Welcome to the November Edition of the 350 Seattle newsletter. We’re sending this newsletter a day early because we have two exciting events today we wanted to get in front of your eyeballs: a t-shirt printing party at our office with Seattle Solidarity Budget, and a visit to our joint ofrenda at Centro de la Raza for Día de los Muertos.
But if your day is already spoken for, we have plenty more in here to interest activists and justice seekers of all styles, including:
– Keeping our communities fed during this uncertainty with federal food aid
– Events like our Climate Community night or the People’s Forum on AI
– Opportunities to shake your fists at perennial villain, Tacoma LNG
– Join the Practical Radicals Book Club or attend the in-person Coming Back to Life session.
Wishing all of you a gentle, relaxing Saturday.
– 350 Seattle
| Seattle Solidarity Budget Join us today, 2-4PM for to kick off Seattle Solidarity Budget’s 2026 campaign. We are screenprinting at our offie, bring a t-shirt, bandana, fav fabric, etc. If you are interested in Solidarity Budget, this is a great informal place to connect about what’s on docket for the 2026 budget season.RSVP here. Bring clothes you are fine getting messy. |
| Keeping Our Communities Fed Federal food aid (SNAP, or food stamps) ran out yesterday after Senate Republicans blocked a bill to continue the program. While federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to at least partially restore benefits, it’s uncertain what happens from here. Even if SNAP benefits are restored, payments will be delayed – leaving millions of hungry families in a lurch. Partial payments may also not be enough to put food on the table all month. Nationally, 40 million people could lose access to food, 39% of them children. Here in Washington, nearly 1 million people are facing hunger if SNAP funding isn’t fully restored. And this is all happening in the wake of Trump’s $186B cut to SNAP funding, which means that about 4 million people – mostly children, seniors and people with disabilities – will lose their food assistance in 2026. Now more than ever, we need to take care of each other – and build power to stop greedy politicians and their billionaire backers from gambling with our lives. Everyone deserves healthy food. No one should be worried about where their next meal is coming from, or if they’ll be able to feed their family. Where to access food now: – Use any remaining EBT funds (the cuts affect benefits scheduled for November; not funds already on your card) – Find food banks near you using 211’s searchable map (King County specific: search by location, language, days open) – Find free hot meals every day of the week (Seattle specific: food provided by local restaurants and community organizations) – Find a Community Fridge in your area (Seattle specific: fridges full of food for anyone who needs it, open 24hrs) – Find a Little Free Pantry in your area (national: non-perishable and dry goods for anyone who needs them, open 24hrs) – Find your community’s Buy Nothing group (neighbors sharing what they have and asking for what they need, via a free app) How you can help: – Donate food, funds, or volunteer time to your local food bank. View NW Harvest’s statewide partner map to find a food bank near you. You can also donate directly to NW Harvest here. – Host a community food drive. Register and get resources here. – Stock a Little Free Pantry near you with non-perishable food. – Be a grocery buddy for someone impacted by SNAP cuts. This looks like adding a few items to your next grocery shop: you can set your budget ahead of time, offer this resource in a community channel (for example, a neighborhood chat or Buy Nothing post), coordinate with someone who responds and then get food to someone who needs it while making a meaningful community connection! – Contact Congress and demand emergency SNAP funding. Senator Maria Cantwell: (202) 224-3441 Senator Patty Murray: (202) 224-2621 Look up your Congressional Representative by address here. – Learn more about food insecurity in King County with this resource guide from Basilica Bio. Have something to add to this resource list? Want to get involved with local mutual aid to keep our communities fed? Reach out to jess@350seattle.org |
| The People’s AI Forum Are you concerned about data centers in Washington? Seeking to chat with others about the environmental impacts of emerging tech? Generally concerned about the unsubtle emerging dystopia?Join us for a community **potluck** and dialogue on November 19, 6-8pm @ Prospect UCC (1919 E Prospect St).We will have presentations, group discussions, and a way to meet with local community orgs. It’s a potluck, so bring something to share!This is the first of three panels. So sign up even if you can’t make this one. Hosted by Seattle DSA Ecosocialists, 350 Seattle, and Troublemakers. |
| November Climate Community Night: Friendsgiving, Food Drive, and Make Polluters Pay! November 6th, 2025 RSVP HERE! On November 6th, you and yours are invited to a special Climate Community Friendsgiving! In light of the expiration of SNAP benefits, we’re turning this event into a food drive to feed our community members and neighbors. Bring pantry items, if you can, or take what you need. We’ll donate what remains. We’ll also be highlighting ways you can get involved in our new Make Polluters Pay campaign, which will seek dollars for climate resilience projects in Washington state from those fossil fuel companies most responsible for carbon pollution. More about 350 Seattle’s community space, getting there, and accessibility info here. |
| No Fracked Gas in Clean Air Tell Port of Tacoma & Port of Seattle that LNG, aka “fracked gas”, has no place in our clean air plan. Commissioners will vote in December to adopt the NW Ports Clean Air Implementation Strategy, a 5-year plan to guide the reduction of GHGs and health-harming emissions.The current draft plan would increase LNG! It says: “Explore opportunities related to increased use of LNG by global ship fleet” as one of the strategies, and they mention Puget Sound Energy’s Tacoma refinery as “underutilized“. Take Action! Send a pre-written comment or send your own original comment for more impact. Attend the next Port of Seattle hybrid meeting and give a verbal comment on Tuesday, November 11th at 12pm. More info here. |
| Artful Activism Join us in community doing uplifting work with art to move people toward the changes we need! Our Artful team is a fun and creative way to engage for us and for our audiences! Art, performance, and music are critical parts of movements for social change. We need you! Art in Action RSVP – help with art at the wonderful actions/events! We need people to make all our actions’ visual art great. Many actions and events come up on short notice, so sign up with “Interest!” to find out when you are needed to help with art! TODAY: November 1st, Saturday, 12-6PM, Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at El Centro de la Raza for the big opening celebration. 350 Seattle and Chiapas Education Project are teaming up on an ofrenda to honor and bring attention, as well as celebrate the spirits of all those who have died on the terrible journey to cross the US/Mexico border. We’ll have opportunities for people to participate in the beauty at the ofrenda and also to offer used electronics afterwards to Chiapas Education Project for distributing and teaching computer refurbishing at schools in Chiapas as well as to communities in need here in the US. This project converts polluting electronic waste into opportunity to thrive in place instead of having to migrate. Donate used laptops, tablets, printers, projectors and other electronics: Contact Chris via email: info@chiapaseducation.org to schedule your drop-off at a location nearest you! Art Build RSVP, 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! 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! Join us! We’ll teach you as you go! You’ll love to be part of making the art for our actions in a supportive, learning, fun, and connecting atmosphere. Come have fun with us, building powerful beauty for the movement and/or getting out there with us to put that art into action at events/actions! |
| Civic Action Team We’re heading into the 10th year of our 350 WA Civic Action Team campaign! Ten years mobilizing hundreds of people to take hundreds of thousands of advocacy actions on sound and just climate policy in the Washington State Legislature.There’s still time to join our team as a Volunteer! Once you sign up, our team will reach out to you for an onboarding call. No experience needed, we’ll train you along the way during the fall to be ready for the start of session in January. – In case you missed our New Volunteer Welcome event, here’s the event video. – Sign up for our Action Alerts. – Join our 350 WA CAT Kickoff Party on, January 7th from 6-7:30PM. |
| Policy Action Team Please join us at our next Policy Action Team meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 5th at 5PM. Check out our rolling agenda and notes here. To get the Zoom link, sign up for our listserv by contacting Beth.Come find out how you can help a new campaign to “Make Polluters Pay”. Please bring your updates, highlights of recent climate advocacy against microplastics, toxic agriculture practices, and priorities for the 2026 state legislative session. We’re looking for someone to represent us at Stop NW Gas Expansion Coalition meetings. This coalition fought hard against the GTN Xpress pipeline and will fight against additional pipelines seeking entry into the state. |
| Practical Radicals Book Club Join us for a community reading of Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World. Whether you are brand new to social movements or have been organizing for decades, this book has so much to offer anyone who wants to resist injustice and build a better world – and we’re excited to learn with you! You can participate by reading the book, listening to the podcast or just showing up! We have intentionally selected key chapters/podcast episodes and built a schedule that balances all the juicy material with what’s realistic between sessions. For each session, there will be a core reading/podcast and a ‘stretch’ reading/podcast (and you’re still welcome to show up if you can’t do the reading that week). Sign up to join us here! Practical Radicals is available for free at the Seattle and King County Public Libraries, and the podcast is available for free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Check out the reading/listen schedule, podcast links and where to find the book here. We’ll meet 5 times, on Sundays from 2:30-4:30pm. Join us at the 350S office in the U-district or via zoom. Dates: Nov. 2, Nov. 16, Dec. 7, Dec. 14. |
| Resist-Dance Troublemakers are hosting a dance party! Let loose with fellow Troublemakers on Saturday, November 15th! We’ll have heavy hors d’oeuvres for dancing sustenance, libations for purchase, and a DJ who will keep the crowd moving. Billionaires must fall ~ the people will rise ~ dancing is a salve for the weary body and soul.Invite friends ~ dress fancy! TICKETS HERE. |
| Aviation Team The Aviation Team urges you to take a few minutes and comment on the WA study of Alternative Jet Fuel (also called “Sustainable Aviation Fuel” by the industry – classic greenwashing). We have until Wednesday, 11:59 pm on November 5th. Comment guide and suggested talking points here. Note that we will not be meeting Nov 11th. We are pausing most of our usual activities for strategic planning. The Team is 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 and one of the co-leads, Brandon or Laura, will set up a virtual or in-person chat with you. We love to hear from you! |
| Protect Four Older Forests Mature and older forests are essential to the health and wellbeing of our region and communities–they provide clean air and water, vital wildlife habitat, and mitigate the climate crisis by absorbing and storing planet-warming carbon. Only 5% of these older forests are left on Washington State lands, making it essential to protect these remnants from clearcut logging.The Department of Natural Resources manages hundreds of acres of monocrop plantation forests that could provide timber and revenue for communities, but DNR is still proposing new clearcuts for these older forests. This November, four older forests are expected to be presented to the Board of Natural Resources to be approved for harvest: Sincerely Listening, Starwagon, Atonal and Tuckered Out. Click here to tell the DNR to reject any proposal to clearcut these older forests! |
| Coming Back to Life How can we build the resilience we need to address the enormity of what we are witnessing? How can we not only survive but also to rise to this moment with courage? What would it mean to do this together? Join us for a special quarterly in-person gathering of 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. While we usually meet virtually for a few hours, on Saturday, November 22, we will gather in person for a longer session, from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM, at the Puget Ridge Cohousing Common House. There will be song! Register here for each session you plan to attend. |
| Comprehensive Plan Happy Hour Every month, the Complete Communities Coalition hosts community happy hours to learn more about Seattle’s Comprehensive Plan and each another! This month, we’ll meet at Stoup Brewing in Capitol Hill from 6pm-7:30pm. Whether you’ve been following the comprehensive plan process for a while, or are brand new to the conversation, you are welcome! Grab a drink, do some arts n crafts, meet someone new, and get plugged in! RSVP here. |
| Climate Action Families Fall Hike at Lincoln Park 📅 Saturday, November 8 🕙 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM 📍 Lincoln Park, Seattle RSVP HERE Celebrate the season with Climate Action Families by joining us for our quarterly outdoor event- this time a Fall Hike at Lincoln Park. We’ll enjoy the crisp autumn air, take in the forest views, and connect with the outdoors. After the hike, we’ll gather for hot chocolate to warm up and share time together. Family-friendly and open to all ages! |
And a final COMMUNITY CARE shout out! “Earlier this month, I posted an ask for a 350 Seattle community member who was in a difficult housing situation and looking for a short-term place to stay. So many people stepped up to offer help and share their homes. Here’s a shout out for a community that really cares for each other and embodies the better world we’re fighting for 💚”
Love to you all,
– 350 Seattle
