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Beginning today, Nov. 12th through the 21st,\u00a0Thanksgiving Fast & Prayer to Stop Climate Change\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The future of human civilization as we know it is threatened by climate change. \u00a0By fasting for ten days before Thanksgiving, we intend to add light, prayer and witness to the efforts to end climate change.\u00a0<\/strong>Join Steve and others in Asheville from wherever you are for one day or more in a way that connects with you.\u00a0More information here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Great news last month as the Wake County Board of Commissioners and City of Asheville passed 100% renewable energy resolutions!! Grateful Durham County Commissioners will be joining them this week when they vote, bringing the total communities in NC who have passed resolutions to 18. Now the real work begins!! Let\u2019s be sure our leaders follow through and help them with this work!!<\/p>\n November 17, Clean Path 2025: Taking Charge of Our Electric Power<\/strong><\/p>\n 2-6:30 pm, Friday Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill<\/p>\n A gathering of North Carolinians interested in accelerating a just\u00a0transition to economical clean electricity in our state.\u00a0Learn how activists, local governments and small utilities are implementing the\u00a0Clean Path 2025<\/a>\u00a0strategy to replace fossil\u00a0fuels with solar, battery storage, energy-saving measures and innovative financing. More\u00a0information and registration here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Check out NC WARN\u2019s latest TV ad!\u00a0It\u2019s time to end the Duke Energy monopoly<\/a>. It sure is!!!<\/p>\n November 17,\u00a0Community\/ Landowner Strategy Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n 11 am – 4pm, Near the Alamance\/Rockingham County border.<\/p>\n Join Haw River Assembly, Appalachian Voices, and Sierra Club for a Strategy summit to discuss how we can stop the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate. More details on location\u00a0after you RSVP here<\/a>. Facebook\u00a0link<\/a>\u00a0to help spread the word.<\/p>\n Climate change impacts are being felt strongly in NC and all over the world. Please consider signing onto this\u00a0Petition for a Just\u00a0Transition to a 100% Renewable Energy and Carbon-Free Economy in NC\u00a0<\/strong>that will be delivered\u00a0to Gov. Cooper\u2019s office and General Assembly members.\u00a0Here\u2019s the link to sign and to share<\/a><\/p>\n on social media and with friends.<\/p>\n Tuesdays with Tillis<\/strong>,\u00a0join activists\u00a0every Tuesday as different themes and issues are shared, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm,\u00a0Federal Building, 310 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh. Tomorrow will be week 95! More information and updates on themes and actions\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n November 26,\u00a0The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina: Stories from Our Invisible Citizens<\/strong><\/p>\n 7 pm, Quail Ridge Books,\u00a04209-100 Lassiter Mill Road, Raleigh<\/p>\n Since 2012,\u00a0Gene Nichol\u00a0has traveled the length of North Carolina, conducting hundreds of interviews with poor people and those working to alleviate the worst of their\u00a0circumstances. Hear their voices challenge all of us to see what is too often invisible, to look past partisan divides and preconceived notions, and to seek change. More information\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n November 27,\u00a0All Roads Lead to Raleigh\/<\/strong>Special session at General Assembly<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:30 am press conference, then join others at noon in the gallery of the General Assembly Gallery to let them know we\u2019re watching as they talk about the terrible amendments and more.\u00a0More information here.<\/a><\/p>\n A thought provoking article by Bill McKibben after the midterm elections. \u00a0“Every election cycle brings wins and losses. But every election cycle also brings us two years further down the path of irrevocable\u00a0climate change. That\u2019s why even a mixed result can seem bruising.\u201d<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/07\/opinion\/climate-midterms-emissions-fossil-fuels.html<\/a><\/p>\n December 1,.\u00a0Waste Not, Living the Low Carbon Life<\/strong><\/p>\n 9 am – 2 pm, Church of the Good Shepherd,\u00a0125 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh<\/p>\n Sponsored by Church of the Nativity, learn how to reduce your carbon footprint by making the food waste, compost, soil connection.\u00a0Info here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Help Robie and Dwayne Goins fight the\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0Coast Pipeline!\u00a0<\/strong>Consider donating to the Goins brothers’ legal battle against the proposed fracked gas pipeline in their town of Prospect, NC. For more information, visit their\u00a0GoFundMe<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0account.\u00a0This lawsuit is important because it represents a historic Lumbee community’s last line of defense against the siting of a metering station–an intrusive and\u00a0dangerous piece of industrial infrastructure–in a residential area by an aggressive energy behemoth in violation of the law.<\/p>\n December 3-4,\u00a024 Hours of Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n Travel across the Earth for 24 hours to learn more about how fossil fuels and climate change are creating unique health risks that threaten the wellness of families and\u00a0communities all over the world.\u00a0More information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n December 6-8,\u00a0Together Building Power: NC NAACP State Convention<\/strong><\/p>\n Raleigh, more details to be announced at\u00a0https:\/\/naacpnc.org\/<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2167613103564183\/<\/a><\/p>\n