Dear Reader, Happy spring break to, err, those who celebrate! Like the tulips and mosquitos in my garden, we are also back. Between launching a fresh Green New Deal Campaign, our Civic Action Team wrapping up their biggest year yet, and a shiny new website, we are as busy as bees. As you buzz on through this newsletter, please note all of the seeds flowering – like the reopening of the retrofitted NE Branch of the Seattle library that we campaigned for in 2021, as well as what is withering, like Seattle’s transportation infrastructure as prophesied in the&nb ..read more

Did you take photos or video at a 350 Seattle event? Willing to share what you captured with the community? There is always a lot happening in the climate justice movement, which is why we need folks like you who are there to capture it! Thank you for helping us tell (and show) our story. Please send your photos and video content to this email. In your message, include details of when and where the photo/video was taken and who took it. If you wish to be credited, please watermark your photos in a bottom corner before submitting them. If you know who or what is pictured, please note ..read more

Save the date for the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & People (MMIWP) Families Gathering on Saturday, May 4th, at Daybreak Star Pow Wow Grounds. We are looking for volunteers in the lead-up to and during the gathering. If you have gear you can loan or are available to support, please RSVP here. We are joining MMIWP Families to bring continued awareness to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and people, and to fight back against the perpetuation of colonial, gender-based violence across the United States and Canada, which is also directly connected to fossil ..read more

Join us to help gather signatures for I-137, the ballot initiative to fund Seattle’s Social Housing Developer! Please RSVP to receive any updates or changes to event. Please reach out to field staff if you have any questions! April 7th: Signature Gathering at Cutie Fest1:00 PM –  4:00 PM PTCal Anderson Park RSVP here Join us this Sunday at Cutie Fest to gather signatures for I-137 with House Our Neighbors! We are gathering signatures from 1-4PM, no experience or expertise necessary. I-137 is a ballot initiative to fund the Seattle Social Housing Developer. There will be loads mo ..read more

11 years of 350 Seattle and 1 year as Executive Director By Shemona Moreno Looking Back As we start our 11th year of existence, filled with such bad-ass activism, it has me thinking back on what life was like all those years ago. 350 Seattle got its start in 2013 as a small but scrappy group of people coming together to take action on climate and environmental justice. With heavy emphasis on direct action in partnership with youth orgs and Indigenous activists, 350 Seattle worked to join the movement to uphold the thin green line; to make Seattle the region where fossil fuel projects go to die ..read more

Have you noticed that the cherry trees are already blossoming and flower bulbs sprouting? Spring isn’t waiting and neither are we! There’s a rich metaphor here that I insist on dragging through this newsletter: Think of the plants spring-ing, not waiting to shake off winter as a form of … direct action. MLK defined direct action as”[direct action] seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to so dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.” Since 350 Seattle began, direct ..read more

Do you know or care what the Washington State Investment Board is? The WSIB manages over 200 BILLION (!!) dollars in Washington State employee pension funds. They are using their significant power as a major shareholder in fortune 500 companies, including mega banks, to tell these companies that meeting climate goals is a waste of time! Don’t believe me? In a new report released today by Stop the Money Pipeline, Sierra Club and Stand.Earth shows how state pension funds voted on shareholder resolutions related to climate change. The WSIB received an F grade while many other blue states received ..read more

Mayor Harrell and the new City Council are attempting a massive expansion of surveillance technologies in Seattle – they claim that these technologies will improve public safety and help the Seattle Police Departments solve more cases. Our communities are already over-policed and over-surveilled. We don’t need more policing or more folks in jails: we need real solutions and actions that address the root causes of gun violence. This is not it. Seattle residents have until the end of February to weigh in against this violation of public trust. Tell Mayor Harrell and the City Council: No to Surve ..read more

We are thrilled to be welcoming two new campaigners to the 350 Seattle Staff Collective. Akiksha Chatterji Akiksha Chatterji, Campaigns Director Aki (She/Her) first joined 350 Seattle as a practicum student in 2020, pursuing a Master in Social Work degree from the University of Washington. Aki served on the board of 350 Seattle for two years and remains a member of the BIPOC Caucus. Before joining 350 Seattle, Aki was the first team member and campaigner at Positive Money US. Aki helped launch the organization and campaigned for bold climate related financial regulation to protect vulner ..read more

Were you thinking about applying to join our staff collective as our Director of Finance & Operations? Good news: we’ve extended our application deadline, and will accept applications until the position is filled. This person will be tasked with leading our organizations administrative needs, operations, finances, human resources, and logistics support duties for 350 Seattle (8-10 staff) and for three additional fiscally sponsored projects (9-12 staff). This person will also be joining our staff collective, so must love climate justice, building resilient communities and working with a tig ..read more