CCEJ ANNOUNCEMENT!! ACCESS THREATENED!

BRING A PLAN! BRING YOUR VOICE!

Please consider attending King County's Public Transit Forum next Wednesday
evening at the Rainier Vista Boys and Girls Club, 4520 Martin Luther King Jr
Way S, reception at 6 pm, program at 6:30. This video is the County's official
public invitation, with a fairly objective presentation of what they intend to
say. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuYavsoq90A

Environmental Justice organizations elsewhere, especially in Los Angeles and
Atlanta, have identified access to public transit as an issue of Environmental
Justice.

While CCEJ has focused on other issues here, the same questions arise
in this case:

• How fairly will the cuts be distributed?
• Will Metro try harder to retain the rich suburban riders from Redmond than they do the poor urban and suburban people from Seattle and South King County?
• Will their slick new Light Rail train displace the neighborhood service that poor people need to get around?

Please attend this forum and voice your own questions and concerns.

Thanks!
Jonathan Betz-Zall, CCEJ Board Member

Last Minute Planning Action!!! Wednesday! Housing Levy Supporters!!

A message to all members of Seattle Network (or those who would have been if they knew about them)

Hi Great City supporters,

I’m writing to let you know about an upcoming phone banking event on behalf of the Yes on Prop 1 campaign (aka the Housing Levy). The event runs from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm and is being hosted at GGLO on September 23rd at 5:00 (tomorrow evening). This is a great cause, so please help spread the word!

Event Details:
GGLO
1301 First Ave, Suite 301
GGLO Harbor Steps (enter through door located about ¼ of the way down the Harbor Steps)
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

If you can help out, please RSVP with Pricilla:
priscilla@yesforhomes.org
206.307.9252

Thanks,

Paul Chasan

Information about the Housing Levy follows:

VOTE YES! ON PROP 1 TO RENEW THE HOUSING LEVY!
For 28 years, the Seattle voters have provided a critical housing safety net for thousands of our city's most vulnerable through the Housing Levy. Your vote to renew the Housing Levy will:
Provide 1,850 affordable homes serving thousands of families and individuals over the next 50 years.
Continue to help our most vulnerable neighbors including seniors, people with disabilities, victims of domestic violence and working families.
Prevent over 3,000 families and individuals from becoming homeless and get them back on their feet for the long term.
Build on a successful investment that creates over 4,000 jobs and brings in additional funds to our community.

Visit Seattle Network at: http://seattlegreatcitynetwork.ning.com

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Youth Voters League Action Alert

YOUNG VOTERS LEAGUE TAKES ISSUE WITH PARTISAN FORUM OF

SEATTLE TIMES AND SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

CALLS FOR PUBLIC PROTEST

The Seattle Times is promoting and hosting a Mayoral candidate forum tonight at City Club in Rainier Square, 1333 Fifth Avenue, which being advertised as a non-partisan forum. The City Club maintains that they are a fiercely non-partisan organization.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "non-partisan" as "not partisan ; especially : free from party affiliation, bias, or designation". The problem with this forum is that it is partisan, as opposed to non-partisan. Eight candidates are running for mayor of Seattle. This forum designates only six as worthy of inclusion. Specifically, it excludes Elizabeth Campbell and K. Wyking Garrett. A non-partisan forum (i.e. one free from bias or designation) would include all eight Mayoral candidates.

The Young Voters League has invited ALL the Mayoral candidates to our non-partisan Mayoral candidates forum at the Umojafest Peace Center (2314 E. Spring Street) from 3 to 5 pm on Sunday, July 26th. The City Club has responded to Young Voters League's criticism by stating that their exclusion of Elizabeth and Wyking was entirely based on these two candidates having not raised enough money to be considered "viable" by City Club. They claim that since money, and not party affiliation, was the basis of this exclusion, that we are wrong to identify their forum as partisan.

In fact, this proves our point. Partisanship in favor of wealthy candidates and against poor ones is often veiled behind charades of party affiliation, but not in this case. We appreciate the clarity and upfrontness of this blatantness. However, we will continue to point out that this forum is partisan, and to take issue with that fact.We are therefore calling upon the young voters of Seattle, (young adults, youth, and supporters) as well as the two excluded Mayoral candidates and their supporters, to join us in excercising our first amendment rights in a peaceful and public protest outside of the City Club forum tonight.

Young Voters League Protest:

Outside City Club

1333 Fifth Avenue

Rainier Square, Seattle, WA 98101

Hip-Hop in Seattle Goes Green this Saturday

For Immediate Release:

Green Organizers Mixer & Spring Hip-Hop Fest Saturday, April 18th at the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center

The Umojafest P.E.A.C.E Center's Green Light Initiative and the Race, Justice and Sustainability Project of Sustainable Central District and Sustainable South Seattle invite you and your organization to:

Justice Brunch! Green Organizers Mixer & Spring Hip-Hop Fest Saturday April 18th at the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center at 24th & Spring in Seattle.

The brunch will take place from 10am – Noon followed by a community celebration of Earth Week featuring live performances, speakers and community organization tables and vendors from Noon – 6PM.

Scheduled performers include Yirim Seck, KHMET, Razpy & The Vigilantes, Ayron Jones the Bluesman, Geneiva Arunga, Suntonio Bandanas, Korvus Blackbird, Jamil Suleman, M. Famous, Garlandn Green, and other guest performers with music provided by DJ Kuhnex and Zecheriah the Barber and hosted by Wyking & G. Prez.

In celebration of Earth Week, this event is a networking opportunity for groups involved in environmental, sustainability, and justice work to meet, build relationships, and thereby expand the reach of our projects. All brunch participants will be provided tables to stay and share information about their programs.

Confirmed participants include: Seattle Pea Patch, Got Green, Clean Greens Project, Pursuit Of A Green Planet, African American Longshoremans Coalition, Life Enrichment Group, Hip-Hop Congress, Mothers Outreach Movement, Block Teamsters Union, Presidential Media Group, Mint Factory Clothing, The Nia Center, United For Youth Coalition, Association for Africentric Development, Feed The Body Teach The Soul and more.

Saturday, April 18th
10AM – 6pm
Umojafest P.E.A.C.E Center
2314 E. Spring St. (24th Ave & Spring St.)
Seattle, WA 98122

Potluck BBQ (No pork or soda please!).

PLEASE RSVP if you are able to bring something, volunteer or just coming to green@umojafestpeacecenter.com. The brunch has limited space. We look forward to seeing you!

The Green Light Initiative at the Umojafest PEACE Center focuses on the sustainability concerns that offer opportunities for our community to thrive. The group strives to make the resources of the green movement accessible and applicable while reclaiming our historical legacy of healthy and environmentally conscious living. Chair: Amber Croyle, green@umojafestpeacecenter.com.

The Race, Justice and Sustainability Project is an effort by Sustainable Central District and Sustainable South Seattle to build an action agenda at the intersection of justice and sustainability. Please click this link to fill out our brief questionnaire to share your experience and knowledge. Sustainable South Seattle and Sustainable Central District are volunteer-run community groups working to promote sustainability in our neighborhoods through project-based community engagement. For more information contact: Deric Gruen, Deric.Gruen@gmail.com.

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Check this out!
There are some great articles here, and information about work going on nationally.
http://www.movementstrategy.org/resources
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