Tr*mp’s COVID scare, a Disaster Movie Showdown, and Georgia on My Mind
When it was reported that Donald Tr*mp had been diagnosed with COVID, I thought that was it. He had all the risk factors to become a coronavirus fatality. I had read the stories of people on ventilators, getting all the medical help, but they died anyway. I assumed...
Election Survival Kit: Aurora Levins Morales essay, This Joy Album & Use the Phone!
On the day before the election, I have packed you this survival kit. It has the music you need and...
News Round Up, Friday Oct 30th
Get Out the Vote with Sunrise! As Election Nears, Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate...
Writing to Deadline
Three of us launched the Daily Dose a couple of months ago out of Vijaya’s living room. We made it a nine-month commitment, through the vital 2020 election. As we were planning and even as we began, we had no idea that we’d be sheltering in place during a global...
Hip Hop for the Green New Deal: Coco Peila “Whose World?”
Last week, for Earth Day, Coco Peila dropped her latest single "Whose World?" an amazing new anthem for the climate movement and the Green New Deal. Here are the lyrics. Coco Peila is a Bay Area rap goddess and climate activist. Whose. World? Intro So cold how the...
Climate News Friday, April 24th: EARTH WEEK
Graphic by Emily Thiessen Tune in to Earth Day Live! Green energy could drive Covid-19 recovery with $100tn boost: Speeding up investment could deliver huge gains to global GDP by 2050 while tackling climate emergency, says report Michigan's Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder Knew...
Afro-Futurism: Black people join the Climate Movement to Save the Future
Yesterday, for Earth Day, we did three different events. By the end of the day, I had nothing new to say. I was tired, but that good kind of tired when you've worked long and hard, but are proud of your work. And I did have a vision that I wanted to see...building on...
Earth Day 2020: let’s water our imagination
https://vimeo.com/410494176 We can’t celebrate today like we have on other years -- with picnics, coastline cleanups, mass actions. So on this surreal 2020 Earth Day, we wanted to invite you to honor our planet -- our beautiful, hurting home -- not just with...
Earth Week: Three Poems of Climate Change
This week, in honor of Earth Day, I'm sharing three poems that speak to the seasons, the way that they're changing, and the ways they're changing us. ("When the rains came" was first published in The Lake Rises: Poems to &for Our Bodies of Water; "Last Dollar...
3 events for EARTH DAY LIVE: Black People & Climate, An Interactive Workshop & Poetry for the People
Many of us had a vision for this week, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. There would be millions marching in the streets demanding Climate Justice and pushing for the Green New Deal. Instead, we will have millions online, and the Daily Dose will be sponsoring three...
Climate in the News, Friday April 17th
Think This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming. Addressing climate change is a big-enough idea to revive the economy. By Rhiana Gunn-Wright Sunrise Bay Area Virtual Earth Day Events! The US has a collective action problem that’s larger than the coronavirus...
“Kids Demand Climate Justice” short video & call for submissions for the a Kids Climate Film Festival
Like so many parents with kids in public school, we were all on lockdown, day after day, with hours to fill. Our family was fortunate, my partner and I both work from home, and there's been no interruption in our income (yet). My man works full time and I work part...
The Erosion of Everyday Life: Terry Tempest Williams, and Our Collective Imagination
The erosion of everyday life as we have never imagined it before. We can see potential death all around us, as we do the most normal things we know how to do. Breathing. Touching. Learning to talk with a 6-foot distance between us, “Two shopping carts long," the...
Speaking Out: a Seder and a Survey to Break the Silences
Last night I sat at our table between one of my children and my partner, staring into the small screen of my laptop. The computer was set opposite a rush-job Sedar plate, and on the screen were the faces of about a dozen folks I just adore. A Sedar is the celebration...
Postal Panic: the grassroots movement to #BuyStamps & #SaveThePostOffice
Last week was hard. The conservative majority on the highest Wisconsin state court ruled that their citizens would be forced to risk death in a pandemic in order to vote. This, in spite of an injunction by the WI Governor to delay the primary and have citizens vote by...
Climate News, Friday April 10th
Youth Activists Letter to Vice President Joe Biden People's Bailout Center of Gravity for the Resistance By Max Elbaum Why The Green New Deal is Cheap, Actually By Tim Dickinson Without rights for farm workers, EU's food supplies are at risk: Amid the coronavirus...
Original Poetry: March On
We’ll escalate empathy with wind
in our hair, in our lungs
we’ll sing our long song
across the generations.
Poets, A Call to Duty by Pablo Paredes
One of my UC Berkeley students, Pablo Paredes, wrote the following poem, and it just felt so timely. You can also see him perform it in the video, below. Fear and despair are airborne diseases peor que el Coronavirus They ... try to divide us But, we’ve been...
100 Ways to Engage & Empower Kids, Protect the Future – And Not Lose Your Mind
Two months ago, I was on tour, urging parents to climate revolution. I talked on radio shows and with reporters about how 2020 is our moment. We’ll elect climate champions! We’ll phone bank and register voters and knock on doors! And we’re gonna support our student...
Climate News Friday, April 2
Maria Medem, New York Times Better than a bailout: Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, three states have passed laws specifically aimed at preventing climate activists from protesting by Emily Atkin Coronavirus and climate change: The pandemic is a fire drill for...
A State By State Approach?
NRDC has a list of all of the environmental bills up for consideration this year in California. One in particular, AB1839, looks remarkably similar to the Green New Deal presented on the federal level. And, it's supposed to. It's even called, "The California Green New...
The Gift Economy and Covid-19
Coronavirus Lockdown Sends Migrant Workers On A Long And Risky Trip Home--NPR Over the past week, Indian men and women of all ages, including families and elders, have been migrating out of the urban centers of Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai. Hundreds of thousands are...
Inward Action: Connecting Through Poetry in Global Crisis with Molly Fisk
The Daily Dose: What role do you see poetry playing in addressing the climate crisis named in the subtitle of your upcoming anthology, California Fire & Water: a Climate Crisis Anthology? Molly Fisk: In every crisis that humans encounter, public or personal or...