March 28 — No Kings
What: No Kings Rally & March
Where: Alameda Park, 1400 Santa Barbara St.
When: Saturday, March 28
- 11 am Meet community partners, learn how you can help resist
- 12:30 pm Rally begins – Local politicians and activists speak
- 1:30 pm March to De La Guerra Plaza
Bring noisemakers — whistles, drums, cowbells!
Come with your friends, neighbors, family! The size of the crowd sends a message!
April 3 — Climate Friday
What: Learn about local Marine Protected Areas
When: Friday, April 3, 4-5:30 pm
Where: The CEC Hub, 1219 State St.
Join the Community Environmental Council (CEC), the Society of Fearless Grandmothers Santa Barbara, and the Santa Barbara Sierra Club to learn about efforts to form a new Marine Protected Area (MPA) in Santa Barbara County. Azsha Hudson, the Environmental Defense Center’s Marine Conservation Analyst and Program Manager, Bella Sullivan, The Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) Next Wave Ocean Fellow, and Lennon Thomas, a UC Santa Barbara Project Researcher will highlight the critical role MPAs play in sustaining our ocean, assess the performance of California’s MPA network, and discuss how we can expand it. Come learn, connect with your community, and discover ways to take action for the future of our ocean!
April 12 — Special 350SB In Person Event with UCSB Professor Javiera Barandiaran
What: Learn about lithium and the future of renewable energy
When: Sunday, April 12, 2-4 pm
Where: Scan the QR code below, register, and you’ll find out!
Sable Starts Pumping & the Fight Continues
Last week, oil began flowing through the same pipeline that sprang a leak in 2015, and gave us the largest oil spill in the county since 1969. Using the Defense Production Act, Trump did an end run around California regulators, and gave a rogue company permission to start pumping and moving crude oil through a pipeline that had not yet gotten approval from the State Fire Marshal.
For activists that have spent years battling Sable, it was shocking news. Shocking and upsetting. Students who have been on the frontlines of the fight, turned their grief into action, and together with the Fearless Grandmothers, organized a protest in just a few days. Speakers, including students, Supervisor Hartmann, Assemblyman Hart, lawyers from the Environmental Defense Council, and Fearless Grandmother Maureen Ellenberger, all vowed to fight on. They admitted it’s hard,
It is, but it was helpful to be in community, and to lift up our voices in song thanks to Fearless Grandmother, Wendy Kanter, and also to members of the Singing Resistance group. Lifting our voices, lifted our spirits. We look forward to carrying on with all of you.
~ 350 Steering Committee