by 350 Seattle | Mar 25, 2019 | Direct Action, Divestment, Keep it in the Ground/No new Infrastructure
Taking on the Nation’s Largest Bank: JPMorgan Chase by Alec Connon For two years now, we’ve been campaigning to force JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank, to stop funding climate disaster. Here’s the story behind the campaign ― an overview of the problem we’re...
by 350 Seattle | Jun 1, 2018 | City, Divestment, Solutions
by Alec Connon Fifteen months after the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to cease banking with Wells Fargo, it has renewed a three-year contract with the climate-wrecking bank. This is why we need a public bank. It’s awful that Seattle will be banking with Wells...
by 350 Seattle | May 10, 2018 | Direct Action, Divestment, Indigenous Solidarity, Keep it in the Ground/No new Infrastructure
#ShutDownChase, Seattle, 2018Tar sands devastates our climate, our forests, and our water. What is less well-known is the devastating impact it has on indigenous communities — and especially on indigenous women. Over the last four decades, over 4,000 indigenous women...
by 350 Seattle | Mar 19, 2018 | Direct Action, Divestment, Pledge, Voices of 350
by Barry Westbrook A couple years ago, I was watching events at Standing Rock unfold. At the time, the 2016 election was kicking into gear and the world felt increasingly, hopelessly complex. The world grew bigger as I became smaller. Whether it was yet another police...
by 350 Seattle | Jun 27, 2017 | Direct Action, Divestment, Indigenous Solidarity, Keep it in the Ground/No new Infrastructure, Pledge
Wells Fargo Center, downtown SeattleBy Alec Connon To Stop the Flow of Oil, We Need to Stop the Flow of Dollars Earlier this year, a broad coalition of Indigenous-led groups teamed up with 122 First Nations and tribes to launch Mazaska Talks: a campaign calling...
by 350 Seattle | Jun 14, 2017 | Direct Action, Divestment, Indigenous Solidarity, Pledge, Voices of 350
by Lucas Vargas Zeppetello As May 8th turned into May 9th, I sat in a holding cell watching police officers shuffle papers and stride slowly through the booking facility of King County Jail. I had been there since the late afternoon, after being arrested outside a...
