Upcoming

​Earth Day 2019
Monday, April 22 is Earth Day
Events April 19 - 22
A few things happening in Milwaukee:
 
Give back during Earth Day cleanups around Wisconsin
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
2019 WEC (We Energies) Annual Meeting
(and CPC-SEW Action)
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 10:00 a.m.

Concordia University Wisconsin
R. John Buuck Field House
12800 North Lake Shore Drive
Mequon, WI 53097

 RSVP for Protest 
WEC Energy Group is holding their annual shareholders meeting on Thursday, May 2nd. We will use this as an opportunity to protest their coal use and blocking of clean energy. We will stand on the sidewalk with signs that can be seen by drivers and shareholders/guests on the shuttle bus. Then, shareholders and their guests will attend the meeting. Shareholders will ask questions around clean energy and coal during the Q&A session.

We will meet in the parking lot at the Marcus Point North Shore Cinema (11700 N Port Washington Rd, Mequon, WI 53092). 

Shuttle buses will run from around 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. We will gather at 8:15 a.m. to begin our protest. At 9:30, shareholders and their guests will board the shuttle bus to attend the meeting. Others will wrap up the protest and (optional) meet at Panera (1300 W Mequon Rd, Mequon) for a debrief session and wait for the others to report back after the meeting.
 RSVP 
 
Clean Power Coalition - South Eastern Wisconsin
350 Milwaukee is a convening member
Next U.S. Youth Climate Strike
​Friday, May 3rd
 "It’s going to take bold action to bring about bold solutions to this crisis, and we’re not afraid to show our elected officials that we mean business. On March 15th, youth in the US will join thousands of youth across the globe striking from school for climate action. And we need your support." - Isra Hirsi, US Youth Climate Strike​
Watch this space as more information becomes available
350 Milwaukee Meeting
Tuesday, May 14, 7- 8:30pm
​at the Urban Ecology Center

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Petitions

Tell BlackRock's CEO: Stop Funding the Climate Crisis
It’s time for BlackRock to put their money and power where their mouth is. Send a message now to CEO Larry Fink to be a true leader and stop investing in climate destruction!​
This is a Sierra Club Campaign
​The Foxconn Solar Petition
During September and October the Clean Power Coalition-SEW gathered more than 600 signatures for a petition to We Energies and Foxconn. Perhaps you are one of the signers.
​
​Read We Energies response here.
Click here to help stop the oil pipeline that would go through Wisconsin
 Support Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal

For the first time ever, someone in Congress has a plan that is ambitious enough to address the climate crisis.
Newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing her fellow Democrats to create a Green New Deal – a plan to transform our economy and society at the scale needed to stop the climate crisis.
Sixty Seven Representatives (only one - Mark Pocan - from Wisconsin) and Eleven Senators (none from Wisconsin) have signed onto the Green New Deal resolution. Add your name now to help make sure the Green New Deal is on the agenda as Democrats take power in the House of Representatives.

Click here to read, and sign, the petition to House Democrats!

Green New Deal - Sunrise Movement - Website
The left must be bold and back a green new deal - The Guardian
The Green New Deal, explained - Vox
The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal - The Intercept

350 Milwaukee is a supporter of the Green New Deal!

In the News

“A Message from the Future with AOC”: New Film Imagines World Transformed by the Green New Deal
- Democracy Now, April 18, 2019
As the push for the Green New Deal builds momentum in the United States, The Intercept has released a short illustrated video imagining a future shaped by the progressive environmental movement. It’s titled “A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.” The New York congressmember narrates the film to envision an America that has been transformed by the Green New Deal policies, including a just transition of jobs, Medicare for all, and a total overhaul of the country’s energy system. The result is a vision of radical hope and transformation.
Climate change group scrapped by Trump reassembles to issue warning - The Guardian
Climate change group scrapped by Trump reassembles to issue warningPanel was disbanded after a Trump official voiced concerns that it did not have enough members ‘from industry’
It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change
 - NPR
We're unleashing our imagination and exploring a dream, a possible future in which we're bringing global warming to a halt. It's a world in which greenhouse emissions have ended.
Youth climate strikers: 'We are going to change the fate of humanity' - The Guardian
Exclusive: Students issue an open letter ahead of global day of action on 15 March, when young people are expected to strike across 50 nations
Teenage activist takes School Strikes 4 Climate Action to Davos
Listen here! - The Guardian
Protest by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg snowballs to last day of World Economic Forum

Read one of Greta's Facebook posts - 350 MKE Facebook

Watch Greta's TED Talk
European colonization of Americas helped cause climate change
 - The Guardian
​Research finds killing of native people indirectly contributed to a colder period by causing deaths of around 56 million by 1600
Environmental Photographer Captures Climate Change
 - Fresh Air Podcast on NPR​
The new documentary 'The Human Element' follows photographer James Balog as he captures images of rising sea levels, melting glaciers and roaring wildfires associated with climate change.
Americans’ climate change concerns surge to record levels, poll shows - The Guardian
Total of 72% polled now say global warming is personally important to them, Yale said, as 73% accept it is happening
U.S. Carbon Emissions Surged in 2018 Even as Coal Plants Closed - New York Times
America’s carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4 percent in 2018, the biggest increase in eight years, according to a preliminary estimate published Tuesday.
Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change – study  - The Guardian
Scientists say it may still technically be possible to limit warming to 1.5C if drastic action is taken now
How we can combat climate change  - Washington Post
The world has until 2030 to drastically cut our emissions. Where do we begin?
​JULIANA v. U.S. - CLIMATE LAWSUIT Updates
Our Children's Trust elevates the voice of youth to secure the legal right to a stable climate and healthy atmosphere for the benefit of all present and future generations. Through our programs, youth participate in advocacy, public education and civic engagement to ensure the viability of all natural systems in accordance with science.

Youth Call on the Colorado Supreme Court to Vacate Opinions After Court of Appeals Judge was Found to Have Racial Bias in Their Anti-Fracking Case
​ - January 24, 2019

​Our Children's Trust press releases are here
How Climate Change Threatens Humanity
 - Fresh Air Podcast on NPR​, April 15, 2019
​Bill McKibben, who first warned of climate change 30 years ago, says its effects are now upon us. He talks about heat waves, fires, flooding, drought, and, soon, millions of climate refugees. "The idea that anybody's going to be immune from this anywhere is untrue," he says. His new book is 'Falter.'
Bill McKibben: Green New Deal Is a Chance to “Remake Not Just a Broken Planet, But a Broken Society”
 - Democracy Now, April 15, 2019
​President Trump signed two executive orders last week to facilitate the approval of pipeline projects at a federal level, limiting states’ ability to regulate such projects. The move is intended in part to clear the way for permitting on the northeastern Constitution pipeline, which has stalled after New York invoked the Clean Water Act to reject the project on environmental grounds. We speak with Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org and the author of the new book “Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?”
How Climate Change Became A Partisan Issue
 - Fresh Air Podcast on NPR​, April 8, 2019
​Journalist Nathaniel Rich talks about the missed opportunities in our recent history that could've halted or slowed climate change. Rich says that from 1979 until 1989, climate change was viewed as a bipartisan problem — then the the oil industry "descended and bared its fangs" and everything changed. His new book is 'Losing Earth.'
How to change the minds of climate deniers
​ - Grist via The Guardian
Recent polls have found the number of people who believe climate change is real has jumped. What convinced them?

To take on climate change, we need to change our vocabulary
​ - Grist via The Guardian
When we talk about saving the planet, we employ the narrative of war. Does it only deepen our divisions?
10 Reasons to Feel Hopeful About Climate Change in 2019
​​ - Sierra Club
Humanity’s on the brink, but signs are emerging that we’ll pull back
Migration and climate change are deeply connected

350.org has released a 2 minute video where they help break down the connections between climate change and migration, this is one of the most important stories our movement needs to be telling right now.
Watch it and share!
There are also additional articles on climate change and migration

More on this subject: The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change - The Guardian
Climate Change Is a Public Health Emergency
 - Scientific American
​Here are eight reasons why
Not all environmentalists eat tofu: the hunters fighting climate change - The Guardian
​Progressives should think twice about who their allies are. Conservatives, especially those who hunt, can be alarmed about climate change too
How to stop the climate crisis: six lessons from the campaign that saved the ozone - The Guardian
​Thirty years ago, all 197 countries got together to ban the gases damaging the Earth’s ozone layer. Now we need to unite to combat an even greater threat. What can we learn from 1989
Katharine Hayhoe: 'A thermometer is not liberal or conservative' - The Guardian
Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. In 2018 she was a contributor to the US National Climate Assessment and was awarded the Stephen H Schneider award for outstanding climate science communication.
This is how your world could end - The Guardian
​In an extract from his book Ends of the World, Peter Brannen examines mass extinction events and the catastrophic outcome of rising temperatures for all the world’s population.

350 Milwaukee in the News


​Coverage of 350 Milwaukee protesting Trump - Milwaukee Courier
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​350 Milwaukee's Keep it in the Ground Protest - Wisconsin Gazette

Larry Hoffman talking about solar power - Wisconsin Public Radio

George Martin talking about oil trains - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Julie Enlsow on the Paris Climate Agreement - Milwaukee Courier
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Our Upcoming Meeting

Next meeting Tuesday, May 14th, 2019  7pm
Riverside Park Urban Ecology Center 1500 E. Park Place,  Milwaukee