 You were born ready Pete. Welcome everyone. My name is Pete Wywoody. I'm with Rise for California. The California Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice and 350.org and we're thank you for joining. We've got 16 people on so far. More people will be streaming in. Thanks for joining. Today we're going to be talking about September 8th and the Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice in San Francisco. I hope you're on the right call. You'll be with us for the next hour. We're going to be talking about a bunch of wonderful things including some exciting art projects, how to get engaged in your community, how to reach out to your neighbors to bring them in and some real powerful stories about people fighting against climate injustice in their communities and building towards what is going to be the largest mass mobilization around climate justice around the intersections of economic, racial and climate justice in on West Coast history. So more people are joining and I'll do a quick intro of folks who are on the phone at the moment. We've got 42 participants that so far and we're expecting some more. If you want to throw into the chat where you're calling in from, we'd love to see from all over the state and all over the region folks who are joining us from the Bay Area and beyond. So go ahead and throw in the chat where you're calling in from and I'll now introduce our panelists and we're going to walk through a series of things today. We're going to talk first about why we're doing this, why September 8th is important and and what the goals of the day are going to be and then how we're going to build the largest mobilization in the West Coast around climate work and climate justice and then we're going to talk about the specifics of what's going to happen. Where we're going to start, where we're going to end, how you can get involved. We're also going to talk about how you can get plugged into the most important, the most important, biggest mural of all time. So we'll get some live painting going on right now during our program and then we're going to answer your questions. So don't be shy and pop your questions into the chat and we'll be able to answer questions about some of the logistics, some of the reasons why we're doing the choosing this day, any of the questions that you've got. Start to pop them in the chat and then towards the end of the call, our team here will be taking those questions one by one. So just do a quick introduction of who you're going to hear from today. Again, my name is Pete Wywoody and I'm on staff with the California Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice and joining us is Annie Dobbs Kramer from the North Bay Organizing Project, Santa Rosa in the north of San Francisco. Martha Hawthorne from SEIU 10-1, the largest service workers local in the Bay Area. Lauda Meredia from Scope in Los Angeles and then David Solnit from a movement artist in 350.org staff person as well as Matt Leonard and Vanessa Warhite who are on staff at 350.org who are going to walk us through how we're all going to make this happen together. So let's dive in. We've got 47 attendees from across the state and folks have been chiming in saying they're calling from Sacramento, Santa Monica, Santa Cruz, Woodland all over the state. So Ventura County, San Jose area, Chico, Elsa Brande, Santa Barbara, Yuccaia. Really we have axnard every portion of the state. Thank you all for calling in and joining us. So our next question for you all is did you join us on this call about a month ago? This is our second of the statewide calls. So there's something popping up for you right now on your screen. Where are you on the last statewide call in June? We're trying to get a feel of who's new and there's definitely plenty of room for folks who are new to this call will walk through what we're all going to do together. And there's also new information for if you were joining us last month, how you can get engaged, how we can build on what we built last month and start, you know, we're only 51 days away from the mobilization itself. So plenty of new details and tangible things to plug in. So go ahead and vote now. And we'll see if how many folks were on last month. Can we see the results? So let's move on and thank you all for voting. And there we go. Great. So over half of you, two thirds of you all weren't on the first time. So that's great news. Bring new folks into the fold. And for those of you who were with us, again, there's going to be a lot more tangible information to plug in. So thank you all for voting. So we're up to over 50 attendees from around the States. And now let's go ahead and I'll introduce Lauda Maria from Scope in Los Angeles. And Scope is a economic justice and racial justice organization in South Los Angeles and they're part of the California leadership team. And Scope is a long, Scope is a long time organization loud as a long time organizer and the research director at Scope will be on a variety of issues including climate justice and building the future that we all deserve. So, Lauda, please take it away. Well, thanks, Pete. Can you all hear me? Okay. Good. Okay. So just to give a recap again, well, my name is Lauda. I'm Murida. I'm the research director at Scope. We are a South Los Angeles community based organization. And I'll give a little more information on Scope itself in just a few minutes, but did want to give a recap first to get us started. So for folks that are new and even folks that are returning, I know there's a lot of abbreviations, a lot of jargon that feels like it's being thrown around. But just to recap, the GCAS or the Global Climate Action Summit is a key piece of what is bringing folks together here in September in San Francisco. And this is a large summit, an international summit that's been convened by Governor Brown, Michael Bloomberg and others really focused at elected leaders. Oh, I'm sorry, I just started seeing the screen and got away for a minute. There we go. And so this is really focused also in a lead up to COP 24, which is next year, I believe. And so to build momentum and commitment from from leaders, companies, to really raise those commitments to address climate change. But we know that this like rhetoric and even the ambitions of these elected leaders and business and these kind of even, you know, global NGOs really won't be enough. And we know that a lot of the work that's being done to address climate change is actually on from coming from frontline communities and social movements. And that we're also using science and social justice and to create real solutions to create leadership. And to educate these leaders and hold them accountable to the change we want to see in our communities. So we know this global summit is bringing together, like I said, people from around the country, a lot of spotlight on San Francisco. And so it's a huge opportunity. This is really like a pivotal point for us to come together as a movement and not let Governor Brown and Michael Bloomberg and others take all the credit, which they will for climate leadership. And so this is really our chance to put forward an alternative narrative and put forward actual grassroots solutions and stories from the front lines. And so that's where the rise for rise for climate jobs and justice California comes in. And so this is part of a global day of action. And so there will be hundreds of events happening across across the world. But San Francisco is really where this will San Francisco will be anchoring a big piece of the action. And so this will be where the movement where the summit is. And so this is really where we have the chance to make the most influence to really have the loudest voice knowing that the world is watching the summit in San Francisco and what is the conversations that will be had there. And so this is really also a chance to bring diverse communities campaigns and movements together and really lift up the intersecting issues and amplify our collective voices and really think of this moment as a container for all these diverse communities and stories and to really collectively build power. So this is really around bringing together multiple movements, a movement, a movement and really elevate the multi issue platform that we are bringing together as as the rise for climate jobs and justice under that frame. So to share a little bit about why scope is involved in the leadership team. And excited to participate in the PCM, the march in San Francisco versus per se actions and activities going on in LA, which is where we're based is because we really feel like this is a pivotal moment and an important opportunity for the political education and leadership of our members. To give you a little bit of background scope, it's a long acronym. I'm speaking of acronyms. We're strategic concepts for organizing and policy education. And we've been around for about 25 years. We're based in South Los Angeles, and we're actually a community based organization that was that was formed in the wake of the 1992 LA uprising in South LA that happened after the Rodney King verdict. And so we've really been a power building organization really wouldn't consider our organization issue based per se, but we're really always talking to folks living in South LA folks that were on the front lines of unemployment of disinvestment that had really been shut out of a large scale economic transition that happened in the 60s, 70s as the manufacturing sector really moved abroad and a lot of jobs were outsourced. And so the work that we do is really based on the issues that come up in organizing conversations with residents in South LA. And so we've really been working over the past two decades to, to tell and really reframe the story that that the 92 uprising has been about criminalizing black and Latino residents and really tell the story that these folks have been systemically marginalized and criminalized and folks actually have plenty of solutions to the problems and conditions they face. And so we've really been working to elevate the voices of these black and Latino working class families that are still there, even though now we're facing the pressures of displacement and criminalization that's really, it has really changed the community of South LA. I would say that we really did come into work on climate from an economic justice lens and a racial justice lens and really seeing that once again, our country in our world is going through a significant economic shift as we move away from our fossil fuel based economy and really start to acknowledge and address the threat of climate change and the impact that we're already seeing. And we know that our community has already been hit first and worst by many of these shifts in the past and really felt that seeing the landscape as it was, it was important for us to really build upon our economic and racial justice analysis of the issues faced in South LA and think about the environmental and climate justice lens that are disproportionately impacting black, Latino, immigrant communities, women, low income families as well. In South LA, just to give you a sense, we have some of the largest oil fields, we have urban oil fields, and some of the smallest setbacks or space between oil drilling and homes and other uses like parks and commercial uses. And so that's one of the campaigns actually we're working on in LA. We're working on pushing for a setback ordinance in LA that would essentially really end all oil drilling. We want a setback that is high enough that would actually end oil drilling in LA. And so we're really going to lift that issue up. We're going to lift up the issue of jobs and workforce development and really ensuring that communities that are on the front lines of disinvestment and economic marginalization are first in line for the benefits of the new clean energy based economy. And we're of course going to lift up the issues of black and brown multiracial organizing. These are key pieces of our work and we really felt like this was a moment for to deepen the political education of our members and our staff. And so we're excited. This is the first time we participated as staff and members in an international space like this. So this is also a great learning experience in general of just how to to really build and leverage relationships for greater power for the issues that we work on and the issues that our outlets work on. So we're really excited to be coming to San Francisco from South LA and we're excited also to just take on this new role in the leadership team and work with new folks on lifting up the issues and the stories from South Los Angeles. So now I will turn it over to Annie, right? Yeah, thank you so much Laura. So now we're going to hear from Annie and again powerful stories coming from Los Angeles. Again the the event in San Francisco is going to be representative of communities all across the state including folks from Los Angeles and we'll hear from the North Bay now from Annie Dobbs-Kramer and organizer with the North Bay Organizers Project. Hi guys, my name is Annie. I hope folks can hear me. I'm in a coffee shop so pardon the background noise. I am an organizer with the North Bay Organizing Project. I really want to just appreciate what Laura said. We also are an organization that is based in sort of the needs of the community so we're not a single issue organization but rather we choose the issues based on what what our community looks for. So currently we are working on what we're calling Roots, Roof and Refuge. So it's an intersectional lens looking at immigration, housing and climate justice, environmental justice and really we chose those issues because in Northern California we are the wine region and we have a huge huge huge immigrant population. We are also facing an enormous displacement. So before the wildfires which hit our community last October we had seen a 50 percent increase in rents in the last five years and since October they've gone up an additional 36 percent. So we're looking at like almost 100 percent increase in rents for folks which is not surprisingly pushing out our most vulnerable folks. So low-income folks, folks of color, people with disabilities, young folks just getting massively displaced and we have some of the most expensive land now in the entire world. So the way that we look at our work is really that it's all about home. You know it's about home having a roof over your head at night. It's about not getting deported tomorrow and it's also about you know taking care of the land that takes care of us. So we really also kind of resonate with what Laura said. We came to this work through through social justice and really as we begin with our leadership examining the extractive economy and really beginning to understand the deep connection between the way that the extractive economy extracts labor from people, the way it treats black and brown communities and also the way it treats women's bodies and the earth as commodities. We just started realizing that you can't really attack one part of the problem without attacking at all. So that really brought us into the climate work. As I said we just had some really devastating horrific wildfires and that really crystallized how important climate work is because Fountain Grove which was the rich area of town which actually served as fuel to burn the poor area of town. It was actually built in a fire path and indigenous folks in Sonoma County know that that's just a place that you don't build but so we're seeing the yeah climate change is just really really concretized for us by the fire is an understanding that this is not a one-time thing but something that's going to happen all the time and we really got to be thinking of solutions and also Laura not to steal all your words but just amplifying that we know that folks that who are on the front lines of the crisis have actually the solutions right people who closest to the pain closest to the solution and so we just want to want to acknowledge and lift those up those solutions that are real and are there. So just really quick we are stoked to be on the leadership team and yeah I think I'm going to pass it back to Pete now in the sake of time. Thank you so much and thanks Annie and Laura you can hear the stories that people are bringing to Bear in San Francisco on September 8th and as Annie and Laura both mentioned they're part of the California leadership team and in a second who's also a part of that this is the guiding voices that called out recognizing that the summit was coming and we needed to do something big and powerful and put a massive vision of what what real climate justice looks like but real climate leadership looks like on September 8th and so these also are intersecting movements that are part of that there are a number of other movements that are falling under the umbrella including the It Takes Roots movement that a number of organizations that are a part of as well as the there's a Brown's Last Chance campaign pushing Governor Brown to live up to his legacy as well as a number of other movement moments that are intersecting under the banner of rise for climate jobs and just to see for Laura and and Annie speak articulately about why they're coming in San Francisco in September and we're eager for you all to join us there as well so so what exactly is going to happen well let's turn it over to Martha Hawthorne who's a phenomenal leader of SEIU 10 to 1 based in San Francisco. Martha. Hi there can everybody hear me my name is Martha I've lived in San Francisco now for 40 years I'm proud member of SEIU 10 to 1 we are the first union to endorse this California March because we are a social justice union we fight for our members our contracts our rights but the common good of everyone we have workers and hospitals schools libraries city and county buildings and also in a lot of nonprofits here in San Francisco is probably people know the most expensive city in the world now with the greatest degree of inequity and we consider our climate to be a climate that needs to be that needs to promote equality and a better vision of the future so we're excited to host this big march it landed in our laps and we will rise to the challenge we on the leadership team have been I think building a really exciting event we've already had two mass organizing meetings when hundreds of people have been involved from all over the area we plans were engaging our communities and we are building the groundwork we really are for all of you throughout the state to actually the state in the world to join us on September 8th we are building for a huge march the key global action the eyes of the world will be honest and we're kicking off a whole week of really exciting events so what's going to happen on the day of the march that's the question September 8th first of all buses will be coming from all over the state to to join it those of us who live here the lineup will be at 10 am at embarked era plaza that's near the foot of market street right on the subway line and the march has the idea of organizing these tens of thousands of people into themes to guide the lineup and we want to encourage groups to self organize contingents and now there you see the march that's going from the embarked era of fair building all the way down to civic center city hall now our contingents will have meeting places along the way and we would like all of you to self organize with with with each other in your own communities now these can be indigenous leaders labor unions beekeepers anti-fracking efforts renewable energy supporters really almost anything we want to encourage people to be more than marchers more than marchers but organizers organizers of their communities their communities their friends their interests their passions so many of us have so much to say and this is our chance this really is our chance to raise our voices together in a very strong way there's already many contingents being planned and soon we're going to have a map of the website with the themes and suggested meeting points and we'll also have links to contingents for individuals to join we will be ready now at about 11 a.m the march will begin down market street to civic center and end at city hall where we'll have music and a resource fair groups can table they can engage people in their campaigns and efforts and we'll really have a time to talk with each other and celebrate our efforts to save ourselves on the planet i'm really proud of this effort and we want to have as many people there to table we'll have a website ready for you to sign up and best of all best of all in this march we're planning a unique activity a massive world breaking we hope record-breaking street murals so we'd like to hand it off now to the arts group great so thank you so much martha and now we'll hand it off to david who as he always does is doing his best to show not tell so david can you hear me yeah i'm great great um one thing that's been a feature in the last few years in the bay area is a lot of movements have been doing street murals taking children's champro paint or more recently play paint and painting our message our image and our stories on the streets i don't know more has done it twice in front of wells fargo world headquarters we've done it in front of the ice headquarters we've done it in front of the chevron refinery and so on so one of the ideas that's emerged is that when the march arrives at civic center plaza we want to do the world's largest street mural and so we're looking for 50 groups to do circular murals in the streets surrounding civic center plaza and we're setting up trainings to train people to do that and we'll set groups up with some supplies and we also want everyone who marches we think there might be as many as 5000 opportunities to help those 50 groups paint those murals so and there's a training coming up on sunday july 29th at local two from 230 to 530 the other two things i just want to lift up is uh really encourage groups to think about if you're marching and especially if you're marching with a group how are we gonna how are you how are you gonna look what's the art you're gonna make and carry um and there's some online resources there's an art kit i think it will be up on our website soon it's right now on the rise for climate dot org website there's art build scheduled in the bay area and finally there's a a powerful group of song leaders who are planning songs while we're painting and then the last thing is uh the peace poets the group who wrote uh some of the songs we've sung in the street people gonna rise like the water or i can't breathe they're gonna be joining us on an arts tour going to 10 to 15 cities around california supporting those communities with building the making the visual art uh the peace poets will teach song leading skills and also teach the songs and offer performance so that's a resource that people are interested and uh see everyone in the streets where you're painting close great thank you so much david and one other thing that so you can see that we're we're ambitious in our vision as as we need to be this that we need to have a vision that matches the urgency of the moment one of the other things in addition to the mural project as well as the projects that of how the actual march is going to look is we're going to be coming around the state to people to places all over doing an arts tour having the peace poets come and do song leading having and having the folks training on how to do murals and then also signing up and saying okay here's how you get on a bus here's how we here's what the march is going to look like here's what our contingent is going to look like so if you are interested in hosting in your local community or stop on the arts tour you can see the email address the screen now arts.ca at riseforclimate.org that will set you up and will that will be in dialogue with you about setting up our next arts tour so you can build a mural sing a song and jump on the bus um we already got stuff set up in the north bay and in southern california so okay great so we've heard from lauda and annie about the the urgency and how communities that are impacted are rising up we've heard from margo about how organized labor is plugging in and what the actual day is going to look like and heard from david about all the beautiful pieces that we're going to put on the earth itself and move ourselves towards a real climate justice what real climate leadership looks like now let's hear about how you can plug in what what exactly we need from you and what you can get from us in order to plug in so first keep thinking about your questions and put them into the chat and we'll come back around to them answer them at the the end of the call and the next we've got about 30 minutes left but now i'm going to hand it over to matt who's going to walk us through some of the nuts and bolts of how to engage so matt to give thanks and toolkits and things that i mentioned so bear me up some ways you can engage a big thing is to start organizing local tables that basically means you know a local coalition working with partners or other organizations or other groups in your city or community to start organizing towards the rise we have a little bit of funding available to even help stipend local organizing in regions around the state a few groups are already starting to take advantage of that but in these last two months we really want to push it and if we had to stipend some one part time will help that'd be great oh now i'm on two cameras this is crazy the camera is on the camera's on this microphone so you might want to go with this one oh okay you know um other things you can do organize buses charter buses we're actually next couple days mentioned we'll have a big website update we'll have a toolkit that'll help guide you through how you can organize a charter bus from your community we have some funding available to help subsidize the cost of buses to help make them accessible and affordable for people from a range of economic backgrounds um you can organize a contingent in the march as martha mentioned we're going to have some themes in the march and within that you can organize a contingent so you can actually not just march as an individual but march collectively with your organization group your issue your background whatever your passion is that can be anything from beekeepers for climate justice to a labor union to anything in between there's already a few contingents that are starting to organize but people are welcome to sort of self organize in whatever way and however they want to march and show up in that on september 8th um we've got working groups um there's at least a dozen at this point a lot of which are working here in the bay area but a lot of those can happen remotely as well especially things like outreach communications digital um we've got some listserv setup we've got slack channels for those that use slack um we'll send you some links to all those things as well but it's a great way to get plugged in more actively with the organizing um one of our great partners 350 bay area has created the people's climate calendar we've got a link to that on the california rise website but it's a listing for all sorts of events happening between now and the climate action summit from meetings to actions to trainings it's participatory so if you've got an event you're doing you can add it to that calendar and it just launched in the past week or so so it's going to start getting more and more populated but there's already a lot of great events on there um we will have uh you can get involved digitally um many of you are hopefully already rsvp'd for this on the website but we really want to encourage you to do so so we have some sense of how many people are coming but also so we can communicate important information back to you around logistics updates information um the other way you can do that is also from your phone you can text uh rise ca to 83224 uh and that's a way you can get updates uh about the event um through the phone um we have a digital toolkit um if your organization works in digital spaces it's a whole toolkit that offers content for websites draft language for email blasts a way that uh you can actually track people who rsvp for the march and be able to get those names back to you for future ongoing organizing work it's got social media tools for facebook or twitter um you can go to 350.org slash toolkit um and we'll get that that information out to you um we can do a stage uh and i'm rising for dot dot dot photo booth um as as annie and laura and others mentioned people are coming to this and being involved in this for all sorts of different reasons and we want to make sure that we highlight the diversity and the reasons why people are going to show up in march one way to do that in advance is to do these little photo booths it's super easy it just takes a piece of paper a pen and some sort of camera we can help promote them on social media get them out and we really want to show the real breadth and depth of who's coming to rise for climate jobs and justice social media we've you know like many things these days we've got some hashtags um we're using the hashtags rise for climate and hashtag climate jobs justice so whatever your issue or message is on social media tag it that way and you can help expand the audience um and as mentioned we'll send out an email all these links uh and make it really easy for you to follow suit um and what's really exciting is coming up in a bit in about a week we are going to do a global recruitment day for this and i'm going to hand over to jocelyn who's going to tell you more about recruitment day sorry we're trying to fix this real quick hey my name is jocelyn cancino and i'm the field organizer here at california rise i'm very excited to be telling you all about our recruitment day so um our recruitment day happening here in san francisco and the bay area will be held on saturday july 28th from 10 a.m to 6 p.m we have two canvassing sessions going on and so i really encourage um you and any networks you have members staff volunteers who can come out and help us get the word out we're going to be door knocking um all of our neighbors here in san francisco um so we do have the website which you can sign up to today it's uh california sorry ca.riseforclimate.org slash recruitment day um and we will show you what that page looks like yeah you can sign up here um and you will see that there are uh different opportunities for you to sign up for and this also includes people who are not in san francisco you can also canvassing your own neighborhoods um we all created a really amazing toolkit that has all the canvassing guides and also for for door knocking and for street canvassing canvassing and we also have a sign-up sheet and our beautiful postcards and posters that you saw earlier so we really just want to get a lot of people to go out and actually physically talk to people uh digital organizing is great but what about people who don't actually have access to the online worldwide web so we really just want to make sure that we get as many people as we can out there on san francisco september 8th you know um it's very important to get all our frontline communities as well and um we hope you can sign up we are also going to be having phone banking sessions which you can also do from home and i will be sending out more information about that um after um we've also already disseminated 50 000 postcards and so we are just very excited um to see how many people are helping us with outreach and this cannot be done without you so we really really appreciate it um and the toolkit yeah so we're going to show you the toolkit real quick and what that looks like we will also be sending you the link for that so as you can see we have our door knocking canvassing guide and you can see you can easily create a walking list and map it shows you how to create a turf um so you can divide it up with other volunteers who are also going to be door knocking with you how to create a wrap it also comes with a sample of one um with supplies you need and everything to to get it set up for you yeah thank you and we also have a street canvassing guide for people who might not have a large capacity to create turfs um we do encourage people to go out to busy intersections um you know uh plazas or campus quads and go talk to people um there so we have all the all the stuff you need and that's okay thank you and back to Pete great thank you so much joss and uh thank you to matt as well for walking through how to get engaged so um now we're going to i'm just going to run through a couple of things that you've heard one go to the website and rsbp right now ca.riseforclimate.org and uh we're trying to count every that the way that we know that we're on track to get to be the largest mobilization in uh in the west coast history is uh to make sure that you rsbp for the march so go and rsbp right now light on that website ca.riseforclimate.org you can sign up for recruitment day as joss said we've got folks calling in from oxnard from paloalto from chico all over the state if you sign up on recruitment day saying yes i want to go talk to my neighbors we will send you flyers we'll put put flyers in the mail and uh and uh guide you through how to go knock on doors and and get folks to plug in um uh and then uh you've heard a lot about the website being updated it is in process of being updated and soon we'll have resources about the mural and resources about uh buses about how you can sign up for a bus on the website so make sure that you've rsbp this is the way to to know uh get get those updates rsbp at the website there and uh you can go to peoplesclimatecalendar.org it's also linked to on our website that people can um uh find out the other activities that are happening and see all the intersections that are happening at the march so now we're going to take a little time see a lot of great questions coming in through uh the the chat thank you for all of that so now we're going to hand it over to christie and venessa to walk through some of the questions and get some answers to the great thoughtful questions we've been bringing forward if you have more questions now is a good time to keep putting them up into the chat and uh and so i'll hand it over to christie and venessa hey everyone can you can you hear me can you hear me awesome um okay so i've been taking notes on some of these questions but um it's uh every time we do this we try a different method to try to make it work i'm going to look this way so you can see me um and i am up to uh the the question about chinese language if you get any other questions after that um but i will start with what i found at the top and the first question was um will be will the art be on the streets or on the sidewalks of san francisco and um matt or david can you answer that i think it's the streets isn't it it will be on the street um again non-toxic washable paint or chalk and or charcoal or clay so no environmental harm um is there is there any work being done on transportation from the south bay um that is definitely something that groups can organize from the south bay there is nothing yet that we um we are not organizing buses but what we are doing is providing resources to help other groups organize buses and um we are um also going to have some information on our website about uh public transportation to help facilitate people understanding how they can get on caltrain um which goes all the way down almost to gilroy right now so um and if you have more specific questions about that you can reach out to us uh directly if you're with a 350 group you can contact me venessa.warheight at 350.org um uh what if the events calendar doesn't have everything on it well we can only control what people put on it so encourage your friends to put their actions on it um there is going to we hope eventually going to be a calendar of affiliate events from the gcast at the general of the global climate action summits website it is not yet they do not yet have those posted um so ultimately you should be looking at both places the global climate action summit website and our website to see the full range of things some things will be posted on ours and not on theirs and probably vice versa um but between those two you should be covered there is also another site called dahomsum.org um which may also be uh posting events that are affiliated with the gcast and with rise um where can we sign up for tabling matt so in the next day or two we'll have the website updated and we'll have a hormone there it's to sign up for the resource fair um so just check back on the website the next next couple days great and then where can we sign up if we want to host a mural great question we have an email for that it's art dot ca at riseforclimate.org right that's right we just got it today we're so excited um so send an email to that email address there's also a slide with that email in it that we're going to be sending you after this call so you have all this information um send us an email at that email address and we will uh get you on the list as somebody and then somebody will be back in touch with you to coordinate if you need training and get you hooked into a workshop so that you get all the skills and resources that you need to be able to have the confidence to host your own mural um uh how are we accommodating people with disability um i can take a stab at but maybe matt can fill in if i don't have all the answers to it the route is going to be on market street and to the civic center and it is serviced by underground transportation that have elevators and escalators so for people to maybe become a larger distance but don't walk the full it's 1.6 miles i think is the route so if you can't manage to walk some of it but you can walk a little bit you could take um bart and get off at pal street or civic center and then get up and walk just the last bit um for people who can't walk but can sit and you're going to have to bring a seat yourself but you can come and bring a portable seat and sit in the civic center and there will be a ton of stuff going on so even people with really limited mobility will be included and then is there other information that you have about disability access i think that's most of it there is um uh proposed hope that we'll have a number of electric vehicles tailing the march at the very end and they can also potentially be available to help big people up uh who aren't able to walk or finish the march and get a transport in the civic center as well oh thank you um i didn't question about email links but now i don't remember what that meant uh i think it just meant are there links to the various emails that we keep throwing out at you yes we are going to send everybody who rsvp to this um i think as well as it's a broader list than that but definitely everybody on this call will get a copy of the recording of this call and you can go back at your leisure and read it in a calm way and write it down so don't panic if you've missed any of the links that we've been throwing out where is the toolkit that you guys were talking about we will be emailing that to you that will come out with the email with the link to this will also include the link to the toolkit and a link to the materials for um the recruitment day are we um capturing uh names now are we putting a call out for people that are interested in the recruitment day packet yeah so we did uh show the link so people um sign up we will have their names okay okay great so if you sign up at that link we'll have a packet ready for you and out to you post-haste um where will we get information about contingents um that will be coming on the website very soon uh it's it's super close to being finalized what those contingents will be and once they are finalized we will be posting that and then it will yes it has more information yeah so there there will be on the website the places to plug the contingents that already exist the labor group the health group the faith etc but there's also going to be a space where folks can create their own and this is you know when folks ask about uh how will um folks who've been included how will folks from that people with disability being one of the most beautiful things about this effort is people stepping in and saying yes i want to build a contingent of uh young people from san jose for climate justice and then they can create a contingent on the website and start organizing that way so in the next uh a few days there'll be a space where you can go and create your own hub on the website and then folks can start organizing to to build that out and then other people will leave or the website can find you. Cool thank you pete um i'm getting more questions coming in um what is our relationship to the poor people's campaign matt do you want to answer that sure so uh the poor people's campaign and the organization folks have probably heard of this over the spring that a number of organizations working on uh economic justice one of the central tenants of the poor people's campaign was care for the earth and they have been directed plugged into our organizing work here and uh you saw david sold it earlier he was helping out a great deal with the art for people's campaign and the sponsoring organizations that uh are joining us and in marching incentives is going september eight very cool thank you very much um will there be materials in chinese that was a great question so we do have a translation team working on different materials in different languages do we know if chinese is one of them they have 15 different languages 15 different languages it's awesome and then the people want to request those do they will they just be on the website okay so this will shortly be on the website in all of the 15 different languages coming to you soon um have we done or are we doing so the uh absolutely the leadership team has made up of a couple of different rights groups as well as we've got an organizing committee with it which if you're a part of an organizing group we encourage you to join then you can reach out to us here and plug in that way and um we're certainly working with the rights groups and then that was this moment you know part of part of what's happening in this political moment most have been so engaged about the family separation and detention and abolish ice movement is making those connections about how the migration part of what is happening with migration is forced by climate change and we all need to stand up together in order to get the world that we all deserve we have to tackle both of these things immigration and climate justice at the same time cool thank you pete um will there be opportunity for art trainings to learn how to make cool art like that awesome bird yes there are a ton of awesome art trainings um we will start probably by early next week that events calendar that you saw that is on our website will have um uh able there is a tag you can search by different types of events so as matt said there are going to be lots and lots more events coming so to keep it from being too overwhelming we've got a tagging system so you can search just for arts events and we will be having our art training events included in that so look there for specifics what i can do is put in a plug there is going to be a training this saturday if is david still on the line and do we lose him okay so in um do we have that listed somewhere so there is a training at david's art space in richmond if you are anywhere near richmond um which is in the east bay here in the bay area there is going to be a training on saturday um but he has a whole bunch of them planned for throughout the bay area already and then there's the arts tour and the arts tour in addition to being a performance with the peace poets and learning song leading will also be training in how to make banners and art i don't know about puppets but maybe talk to david and he'll probably so that would be a question if you are specifically interested in getting trained in making art that arts.ca at riseforclimate.org website is the place to send your questions and we will get you the information that you need um can anyone here answer because i can the what is on the agenda for the july 24th meeting yeah so this meeting the July 24th meeting this will be the third of our mass meetings here in the bay area and we'll be talking about recruitment day we'll be talking about the logistics of the event what's actually gonna happen and setting up the the mural um it's sort of in parallel to these meetings so we're doing these statewide calls we've got folks on this call from oxnard and and chico and everywhere in between uh these meetings in person we're also going to be handing out a postcard or looking at the palm cards and setting up like okay this is the neighborhood that i'm going to go talk to in the next couple of weeks cool thank you so so basically you've been on i guess the point maybe the question i'm reading between the lines here but the question i think is if you've been on this call should you also come to the meeting we'd love to have you i was gonna say yeah it's now really fun and there's food and there's music and you just get to meet people in person and every single one that we've been to has been packed with like hundreds of people and ton of energy and you get to really connect with people from different groups that you don't know so it is even though and also we're throwing a bunch of information at you tonight but this is another way to sort of really figure out how you can best plug in so i personally recommend it everyone here is nodding their heads yes definitely show up if you can not to make those of you are out there who can't come feel bad so we love you too we wish you could all come um is there a designated location where buses will be landing the answer to that is not yet we are going to have a buses page up and running within the next few days on our website once that is there we will have an rsvp link and if you are planning a bus even if you don't have it fully nailed down yet please register your bus with us and once we have a sense of how many buses are coming we will then make a plan for the perfect place for those buses to come in a timing in a schedule so uh if you're planning on on sending a bus to san francisco and we hope everybody is planning on sending many buses to san francisco please register them next week on our website and then we will get back to you shortly thereafter with uh probably a tentative location and then a final location once the date is really upon us so that everybody can be safe and get to the right spot um what is the best way for musicians to plug in that is probably the arts group is it not um well i'd say a couple of things one you can start once the website is updated you can start a uh uh hub where you can obviously march as musicians but also be generating ideas of what of how you want to do that um represent on that day so that's one way down and the other i think connecting with the artist group we we glossed over a little bit we're certainly going to do the mural project which is one beautiful artistic undertaking we're also going to be leading collecting songs with tens of thousands of people writing songs specifically for this event so i'm plugging in with the arts group and you can see again through that the website you'll be able to join the arts group through the website this evening cool all right i'm just scrolling back through to make sure i didn't miss anybody are there any other i saw one somebody mentioned what's the relationship to pcm that's a great question this is the anchor mobilization of a national and global mobilization that the people's climate movement that folks have probably marched or been allied with the people's climate movement that had a massive march in 2014 and a massive march in 2017 this is the next iteration of that with that obviously in response to the global climate action summit but this is pcm california style um uh so we are one in the same and and excited the anchor mobilization or the national and the global day of action that's happening all over the world um all right we have a couple more questions coming in is there a sister march happening in southern california yes there are in fact two sister marches for sure uh one in los angeles and they don't yet have a plan for exactly what they're doing but i understand that they are committed to doing something in la and then there is one also happening in san diego and i know masada is working on that and jc is on this call so i think um folks there but they will be on the rise for climate.org website as a as a sister march the the basic premise is what we're hoping is that anybody who's within a seven-hour driving radius of san francisco will come to san francisco and anyone farther out than that will host their own events and la is kind of on that cusp um so some folks from in la are also forming buses and we hope people from san diego and even farther afield will try to put buses together and come to san francisco as well but yes if you are in la and can't make it up here to san francisco there is a place for you on september 8 down there um there are a couple of others uh um pcm when you when the mural is in the street chinatown washington and kerney is it done early before traffic will the city wash it off well it won't be in chinatown yeah okay yeah so uh it's not seven o'clock thank you all for joining and um uh so we've heard a lot of really inspiring stories about why folks are coming to san francisco and on september 8 the number one thing to remember is go register for the march so go to ca dot rise for climate dot org and sign up rsbp they'll come to the march if you rsbp for this webinar you'll get a recording an email with the recording with the website with the recruitment day packets with all of the materials that we talked about and uh encourage folks to sign up for recruitment day sign up for the rsbp and then look for information on how to organize buses how to organize a mural all that will be coming soon on the website big thanks to all of our speakers martha hawthorne laura meredia and andy dobs kramer matt and christy and uh venessa and john from the team here thank you all for your exciting work we're looking forward to seeing you in september