| Welcome to the March Newsletter! I’ve been told the ever-growing scale of this newsletter has reached a tipping point. Several reports of this newsletter not loading because there is too much stuff happening. So I’m trying a image-less newsletter! If you hate it, let me know. All the flyers, action photos and explainers will still be up on our website and our social media channels. In the absence of visuals, instead imagine what it would look to like to join a troupe of singing resistors, attending a night of climate and community, or taking a walk in woods soon to be protected because of the flood ofcomments in support of the roadless area rule. All this and much more to imagine below! – Ben, 350 Seattle *NOTE: I wrote this newsletter on Friday, before our evil president began another horrific war in Iran. I looked for an action or solidarity march to share in this newsletter, but didn’t see anything scheduled for today. Check back on our socials media channels for upcoming events in the future. In the meantime, here’s a heartfelt NO WAR WITH IRAN.* |
| Shall We Spread the Word? Join the tabling team! We’re showing up to everything from mass actions to community college campuses to connect with people who care about climate justice and welcome them into our organizing community. Tabling is a critical way that we build our grassroots movement and power. And it’s a lot of fun! No experience required, we’ll train you ‘on the job’ and share materials ahead of time for anyone who prefers to learn by reading first. And you’ll always be partnered with an experienced tabler who can support you every step of the way. Join us at one or multiple tabling events this month – sign up here! Stand Up for Science National Day of Action. Sat, 3/7 12-3 PM at Seattle Center (tabling from 11AM-2PM)No Kings! Seattle Mass Rally & March. Sat, 3/28, 12-4PM at Cal Anderson Park (tabling from 11AM-2PM) Seattle Reconomy Tool Sale. Sat, 4/4 from 9-3PM. Shoreline Tool Library (tabling from 8:30AM-3PM, two shifts) One of the things we’re loving about the Tabling Team is the opportunity to build new partnerships with awesome community organizations! This month we want to spotlight Seattle REconomy, a grassroots organization promoting the sharing economy through tool libraries, volunteer-led classes, and a reuse store. Seattle REconomy is hosting an “All Offers Accepted” Tool Sale on Saturday, April 4, from 9am–3pm, at the Shoreline Tool Library. Learn more and RSVP for a chance to win a presale ticket for you and a friend! Do you have a suggestion for where 350 Seattle could table? Or community partners that we should connect with? We’d love to hear! Reach out to Jess. |
| Welcome Sof! We’re thrilled to announce Sof is joining 350 Seattle as our new Climate Community Night and Leadership team convener! Hailing from the Northeast, Sof (she/they) has called Washington home for the last five years and Seattle for the last two. They are an experienced organizer, with a background in fossil fuel divestment campaigns and a passion for building community and youth power towards liberation and a world beyond extraction. Outside of 350, Sof is an organizing coach at Youth Climate Finance Alliance working with young people on developing anti-imperialist climate campaigning and key political education and organizing fundamental skills. Sof trains in public narrative organizing with Leading Change Network and re:power both nationally and in Washington state, and is a member of Seattle Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). They are an outdoor educator, teaching programs on rock climbing, alpine skiing, and avalanche safety, focusing mostly on affinity programs in the northwest. When not organizing or playing in the mountains, you can find Sof drinking espresso, sniffing out local music, or reading on public transit. Email Sof and say hi! |
| 3 Activist Groups for Singing and Dancing! Dance 4 Democracy is showing up with joy and simple participatory line dancing at actions and events. They have explanatory videos and welcome new dancers! An energizing and powerful way to show up in solidarity, bringing powerful song lyrics, beats, and community joy in the face of oppression. If participatory dancing in unison to rocking popular justice songs is something you enjoy, join us! Singing Resistance is building a mass movement across the country of singers. Following the lead of Singing Resistance Minneapolis’ to protect and care for our communities in the face of rising authoritarianism. We sing publicly in the streets for the sake of solace, strength, solidarity, to voice our dissent, and to refuse cooperation with oppressive and autocratic forces. Through our actions we seek to embody and represent that which we are fighting for: beloved communities of strong ties, coming together in defense of life, where all are loved and cared for. We welcome everyone into the movement for collective liberation. 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! |
| Civic Action Team’s Salmon Quest By now we hope every one of you signed up to take action on climate justice policy in the Washington State Legislature via our fabulous 350 WA Civic Action Team campaign (CAT). We have just two weeks left before session ends on March 12th. Even if you haven’t taken action yet, it’s not too late to dive in with our easy action tools! But, WAIT, there’s more! We ALSO have a once-in-five-years opportunity to speak up for salmon 🐟🐟🐟🐟 in the Columbia and Snake Rivers. Submit apublic comment by March 2nd to urge the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NPCC) to adopt important recommendations in the final 2026 Fish and Wildlife Program! This action is also brought to you by awesome volunteers in our CAT campaign and gives us a chance to show up for salmon in a big way, outside of the state legislative process. |
| Antiwar X Climate Welcome to new and ongoing members of the Antiwar x Climate work group! Join us at our second in-person community-building gathering of 2026! Sunday March 15th, 12-2PM, Douglass-Truth Library at 23rd & Yesler. Please note this is a time/place correction from last month’s newsletter. On the agenda for the March 15th gathering: Concepts of “Imperial Boomerang” and “International Solidarity”. Mapping the local connections. Hearing from work group members already involved in antiwar/climate work. Choosing our 2026 focus, together! On the menu we got hot coffee & tea, GF sandwiches and cookies and whatever you bring for the potluck. We will have another in-person gathering, TBC: Sunday, April 25th, Beacon Hill Library, 12:30-2:30. |
| Policy Action Team Please join the Policy Action Team at our next meeting to find out how you can help pass and protect strong environmental justice legislation and funding before the 2026 state legislature adjourns. Our next meeting is online on Wednesday, March 4th at 5PM. After legislative session our focus will shift to 350 Seattle’s new statewide campaign, Make Polluters Pay by organizing opposition to a proposed federal bill which would preempt state action. Called No Immunity for Big Oil (NIBO), we are demanding our federal Representatives vote against this bailout. You can join us. Tell your elected officials: No Bailouts for Big Oil. We’ll also get updates on some of our other work, including on microplastics, solar, and our food & farm/ anti-CAFO (Concentrated animal feeding operations) work. Bring your updates, questions and other action proposals on Wed. March 4th at 5PM. Contact Beth or Selden for meeting information and with questions. |
| Aviation Team Are you a soccer fan ⚽? The FIFA World Cup comes to Seattle in June and estimates warn it will bring 70 million tonnes of CO2 pollution. That’s in part because of private jets flying to FIFA matches: a 2024 study in Nature revealed that 1,846 private jets flew to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup, surpassing the total for the next four largest events (the WEF, Cannes, COP 28, and the Super Bowl) combined. Join the Aviation Team as we continue to make contact with other Seattle organizers including Protect Our Pitch 206 and Extinction Rebellion Seattle to plan how we can protect our community during FIFA and demand a more just and equitable transportation system for our region. Our next meeting is March 10th at 7PM. Register for that meeting here, or contact Laura to learn more about our Team and how you can get involved in aviation-related activism. |
| Climate Community Night in Pioneer Square Climate Community Night is back at our new office! CCN is our monthly in-person community social and potluck. We break bread, hang out, and connect to the ongoing work for climate justice in our community. We always have a new volunteer orientation starting at 6:15 and a very short program on work that we or our friends are engaged in that you can connect to! Join us at our new office on 600 First Ave. in Pioneer Square on Thursday, March 18th. RSVP HERE. |
| Artful Activism Team 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. Got skills you want to share? Or just enjoy making art, singing, or drumming, or manifesting beautiful powerful art at events to support the work of our movement? Or want to do some back-end non-art type of art support role? We need you! RSVP for Art Builds: Get details and updates for upcoming art builds. March 15th, Sunday, 12-4PM, on Capitol Hill near the light rail station. Help us create a gorgeous Prayer Walk banner for Immigrant Justice, deer fence banners with SeattleStrike, a banner for Cruise Control, Monarch, Orca, and Heron repairs, and more TBD. No experience needed. RSVP for Art in Action: help with art at two upcoming events! We need people to make all our actions’ visual art great. Many actions and events come up on short notice. Sign up with “Interest!” to find out when you are needed to help with art! March 28th, Saturday, 11:00-4:00 TBD, No Kings Day 3. Many hands needed to animate the gorgeous monarch butterfly props and accompanying Immigrant Justice messaging. 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! Whatever calls you to the Artful Team, this team is for you! Contact Lisa. |
| 350 Seattle Book Club The Book Club is excited to announce our reading list for the first part of 2026! The 350 Seattle Book Club is a collection of activists, organizers, and people who are interested in conversations about organizing, climate justice, history, and whatever else strikes our fancy. We pull from across the other 350 Seattle teams and welcome anyone who would like to join us! We read books and articles, listen to podcasts, and learn from other material too. We choose our learning materials collectively twice a year. We generally meet every two weeks on Sundays from 2:30-4:30 PM in a hybrid formation via Zoom or in person at the 350S office in the Pioneer Square. In March, we will be reading Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec. Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. In late March and April, we will be reading How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong. In How We Show Up, Mia shows that what separates us isn’t only the ever-present injustices built around race, class, gender, values, and beliefs, but also our denial of our interdependence and need for belonging. In response to the fear and discomfort we feel, we’ve built walls, and instead of leaning on each other, we find ourselves leaning on concrete.For info about our reading schedule, meeting times, and to stay connected with the Book Club, sign up through this form. |
| Are You Seeking … Better Options? Our friends at Stop the Money Pipeline, just released the Better Options report. This report reveals that there are better and worse options when it comes to the climate for large companies and nonprofits looking for a financial institution to issue their credit cards. Out of the 20 largest credit card issuers in the United States, eight financial institutions have not provided large-scale financing to the fossil fuel industry. Costco, L.L.Bean, Alaska Airlines, Disney, Amazon, Expedia and more ― all have credit card partnerships with dirty banks, like Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, These banks have funneled billions to the fossil fuel industry. But we can change that! Read the report and learn about ways you can put pressure on companies, like Costco, to make better decision. Read the report here. |
| Action at Seattle Cruise Ship Season Opening Day Help protect people and the planet from the polluting and exploitative cruise industry! Seattle’s 2026 cruise season opens on Wednesday, April 15th. Join Seattle Cruise Control, Climate Action Families, and Washington Physicians For Social Responsibility to hand out fliers and display art at the Pier 66 Cruise Terminal from 11am – 1pm. Volunteer for a role here! Learn more about how the cruise industry pollutes our air, water, and climate while exploiting workers and destination communities at Seattle Cruise Control. |
| Climate Action Families Join Climate Action Families for an AI Workshop: Climate, Culture & Mental Health. Saturday, March 14th, 10AM-2PM at the University Heights Center This is a FREE workshop for youth, on Saturday, March 14, 2026 10am–2pm. We’ll join together to explore how AI intersects with climate, culture and mental health. The workshop will cover topics such as how culture has been transformed by AI, what impact its expansion has on the environment, and what it looks like to maintain mental wellbeing and a sense of humanity in the face of widespread artificial intelligence. Climate Action Families’ trainings aim to empower youth to contribute their valuable voices, connect with affirming adults who are taking climate action too, and chart a way forward with hope for the future. RSVP HERE! |
| They’re Coming for the Forests Suppose you’re a dictatorial federal administration that wants to cut down lots of trees in national forests and roadless areas — what’s the first thing you do? Limit the public’s ability to comment, of course! So, here’s your chance to say NO to shortened comment periods, limits to comment length, limits to information available during comment periods, plus restrictions on how long the agency has to respond to comments and more: Here’s a sample comment to get you started and here’s another — take your pick, or submit both! Why does this matter? The comment period for the repeal of the Roadless Ruleis coming up soon. To get ready, take a look at this list — if you’ve been on one of those hikes then you’ve been in a roadless area, the next best thing to wilderness. And they’re crucial for wildlife, as this storymap explains. Learn more about the Roadless Rule here and get ready, an abbreviated comment period is around the corner. |
| And Finally, Want a way to search every way to 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. Love to you all, – 350 Seattle |
