Things are moving fast with more events and actions! NC legislators are returning to Raleigh next week. The majority party wants to override several terrible bills that Gov Stein vetoed. You will find two events taking place next week in Raleigh.
July 25, The Ongoing Health Catastrophe in Gaza
7:30 pm
The International Solidarity Working Group (ISWG) of 350US presents this livestream of a talk by Dr Feroze Sidhwa of his time as a surgeon on the ground in Gaza. The 350 ISWG has hosted a series of webinars on topics such as climate and colonialism and climate and militarism.The ISWG works from an understanding of the critical importance of intersectional organizing and the work of climate justice. The evening will begin with a 30 minute conversation and presentation with members of the 350 ISWG, followed by the livestream of the presentation by Dr. Sidhwa, a humanitarian surgeon, having worked most extensively in Palestine, but also in Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso. Register here.
July 28, Keep Duke Energy out of our pockets!
4:30 pm, Freedom Park, 218 N. Wilmington St, Raleigh (east side of the Legislative Building)
Community advocates including concerned ratepayers, clergy, and environmental and social justice organizations will hold a rally to urge state legislators to uphold the veto on Senate Bill 266 and to protect North Carolinians from exorbitant rate increases and environmental threats posed by Duke Energy and Senate Bill 266. Speakers begin at 5 pm. Register here.
**If you haven’t already, call your legislators and ask them to uphold the veto!
July 28, Solar for All Community Advisory Board
1 pm, online
The public may attend via Webex. Check out their webpage for the agenda more information here.
July 29, HB958 The Rigged Race
11 am, 300 N Salisbury St, Raleigh (In the grassy area in front of the Legislative Office Building, Halifax Mall)
Join Democracy Out Loud for a “race” like no other – because the rules are rigged. HB958 and extreme partisan gerrymandering are giving NC Republican lawmakers an unfair advantage, silencing votes, and rigging our democracy. This event will make the injustice visible, simple, and undeniable. Register here. Learn more about this terrible bill here. The bill may be discussed in the Judiciary Committee later on the 29th at 1 pm.
August 12, Public Hearing on MVP Southgate
5:30 pm, speaker registration, 6 pm start
Eden City Hall Council Chambers, 308 E. Stadium Drive, Eden, NC
NC Department of Quality has scheduled a public hearing. Comments for the MVP Southgate Clean Water Act 401 permit has been extended, which was one of the asks many of us made last month! More info and talking points here.
TAKE ACTION
Don’t forget you have until TODAY at 5 pm to make comments on the T-15 Pipeline permit. Check out Clean Water for NC’s excellent blog “Stop the T-15 Pipeline!” for more information and talking points here.
MORE COMMENTS due by Monday! Submit your comment to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers asking them to DENY the Clean Water Act Section 404 permit application for Transco’s SSEP! Check out this toolkit for more information with talking points and how to submit your comment by July 28 here.
While submitting your personal comments above is important, if you don’t have time, sign onto this letter from Appalachian Voices! Corporate polluter Williams Transco wants to build a methane gas project that would push a massive amount of fracked gas through a 55-mile pipeline in Virginia and North Carolina. Tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Don’t grant SSEP’s permit here.
The EPA is being dismantled. The EPA’s research directly threatens the fossil fuel industry’s ability to rake in billions in profit — and that’s exactly why the Trump administration is pushing to dismantle it.We must act! Tell Congress to Defend Climate Science at the EPA here.
ARTICLES and VIDEOS
Fighting Together for Life, Water, and Land: From Line 5 to Gaza by Marc Rosenthal and Stephanie Spehar here.
In ‘Giant Gift’ to Big Oil, EPA to Repeal Climate Finding That Underpins Regulations by Julia Conley here. “It’s one thing to willfully ignore the science in favor of profit, but to attempt to cancel it altogether beggars belief. Canceling the endangerment finding would declare open season on all of humanity, and cause irreversible harm to the entire planet, not just within the boundaries of the United States.” ~Anne Jellema, 350.org executive director
From climate scientist Peter Kalmus who lives in Chapel Hill writing about the NC flooding from Chantal and more. It’s all the little climate things, too here.
Before Tropical Depression Chantal Swamped Hillsborough, the Town Had Been Counting on FEMA by Lisa Sorg here.
From flooded basements to smarter planning: What NC storm survivors can teach us by Will Atwater here.
‘New Era of Climate Accountability’: ICJ Says Nations Have Legal Duty to Combat Planetary Crisis by Jake Johnson here.
Recordings of all 25 panels of the Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice are now available to watch here.
Maybe I will see some of you Monday or Tuesday in Raleigh! Thanks for reading and for taking action!
