\u00a0<\/span>Starting April 22nd, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, through April 24th, we will hold a series of videos, live performances, movies, conversations, workshops, webinars and panels to provide community and continue fighting the climate crisis during this uncertain time.<\/span><\/p>\nEarth Day Live, WA Youth Climate Strike & Sunrise Tacoma events:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nDay 1: Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\nThe 50th anniversary of Earth Day\u00a0<\/span>is a day to demonstrate our collective power and unity through community building and storytelling.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
\n- U.S. Climate Strike is hosting<\/span>\u00a0Earth Day Live<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>a three-day livestream that will include speakers, musical performances, and digital actions.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- WA Youth Climate Strike<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is hosting a series of one-hour trainings from 10 am – 4 pm.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- Sunrise Tacoma<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is hosting three livestreamed Power Hour webinars from 3-6 pm focusing on the ways that the Green New Deal would bring about environmental, social, and economic justice.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Day 2: Stop The Money Pipeline Day of Action, Thursday, April 23<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\nWe will target financial institutions across the country, calling for a global reset. For ideas about how to host an event on this day check out the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>STMP toolkit.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
\n- U.S. Climate Strike is hosting a\u00a0<\/span>Stop the Money Pipeline Day of Action<\/span><\/a>. Led by the\u00a0<\/span>Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the goal is to reprogram the economy so that it works for people and the planet, not polluters.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- WA Youth Climate Strike is hosting\u00a0<\/span>three one-hour webinars<\/span><\/a>\u00a0from 10 am \u2013 1 pm focused on divestment.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Day 3: Day of Political Action and Voter Engagement, Friday, April 24<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\nWe will focus on the urgency of political change through a nationwide youth voter registration day. We need leaders who will address this existential threat, and for this to happen, we need people to show up at the polls this year.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
\n- The famous young activist Greta Thunberg has asked\u00a0<\/span>Fridays for Future<\/span><\/a>\u00a0strikers around the world to use #ClimateStrikeOnline during the pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- U.S. Climate Strike is hosting a\u00a0<\/span>Day of Political Action and Voter Engagement.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
- WA Youth Climate Strike is hosting\u00a0<\/span>three one-hour webinars<\/span><\/a>\u00a0from 10 am \u2013 1 pm around political action.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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This\u00a0<\/span>toolkit<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0contains more detailed information about the events happening during Earth Week and how you can be involved.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,19,7,13,8,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}