BERKELEY/EAST BAY GRAY PANTHERS SPEAKER MEETING
Climate Crisis @ the Intersection
April 27, 2022 1:30 pm by Zoom or phone.
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1:30 Opening Welcome
Agenda Headlines and Action Alerts
1:50 Featured Speakers
Faye Wilson Kennedy (Sacramento) and Nell Myhand (Oakland) are quad leaders of the California Poor People's Campaign. They will share parts of a program they presented to the PPC's Policy Working Group on the intersection of race, disability, and other impacted groups with the climate emergency, including indigenous peoples contingent of the PPC. We will also hear ways to join the Poor People's March on Washington.
ask them to support and vote YES on Senate Bill S3700
the House bill already passed earlier this month.
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For now all public meetings are on zoom, but we are experimenting with in board and voting member meetings in person.
Get in touch with any questions, call Betsy or Raines at 510-842-6224 voice or text
MORE INFO and LINKS for April
Save the Planet by Ending White Supremacy - Sierra Club Director of Organizational Transformation says we can't afford "disposable places, or disposable people"
Looks like California can’t reach its climate targets without prioritizing equity.
Call your Senators on the Capitol Switchboard at 1-202-224-3121
ask them to support and vote YES on Senate Bill S3700
the House bill already passed earlier this month.
Talking Points: * The prescription price of insulin has doubled in just four years.
*No one should have to choose between getting insulin and putting food on the table.
* S. 3700 would cap insurance co-pays at $35/month, and make this life saving drug, more affordable to many more people with diabetes.
* Vote YES on S. 3700, the Affordable Insulin Now Act. Make your voice heard!
Call your Senators on the Capitol Switchboard: Call our US Senators Feinstein and Padlile at the Capitol Switchboard 1-202-224-3121.
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UPCOMING
May speaker meeting tentatively - Mental Health and Community-oriented Policing featuring Paul Kealah Blake, long-time mental health outreach and advocate, and member of the Berkeley Homeless Commission. Updates on Affordable Housing debates
June Speaker Meeting, moderated with Daveed Mandell, on Coalitions for Transit Justice, Paratransit, AC Transit Board elections and more.
Ongoing reports from the National Council of Gray Panthers, Senior Housing Subcommittee.
This year, you can join the event by gathering in person OR online. At our in-person gathering, we'll share food and drink and jam to music from DJ Wild Man. The event programming will showcase the amazing events scheduled throughout our East Bay Affordable Housing Month and honor this year's Affordable Housing Month Honorees. We want to see you! RSVP for the online gathering or get your tickets for the in-person gathering today.