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April 22, 2015
Don’t forget the big “Shell No! Seattle Draws the Line” event on April 26th at 2pm at Myrtle Edwards Park; we’ll have terrific speakers, including Annie Leonard (ED
Don’t forget the big “Shell No! Seattle Draws the Line” event on April 26th at 2pm at Myrtle Edwards Park; we’ll have terrific speakers, including Annie Leonard (ED
Shell not pass. If it weren’t for Shell’s wildly irresponsible plans to drill in the Arctic, it would have been a fine day: kayaking, sun,
May 16-18. Please join us in a massive peaceful resistance–on land, or on water. The call-out is here. The Pledge of Resistance is here. The
…to our rainy but very spirited Pike Place Market anti-oil train press conference. The vendors were terrific, and had widespread and respectful coverage. Thanks, too,
150+ folks turned out last night for a spirited action held to highlight the dangers of oil trains and also to celebrate our victory in Skagit County, where on Monday the Hearing Examiner ruled that Shell can’t move forward with expansion plans (to accept oil trains) without a full environmental and safety review
In their 2015 State of the Planet address at City Hall today, the Plant-for-the-Planet Climate Justice Ambassadors addressed a crowd of about a hundred, describing our critical present moment, when we have to quickly change our ways and begin to abandon fossil fuels.
Almost 100 people showed up at the Seattle Kinder Morgan office this afternoon (with less than a day’s notice, in most cases) to stand in solidarity with the protesters on Burnaby Mountain. Read the letter given to Kinder Morgan by members of Rising Tide Seattle and 350 Seattle. Here’s the Seattle Times coverage.
With a thousand Americans and Canadians gathering at the Peace Arch in Blaine on Saturday, it was a gorgeous day to kick off the 4 Days of Action that led to the signing of the International Treaty to Protect the Sacredness of the Salish Sea.
350 Seattle has sent a letter urging Governor Jay Inslee and Washington State’s Carbon Emissions Reduction Taskforce (CERT) to adhere to the best and most recent science regarding the demands of climate change. With the impacts of carbon pollution already being seen in Washington State, from record wildfires to shellfish industry distress, 350 Seattle urged the CERT to “set an example for other states, our nation, and our world.”
Full details here. An incredibly important victory for the broad and deep Power Past Coal Coalition, and all of us. Big Coal is probably starting