Organizing for an inclusive movement and the future we want takes dedication, and ensuring everyone is supported and freely able to participate as themselves is criticial for a strong climate movement – join 350 Colorado in learning!
In these two sessions you will learn about some basic principles of inclusive organizing and common pitfalls to avoid, how 350 Colorado works in this space, and how you can help insure the climate movement is as inclusive as possible.
The original curriculum of these workshops is thanks to Angela Davis of iProject LLC, a Senior Advisor on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 350CO staff, board members, and activists further developed the material and created additional content that is from the landscape of our organizing here in Colorado and not only our efforts as an organization for an inclusive movement, but our hope that as many people as possible will join us in this vision.
And they more than just a learning opportunity. These workshops represent our collective commitment to reshape society towards an inclusive climate solution framework that addresses the root causes of injustice in our communities.
Imagine them as the seedbeds where we’ll learn how to keep making inclusivity central to our efforts, helping us transition to a clean energy economy. We’ll explore what it means to move away from an extractive way of being towards a more sustainable and just future. We want to move toward a movement that can equip all individuals with the resources needed to participate fully in climate organizing, through support, mutual aid, and accountability.
We acknowledge that we’re on a journey, that there’s much to learn and unlearn. But together, we can create spaces where growth and learning are an integral part of our climate justice mission.
From Moses to Greta: Leadership Lessons for Facing Up to Climate Change
Join Congregation Har HarShem for our 2023 Symposium on Spirituality and the Environment Sunday November 2nd at 1pm. It is free and open to all. We will have a keynote from an activist in the Jewish community, and then a panel discussion about activism, advocacy, and next steps to live out our values.
The annual Symposium focuses on bringing people together to explore perspectives on environmentalism from faith and spiritual traditions. We bring forward teachers, academics, faith-based activists in dialogue and shared learning. Our hope: greater understanding leading to greater engagement in acts of environmental protection and justice.
Program: CCL has crafted this virtual conference with top notch speakers — including Van Jones, CNN commentator, social entrepreneur and renowned author — and dynamic sessions to help us learn how to advocate for national climate policy.
When: Saturday, November 4, 10:45am – 3:00pm MT
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder 80303 (Sky Room)
When a mega-fracking site gets moved from a White neighborhood to a BIPOC neighborhood, a mother fights to try and stop it. She joins the state-wide effort to change the law but the powerful oil and gas industry fights back with lawsuits, harassment, sabotage, and $50 million. Check out the trailer here
Fracking the System: Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars Thursday October 19th 6:30-9pp Naropa University Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave
Doors open 6:00 p.m | Film at 6:30 p.m. Q&A with director and guests 8:00 p.m.
All faith groups are invited to a Get Out the Vote planning potluck led by Together Colorado organizers this Monday October 2nd at 6pm at First Congregational Church (FCC) 1128 Pine St. in downtown Boulder.
Highly recommended! Every vote matters. Here are the details:
Get out the Vote/Together ColoradoPotluck and PlanningMonday, 10/2, 6 PM, Plymouth Hall
You are invited to join the Voter Engagement Team of FCC and members of five other Boulder County congregations as we come together to get organized to Get Out the Vote. We’ll gather for a potluck dinner in Plymouth Hall at 6 PM followed by a planning meeting let by Together Colorado organizers who will help us focus our efforts to engage, encourage, and inform voters to participate in the November election.
Questions? Oscar Hernandez, the Together Colorado Boulder County lead.
Together Colorado is a nonpartisan, multi-racial and multi-faith community organization deeply involved in legislative and policy advocacy with a number of organizing campaigns, including Climate Justice. Learn more here.
From our friends with the Rainforest Action Network: Join us for a rally in Colorado Springs, October 1st at 11am outside of one of the largest gatherings of insurance executives — the Insurance Leadership Forum at the Broadmoor resort — to demand they insure our communities instead of oil, gas, and coal.
Major insurers like Liberty Mutual, Chubb, and Travelers are increasing rates and walking away from communities as we face wildfires from the climate chaos they are creating by insuring and investing in fossil fuels.
WHEN: Sunday, October 1, 2023 11am – 1pm
WHAT: A rally to hold insurers accountable and demand they insure our communities instead of oil, gas, and coal.
WHERE: Meet at 10:41am at Charmaine Nymann Community Garden at Bear Creek Regional Park, Creek Crossing St, Colorado Springs, CO 80905. We’ll carpool to the Broadmoor from this location!
This is a rare opportunity to disrupt executives who are in town to drink cocktails, and golf while we face the poisoned air, water, and climate destruction from the methane gas, oil, and coal they expand. Join us in holding them accountable to become climate leaders!
