Here’s the Other Washington’s latest attempt to exploit our natural areas: rescinding the Roadless Rule, a common-sense bulwark since 2001. And, just for laughs, there’s a blink-or-you’ll-miss-it public comment period that closes in two weeks. Why does this matter? Roadless forests are some of the last intact, resilient ecosystems we have left! They filter and store clean water for millions of people, provide refuge for vulnerable species, and serve as critical carbon sinks in the fight against climate change. People rock climb, hike, forage, bike, fish, camp, and ski in these remote places, finding solace in our last remaining wild places. Take action now — sign this petition, and send this letter.Roads spread invasive species, fragment wildlife habitat, and erode the very ecological resilience we need in the face of a warming climate. More roads in the backcountry also mean more fires: research shows wildfires are four times more likely to ignite near roads. Once roads and clearcuts fragment these landscapes, the damage is permanent. Weakening or repealing the Roadless Rule would be a grave mistake. |
| 🏕️ Have you camped yet this summer? 🏕️ Deep Roots Forest and Climate Convergence September 25th – 28th Skamokawa, WA Details and registration info here. Deep Roots is a movement– and momentum–building space designed to connect people and give them the tools to take effective action. This year’s convergence will bring forest, climate, and social justice activists together to strengthen connections, share tools, and mobilize a strong grassroots resistance to the Trump Administration’s industry-backed assault on public lands, forests, climate, and communities. Save your spot here! |
| The Washington Green Amendment The Washington Green Amendment would grant every Washingtonian the inalienable right to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment. The Green Amendment will provide a powerful tool to enforce this right and it is a vital intersection of health, social, and environmental justice. Maya Van Rossum founder of the national effort to advance Green Amendments, is on a tour of 6 Washington cities starting off in Seattle on September 14th. Please join us to hear Maya’s compelling voice to why now more than ever we need a Green Amendment. For more information, contact David. |
| Community Resilience Here’s another way you can participate to create a more resilient activist community:We’re rebuilding our community resources list! Do you have a skill or service you would like to offer at low or no cost to the 350 Seattle activist community? Feel free to think outside the box! Skills could include:Gardening, Tax prep assistance, Childcare, Pet sitting, Meal prep, Career coaching, or any kind or life, technical, or wellness support!No matter your strengths and skills, there is a place for you! All skills are needed and welcome. Offering up skills to the resource list is a way to support one another to continue taking part in the work we do. Please fill out this form with your own offerings, and we’ll reach out to confirm details. We’re excited to hear from you! Consider patronizing local Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) -owned businesses! Here is a list of some local community BIPOC businesses to support, with additional lists linked at the bottom.Please take a minute to bookmark our Community Activist Resource List (this one for all in our broader movement), full of helpful resources of all kinds. Feel free to share with others in our broader movement community who may be interested! If you have any questions about the resource lists or offering up skills/services- please reach out to Jordan. |
| The People’s Echo The People’s Echo is a healing-centered song collective based on Coast Salish Lands. We catch and share songs as medicine for these times, and tend to community resilience through the practice of joining our voices in song. Our mission is to heal ourselves and the world through the practice of community singing and to reclaim our voices as instruments for personal and collective liberation. Sign up for our newsletter here! |
| And Finally Want a way to search all of the ways you can be involved with 350 Seattle? We compiled a (nearly) comprehensive list that is deemed the Volunteer Opportunities Doc. Our teams keep this document updated so if between newsletters you are scratching your head, this resource is for you. If you are still looking for ways to get involved with your 350 Seattle community, head to our website or just reply to this newsletter. And a final shout out and thank you to all our new members and to the entire amazing Seattle climate justice community. |
