WAKE UP, O.C.! Climate Emergency and Green New Deal
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UPDATE 9/20: registration goes off line at 6:00PM this evening. If you did not register but want to attend, just show up tomorrow, we have room for more. Check in starts at 9:15AM.
WAKE UP O.C.!
Climate Emergency and Green New Deal
featuring
Andy Shrader
Saturday, September 21, 2019, 9:30AM - 11:30AM
(Check-in: 9:15AM)
FREE ADMISSION | VEGAN REFRESHMENTS
-- Come early for coffee on the patio BEFORE the indoor event!
-- Bring a blanket for on the lawn seating AFTER the event when we will have super yummy light lunch foods and lots to process and plan for!
-- Reduce waste! Bring your own re-usable supplies for coffee, water and lunch. (Compostable supplies will be provided as needed.)
-- Post card actions available on the patio BEFORE and AFTER the event.
SPACE IS LIMITED | REGISTER EARLY
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“I am here to say, our house is on fire... I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.”
-Greta Thunberg
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Today in Orange County, things seem normal, even idyllic. Don’t be fooled. In a year, in a month, in a week, we could be refugees. We are living in a global climate emergency, and it’s time to start acting like it.
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ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:
Andy Shrader is Director of Environmental Affairs, Water Policy & Sustainability for Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz. He has been integrally involved in Councilmember Koretz's efforts to ban plastic bags, move the City beyond coal power, implement the City’s United Nations' award-winning Good Food Purchasing Policy, close down the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, establish the City Council’s climate emission reduction goals, initiate the City's groundbreaking biodiversity index effort, retire the Scattergood, Haynes, and Harbor coastal natural gas power plants, and launch the creation of the world's first Climate Emergency Mobilization Department, guided by the principles of equity, environmental justice, a just transition and a Green New Deal.
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Questions? Email: info@occlimateaction.org
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OUR PARTNERS:
Irvine United Congregational Church Greenfaith Committee
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) California
Sunrise Movement (Orange County)
The Climate Reality Project: Orange County, CA Chapter
The Climate Reality Project Campus Corps: Soka University of America Chapter
Much gratitude to A Well-Fed World and Vibe Organic Kitchen for enabling us to provide a super yummy organic, gluten free, vegan lunch!
Organizer Living Ubuntu
Organizer of WAKE UP, O.C.! Climate Emergency and Green New Deal
Living Ubuntu is a 501c3non-profit organization with a focus on mind-body issues, specifically health and well-being, and the effects of stress, trauma and compassion fatigue. We seek to increase awareness of the global and local impact of these issues, build a sense of community, and encourage living a more fully embodied life.
TRAUMA RECOVERY * LIVING VEGAN
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Ubuntu [ubuntu] n. South African: Humanity or fellow feeling; kindness.
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. When we want to give high praise to someone we say, "Yu u nobuntu"; "Hey, so-and-so has ubuntu." Then you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, "My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours."... We say, "A person is a person through other persons."
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed... To forgive is not just to be altruistic. It is the best form of self-interest. What dehumanizes you inexorably dehumanizes me. [Forgiveness] gives people resilience, enabling them to survive and emerge still human despite all efforts to dehumanize them.
- Desmond Tutu
