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July 24, 2017, 7:00pm

Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst (UUSA)

AMHERST We come together once a month to meet each other, plan, and imagine how to contribute, in our corner of the world, to the urgent fight against climate change . We love to meet newcomers, whether you are brand new to activism or have been doing this a long time. We do not have a membership or dues. People give of their time and talent when they see fit. You are welcome to join us! Handicap accessible and on a bus line Everyone is warmly welcomed!

June 26, 2017, 5:30pm

CLIMATE STRATEGY WEBINARS: How Can We Realize the Paris Climate Protection Targets in the Trump Era? Climate Insurgency. Public Trust. Just Transition. These webinars aim to deepen the effectiveness of our groups and movements with ideas, experience and organizing strategy featured in the new book, Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual presented by the author and Labor Network for Sustainability co-founder, Jeremy Brecher. With guest presenters: Julia Olson, Executive Director, Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children's Trust Richard Lipsitz, President, Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO 1) Climate Insurgency: Monday June 26, 5:30-6:30pm Pacific/8:30-9:30 Eastern (Link to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cTc8ugupNM ) An intro to Climate Insurgency strategy, weaving together many strands of climate organizing--mass nonviolent direct action, freezing fossil fuel infrastructure, public trust, and just transition--into a global strategic framework. 2) Public Trust: Wednesday July 5. 5:30-6:30pm Pacific/ 8:30-9:30 Eastern (Link to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4yfIuLB_0U ) How can we “flip the script” in our nonviolent direct actions, making it clear that the fossil fuel industry and the government that does their bidding are unlawful, and that we are upholding the constitution and the public trust? Use of the Public Trust Doctrine for climate protection has been pioneered by young people represented by Our Children’s Trust. With Julia Olson, Executive Director, Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children's Trust 3) Just Transition: Monday July 10, 5:30-6:30pm Pacific/ 8:30-9:30 Eastern (Link to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3l2NcSuu3s ) How can we organize to avoid letting our opponents pit jobs, workers, and unions against climate, water and community protection? How can we build "just transition" that includes a better future for workers who produce and use fossil fuels, construction workers who build fossil fuel infrastructure, and communities that depend on them? With Richard Lipsitz, President. Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO SIGN UP: Please sign up for any or all Webinars here: bit.ly/climatewebinars We’ll send a reminder email and links to watch the webinars -- live and the video recording. BULK BOOK DISCOUNT: Anyone who orders 5 or more books (for a reading-discussion group, etc) can get 50% off. When you order your copies online from PM Press (tinyurl.com/AgainstDoom), just enter “FOPM” in the “coupon code” box to get the discount. FORM A READ-DISCUSS-ACT BOOK GROUP: 350.org and Labor Network for Sustainability are circulating a Read/Discuss/Act Guide to help you form a read-discuss-act group with friends, members of your group or community, using the book Against Doom. The link to the guide is posted below. Co-hosted by Labor Network for Sustainability and 350.org. These webinars are intended to foster discussion and strategic thinking, not as a presentation of either hosting groups official strategy.

June 26, 2017, 7:00pm

Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence

Climate Action Now Monthly Gathering Monday, June 26, 2017 Special Guest Presentation Protecting Ceremonial Stone Landscape Features Doug Harris, Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Narragansett Indian Tribe Please join us to help build our campaigns and actions: protecting sacred stones in Sandisfield, The World We Love Is in Our Hands Puppet Parade, SunShot Solar Grants, Resistance to Kinder Morgan's fracked gas pipeline, Springfield Climate Justice Coalition and more. Feel the warmth of community and the strength of collective action as we move forward together at this critical moment in history. Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence 220 Main Street, Northampton, Mass Handicap accessible and on a bus line We are all in this together-everyone is welcome and needed! We come together once a month to meet each other, plan, and imagine how to contribute, in our corner of the world, to the urgent fight against climate change . Help us organize to protect constitutionally protected conservation land from Kinder Morgan, stop gas leaks statewide and biomass in Springfield, create a clean and renewable energy future in Massachusetts, and figure out how to build up urgency in the public so that we can pressure institutions as a movement. We love to meet newcomers, whether you are brand new to activism or have been doing this a long time. We do not have a membership or dues. People give of their time and talent when they see fit. You are welcome to join us! Everyone is warmly welcomed!

June 26, 2017, 5:30pm

CLIMATE STRATEGY WEBINARS: How Can We Realize the Paris Climate Protection Targets in the Trump Era? Climate Insurgency. Public Trust. Just Transition. These webinars aim to deepen the effectiveness of our groups and movements with ideas, experience and organizing strategy featured in the new book, Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual presented by the author and Labor Network for Sustainability co-founder, Jeremy Brecher. With guest presenters: Julia Olson, Executive Director, Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children's Trust Richard Lipsitz, President, Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO 1) Climate Insurgency: Monday June 26, 5:30-6:30pm Pacific/8:30-9:30 Eastern (Link to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cTc8ugupNM ) An intro to Climate Insurgency strategy, weaving together many strands of climate organizing--mass nonviolent direct action, freezing fossil fuel infrastructure, public trust, and just transition--into a global strategic framework. 2) Public Trust: Wednesday July 5. 5:30-6:30pm Pacific/ 8:30-9:30 Eastern (Link to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4yfIuLB_0U ) How can we “flip the script” in our nonviolent direct actions, making it clear that the fossil fuel industry and the government that does their bidding are unlawful, and that we are upholding the constitution and the public trust? Use of the Public Trust Doctrine for climate protection has been pioneered by young people represented by Our Children’s Trust. With Julia Olson, Executive Director, Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children's Trust 3) Just Transition: Monday July 10, 5:30-6:30pm Pacific/ 8:30-9:30 Eastern (Link to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3l2NcSuu3s ) How can we organize to avoid letting our opponents pit jobs, workers, and unions against climate, water and community protection? How can we build "just transition" that includes a better future for workers who produce and use fossil fuels, construction workers who build fossil fuel infrastructure, and communities that depend on them? With Richard Lipsitz, President. Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO SIGN UP: Please sign up for any or all Webinars here: bit.ly/climatewebinars We’ll send a reminder email and links to watch the webinars -- live and the video recording. BULK BOOK DISCOUNT: Anyone who orders 5 or more books (for a reading-discussion group, etc) can get 50% off. When you order your copies online from PM Press (tinyurl.com/AgainstDoom), just enter “FOPM” in the “coupon code” box to get the discount. FORM A READ-DISCUSS-ACT BOOK GROUP: 350.org and Labor Network for Sustainability are circulating a Read/Discuss/Act Guide to help you form a read-discuss-act group with friends, members of your group or community, using the book Against Doom. The link to the guide is posted below. Co-hosted by Labor Network for Sustainability and 350.org. These webinars are intended to foster discussion and strategic thinking, not as a presentation of either hosting groups official strategy.

June 24, 2017, 10:00am

Lower Spectacle Pond, Sandisfield MA

JOIN US SUGAR SHACK ALLIES! FRIENDS! CLIMATE ACTIVISTS! The Sugar Shack Alliance invites you to come along for: A Funeral March to Bury the Fossil Fuel Age ~ • Stop the Ct. Expansion pipeline in Sandisfield MA • Demand an end the fossil fuel age • Take action on the climate crisis • Celebrate our continuing resistance »Bring a musical instrument! A trombone, a fiddle, a drum, an accordian, or a hymn for the processional! »Bring an emblem or a symbol of this bygone era you would like to see buried and drop it in the casket before internment! Date: June 24, 2017 Time: 10:00 am Location: Gather at Lower Spectacle Pond, Cold Spring Rd, Sandisfield, MA 01255 (GPS may not work in the area, get directions first!) We will gather briefly at Spectacle Pond for the funeral service, then march in a solemn procession up the road to the Thoreau cabin for a viewing of the Kinder Morgan CT Expansion pipeline construction. We will celebrate our resistance in speeches, music, and song, then walk, dance, and dance in a celebratory march back to the pond behind the musicians . Spread the word ~ invite friends and family! Potluck lunch following! General information: Susan – (413) 665-8246 Camping information: Dennis – (413) 634-5031

June 20, 2017, 1:00pm

Gardner Auditorium, Massachusetts State House

After months of building support for carbon pricing bills S.1821 and H.1726, it all comes down to this. On June 20th, the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy (TUE) will hold a hearing to consider the two pending bills. The bills cannot move forward until they are voted favorably out of the TUE committee, so we need to demonstrate strong support for the legislation. Help us pack the room to support the all-star lineup of experts who will testify on behalf of the bills. Bring signs and friends. RSVP here: docs.google.com/a/cabaus.org/forms/d/1s5G7naPCNRRAZ62fAWsIebC0VAq02wKwhzOcAMZJwOY/edit

June 14, 2017, 10:45am

Massachusetts State House

Now that President Trump has announced plans to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, we need to fight harder than ever for clean energy and climate solutions here in Massachusetts. We're calling on our leaders to make Massachusetts the first state in the nation powered by 100 percent clean, renewable energy like solar and wind. Join us at the rally and make your voice heard! Sponsored by Environment Massachusetts, Mass Sierra Club, Climate Action Now, MASSPIRG Students, League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, 350 Mass, Boston Clean Energy Coalition, Greening Greenfield, Alliance for Climate Education, and Consumers for Sensible Energy.

June 13, 2017, 5:30pm

Brightwood Branch Library

Join the SCJC for our 2017 Spring Full Coalition Meeting! Dinner and child-care will be provided. This quarters meeting will focus on feedback on the first draft of the Springfield Climate Action and Resilience Plan, and our guest will be Catherine Ratte, principle author of the plan from the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission. All members of the SCJC are invited to send representatives to the meeting, and the public is invited to join as well. For more information contact Jesse Lederman at 413-351-6785.

June 14, 2017, 6:30pm

Northampton, Community Room of the Forbes Library

Join us for a screening at 6:30pm on Wednesday, June 14 in the Commumity Room of the Forbes Library in Northampton of the new documentary film: Awake, A Dream From Standing Rock (2017) with post-film conversation led by Susan Triolo, Vivienne Simon, and Ben Van Arnam, 3 members of the Sugar Shack Alliance deeply engaged in non-violent civil disobedience who have faced arrest in their sustained opposition to the proposed Kinder Morgan Connecticut expansion pipeline in Sandisfield MA . A presentation of The Resistance Film Series of the Northampton Committee to Stop the Wars, in collaboration with Climate Action Now and the Sugar Shack Alliance of Western MA

June 26, 2017, 7:00pm

Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence

Climate Action Now Monthly Gathering Monday, June 26, 2017 Special Guest Presentation Protecting Ceremonial Stone Landscape Features Doug Harris, Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Narragansett Indian Tribe Please join us to help build our campaigns and actions: protecting sacred stones in Sandisfield, The World We Love Is in Our Hands Puppet Parade, SunShot Solar Grants, Resistance to Kinder Morgan's fracked gas pipeline, Springfield Climate Justice Coalition and more. Feel the warmth of community and the strength of collective action as we move forward together at this critical moment in history. Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence 220 Main Street, Northampton, Mass Handicap accessible and on a bus line We are all in this together-everyone is welcome and needed! We come together once a month to meet each other, plan, and imagine how to contribute, in our corner of the world, to the urgent fight against climate change . Help us organize to protect constitutionally protected conservation land from Kinder Morgan, stop gas leaks statewide and biomass in Springfield, create a clean and renewable energy future in Massachusetts, and figure out how to build up urgency in the public so that we can pressure institutions as a movement. We love to meet newcomers, whether you are brand new to activism or have been doing this a long time. We do not have a membership or dues. People give of their time and talent when they see fit. You are welcome to join us! Everyone is warmly welcomed!

June 13, 2017, 9:00am

Old West Church

The Campaign for Clean Energy Future invites you to participate in our Carbon Pricing Lobby Day on Tuesday, June 13th! Massachusetts is one of the only states in the country considering legislation that would put a price on carbon pollution, a policy that will jumpstart the transition to clean energy and protect vulnerable communities. Many climate experts say the solution to climate change is putting a strong price on carbon. That’s because making something expensive is a good motivation to get people to do it less. Right now, it’s free to pump carbon and other forms of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. But if we put a price on dumping that pollution into the our air, polluters would re-think their actions. Right now there are two carbon pricing bills in the state legislature, and if one of them passes it would make Massachusett's the first state to price the very pollution responsible for climate change: carbon dioxide. To seize this opportunity, legislators need to hear from YOU. Never lobbied before? No problem! The Campaign will also be hosting a Grassroots Summit on Saturday, June 10 (location TBD) to train newcomers and talk strategy. This will provide space to prepare for the lobby day and get started on some exciting next steps. Please note that attendance at the Grassroots Summit is recommended, but not required to participate in the lobby day. Learn more about the bills here: campaignforcleanenergyfuture.org/the-policy/ Let's show Massachusetts legislators that we want bold climate action and support putting a price on carbon pollution! We'll meet at the office of Climate XChange (Old West Church), and then head over to the State House together.

June 12, 2017, 6:00pm

Western New England University's School of Law -- J. Pellegrini Moot Court Room, 1st floor

Please spread the word! All out! We are going to show up in big numbers to demonstate our support for the clean energy future. 4:45 - Carpools leave from Northampton 6:00 - Event starts in Springfield Carpools will leave from Sheldon Field Parking Lot in Northampton (off Bridge Road by the 3-county fairgound), Northampton, at 4:45 PM Join the MA Senate Global Warming and Climate Change Committee listening tour at its Springfield stop on June 12 at 6 PM “The Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change is hosting hearings throughout the Commonwealth to get input from you on pressing issues in clean energy and climate. How do you think the legislature should keep our state healthy, sustainable and strong?” You can also check their website: malegislature.gov/cleanenergyfuture The event will be held at: Western New England University's School of Law -- J. Pellegrini Moot Court Room, 1st floor There is another stop on the tour June 19th in Pittsfield.

June 12, 2017, 6:00pm

Western New England University's School of Law -- J. Pellegrini Moot Court Room, 1st floor

Please spread the word! All out! We are going to show up in big numbers to demonstate our support for the clean energy future. 4:45 - Carpools leave from Northampton 6:00 - Event starts in Springfield Carpools will leave from Sheldon Field Parking Lot in Northampton (off Bridge Road by the 3-county fairgound), Northampton, at 4:45 PM Join the MA Senate Global Warming and Climate Change Committee listening tour at its Springfield stop on June 12 at 6 PM “The Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change is hosting hearings throughout the Commonwealth to get input from you on pressing issues in clean energy and climate. How do you think the legislature should keep our state healthy, sustainable and strong?” You can also check their website: malegislature.gov/cleanenergyfuture The event will be held at: Western New England University's School of Law -- J. Pellegrini Moot Court Room, 1st floor There is another stop on the tour June 19th in Pittsfield.

June 12, 2017, 6:00pm

Western New England University's School of Law -- J. Pellegrini Moot Court Room, 1st floor

Please spread the word! All out! We are going to show up in big numbers to demonstate our support for the clean energy future. 4:45 - Carpools leave from Northampton 6:00 - Event starts in Springfield Carpools will leave from Sheldon Field Parking Lot in Northampton (off Bridge Road by the 3-county fairgound), Northampton, at 4:45 PM Join the MA Senate Global Warming and Climate Change Committee listening tour at its Springfield stop on June 12 at 6 PM “The Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change is hosting hearings throughout the Commonwealth to get input from you on pressing issues in clean energy and climate. How do you think the legislature should keep our state healthy, sustainable and strong?” You can also check their website: malegislature.gov/cleanenergyfuture The event will be held at: Western New England University's School of Law -- J. Pellegrini Moot Court Room, 1st floor There is another stop on the tour June 19th in Pittsfield.

June 4, 2017, 11:45am

Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence

Nationally-recognized tree expert Robert T. Leverett will give his perspective on the forests of Massachusetts - their history, what we need to protect, and what the future might hold. He will weigh in on carbon sequestration and forest management, and share his favorite places to see impressive trees and old growth. FMI: rwest@periodyssey.com.

June 11, 2017, 2:00pm

Congregation B'nai Israel of Northampton

Climate change threatens everything we love. The world’s great religions are united in their call to humanity to honor the sacredness of Earth and to create communities in which human beings and all of life can flourish. Join us for a festive, spirited, interfaith outdoor service to lift up our love for Earth and our resolve to protect it. The primary message will be delivered by the Reverend Mariama White-Hammond, Minister for Ecological Justice at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Boston; with additional reflections by Jay O'Hara, a Quaker activist who works to deepen the spiritual underpinnings of ecological action. The service will feature music by the Amherst Gospel Choir and other local artists. Everyone is welcome! The service will be held under a big tent, rain or shine. Childcare will be available--feel free to send us a message before the service with number and age of children (registration welcome but not required). Sign language interpretation will be provided. There will be plenty of chairs, but consider bringing blankets if you'd like to sit on the grass. Bring plenty of water. prayersfortheplanet.org/