1411 Ellis Avenue, Northland College, Ashland, WI, 5-7 P.M.
Sign Making for Chequamegon Climate Strike
Meet in the upstairs student center of the Ponzio to make signs for the Global Climate Strike! Sign making supplies and food will be provided. Learn more about the strike here: www.chequamegonclimatestrike.weebly.com
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Young people, it’s our time to step up and demand action. It’s NOW or never. Organize a walkout or strike at your school! We have guides and resources to help you organize to save your future. Check this page for organizing events such as Art Builds and planning meetings across Wisconsin leading up to September 20. Youth Climate Action Team
This September, millions of us will walk out of our workplaces, schools, and homes to join youth climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels. We’re gathering at the North Point Water Tower for a tabling event and then a march to City Hall for a rally.
Our house is one fire — let’s act like it. We demand climate justice for everyone. In the words of Greta Thunberg, “We must now do the impossible”.
Milwaukee strikers are demanding that Governor Evers, our county, and our city government declare a climate emergency. Our private sector demands are that WE Energies divest and transition to 100% renewable energy by 2030.
Can’t strike? Protest in solidarity by disrupting the status quo and striking for 11 minutes to symbolize our looming deadline. Teachers, students, employees, kids, and many more will step out in solidarity in this crucial climate movement.
Questions: general@ycatwi.org
Press: press@ycatwi.org
On Saturday, September 28th, we’ll come together on the shores of Gichi-gami — Lake Superior — to stand up against the proposed Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
Complete details, including registration and bus information on event website: www.gichigamigathering.com
Schedule:
Noon: Arrival /Check-in Begins
1:30: Rally
2:30: March
3:30: Gathering and Festival
Enbridge’s Line 3 project would pump the world’s dirtiest oil from Canada to Superior, crossing Ojibwe treaty land, wild rice lakes, and the headwaters of the Mississippi River. It would have the climate change impact of 50 coal power plants.
This past June, the Minnesota Court of Appeals threw out Line 3’s environmental review because the spill risks to Lake Superior were never even studied. Meanwhile, Enbridge is doing pre-construction for the pipeline, even with lawsuits, expert recommendations, tribal nations, community groups, and presidential candidates lining up against the project.
Now is the time to gather at Gichi-gami and raise our voices so that Governor Walz, our state agencies, and all Minnesotans can hear. We need to protect this Great Lake and stop this toxic pipeline.
Together, we’ll rally, march, and celebrate the community of resistance that has brought us this far. This will be a powerful day. No matter your background or experience, there is a place for you in this movement. Bring everyone — Gichi-gami Gathering to Stop Line 3 is a family-friendly event.
This event follows the Global Climate Strike, a youth-led week of action to demand climate justice for everyone and an end to the age of fossil fuels. Building Line 3 would lock us into 50 more years of climate crisis level emissions from the Canadian tar sands. Join one of the Global Climate Strikes on September 20th in your own community, then come from near or far on the 28th to Gichi-gami to protect the water and say no to this pipeline that affects us all.
Buses from the Twin Cities: https://www.gichi-gami-gathering.com/transportation
Buses from Madison: tinyurl.com/line3bus
If you’ve been involved in the movement to stop Line 3, you won’t want to miss this. If you’re new to the movement, you’ll learn about our concerns about the pipeline, how you can get involved, and how you can support those doing frontline work. We’ll see you there. #StopLine3
Covert art done by Dio Cramer: http://www.diocramer.com
We need to respond to the full-blown emergency that is the global climate crisis. July 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history. The Amazon is on fire. There is no shortage of communities being devastated by catastrophic hurricanes and wildfires.
We’re in the midst of a drastic wake up call to protect our planet for every generation. What matters now is how we respond.
Here’s the good news — right now, millions of young people all around the globe are getting ready to strike for the climate on September 20. This is shaping up to become the largest climate mobilization in world history. Ever.
This week, the youth leaders announced the Climate Strike demands — policies that mark the progress we need for a livable future:
Greg, this is the kind of bold vision we need to actually address the climate crisis.
The thing is, we can only win if our movement gets big enough to leave our elected leaders no choice but to listen. We’re up against a lot, and it’s going to take ALL of us showing up as much as we can, even when it’s not easy.
Are you in? RSVP for a Youth Climate Strike near you.
See you in the streets,
Morissa Zuckerman
Sierra Student Coalition
Sierra Club
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Despite knowing for months that the transit system faced a budget deficit for 2019, Milwaukee County officials decided not to pursue a strategy to use federal air quality funding to maintain bus routes on the chopping block, as they had in previous years.
An application for a grant went before the committee on Transportation, Public Works and Transit for approval Wednesday. The grant program, called a Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality grant (CMAQ) has been used in the past by the Milwaukee County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) and the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS), in times of budget peril, to maintain service. This time around, despite a historic budget shortfall, they did not attempt to do this.
The last time county officials used the grant to mitigate service reductions, they used leftover CMAQ funding from scuttled projects — specifically, the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee (KRM) rail service and the county’s first attempt at Bus Rapid Transit. Julie Esch, MCDOT deputy director said there are no reprogrammable CMAQ funds available this year, like there was in the past. “Unfortunately, there are no other sources of funding to tap beyond those already identified in the 2020 requested budget.”
But a source familiar with the grant application process tells Urban Milwaukee the county transportation department considered trying to request funding in a way that would sustain some current services only to decide to instead apply for funding for a variety of expansion projects….
Milwaukee County Transit System bus. Photo by Dave Reid.
