Earth Day / Week
Few Articles, Actions, Events
Check Indybay for other listings for Earth Week: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12
ARTICLES:
A. Labor in the Climate Strikes
B. Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases – April 19, 2020
C. 10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed – April 18, 2020
https://apnews.com/8181adee796a45706cb4be265ca1e0d1
D. Victory: evangelical missionaries barred from uncontacted tribes’ land – April 17, 2020
ACTIONS:
1. Stop Standing Rock Power Shut-Offs During the Pandemic
SIGN: https://www.lakotalaw.org/our-actions/no-sr-shut-offs
2. Newsom Administration just quietly approved 24 new fracking permits that will further threaten public health.
3. Demand the Department of the Interior stop the sale of all public lands and waters to the oil and gas industry during the COVID-19 pandemic
4. Call EPA Administrator Wheeler for the Environment and Our Health
EARTH WEEK EVENTS
April 22nd Earth Day
50th Anniversary of ‘Earth Day’
Some events may be duplicates of what has been posted but from different sources & actions.
Tuesday, April 21
1. Tuesday, 10:00am (PDT), Earth Day 2020: Health, humanity, and the climate emergency
After you register, you’ll receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link to attend online. At the time of the event, click the Zoom link in your confirmation or reminder email to join the discussion.
Or U can view on Face book site after the scheduled event:
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Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) invites you to join us for a live online chat about the health impacts of the climate emergency. As a medical humanitarian organization that works in climate hotspots around the world, MSF is preparing for cascading crises. Our teams provide medical aid in response to natural and human-made disasters, severe drought and flooding, and infectious disease outbreaks–challenges likely to grow and multiply without urgent action to reduce carbon emissions. As people further disrupt fragile ecosystems, some scientists say we can expect to see more zoonotic diseases that jump from animals to humans, like COVID-19. Poor and marginalized communities face compounded risks due to climate change and lack of access to health care.
Join our panel of experts as they discuss the medical and humanitarian consequences of climate change and environmental degradation. Speakers include Carol Devine, MSF Canada’s humanitarian affairs advisor and a research fellow at York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; Dr. Maria Guevara, MSF senior operational positioning and advocacy advisor in Geneva; and Dr. Edward Xie, emergency physician and assistant professor at the University of Toronto. MSF-USA Executive Director Avril Benoît will moderate the discussion and take your questions.
THE PANEL
Carol Devine is a humanitarian affairs advisor for MSF Canada and a research fellow at Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University. She co-leads a project on climate, environment and health for MSF and has contributed to the 2018 and 2019 Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change, and an MSF review on climate change and environmental deterioration in Bangladesh. Carol has worked with MSF in Rwanda, East Timor, Peru and South Sudan and was the Canadian liaison for MSF’s Access to Essential Medicines Campaign. She has advocated for access to medicines and for respect for humanitarian principles before the Canadian Parliament and the World Trade Organization.
Dr. Edward Xie is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and an emergency physician. His academic and advocacy work focuses on health equity and structural determinants of health, with key areas of interest in homelessness, addictions, global health, and planetary health. Dr. Xie is a member of the boards of directors of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and Toronto Environmental Alliance. He has worked with MSF on climate change, health, and humanitarian issue
Dr. Maria Guevara is a senior operational positioning and advocacy advisor on global health for MSF in Switzerland, where she focuses on MSF’s emergency response and planetary health. Prior to this she served as MSF’s senior coordinator for attacks on healthcare. From 2012 to 2017, she was MSF’s regional humanitarian representative in Asia. Her work experience in the humanitarian sector began with MSF in 2004 and she has completed assignments in Liberia, Guatemala, Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and South Sudan.
Moderator
Avril Benoît, MSF-USA executive director, has worked with the international medical humanitarian organization since 2006 in various operational management and executive leadership roles, most recently as the director of communications and development at MSF’s operational center in Geneva from November 2015 until June 2019. Throughout her career with MSF, Avril has contributed to major movement-wide initiatives, including the global mobilization to end attacks on hospitals and health workers. She has worked as a country director and project coordinator for MSF, leading operations to provide aid to refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants in Mauritania, South Sudan, and South Africa. Avril’s strategic analysis and communications assignments have taken her to countries including Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, and Syria.
Host: Doctors Without Borders
Wednesday, April 22
2. April 22 – April 24, Earth Day Live – info from 350.org
Register: https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/
From April 22, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, to April 24, activists, performers, thought leaders, and artists will come together for an empowering, inspiring, and communal three day livestream mobilization.
The fights against the coronavirus and the climate crisis go hand-in-hand, and as we work to flatten the curve of this pandemic, we must strive toward the longer term goal of building a society rooted in sustainability and justice.
350 Bay Area members and leaders will be tuning into Earth Day Live, a three-day livestream for people around the world to join webinars, hear speakers, participate in virtual town halls voter registration and more
STRIKE, DIVEST & VOTE
3. Starting on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, April 22, we’re taking our movement online for a three-day livestream.
Register: https://strikewithus.org/#about
Young people around the world have been rising up to defend our future, and have been going on strike — every week, all over the planet — for months. On September 20, 2019, and again on November 29 and December 6, the adults joined us.
Now, we’re preparing to take the youth-led climate movement into the digital-first era due to the coronavirus pandemic. Launching on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, April 22, and ending on April 24, youth activists and adult allies are leading Earth Day Live, a 72-hour livestream that aims to engage people across the country and the world in collective action to protect our communities.
We are training, expanding, and strengthening in preparation to carry this momentum through 2020, a critical year for climate action, and beyond. We are determined to ensure real, bold action is taken to address the climate crisis. As we approach the US elections and the consequences of climate change are becoming ever more clear and dire with each passing day, a new powerful wave of the climate movement has been swelling.
We are prepared to do whatever is necessary to protect our futures. We will stop going to school. We will stop going to work. We refuse to participate in a society and economy that is actively destroying our generation’s chance at a livable future.
4. ON APRIL 22, EARTH DAY GOES DIGITAL
A global health crisis doesn’t mean the climate crisis is slowing down. 50 years ago, millions took a stand for our planet on the first-ever Earth Day. In 2020, we’re continuing the fight online.
Register:
Info from Earthrise For Earthday
5. Wednesday, Earth Day Goes Digital with 24 Hours of Actions
Register: https://www.earthday.org/campaign/digital-earth-day/
To participate in digital Earth Day actions, global conversations, video teach-ins, Earth Challenge 2020 and more, see www.earthday.org and related web sites.
Info from: The Peace Alliance
6. Wednesday, Apr. 22, 8:00am – Ap. 26,10:00pm (CDT), Earth Week 2020: MFS Media Zone
Register via evitebrite:
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, March for Science will convene a virtual international civic forum with curated panels and interactive participations, in the spirit of the first Earth Day teach-ins.
The MFS Media Zone will provide a moderated, vetted space for sharing insights and highlighting impacts of the public health crises on different populations.
From grassroots leaders and thought leaders to students and professors, we are calling on the March for Science community to contribute to the Media Zone programming with tangible “prescriptions” and calls-to-action so that we can rally science advocates across the globe with action that is informed by science. We hope you join us.
Host: March For Science
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/251820822663162/
7. Wednesday, 12Noon – 1:00pm, Earth Day: Virtual Celebration with Water For People
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-day-with-water-for-people-sf-bay-area-committee-registration-95769758927
Presentations by the local SF Bay Area Committee and special guest speakers from Water For People Headquarters.
Topics include:
· -Overviews of Water for People and the SF Bay Area Committee
· -How Water For People communities have been affected by COVID-19
· -Updates on the Africa program
Event affiliated with the Bay Area Water Works Association
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/18/18832463.php
8. Wednesday , 3:00pm, Earth Day: How to Get Ships Off Fossil Fuels (webinar)
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/3915862111755/WN_F6SFivTqSOCE3H0H4wjaxA
Ships connect the world. Unfortunately, fossil fueled ships also destroy it. Join us on Earth Day to learn about a new campaign to get ships off fossil fuels.
The Paris Climate Agreement asked every nation and industry to reduce the greenhouse gas pollution that’s causing the climate crisis — but it infamously left out the shipping industry. It’s time to demand that industry leaders step up and do their fair share in reducing climate pollution from ships.
PANELISTS
> Jason Anderson is the Director of the International Engagement and Super Pollutant portfolios at ClimateWorks Foundation. His work spans efforts ranging from implementing the Paris Agreement, to cleaning up dirty shipping and preventing methane leakage. Jason has worked in climate and clean energy for 25 years.
> Dr. Bryan Comer is a Senior Researcher at the International Council on Clean Transportation’s Marine Program. His cutting edge research informs policies that reduce the environmental and human health impacts of air pollution from marine vessels and ports, including black carbon.
> Daniel Hubbell is the Shipping Emission Campaign Manager at Ocean Conservancy. As a part of Ocean Conservancy’s Arctic Team he advocates for a cleaner and decarbonized future in maritime trade. Prior to joining OC Daniel worked for the Environmental Investigation Agency, and has spent more than seven years working on maritime policy, Arctic affairs, and wildlife trafficking issues.
> Madeline Rose is the Climate Campaign Director for Pacific Environment. A tenacious advocate and seasoned campaigner, Madeline joins Pacific Environment after a decade of advocacy in the humanitarian and peacebuilding sectors.
Host: Pacific Environment – Climate Works Foundation
Info: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/19/18832492.php
9. Wednesday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Sunrise Bay Area Earth Week: A Green New Deal for Public Health
Register: https://actionnetwork.org/events/50th-anniversary-earth-day-strike-sunrise-bay-area
Day 1 of Sunrise Bay Area’s Earth Week! Day 1 will include a digital panel on the state of public health in the U.S. and the Bay Area. We’ll discuss the situation in our local hospitals, labor movements across the state, and how the Green New Deal can move us towards a more equitable and resilient public health system.
On April 22-24th, millions of people around the world will gather online for a three-day mobilization to stop the climate emergency. Wednesday April 22nd, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. We act to reclaim the power of that first Earth Day, when a record 20 million young people protested in the streets. Their effort led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. But it wasn’t enough.
Despite many accomplishments, the last fifty years have been marked by unprecedented levels of greenhouse gas emissions resulting in irreversible damage to the planet’s delicate climate and ecosystems. Time and time again, our governments and institutions have proven complicit in the interlocking crises of environmental degradation, poverty and inequality, militarism and imperialism, and the supplanting of democracy by a rising global fascism. For the values we hold dear, the livability of our home, and the sanctity of life, these next fifty years need to be radically different.
And now not only are we facing climate disaster, we are also in the midst of a global pandemic and an economic depression. Although we must stay at home to protect the lives of our fellow neighbors and frontline workers, we will not stop our demands for a livable future.
Join Sunrise Bay Area in this three-day livestream to demand nothing less than the fundamental change we need to survive: a People’s Bailout, a Green New Deal, and a Just Transition.
Sponsors: Sunrise Bay Area & US Climate Strike
Info from 350.org
10. Wednesday, 4:00pm – 5:00pm, (PT), Earth Day Discussion
Webinar Registration:
Zoom info will be emailed once you register
This week’s conversation will dive into the value of our public lands and waters, the importance of thinking big, and what it’ll take to ensure wild animals and plants have long-term protection for the places they call home.
If we’re going to halt the wildlife extinction crisis, we have to protect the places where these animals and plants live.
Join us on Earth Day — this Wednesday — for a special discussion about our ambitious goal of protecting 30% of wildlands and waters by 2030 and half of them by 2050. The presentation will include the Center’s Executive Director Kierán Suckling and our Public Lands Director Randi Spivak.
Host: Center for Biological Diversity
11. Wednesday, 5:30pm, Justice 4 Brandon Press Conference on Earth Day
Register@
Spend Earth Day with us as we continue to support our friend and Earth Protector Brandon, learn about the situation in the Philippines from a indigenous rights activist with the Cordillera People’s Alliance, and hear from San Francisco civic leaders about how to care for Brandon in his recovery while seeking justice for him and all victims of extrajudicial killings by the US-Duterte regime.
Register in order to attend the online event which will also feature SF Supervisor Gordon Mar, SF Supervisor Matt Haney, Pam Tau Lee (ICHRP-US Chair), and Brandon himself! We’ll be sharing some artwork from children, families, and visual artists commemorating earth protectors like Brandon.
Host: SF for Human Rights in the Philippines
12. Thursday, 6:00am – 8:30pm, ShutDownKKR Earth Day of Action #WetsuwetenStrong
On the morning of April 23rd, we’ll be in touch with easy and accessible online tools to email, call, and tweet at KKR.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/276418040016808/
Join the #ShutDownKKR communications blockade for #EarthDay and rise up for the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs!
The Coastal GasLink pipeline threatens Wet’suwet’en land, water, air, and people. Yet, over the past five years, TC Energy (formally Trans Canada) has tried to build the Coastal GasLink pipeline on Wet’suwet’en land, defiantly ignoring the hereditary chiefs’ rights and title.
KKR, a US-based private equity firm, has plans to purchase 65% of the Coastal GasLink pipeline with Alberta Investment Management Corp (AIMCo).
But KKR’s plans to invest in the pipeline aren’t yet final, and there’s still time for them to walk away from the deal.
While the COVID-19 pandemic may keep us from gathering in the streets, it cannot stop the movement of defiant and uncompromising #WetsuwetenStrong support. As the world turns its attention to Earth Day, let’s seize the moment and show up for the Wet’suwet’en people.
Despite the COVID-19 crisis, TC Energy is still going ahead with Coastal GasLink pipeline construction and sending workers into “man camps” and federal police officers onto Wet’suwet’en territories, putting communities at even more risk.
KKR must be held accountable for ignoring the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, putting the Wet’suwet’en land and water at risk, endangering Indigenous women by building man camps along the route, and fueling the climate crisis.
Hosts: Rising Tide North America, Greenpeace USA, Wet’suwet’en Solidarity UK
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/276418040016808/
13. Thursday, 9:00am – 10:00am, Earth Day Live: A Climate Crisis Divestment Crash Course
Register:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98328213660?pwd=VjJSZFZReVJVdGNuYkpFd085M3RWQT09
Meeting ID: 983 2821 3660
Password: 023319
Where: Via Zoom. Find out more at
Is your credit card/bank account supporting the destruction of nature? Tune in to learn about the role banks like Chase and Wells Fargo are playing in the other deadly crisis that is happening right now: climate chaos. Through videos starring local activists and a panel of campaign leaders we will share how each of us can be part of taking our money back from the fossil fuel funders and show you how to take online action to stop the money pipeline.
Host: Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area + 5 Other groups
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1160716824320376/
14. Thursday, 4:00pm – 5:00pm, Defundathon for Earth Day Live!
Link to attend the DEFUNDATHON (join 4/23 at 4pm):
… Or watch here on FacebookLive!
Join the DEFUNDATHON on Earth Day livestream and move your money out of banks that fund fossil fuels!! Get your accounts ready to count your divestment towards this Earth Day Action to #StopTheMoneyPipeline. “Call in” with your divestment to the pledge drive hosted by rockstar climate comedians.
Who are the bad guys? Check if your bank is listed in this report by Rainforest Action Network: https://www.ran.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Banking_on_Climate_Change__2020_vF.pdf
If you have mutual funds or stocks, you can see if they are twisted up in climate chaos on this portal by As You Sow: https://fossilfreefunds.org/
The DEFUNDATHON will be hosted by climate comedian celebrities:
JC Coccoli: JC Coccoli Comedy Page
Clark Jones: Clark jones
Larry Bogad: www.lmbogad.com
Jenny Yang: http://jennyyang.tv
Featured guests will include:
Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Front Bay Area
1000 Grandmothers
Rainforest Action Network
350.org
XRYouth
www.joshkornbluth.com
Hosts: SF Climate Justice NVDA Spokescouncil:
Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area
#WetsuwetenSolidarityFrontBayArea
350 Bay Area
350 Silicon Valley
ColombiaConexion – SF Bay
Diablo Rising Tide – DiRT
Rainforest Action Network
1000 Grandmothers
Codepink Women for Peace, Golden Gate Chapter
