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Hello John,
VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!
This election is so important, so please don’t forget to vote! Ballots have been mailed. Election Day is November 3rd.
Here is a great “No Regrets” Guide to Taking Action in the 2020 Election!
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GET OUT THE VOTE Check out all these great opportunities to support GOTV efforts:
Check out this call recording and transcript from Solidarity School on Protecting Votes & Building Power, with Leslie Mac of Black Womxn For, Anoa Changa, movement journalist with Scalawag & Prism.org, and Phyllis Hasbrouck from 350 Madison. Anoa and Leslie explain voter suppression and what’s at stake with the upcoming election, as well as some powerful calls to action, while Phyllis shares innovative GOTV and arts organizing work. With Election Day less than 26 days away, we’re asking you to take a call to action. 1. Text your family and friends the following questions:
2. Volunteer to serve as a poll monitor on Nov. 3rd 3. Join our Get Out the Vote program with the Environmental Voter Project. Sign up for at least two shifts 4. Post on social media with #ProtectDemocracy @350 on Twitter & @350us on Instagram. 5. Check out our Climate Voters video and share it with friends and family. 6. Continue your reflections in the Solidarity School Workbook and bring your ideas to groups you work with. Here are 3 really powerful ways we can use our platforms and voices as 350.org local groups in the PNW to get out the vote:
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European Dissent: Whiteness and Elections - TONIGHT
The next community meeting for European Dissent will be held TODAY (Monday) October 19th from 6-8 pm PDT via Zoom. This month, we invite our community to join, learn from, and take action to support movements that dismantle voter suppression and promote voter sovereignty in Washington and the greater PNW. We’ll be discussing how whiteness affects our vote and our relationship to elections. We’ll also be sharing actionable ways to engage in the fight against voter suppression both nationally and locally through the Reclaim Our Vote initiative, and Common Power Team Washington! You’ll be receiving your ballot any day (if you haven’t already!), so join us tonight for important community building and discussion. To attend, please fill out the following google form. We’ll send out the Zoom link the day of and post it on our Facebook event page: Please feel free to share widely and invite family, friends, and community! -- In preparation for the meeting tonight we encourage you to watch the following:
Since we are a part of a broader, multi-racial People's Institute network, our meeting:
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PUD - Taking Back Control The East King County PUD campaign is working to establish a consumer-owned electrical utility on the Eastside. To do that, we need to collect around 30,000 signatures to place a measure on the ballot. We have been working diligently on the issue of how to collect signatures in a time of social distancing, and we now know that we can collect signatures online for a PUD measure. That is what we intend to do starting in January 2021. Please stay tuned for more information about how you can sign the petition from the comfort (and safety) of your own home. In the meantime, we're hard at work reaching out to potential partners, endorsers, and coalition members and welcome help with this endeavor. We would also love to connect with volunteers who can refresh our website or have an interest in managing our social media presence (especially Facebook and Twitter). If you have any questions about these opportunities, or are interested in being a PUD Ambassador in your neighborhood or community, please contact Barbra Chevalier ([email protected]). We're also actively seeking people interested in being commissioners for the new utility. Anyone who is a registered voter living in the proposed PUD area is eligible to serve. The positions are salaried, and we are especially interested in hearing from anyone with a passion for clean energy, commitment to a just energy transition, and a knack for communicating complex ideas to a broad range of people. If you have any questions, have someone to recommend for the job, or would like to learn more about the commissioner position yourself, please contact Rosemary Moore ([email protected]) and/or Lin Hagedorn ([email protected]). It's a great opportunity to dip a toe in elected office, serve your community, and help make meaningful progress on climate change. Let's take back control of our electricity production. Good for the community...good for the consumer! |
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BLM Flash Stance - Bellevue Join Fellow UU activists and others on November 1st for a Black Lives Matter Flash Stance on the corner by Dacell's in Factoria. We will be standing against the marginalization of people of color in an attempt to start conversations in the lives of people that see us. When: Sunday, 1 November 2020 from 12:30 PST-13:30 PST Where: Corner by Dacell’s, Factoria (near East Shore Unitarian Church) Facebook Event page: HERE (Protocols: 1. Everyone must wear a mask. 2. If you touch a sign, you need to wear plastic gloves (will be supplied). 3. No one touches the banners. 4. We social distance.) Hosted by East Shore Unitarian Church. There will be another event on Dec 6. |
COVID - NEIGHBORHOOD PODSAs COVID-19 rates climb higher still, due to reopenings state- and nationwide, we ask you to consider helping those in your local community more heavily impacted by the virus. We now have 40 neighborhood pods and growing in a city-wide network of Mutual Aid to cultivate community resilience. We invite you to take leadership to help grow community within your own neighborhood so that people can help each other where there is need. We’re connected with COVID-19 Mutual Aid, so our pods respond to the needs requested through that site. We’ve shared requests for mask-making, supplies for striking farmworkers fighting for social distancing conditions, and other opportunities to address the huge impacts the pandemic is having on the most vulnerable communities. If this resonates with you, contact Lin Hagedorn ([email protected]) or Neal Anderson ([email protected]). You can Join a neighborhood pod here, or better yet, sign up to be a pod captain and lead your neighborhood organizing efforts! We are in plenty of need for more community captains on the Eastside. |
NEXT GENERAL MEETINGPlease join us for our next general meeting this upcoming Wednesday, October 21st at 7pm. At this month’s meeting, ahead of election day, we will be creating a safe space to re-connect as a collective. These are challenging times and we want you to know we are in this together. Come and share and feel the support of others. We also want to know what your top priorities are after the election. Looking forward to connecting on Wednesday!
Zoom info Time: Oct 21, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85768807395?pwd=c0FMTjI5V1dtc2xqMHBtUjhtLzdEdz09 Meeting ID: 857 6880 7395 Passcode: 315542 ************ VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!
In solidarity, 350 Eastside Steering Lin, Sara, Marilyn, Phil, Lynn and Emily |
