Christine Bailey

Dec 112019
 
 December 11, 2019
December 17 @ 1:30. Board of Supervisors meeting on Environmental Justice

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors meeting re adoption of the Environmental Justice Element: When: Tuesday, December 17.  We’ll meet in the lobby at 1:30 to prepare. Where: Board of Supervisors Chambers, 700 H Street, Suite 1450 Join us if you would like to be in the room to show solidarity or if you would like to

Oct 302019
 
 October 30, 2019
Four ways to help and County Environmental Justice in our own Backyard

This is exciting. We’ve really established credibility with the County on EJ. They are going to have one more County Environmental Justice outreach event and it will be in our own backyard. Here are some ways to help with this: Saturday, November 2, 2-3:30 p.m. At UUSS. Canvass to hand out flyers for November 7

Oct 292019
 
 October 29, 2019
Justice in the Room @ County Planning Commission Meeting

UUSS Members from our Sacramento ACT Environmental Justice Committee showed up for justice at the October 28 County Planning Commission meeting. After the Planning Commission unanimously adopted the Phase 2 draft County Environmental Justice Plan, the Commission chair held in the air the EJ plan and stated “This is our new ethos.” Next step December

Sep 282019
 
 September 28, 2019
Wednesday, Oct. 2 @ 7 pm @ UUSS. Environmental justice and racial equity in our neighborhood.

Would you like to help work toward enough affordable safe and sanitary housing; reducing air pollution exposure for children; a community plan for transportation, green spaces, food justice and safe streets; in our West Arden Arcade community?  You are invited to join us at our Sacramento ACT Environmental Justice Committee meeting in our UUSS Library

Sep 112019
 
 September 11, 2019
Environmental Justice as the "The Civil Rights Issue of Our Times"

An excellent description and photos of the September 7 “Greening Black Churches – Why Climate Change Matters” event from today’s Sacramento Area Congregations Together Newsletter (photos below at the end of this article): “On Saturday, September 7, over 100 people gathered at South Sacramento Christian Church to hear Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll speak on Greening

Aug 232019
 
 August 23, 2019
Sacramento ACT Environmental Justice Committee: Statement on Fires in the Amazon

Sacramento ACT Environmental Justice Committee: Statement on Fires in the Amazon We stand in solidarity with the indigenous people of the Amazon. They are losing their homes, their culture, their spiritual connection to the land. Everything. We are grieving with you. And the effects go far beyond Brazil.  The Amazon is called “the lungs of