 Governments must respond to the climate emergency with the scale and speed that science demands. We need special political leaders who are up to that task… So WE, the majority, must do the hard work to elect them. This is our political reality, and then there is the reality of physics. Nature, the physical world, the most basic infrastructure on which all life depends, is teetering on the brink. You can’t quibble about the 2025 numbers:
GIVEN THE POLITICS AND THE CLIMATE NUMBERS OF THIS MOMENT, WE MUST:
WHAT CAN YOU DO? There’s a lot locally we can do right now. Read on. We Need the Roadless Area Conservation Rule Our public lands are under attack, again. The federal Roadless Area Conservation Rule protects America’s last-standing, undisturbed undeveloped backcountry forestland. In June, bureaucrats in D.C. decided to let the highest bidders bulldoze roads through them by rescinding the popular 2001 rule. They’ve given the public until September 21st to go on the record opposing the plan. If the Roadless Area Conservation Rule is rescinded, 45 million acres of protected areas would be open for construction and logging, affecting drinking water, raising water bills and imperiling the home of many threatened and endangered species, including grizzly bears, wolves and salmon and much more. Once commercially exploited, these lands would likely never recover. TAKE ACTION! MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT! ONE MILLION IS OUR GOAL You can type your unique comment directly into the US Forest Service comment portal or attach a text file with your comment. Here’s the link. You may also use the comment tools that Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild and / or Saveroadlessforests.com created. Better yet, USE ALL OF THEM! IMPORTANT: Key talking points can be found here. These messages come from the National Forest Coalition and are an excellent resource. Please use them. When enacted, the original rule got over one million public comments in favor. Let’s blow them away with one million public comments before September 21st!  We have until September 21st at 9:00 pm to say that we won’t let the federal government bulldoze roads through America’s protected wild forests. Take 1 minute of your day now to go on the record defending the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Forests are our best climate solution!  (Roadless Area Conservation Rule Map) Stand Up for Forests - Road Trip to PDX Forest Over Profits 2026 September 12th & 13th – 11-5:00 pm Hear from ongoing land-defense campaigns against extractive logging, data center development, and mining from across the PNW. Learn and share skills and practices for fighting back, connect with ongoing struggles for land & justice, and deepen ties between movements. Located at the 350PDX Climate Justice Warehouse at the Rebuilding Center 3625 N Mississippi Ave, Portland Lunch will be provided. Space is limited, RSVP today! More into at forestoverprofits.org Citizens Want the Eugene Clean Energy Fund Climate action is on the ballot in November and we need to build support for our big win! That means letting Eugenians know what ECEF is and what it will do for our community. This is phase two: Educating the public and getting out the vote! Knocking doors is one of the most important ways you can help pass this initiative so we can make billion-dollar corporations pay their fair share and invest in our community and future. Sign up for TODAY’s canvas (starts at 10:00 am at Washburn Park, 21st & Agate) ECEF will provide: a short training, drinks and snacks RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/rkUVtSaJPXC2dm9V8 When Eugenians know what ECEF is and what it will do for our community, we are confident they will vote YES. Come be a part of the movement to turn corporate profits into community power. Find out more about this vital campaign here. Election ProtectionThursday, September 10th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church - 1685 W 13th Ave. Eugene Sign up here for a hopeful and energizing training with Common Cause to ensure a free, fair and highly participatory election in November. Let’s create massive and safe voter turnout to defend against attempts to deceive, disrupt and deny our elections. Sponsored by Indivisible Eugene Springfield, NAACP Eugene Springfield, Lane County United for Immigrant Justice network, League of Women Voters of Lane County and 350 Eugene. Save the Dates Join In! Join Indivisible Eugene Springfield’s Weekly Protest (bring your favorite signs & banners)   Did you know that we have 125 factory farms here in Oregon? Want to know more about industrialized agriculture here in the South Willamette Valley? Northern Lane County’s families are living with unsafe levels of nitrate contamination in their groundwater, and without action, the problem could get worse. This is an opportunity to learn about the causes of nitrate pollution, the role of factory farms, resources for community members concerned about their water’s safety, and our local fight for clean water here in Lane County. What: Clean Water for Lane County When: Wednesday, September 2, 6:30 p.m. Where: 1420 Kalmia St, Junction City, OR, 97448 Host: Junction City Grange RSVP for the event here. Bring 1/2 a cup of well water in a clean cup to be tested. Testing takes about 10 minutes. Nitrate has been linked to various health conditions, including blue-baby syndrome.  You Were There - Thanks for Coming to the GOTV Card Party!If you missed the card party and want to write cards, contact Deb at [email protected]. The UK Nation Emergency Briefing Documentary is Here!In November 2025, in London, leading experts briefed political and civic leaders on the national threats posed by the climate and nature crisis. A 50 minute documentary film has been produced that distills that evidence, designed for public engagement. Over 3,500 screenings in the UK and Europe have been shown or scheduled. Now it has come to Eugene. When: Saturday, October 3rd - 6 to 8:00 pm Where: Unitarian Universalist Church, 1685 W. 13th St., Eugene Free and open to the public. Suggested audience over 16 years of age.  (National Emergency Briefing screenings world wide as of 8/27/26) It’s not easy, but it’s simple: a swift and total conversion from fossil fuels to electricity generated by solar and wind. We’re going for big solutions that will make all our lives better. Together we will do this. We created this, we can change it. Let’s put people in office who are pro-transition and will do the right thing: put people over profits. TAKE ACTION TODAY. IT’S UP TO US. LET’S BE FIERCE!
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Protect what we love. Preserve what we can. We can make the state of the earth and life on it better if we act. The reports on the climate and nature crisis this week have been especially bleak. Records for ocean and terrestrial heat, droughts, floods and sea level rise are being broken year on year. (Including our fire on Skinner’s Butte!) But the future is not yet written and we must hold to the vision that we can stop the damage and restore balance. Not immediately, but over time. We cannot save everything but that does not mean we cannot save anything, and that is exactly what we must do.  The vast majority of Americans want policies that prioritize people over profits. (Like health care for all, a decent minimum wage, excellent public education, strong regulations and action on the climate and nature crises.) We need bold action from the government, and we want it now! Write postcards and urge fellow citizens to vote! Studies show it increases voter turnout by up to 8%!  In a democracy, your vote is one of your most important super powers. Let’s help others exercise this power for the 2026 midterm elections! Everything is provided. Casual, fun and effective. No host food & drinks.  We’re turning corporate profits into community power by creating clean energy, green jobs and climate resilience! The ECEF (Eugene Clean Energy Fund) needs your support!  Please join in the fundraising party! Let’s get this important initiative over the finish line in November.  (Credit Lookout Eugene Springfield) Connect the legacy of the epic Warner Creek protest to today’s forest, wildfire, and climate justice struggles. Meet the heroes and get inspired for our ongoing fight to protect our best and simplest climate solution - our forests.  Tickets by donation ($0 – $50 suggested donation). No one turned away for lack of funds. Buy tickets at https://donorbox.org/events/942945/steps/choose_tickets Election Protection Training Thursday, September 10th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church - 1685 W 13th Ave. Eugene Let’s create massive and safe voter turnout to defend against attempts to deceive, disrupt and deny our elections. Sign up here for a hopeful and energizing call to action to ensure a free, fair and highly participatory election in November. You can help to:
Sponsored by Indivisible Eugene Springfield, NAACP Eugene Springfield, Lane County United for Immigrant Justice network, League of Women Voters of Lane County and 350 Eugene.  Sign the petition opposing a data center in Eugene HERE Save the date to come to Eugene City Council on Monday, September 14th at 7:30 pm to let our city officials know our community doesn’t want a data center. In other Forest Defense news… The bad policy to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule is coming out this week. We will have until September 21st to flood the US Forest Service with massive public comments. Please stay tuned.  The UK has a massively expanding campaign to demand their government televise a nationwide briefing on the climate and nature crises. Officials are lining up to support. You can learn more at the National Emergency Briefing website. It’s spreading quickly across Europe with over 3,000 screenings, and they are now popping up in the US and Oregon. Stay tuned.  No one solution alone can work. There are multiple solutions and we must pull together and demand mandates to pursue them. The capitalist markets will not get us there in time. We need governments to act. We are the people. We are the government. This is the work we were born to do.
 (Mount Hood and the Milky Way) Our spirits are deeply challenged to find peace in these daunting times, even surrounded as we are by the magical, mysterious wonder of our gorgeous Earth. Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, author, strategist, and teacher working to heal the planet we call home, explains: We live and learn, labor and love, in a brief and decisive chapter of human history. (Climate Wayfinding (2026)) It’s the temperature… it’s rising, even faster than predicted. The latest data show the steep rise over the last few years, and how much more it’s going to jump in the next 18 months.  2024 holds the record for hottest and 2026 may break that. Experts say we certainly will in 2027. Our problematic historic wealth and privilege may spare us, but there are fires everywhere you look, record heat in Europe, epic and repeating floods in Asia, spreading famine, war and migration across the globe. Warming is feeding on itself, causing ever more serious disruptions in daily lives - a polycrisis. Terrifying.  At the same time, reliable, clean, low-cost, low-barrier renewable energy is accelerating much faster than predicted… with eye-popping cost savings & innovations in batteries, transmission enhancements, distributed energy technology, plug-in home solar and more! The days of fossil fuels are numbered. The transition is underway. Exciting.  ELECTIONS: Record numbers of people are getting engaged. Enthusiasm and engagement are erupting around progressive candidates. We’re building a big public movement that will set the ground on which politicians must operate. This is where YOU come in. State and local governments are composed of actual people we know, neighbors and friends. Let’s get to work and demand they respond to this climate emergency and let’s pitch in to help them. Donate, knock doors and communicate with the decision-makers. It’s too late to stop the climate crisis, but we can protect a lot of what we love and need to survive. There’s a lot of good work to be done! Read on and take action today! Let's Drive Voter Turn-Out in NovemberThe pen is mightier than the sword! Come meet your buddies who are defending democracy! (The only thing more uplifting than fighting for a good cause, is fighting for it with friends!)  A brief introduction, followed by lots of postcard writing. Everything is provided. Friendly and casual. Everyone is welcome. Tell your friends. (No host foods and drinks.) Stay-tuned to hit the streets in October with 350 Eugene to wave and talk to people about the importance of voting. (Can’t come to the party but you’re willing to write cards? Contact Debby at [email protected].) Thanks.  The Eugene Clean Energy Fund ballot initiative qualified for the November ballot, thanks to the insanely smart and energetic work of the leaders and community volunteers! This marks the beginning of our push to reach and mobilize every registered voter in Eugene to vote YES in November.  Let’s expand the local green economy, create union jobs and community resiliency through innovative and long-overdue renewable energy projects, starting with our most vulnerable neighbors. Learn more about ECEF here. Next Steps… Come to the kick-off fundraiser for the Eugene Clean Energy Fund on Saturday, August 22nd! Learn more about the campaign, support efforts to pass the ECEF ballot measure, and get to know other like-minded folks over snacks and drinks. Fun & casual. What: Fundraiser for the Eugene Clean Energy Fund ballot measure When: Saturday, August 22nd, from 4-6pm Where: Address shared upon RSVP It’s time the billion-dollar corporations pay their fair share! RSVP for the fundraiser here. Pledge to vote yes. Sign up to volunteer! Encourage local businesses/organizations/community leaders to endorse. And donate if you can. More Reasons to Celebrate & Join the Fight Meet the people who fought and won this historic battle at nearby Warner Creek. They have a lot to teach us at this moment! Forest defense is climate defense! Grassroots Organizing Gets the Goods - Plug In!Join Us for Street Messaging with the Climate Emergency Theme When: Fri., Aug. 14th at 2:00 - 3:30 pm Where: 18th Ave. near Chambers (NE corner of BiMart parking lot). Come animate the banners & signs! Fresh air & friendly conversations. Stay for free pizza at Hey Neighbors! at 19th & Jefferson afterward! Election Protection Common Cause Oregon is hosting an Election Protection training with 350 Eugene, NAACP, Indivisible, Lane County United for Immigrant Justice Network and the League of Women Voters and we'd love to have you join us! Thur., Sept 10th from 6 to 7:30 pm at UUCE 13th & Chambers More info and registration at this mobilize.us link. Everyone is welcome!  Check out the new Views from the Bike Lane substack: A Eugene-Springfield group passionate about cycling as a means of transportation and working to grow a culture of cycling in our community. HOME ENERGY SCORE: Local climate policy progress: Tune in to the Home Energy Score City of Eugene Public Hearing on Sept. 21st at 5:30 pm (using this link). Contact your City Councilor and tell them to support it. Here’s the Sierra Club's press release. A Data Center in Eugene? What, what? SAVE THE DATE - MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD Monday, September 14th at 7:30 pm - Eugene City Council public testimony opposing data centers. The Testimony Guide is here. Come at 7:15 to sign up to speak. Much more to come. Opposition to DATA CENTERS is exploding nationwide for a very long list of reasons. In Eugene, a group has begun to meet to organize a local campaign. If you are interested in joining, email Debby at [email protected] and you’ll receive info on how to connect. TAKE ACTION NOW: Sign-on in Opposition to Data Center Development in Eugene - Click here to sign-on. Did You Know?THIS IS HAPPENING IN THE UK… Last November, ten of the UK’s leading experts briefed an invited audience of over 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media. The briefing set out the implications of climate and nature breakdown for health, food systems, national security and the economy. Now communities and organizations in Europe are using a free-to-screen 50-minute film, based on the event, to brief the UK public about the climate and nature crisis and call for a wartime-scale response to the climate and nature crisis. There have been hundreds of screenings in village halls, cinemas, faith spaces and workplaces, bringing constituents, civic leaders and members of Parliament together to hear the evidence - and consider what an emergency response should look like. This week a group met to plan bringing the presentation to our community. Learn more about this unifying movement. This is one of the tools in the toolbox to galvanize action in this terrifying and exciting time. More info and a teaser of the film go to nebriefing.org. You should see it.  The only way is through. Let’s be fierce.
A country is only as good… only as strong as the people who make it up and the country turns into what the people want it to become… I don’t believe any longer that we can afford to say that it is entirely out of our hands. We made the world we’re living in and we have to make it over. James Baldwin Political and industrial miracles are afoot. You can feel it.  Taking center stage with real solutions for democracy & the planet. Progressives are crushing business-as-usual candidates, new champions are emerging in Salem, artists are centering climate, and clean energy is breaking records for affordability, accessibility and attracting massive capital for the long overdue high tech, renewable power revolution. Change is happening because YOU are speaking out & showing up everywhere! There’s power in solidarity. We’re turning the tide. Forest Defense - Our Best Climate Solution (Santiam State Forest) Our state forests are under attack. Take action now for the climate! Stop clearcutting, improve water quality, sequester and store carbon, preserve habitat and protect biodiversity!  Deadline: Tuesday, June 30th at 11:55 pm As we expected, with ridiculously short notice, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) has asked the public for input on its draft Forest Management Plan (FMP) for Oregon’s state forests (including our largest: the Tillamook, Clatsop and Santiam). These forests filter water, provide habitat for imperiled northern spotted owls, marbled murrelets and salmon, offer recreation opportunities and absorb climate pollution. Use Cascadia Wildlands’ template and action alert form to send a written comment today. Don’t forget to add your two cents to make it personal. Due June 30th by 11:55 pm. Thank you! Good News for Oregon’s Industrial Forests A Draft Bill to Help Trees Grow Up Before They Are Cut Advocates are working on a bill to be introduced to the Oregon legislature this session to help ensure long-term timber supply, adequate summer water flows, soil health, fish and wildlife habitat and carbon storage. The problem: Large timber companies used to let Douglas-fir trees grow for 80 years. This gave the most wood over time and also helped protect clean water, wildlife, homes, healthy soil, and cool forest streams. Now the rotations are between 35 and 40 years, favoring short-term profits but harming the forests and public. The Early Timber Harvest Bill will put a fee on the largest industrial timberlands owners if they cut too early. Stay tuned.  Celebration - Warner Creek Blockade 30th Anniversary - August 23 & 24Thirty years after the historic Warner Creek blockade stopped a fire salvage timber sale in the Willamette National Forest, the longest continuous blockade of a timber sale in U.S. history, we’re gathering to celebrate our movement! On Sunday, August 23rd, the Living With Fire Short Film Festival will screen three short films at the Art House in Eugene highlighting ecological fire stewardship, forest defense movements from Warner Creek until now, cultural burning, and the people and organizations working to build healthier relationships with fire and the land.  On Monday, August 24th, at the WOW Hall, the Warner Creek 30th Anniversary Celebration features music by Casey Neill and Peter Wilde, a curated exhibition of archival materials from the blockade, a panel discussion, and speakers focusing on lessons learned during and since the Warner Creek campaign three decades ago.  Reserve your tickets for the celebration and for the film fest today! If you can, please consider a donation to help bring speakers and musicians to this one-of-a-kind celebration! For PNW Forest Protectors everywhere, here is a very new Youtube video by Rangers of the Lost Park with recent footage of the nearby Crabtree Valley old growth in the Santiam River watershed with some people you’ll recognize.  (Patty Hine’s interview starts at 32:57 and ends at 58:15) The most important climate policy Eugene has ever seen! There’s one more month to go to qualify for the ballot! The ECEF campaign is ending June strong with a bunch of fun events, including Pride this Saturday at the Lane County Fairgrounds! We are on track, but still have A LOT of signatures to collect. We can't do this without you and appreciate your hard work! If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to join the team. You can sign up via this link to collect signatures. You can also text your availability to the lead signature gatherer, Hiram, at 971-526-7558. If you’re hearing questions about how we can keep the City of Eugene budgeteers from “raiding” the fund, please note that the Portland City Council recently successfully defended their Clean Energy Fund, with lots of advocacy from the public, and so can we!  The red-shirted 350 Eugene crew hit them hard in June 2026 Eugene City Council Public Comment sessions to stand with the Eugene Clean Energy Fund. It’s a no brainer. Get Out the Vote “I think I have written about 300 postcards for the 2026 midterm elections (so far). Doing five a day adds up quickly! The 8% increase in turn-out could make all the difference.” - Debby If you want to be part of the GOTV postcarding project, contact Debby at [email protected]. ResilienceWhat Can One Person Do About the Climate Crisis? Stop being just one person. Join the Climate Cafe.   Here’s the trailer for Josh Fox’s important new film, The Welcome Table. It debuted on HBO this week, and it’s about the surge of climate immigration already underway on our overheating planet. Per Bill McKibben, “Fox is the independent filmmaker who brought us Gasland, the most crucial document in the fight against fracking. He’s got a good eye, a good mind, and a good heart.” Our world is changing. We’re working to ensure it’s positive change. Let’s be fierce.
THIS SUNDAY- Stand Up to Trump & More…We. Are. Determined. To. Stand. Up. No. Authoritarian. Takeover. Other countries may slide into fascism… but Americans are are resisting at every level.  As we build our power, their power crumbles. You can’t do everything. But everyone can do something! This Sunday I’VE HAD ENOUGH! PROTEST 47’S- BIRTHDAY We’re fed up with Trump’s destruction & dismantling of our democracy! Indivisible Eugene Springfield organizers have planned a protest. See you there! Sunday, June 14th 1:00 - 3:00 pm Federal Building 211 E 7th Ave., Eugene Bring your flags, your signs and your voices! There will be a brass band!  RSVP HERE. And after the protest at the Federal Building… JOIN THE LIVE STREAM WATCH PARTY Sunday, July 17th at 4:00 pm (to 6:30 pm) Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene (1685 W 13th Ave.)  Join Singing Resistance Eugene-Springfield and Indivisible Eugene-Springfield for a watch party “Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment,” an uplifting evening of music, community, and action This will be a coordinated nationwide event combining music, solidarity, and civic action to defend free expression and democracy. Across the country, communities will gather for local watch parties to sing along, connect with neighbors, and take meaningful action together. The event will center around an inspiring concert live-streamed from New York City featuring Jane Fonda, Patti Smith, Bette Midler, Rufus Wainwright, Singing Resistance, Broadway Inspirational Voices, Lily Gladstone, Julia Roberts and Joy Reid, celebrating the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment—including the freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and protest—and the people power that protects them. The concert is sponsored by Committee for the First Amendment (CFA) and the national No Kings Coalition. FREE, with donations accepted to offset expenses. RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/966880/  Climate / Energy Policy350EUG demands that Eugene’s elected officials recommit to climate action in the face of the accelerating climate emergency! We’re speaking out during June’s city council public comment sessions (June 8th & 22nd, 7:30 pm at City Hall). Come and support climate action! There’s been progress, but we’ve only reduced our community GHGs by 11%, falling very short of the 50% by 2030 goal set forth in the Climate Recovery Ordinance (2014). Want to learn more about the city’s Climate Action Plan and track their progress?  The new Climate Action Plan 2.0 2025 Annual Report and the city’s Climate Dashboard are current and illustrate progress, including the expansion of the RidersEd program, a 1,200% increase in EVs registered since 2017, 5.3 MWs of solar installed on homes since 2021 (powering about 580 homes), and 53% recycling or recovery of waste through composting and recycling. There is still MUCH progress to be made and 350 Eugene, along with partners in the Fossil Free Eugene Coalition, are working with officials and staff to take even more meaningful and swift action. (The Eugene Clean Energy Fund will be an important way to fund the projects we need. More on that soon.)  Oregon Coalition for an Environmental Rights Amendment Virtual Listening Session - Wednesday, Jun 17, 2026 at 3:00 pm OCERA, the Oregon Coalition for an Environmental Rights Amendment, and Stewards United are teaming up with Elders Climate Action and Third Act Oregon to host a virtual listening event focused on the insights, experiences and concerns of Oregon's senior generations. This is a free and public event, and all are welcome! If you prefer to provide your story / input another way, please check out OCERAunited.org/listening for an online story form or email OCERA at [email protected] directly! Thank you for participating in this effort! There will be a preliminary findings report published in July, so please be sure you're subscribed to receive it! OCERAunited.org Take the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Survey Help Shape Eugene’s Future EV Charging Network - Closes June 12th  The City of Eugene and EWEB want to hear from you about where to plan for new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Whether you drive an EV or not, your opinion is important as we look toward Eugene's future. Your ideas will shape the City's EV infrastructure plans, allowing staff to apply for funding opportunities down the road for implementation. More info about the City's EV strategy can be found here. Would you mind taking a quick 10 question survey? Your feedback will guide the City and EWEB as we evaluate potential sites and prepare for future opportunities to bring more charging options to Eugene. Please take the survey! 10 questions. Easy peasy. Thank you! Forest DefenseThe relentless attacks continue. Forest defenders are getting organized at all levels and fighting back. At the federal level, the Trump administration has proposed rescinding the popular 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which protects almost 2-million acres of Oregon’s public forests and 45-million acres nationwide from the scourge of logging and road building. Thanks for attending our two Roadless Rule educational / action events recently cohosted with allies and friends at Gratitude Brewing and the Art House Mini-Film Fest. You’ve written scores of postcards, sent letters and emails. We’re still standing by to send in massive official comments. Meanwhile, we’re also waiting for the official comment period for the new Bureau of Land Management (“Revised’) Logging Plan for Western forests to drop. Maybe in July. This plan quadruples logging levels on some of our oldest public forests! Stay tuned for short-fused action alerts and protests! Street Messaging - Forest ThemesJoin us on Friday, June 26th We have lots of great art to engage the public Where: 18th & Chambers in Eugene (NE corner of Bimart’s parking lot) When: 2:00 to 3:30 pm Come animate the banners, puppets and signs! Stay for free pizza at Hey Neighbors! at 19th & Jefferson afterward!  If you haven’t already, you can do this today. Urge Oregon’s Congressmembers to Protect Western Oregon Forests – Oppose HR 7603 — HR 7603, or the "O&C Removal Act of 2026," would make timber production to fund county governments the primary purpose of public forests governed by the original O&C Act – the lands BLM manages. This bill would prioritize maximizing logging above all other values, weakening safeguards for fish and wildlife, shrinking stream protections, and opening vast areas of public forest to the kind of large-scale clearcutting that pushed species like coho salmon and northern spotted owls toward extinction in the first place. Get Out The VoteMidterms are just over 4 months away! Postcards inspire voters to get to the polls. Currently there are cards available to MI, GA, OH, and WI that have the mailout date in October, and cards for Texas with the mailout date of August 31st. 350 Eugene can provide stamps for postcards that are non-partisan (organized by the Center for Common Ground Reclaim Our Vote (ROV) cards) to Black voters in NC to encourage early voting (October mailing). To get involved contact Debby at [email protected]. Note: On July 12th the price of stamps will go up from $.61 to $.65… So stock up! Thank you for making a difference! Postcards increase turnout by around 8%, Let's do this! Save The Date Warner Creek 30th Anniversary Victory Celebration, August 24th at the WOW Hall in Eugene An evening of live music, storytelling, archival exhibits and conversation connecting the legacy of the Warner Creek protest / blockade to today’s forest, wildfire, and climate justice struggles. Stay tuned.  The climate issue is bigger than everything else. But sometimes the will of the fearlessly committed is big enough to shift our destiny. Rebecca Solnit shared this and a 2009 quote from Julian in her 5/25/26 Meditations in an Emergency: “No offering is too small. No stone unneeded. All of us – whether we choose to become human rights lawyers or corporate counsel, or choose never to practice law at all but instead become professors or entrepreneurs or disappear anonymous among the poor or stay at home and raise bright, delicious children – all of us, without exception, are qualified to participate in the rescue of the world.” Let’s be fearlessly committed.
LIVE STREAM WATCH PARTY TO CELEBRATE OUR FREEDOMS IN COMMUNITIES EVERYWHERE  It’s time to show up! Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment An uplifting evening of song, solidarity, and action. On Sunday, June 14th, the Committee for the First Amendment will be hosting. The event will be live-streamed at Watch Parties in communities across the country! You won’t want to miss! Featuring an all-star line-up of performers, including Patti Smith, Jane Fonda, Bette Midler, Julia Roberts, Joy Reid and more. See details here. When: Sunday, June 14th (Doors open at 4:00 pm. Program starts at 4:30 pm) Where: Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene at 13th & Chambers (map) Local hosts: Indivisible Eugene Springfield and Singing Resistance The 90-minute concert event will celebrate the freedoms guaranteed by our First Amendment—of speech, religion, press, assembly, and protest—and the people power that both fuels these rights and is essential to guarantee them. Let’s come together and sing along, find inspiration, build community and take meaningful action together.  Even as authoritarians increase their attacks on our freedoms and communities, we see examples across the country of people rising up together, taking action, and turning back those forces.
 (May Day protest - photo credit: Sid Tree) Our movements for social & environmental justice are rising. In spite of the administration’s unholy alliance with fossil fuels, the clean energy revolution is well underway. Geopolitical forces plainly make the case for energy independence with wind, solar and batteries. Public engagement and resistance are greater than they have been in decades and are getting stronger every day. People across the country regularly hit the streets to demand justice, with much more going on behind the scenes. We’re determined to expand, not erase, all the progress we have made! There is more work to be done. And we can not relent. Find a place to plug in. Carve out some time and join with others who are fighting for democracy, human rights and a stable climate future! SHOW UP & TAKE ACTION Forest Defense Join us & local forest-focused filmmakers to learn and engage in timely forest advocacy, featuring a short presentation and post-films letter writing workshop. (Hosted by the Eugene Environmental Film Festival, Oregon Wild and 350 Eugene.) For a taste of the films you’ll see, here’s a preview of A Forest Log (18 minutes) that will inspire you. Bring a handkerchief and appreciate our amazing local forest / climate warriors. Buy your tickets at the Eugene Art House website today!  Our forests are our BEST climate solution! Keep ‘em in the ground! Roadless Rule - Stand-by to Make Comments! Last summer the Trump administration launched a plan to eliminate the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which has been protecting TWO MILLION acres of Oregon’s public forests from logging & road building for over 25 years. These are some of the last intact natural forests. Any day now… The US Forest Service is expected to release a Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Our allies at Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild are standing by to provide the tools and talking points to flood the public record with our comments. The public comment period will be ridiculously short (12-21 days). So, thanks for staying tuned. For more information go to saveroadlessforests.com.  Blue & Gold Timber Sale - We Won! Let’s celebrate the U.S. District Court’s order to halt the terrible Bureau of Land Management 3,200 acre Blue & Gold timber sale in the Coast Range. Huge thanks to the fierce field-checking of the Cascadia Wildlands WildCATs (they caught them cutting old growth trees) and the legal super-powers of Oregon Wild, Umpqua Watershed and Crag Law. Stay informed! There’s no end to the evil the Trump administration wants to visit on our forests. They want to make logging the sole focus over important values like recreation, salmon and wildlife habitat, carbon storage, clean water and wildfire resiliency. And we’re going to stop them. Good Climate Policy An Opportunity for Real Climate Action: The Eugene Clean Energy Fund is part of a growing grassroots movement to supercharge climate progress with funds that rapidly expand the projects at the scale and speed we need. Through a fee on the profits of the largest, wealthiest businesses in Eugene (think Walmart, US Bank, Target), ECEF will fund community-driven programs to:
Our volunteers are making good progress but we need more signature gatherers! There’s an ECEF Signature Gathering Training with a professional with over 25 years experience on Sunday, May 28th at 6:00 pm at the Growers Market, 454 Willamette St., Eugene. Collecting signatures is a great way to engage people about the climate emergency and most people support this! You can get more information and sign up for the training or shift here. P.S. The Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) has raised approximately $1 billion since its inception in 2018, with projections to reach $1.6 billion by mid-2029 through a 1% retail sales tax on large corporations’ revenue. (Eugene’s will be a 2% fee on profits.)  Climate Change is an Environmental Justice Issue Beat the Heat & Smoke That is why the Fossil Free Eugene Coalition, along with its many partners, holds regular Beat the Heat and Smoke workshops to provide renters and home owners with tools to reduce health risks and prepare our most impacted communities for our ever hotter and smokier summers. The events are geared toward lower income, BIPOC community members, and renters. Participants receive stipends, build air purifiers and access lots of resources. Spread the word! Get Out The Vote - The Midterms Are Coming Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1839) Friends, Thanks for being “mighty writers” to Get Out The Vote (GOTV) for the midterm elections! I have postcards available NOW! If you want to write over the summer there are voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia with mail-out dates in October. There are postcards to North Carolina with a mail-out date of July 31 and postcards to Maine and Georgia mail-out due May 31st. There will be many more opportunities to write between now and November! I hope to organize “card writing parties” as the election gets closer and hope you will attend! Writing with a group is “exponential fun.” Pick your adventure! Thanks for being in the fight / struggle to keep our Democracy. Data show these cards increase voting turnout up to 8% and in this election, perhaps it will be more! Stay strong and stretch those writing hands! Contact Debby at [email protected]. We're Fighting Factory Farms in Oregon Join us and our partners this Wednesday for The Price of Milk documentary at the Art House. The film dives into corporate consolidation of our food system, specifically within the Dairy industry, and its impact on small-scale dairy farmers across the country. This event will include a panel discussion following the two-hour film focusing on Oregon’s local food system and how corporate consolidation impacts our small & medium-scale farming communities. (Includes Aimee Stone from Food & Water Watch, Alice Morrison from Friends of Family Farmers, and other local food system organizers.) Get your free tickets here today to reserve your seat(s)! Oregon Coalition for an Environmental Rights Amendment The Oregon Constitution does not give us the right to a safe and healthy environment, unlike Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The Oregon Coalition for an Environmental Rights Amendment (OCERA) plans to change that. The campaign is conducting “Listening Tours” around Oregon to hear residents’ personal stories, testimonies and feedback regarding local and regional environmental harms from government action and / or inaction. Some in-person and online sessions have already begun. Stay tuned for ways to share YOUR story. More information on OCERA: https://www.oceraunited.org/ Solidarity Social - A Benefit in Support of Our Immigrant Community Sunday, May 31st, from 5:00-8:00 pm at The Hybrid Gallery, 941 W. 3rd Ave., Eugene, in supporting our community and one another. Sponsored by Indivisible Eugene-Springfield, the Solidarity Social is a benefit to support our immigrant neighbors being unfairly targeted. All proceeds will go to two local organizations doing crucial immigrant support work: Oregon Community Asylum Network (OCAN) and Catholic Community Services’ Refugee and Immigrant Services Program (RISP). Food trucks, a no-host bar and a silent auction featuring finely crafted items from area artisans. For the kids (and kids at heart), a silent disco and other age-appropriate activities. Food, music, community and solidarity! Sliding Scale $10-$30; kids under 12 free. Click on the QR to get more information and buy your tickets!  Local ICE UpdateDetention of immigrants is averaging two per week and the tactics of federal agents continue to be brutal and more discreet. Let’s be ready to show up when an action is called to oppose violence in our communities. (Update provided through the Activist Coalition Springfield Eugene (ACES). Besides organizing No Kings events, this group monitors the activities of ICE at the Federal Building at 7th & Pearl and facilitates support.) You can find more information on this website: https://www.eugenetogetherstro.... STRONGER TOGETHER
LET’S BE FIERCE  A day of non-violent, economic disruption.We’re harnessing our power as workers and consumers, and honoring the contribution of Immigrants in May Day Strong protests!! Following our massive demonstration of people power at No Kings 3, a huge coalition of organizations are calling on all of us to take the next step on Friday, May 1st: No Work. No School. No Shopping. No business as usual. Join us in Eugene at noon at the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza (8th & Oak) for a rally & march. Please come and help animate our beautiful Monarch butterflies!  Resisting Trump requires us to use tactics that the billionaire class understands: Flex your economic muscle! It works. A Game-Changer for Climate Progress in EugeneLet’s turn corporate profits into community power! Clean energy, green jobs and climate resilience.  Corporations are profiting off of the climate and affordability crises. They enjoy tax breaks while climate projects go unfunded. That’s going to change. Through a small fee on the profits of the largest, wealthiest businesses in Eugene, the Eugene Clean Energy Fund will fund community-driven programs to:
Polling shows a strong majority of Eugenians support government incentives to accelerate a fair and just transition to clean energy, and are in favor of making large corporations pay their fair share towards funding a just transition. Watch a short informative YouTube video by Oregon Energy Transition Organizer, Aya Cockram, and visit the website to learn more. RIGHT NOW the campaign is gathering signatures to qualify for a Eugene ballot initiative. Support the this exciting campaign! Our Public Lands are Under Attack - Fight back!The current administration has launched an unprecedented attack on our most treasured landscapes.  Organizations at the local and national levels are tracking every rollback, every threat and taking action! Public participation is the key. Get to know the issues. Contact your electeds, send the emails, share on social media and show up at events (links below)! ROADLESS RULE: We know the administration wants to rescind this cornerstone of sound forest management, which was passed overwhelmingly in 2001. It has balanced ecological, economic and cultural values for over 25 years! Our Public Lands, Public Voices event sponsored by Oregon Wild, FUSEE, Cascadia Wildlands and 350EUG at Gratitude Brewing last week was standing room only! We had great speakers, fun trivia and collected scores of postcard comments that will be submitted.  SO GET READY: The Roadless Rule public engagement period opens in June and we’re preparing to submit massive comments to the Secretary of the USDA to abandon this misguided effort. We’re fighting for places like Hardesty Mountain, Oregon Dunes and Alsea Falls!  TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE: In Washington, D.C., Rep. Cliff Bentz - HD 2, Oregon’s largest district (most of central and all of eastern Oregon), introduced H.R. 7603 - the “O&C Renewal Act of 2026,” which would make timber production the primary purpose on public (BLM) forests in order to fund county governments, prioritizing logging over protections for fish, wildlife, stream protections pushing threatened species to extinction. NO WAY. TAKE ACTION TODAY: Use Cascadia Wildlands form to send a message to our Congressional Representatives to oppose H.R. 7603 and reject efforts to dismantle protections for our forests and watersheds! WE’RE LOUD: Last month you helped submit almost 50,000 comments on the administration’s efforts to revise (weaken) Western Oregon’s forest resource plans, which would maximize logging at the expense of other forest values on BLM lands. Good job getting comments on the public record! It’s important! WE’RE ORGANIZED: The folks at More Than Just Parks have a Threatened Public Lands Map where you can see what’s at stake across the U.S. Appalling. NOT BACKING DOWN.  Earth Day 2026Facing the climate crisis together. Looking through the lens of young artists & filmmakers. Navigating this moment. We packed the Art House for 350 Eugene’s Earth Day 2026 Climate Future Film Festival last week. Thanks, everyone, for coming! We took a hard look through the eyes of diverse filmmakers at what we’re navigating personally and collectively. Big thanks to our wonderful co-host Encircle Films, and panelists, Ana McAbee, Isa Eisenberg and Esteban Camacho Steffensen. Here are some resources: Online: psychologyforasafeclimate.org & https://www.climatementalhealth.net/ In person (local): [email protected] & [email protected]  Get Out the VoteBallots are dropping on April 29th - PLEASE VOTE!  Thank you to everyone! We got out thousands of postcards to inspire and motivate our neighbors around the country to VOTE! Stay tuned for the next round. The midterms are coming. Contact Deb at [email protected] if you want to write cards! Save The Date Wednesday, May 27th 6:30 - 8:30 pm at the Art House - Documentary film screening of The Price of Milk. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Food and Water Watch, 350 Eugene and Friends of Family Farmers. You Were ThereWe did this in Springfield, Oregon and we’ve only just gotten started!  (Video credit: Peter Dragovich) Earth Day Street Messaging After-Pizza-Party at Hey Neighbor!  Protect What You LoveWhen has the time been more crucial for working together to save what’s left of our precious earth? What can one person alone do? Stop being one person! Watch our calendar for events. Show up in the streets. Knock doors. Get to know your neighbors. We’ll get through this together.  This striking hand drawn piece by Ted Pesch, was gifted to 350 Eugene from Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology. FUSEE met Ted through his partner Molly, a wildland firefighter, who attended one of their amazing wellness retreats. These depictions are of fire-adapted landscapes and animals, to show the beauty of living with fire on the land.
 No Kings 3 - Springfield Eugene Building bridges & growing our movement We are at a critical time in our nation’s history and it’s imperative that the PEOPLE take to the streets to demand a stop to the authoritarian corruption, violence, repression and lies. It was a show of power and a feat of talented organizing with 8 million people in the streets at over 3,300 protests on seven continents… With 5,000 people turning out at Springfield City Hall on March 28th! We’re growing and building momentum! Huge thanks to the organizations within ACES (Activist Coalition Eugene Springfield) and SAfER (Springfield Alliance for Equity and Respect) for planning an impactful, safe and fun event to build power and relationships in the greater Springfield-Eugene area. Special thanks to the 350 Eugene Artivist Team, logistics wranglers, and for those who marched as the “Climate Community.” Most especially… THANK YOU FOR TURNING OUT! More new and younger people showed up than ever! And we’re just getting started. Here’s Todd Boyle’s one-hour video of the inspiring rally and speeches.
Photos credit: Jim Neu Fighting Fascism TogetherWHAT’S NEXT? May 1st - Labor Day Protest & March 12:00 noon Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza 8th & Oak St., Eugene Watch this page for updates Protesting in the streets is just one of many acts of civil resistance. Read on to show up and be counted in Earth Month and beyond! 350 Eugene Earth Day 2026 Climate Future Film Festival
How do we commemorate Earth Day in 2026? Let’s turn to one another. We see the devastating effects of planetary overheating with our own eyes and it is intensifying political chaos, uncertainty and instability. Despite the extraordinary work of countless climate activists at every level, it’s an uphill battle to transform this suicidal fossil fuel juggernaut into the renewable, just energy economy at the speed and scale that physics demands. But we can not, and will not stop. So… This year, informed through the eyes of filmmakers, we are turning to each other to look at how we personally and collectively are navigating this critical moment. Join us for the Climate Future Film Festival at the Art House on Thursday, April 16th at 6:30 pm Prior to the films there will be a short moderated panel with young people representing their unique perspectives as a climate activist, environmental artist and mental health professional. Then for 2 hours we’ll further explore the artistic and human response to climate change through the lens of ten selected short films. Mingling, discussion and resources following the film. Tickets for $5 at https://www.encirclefilms.org/. 
The Eugene Clean Energy Fund (ECEF) is Kicking Off!In November, voters will have a chance to make Eugene a leader in the transition to clean energy! ECEF is a bold, community-driven initiative that turns corporate profits into community power. Through a modest 2% fee on large corporations operating in Eugene – those earning $1 billion or more nationally (think Target, Walmart, etc.) – ECEF will fund clean energy projects and build climate resilience across our entire city. It’s estimated that this will raise $15 million for just transition, job training, and community resilience projects! It’s practical, it’s equitable, and it’s long overdue. More information and a link to donate at eugenecleanenergyfund.org.  Stop in before heading over to the Climate Future Film Festival to find out how you can help advance this innovative climate policy right now! Forest Defense is Climate DefenseWhen our forests are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back! Public Lands, Public Voices: A night of trivia, inspiration, and action for roadless forests! Trump is trying to repeal the Roadless Rule, which was created in 2001 to protect 58.5 million acres of National Forest Land across the country, 2 million acres here in Oregon. (At the time, the Forest Service held 600 public hearings and collected 1.6 million public comments!) This time the public is being shut out of the process entirely! So… across Oregon we’re joining with allies to hold our own public meetings to have some fun and take action.  In Eugene What: Trivia, inspiration and action for roadless forests! (No host drinks & food.) When: Tuesday, April 14th from 5 to 7:00 pm. Where: Gratitude Brewing at 5410 E Eight Ave., Eugene RSVP here and get a free “Wild About Roadless Forests” t-shirt (limited supply, first come, first served). These are public lands and the public WILL HAVE A VOICE. Stand up, speak out!  Take action today: Tell your representatives in the US Congress to protect Roadless areas! Send an email to Senators Merkley & Wyden, Rep. Hoyle and the USDA Secretary, Brooke Rollins to protect Oregon's 2 million acres TODAY! Earth Day Street Messaging Fight to Protect Our Natural Forests! When: Wednesday, April 22nd from 2:00 to 3:30 pm Where: 18th & Chambers St., Eugene (on the edge of Westmoreland Park) What: Fresh air, friendly conversation with neighbors, hang out with your peeps! Pizza party to follow at Hey Neighbor! (The pizza’s on us!)  Get Out the VoteEmail Deb at [email protected] and you’ll be contacted. Thank you! There’s no climate action without a functioning democracy! That’s why 350 Eugene is committed to getting voters out in non-partisan races to support progressive policies by writing postcards to voters. Voting may be only one way citizens can influence the government, but it’s a very important way and we NEED TO HAVE MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION. Statistics show postcards increase voter turnout. The majority of Americans want common sense policies that protect our environment and communities. Email Deb at [email protected] and you’ll be contacted. Thank you! Breathe You read to the end of this newsletter. Good for you! You’re not alone if you’re feeling overwhelmed. One person can’t move the whole mountain. But one person can pick up one rock each time they walk by.  If you can, come to the Film Festival, take the actions in this email, then have a cup of tea with a friend. We’re all in this together.
 America does not belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or those who rule through fear. It belongs to us, the people. When our immigrant neighbors are being kidnapped and deported, an unlawful war against Iran is being waged, Trans rights are being denied, public lands are recklessly threatened, healthcare is withdrawn, the fascist regime works overtime to suppress the vote in the midterm elections. and the escalating cost of living is wrecking our collective economic future… Silence is not an option. Sign up for information about the local event here. Plan to carpool, bike (see flyer below), take the EMX, or find dispersed parking on the street. Limited ADA parking and accommodations will be available.  There are over 3000 events on the map, surpassing the total number of events from October’s historic protests, with more being added every day. The people are showing up to stop fascism and take back our democracy! Sign up to volunteer at the event - no training required! Watch the video (2 min) about Springfield & Eugene No Kings 3 Donate to help make NK3 the biggest protest in American history!  (The Climate Community is meeting at the 350EUG table and plans to march together- wear your t-shirt and carry a banner!) See you there! A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.  We’re getting out the vote for the midterms!  In their own words: "Reclaim Our Vote / Center for Common Ground is a grassroots, primarily volunteer-run campaign that focuses on increasing BIPOC voter turnout through post-carding, texting, and phone banking. Working with local, on-the-ground partners and our Democracy Centers, we build effective, respectful, and relevant campaigns that engage BIPOC voters around upcoming elections." Message scripts are written in close collaboration with Black community activists - so we don't edit the message. 2024 postcards increased Black voter turnout by as much as 8%. This campaign is nonpartisan. I CAN provide postage stamps. Let's do this! If you can help write postcards (I do five a day) contact me / Debby @ [email protected]. Save the DateProtect Roadless Forests! Tues. April 14th 5 - 7 pm at Gratitude Brewery, 540 E 8th Ave, Eugene Public Lands, Public Voice Action Party Trivia, inspiration and action for Roadless Forests Trump wants to open protected Roadless areas to extractive industry. About half of National Forest land is already open to drilling, logging, and mining. Another 18% is protected as Wilderness. The remaining 30%—our Roadless Areas—are remote, roadless landscapes treasured by the outdoor community for the backcountry recreation experiences they provide. Removing protections harms wildlife, rural communities, water quality and increases risks of wildfire. We say NO! Please RSVP asap here! Map of Protected US Roadless Areas Please join us! (Cohosts: 350EUG, Cascwild, Oregon Wild and FUSEE.) 350 Eugene Earth Day 2026  Thur., Apr. 16th at 6:30 pm at the Art House with Encircle Films Tickets are on sale now at www.encirclefilms.org - Limited seating. The climate story is more than graphs and grim predictions. We're all touched by this existential crisis. Find shared humanity in 10 films by diverse artists from around the world as they express their hopes and fears for this moment. Before the films, hear from three local environmentalists, including an artist, activist and counselor. Short discussion & resources to follow. Learn more about the films at this website.  WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! We Are the River and We’re All Paddling in Our Boats - from @glennondoyle.  |
