Events

Upcoming Events

March 26th, 2018:

You’re invited to the Laytonville Community Meeting!

When? Monday, March 26th, 2018
What time? 6pm
Where? Laytonville Lions Club 44920 Willis Ave.
What is it about? You are invited to join tribal and community 
members to discuss ongoing health concerns and pollution issues
related to the Laytonville landfills.
Sponsored by: Wailaki Tribal Members, Concerned Residents, 
Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice
Contact: 
Peggy Hoaglin (707) 223-6366  
Pastor David Sanchez (707) 223-3946

March 20th, 2018:

JOIN US! At the Treasure Island Naval Station Environmental Restoration Advisory Board Meeting!

When? Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
What time? 7pm
What is it about? We will be addressing concerns relating to the
contractor Tetra Tech given their apparent massive falsification 
of radiological data at the BVHP Shipyard. We will also raise 
concerns about residents living near radioactive contamination,
and potentially unsafe cleanup activities. Additionally, we will
ask questions about the impact of sea-level rise for both
Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island.

YOU’RE INVITED! 

To the 6th Annual Zero Waste Youth Convergence! This year’s theme is Resilient Communities Fight Back: Equity in Zero Waste.

This convergence aims to empower students and young professionals to lead their communities to a zero waste future.The convergence brings professionals and activists who are working towards protecting and raising the voices of communities that have been damaged by the unjust dumping of toxic and hazardous waste.

WHO?
 Maricela Mares-Alatorre, a Community Organizer and Policy Advocate with Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice will be keynoting on Sunday, March 18th at 9am. Maricela has been fighting for environmental justice in Kettleman City and around the state since 1990, inciting local and state governments, and communities to action!

WHERE?

The main event will be on

Sunday, March 18th @ CCSF,

Multi-use Building Ocean Campus.

 

MORE INFO:

California Environmental Justice Coalition Networking Session: Building Unity, Solidarity and People Power in the Statewide Movement for Environmental and Climate Justice

Thursday, September 7, 2017 — 4 PM -6:30 pm

California Environmental Justice Coalition Networking Session: Building Unity, Solidarity and People Power in the Statewide Movement for Environmental and Climate Justice

Soil Not Oil Conference, Richmond Memorial and Civic Center, 408 Civic Center Plaza

The networking session will be facilitated by CEJC members Rey Leon/San Joaquin Valley Latino Environmental Advancement Project, Bradley Angel/Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, and Ms. Margaret Gordon/West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project.

Join in discussion with the grassroots community and environmental justice leaders in the California Environmental Justice Coalition (CEJC) to learn about each other’s work, and how we can work together to strengthen the unity, solidarity and effectiveness of the environmental and climate justice movement in California. The CEJC is the largest and most diverse environmental justice coalition in the state, and operates on the principles of unity and solidarity. CEJC is a grassroots, community-led coalition of over 60 diverse organizations, and was founded in Kettleman City in the San Joaquin Valley in 2014.

www.cejcoalition.org   www.soilnotoilcoalition.org

Sunday, February 12, 2017 Ward Valley, CA – Join with the Native Nations along the Colorado River for the Annual Celebration of the 113 day Occupation and Victory that defeated the proposed Ward Valley nuclear waste dump.

Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Justice Task Force – Every Second Wednesday of the month! – Come join us for our next monthly convening of the  at the Southeast Community College (1800 Oakdale) in the Alice Pitcher Room in Bayview. Check out the Taskforce website to make a complaint.

Taskforce Meeting Schedule 2016:

• The December 21, 2016 meeting has been cancelled! Please join us in January.
  

Upcoming 2017 Taskforce Meeting Schedule:

• January 18th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• February 15th, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF
• March 15th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• April 19th, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF
• May 17th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• June 21st, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF
• July 19th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• August 16th, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF
• September 20th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• October 18th, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF
• November 16th, 6-8pm, Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street San Francisco
• December 13th, 2-4pm, Southeast Community College 1800 Oakdale, SF

Past events

Saturday, December 3, 2016: Greenaction’s 20th Anniversary Kickoff! 559 Ellis St, San Francisco, CA, 5-8pm. Please RSVP with number of attendees: greenaction@greenaction.org. Check our Facebook Event Page for more info!

December 3rd, 1:30 pm at the Chase Bank, 1201 Market Street (corner of 8th street), San Francisco. Join Greenaction in supporting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the thousands of water protectors putting themselves on the line in North Dakota against the Dakota Access Pipeline! Check out our flier HERE and check in with our Facebook Event Page for updates and to show support HERE!

October 11, 2016, White Mesa, Utah: Greenaction joins Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and White Mesa tribal members in Protest March against the last uranium mill in the US located next to their reservation, on top of ancient culturally significant and sacred sites. See pictures HERE!

October 3, 2016: White Mesa Ute Community, Utah – Meeting & Film Showing about the Uranium Mill’s threat to health, environment, culture and sacred sites. Greenaction is working with the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, tribal members and allies to mobilize opposition to the uranium mill next to the White Mesa Ute Community in southern Utah. See flier HERE for more details.

September 28, 2016: Attention Bayview Hunters Point Teens: Create and Star in your own original play with the never-silent SF Mime Troupe & Greenaction – please see the flier for more details on getting involved!

September 8, 2016 (Thursday, 10am): Solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline!  Join Indigenous Peoples’ Press Conference at Army Corps of Engineers, 1455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA.  Stop the Crude Oil Pipeline, Desecration of Sacred Sites and Threat to Drinking Water! Stop Company Violence against Protesters!

September 2016, Support Standing Rock – Support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s action to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline that threatens the environment and sacred and cultural sites! Greenaction helps mobilize support!

• Learn more on how to support Standing Rock HERE and HERE!
•  Read the solidarity letter signed by 43 organizations HERE!

Saturday, June 25th – No Coal in Oakland! Rally at 1pm, City Hall. Monday, June 27, 5 p.m. Special City Council Meeting, First Vote on Local Coal Ordinance – speak out for a complete ban! Check out the flier HERE!

Tuesday, May 24, 2016, Moab, Utah – Upstream & Downstream Film Festival and Forum – Indigenous & Community Voices to Protect the Colorado River, Its Tributaries, People and Sacred Places. Check out the press release HERE! See poster HERE

Thursday April 21, 12PM! From the Bayview to the Mission to Treasure Island, LENNAR is toxic for our communities!!  Lennar Downtown Sales Office. 645 Howard, SF (between 2nd and 3rd street). Read, download and distribute our event flier here, and check in with us on Facebook at our Event Page. Read the Press Release HERE and download our new pamphlet on Lennar – What Lennar won’t tell you but We Will.

Thursday April 21, 2016: From the Bayview to the Mission to Treasure Island, LENNAR is toxic for our communities!! Rally with us on Thursday April 21, 12PM! Lennar Downtown Sales Office. 645 Howard, SF (between 2nd and 3rd street). Read, download and distribute our event flier here, and check in with us on Facebook at our Event Page.

California Department of Toxic Substances Control scientists of color denounce racial discrimination inside DTSC, as Greenaction and allies call for end to racism by DTSC inside the agency and in our communities: Read the news story in InsideEPA.com

Saturday, February 13, 2016 – (8 am California time) *Ward Valley Celebration!* – Join the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, Greenaction and allies in the 18th annual commemoration of the 113 day peaceful occupation of Ward Valley that led to defeat of the proposed nuclear waste dump.

Thursday, January 28th 2016 – Noon at Lennar’s Shipyard Sales Office, 645 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA (between 2nd/3rd Streets) followed by march to US EPA Region IX Headquarters.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 @12 NOON: Environmental Justice, Community & Environmental Groups to Protest to Demand Congress & White House Uphold Congressional Ban on Crude Oil Exports & Stop Exports of all Fossil Fuels – See full post HERE!  Where: Federal Building, Mission and 7th Streets, San Francisco Contact: Bradley Angel, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice (415) 722-5270 Check out flier here!

August 25, 2015:  Greenaction unites Utah & Bay Area groups to oppose plan to export Utah coal from proposed Oakland, CA export terminal. Read press release and letter to Utah Community Impact Fund.

July 22, 2015: Greenaction Launches Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Justice Response Task Force – and our new Bayview Hunters Point Point Pollution Complaint Website Now Online! Click here for more!

July 11, 2015, Richmond, CA – Stop Crude Oil Trains – Take Action, Richmond, CA

April 24th & 25th 2015, Moab Utah – Greenaction Unites Communities & Tribes Up and Down the Colorado River to Protect Our Rivers, Watershed, Health & Environment. Read more here.

October 14, 2014 – Kettleman City residents and Greenaction to challenge State Department of Toxic Substances Control’s denial of appeal of Chem Waste Expansion Permit

November 8, 2014 – California Environmental Justice Coalition to hold statewide founding conference in Kettleman City, California Saturday. Dozens of urban, rural and indigenous grassroots groups have United in Solidarity for Environmental Justice!

September 18, 2014: North Salt Lake Residents, Utah Physicians for Healthy Environment & Greenaction Demand Governor, State and US EPA immediately shut Stericycle medical waste incinerator.

August 18, 2014 at 7pm in Moab, Utah – We All Live Downstream – Stop the Proposed Green River Nuclear Power Plant Public Meeting with Colorado River Indian Tribes tribal leaders sponsored by Greenaction, Uranium Watch and Living Rivers.

Saturday, November 8, 2014 – California Environmental Justice Coalition to hold statewide founding conference in Kettleman City, California. Dozens of urban, rural and indigenous grassroots groups have United in Solidarity for Environmental Justice! Read/download flyers for the November 8th CEJC statewide grassroots conference – English  Espanol Read the Mission Statement (English & Spanish) and the list of the dozens of members of the California Environmental Justice Coalition

August 18, 2014 at 7pm in Moab, Utah – We All Live Downstream – Stop the Proposed Green River Nuclear Power Plant, Public Meeting with Colorado River Indian Tribes tribal leaders sponsored by Greenaction, Uranium Watch and Living Rivers. See the flyer here.

Friday August 22, 2014 – You are invited! Greenaction Office Warming Party! @ 5-8 pm, 559 Ellis Street, San Francisco.

Join with our staff, Board members, volunteers and community leaders and enjoy good food, beverages and see our Environmental Justice photo exhibit.
See the flyer

Saturday, August 2, 2014. Greenaction’s Director Bradley Angel, Dr. Robert Bullard & Lois Gibbs to give keynotes at Houston Texas Waste Summit.

Saturday April 26, 2014 Buttonwillow, CA – Stop the HECA Coal and Fertilizer Plant proposed for Farmworker town of Buttonwillow! flyers in English & en Espanol

Saturday, April 26, 2014, Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA. People’s Earth Day Walk: Flyer. People’s Earth Day Walk: More Information

Tell the Bureau of Land Management US Department of the Interior to Stop Fracking our Public Lands!

Wednesday January 8, 2014 — Speak out against Fracking! Rally and Public Hearing in Bakersfield, California Rally Starts at 2:30pm. Public Comment Starts at 3pm and goes until 7pm. Where: Kern County Administrative Center, first floor board chambers, 1115 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield CA. What: Valley Community Residents including farmers and farmworkers, Greenaction and many other allies will call for a ban to fracking before publicly commenting on DOGGR’s bad regulations that don’t protect Valley communities health, environment and climate. http://greenaction.org/ban-fracking/

December 7th, 4 pm, North Salt Lake City Utah – Candlelight Vigil in front of Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerator – “Air Pollution is a Killer!” – Join with residents living near the notorious and dangerous incinerator to demand closure of this polluter and protection of peoples’ health!  see flyer

Friday, December 6, 2013 3pm, Santa Cruz, CA – Attend Environmental Justice Forum at University of California  – Attend this forum featuring grassroots environmental justice leaders who work with Greenaction from urban, rural and indigenous communities in California and Arizona. Hear and discuss how race, ethnicity, equity and class interact in creating environmental and social justice…  see flyer 

Tuesday, December 3, 2013, San Francisco, CA – Tell the San Francisco Commission on the Environment to Protect Bayview Hunters Point from Pollution:  5 pm Bayview Opera House ..see flyer

July 13, 2013 – North Salt Lake City, Utah residents & Greenaction Protest Medical Waste Incinerator on . Read Salt Lake Tribune article and watch television coverage. Greenaction’s Bradley Angel interviewed at community protest against Stericycle’s incinerator.

October 9, 2013- Rally and Action for Healthy Communities & Environmental Justice.  Join us at Noon in Sacramento Unite to demand Governor Jerry Brown and the State Department of Toxic Substances Control to get out of bed with polluters! Protect People, Not Polluters! No Permits for Repeat Offenders.

Thursday, August 15th 2013-  Stop Stericycle’s Pollution Protest!, 5:30pm – 7:00pm Stericycle Incinerator. Stop the pollution from Stericycle’s medical waste incinerator! Join us on Thursday, August 15th from 5:30pm – 7:00pm at the Stericycle Incinerator. Stericycle is currently under criminal investigation by the EPA, yet they continue to release toxins, including mercury and dioxin. Join our 2nd protest again Stericycle’s corrupt and intentional poisoning of our community and earth. Their profits are not more important than our children’s lives!

Saturday, August 3, 2013 10 am Richmond, California – March, Rally & Non-violent Direct Action at Chevron Refinery, Richmond, CA (meet at Richmond BART station)

July 18-21, 2013- Downstream Community Leadership Training –Greenaction & Before It Starts Sponsors Forum and Nonviolent Direct Action Training Moab, Utah

Thursday, July 18, 2013 –Stopping Climate Change and Dirty Energy, Moab, Utah (6:30 pm Grand County High School Auditorium). Hear Bill McKibben/350.org; Bradley Angel/Greenaction; Dave Harper/Spokesperson, Mohave Elders of the Colorado River Indian Tribes and John Weisheit/Living Rivers —

Saturday & Sunday, July 20-21, 2013, Moab, Utah. Downstream Community Leadership and Non-Violent Direct Action Training http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50874/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=8157

July 2, 2013- Protest Against Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerator Tuesday, North Salt Lake City, Utah Meeting point: In front of Stericycle Incincerator. Join Communities for Clean Air & Greenaction in a protest against the Stericycle medical waste incinerator that pollutes the air and violates the law! Click here to see the press release. Click here to see the flyer.

Sunday May 5, 2013 – 3rd Annual Walkathon for Health & Environmental Justice 2013. 10:30 am – 2:00 pm, Golden Gate Park. Meeting point: Peacock Meadow (near Conservatory of Flowers)

Monday, April 22nd, 12 noon – Earth Day Action for Environmental and Climate Justice.75 Hawthorn St, San Francisco, CA. Meeting point: in front of the US EPA Region IX office

February 10, 2013 Ward Valley Gathering to Commemorate the Occupation that Stopped the Nuclear Waste Dump. Ward Valley. “Ground Zero” off Water Road

February 4, 2013. Occupy Forum with Greenaction & Environmental Justice Communities. 209 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco

Thursday December 6, 2012. Greenaction End of the Year Party! 5 to 9pm Greenaction office, 703 Market Street, Suite 501, San Francisco. Friends! Food! Drinks! Live Music! Raffle! Games! Prizes!

September 5, 2012- Speak out at Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board of Directors Meeting 9:45 am Protest the Whitewash of Chevron’s Toxic Fire in Richmond at 939 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA

September 7, 2012- Greenaction’s Director Bradley Angel speaking at New York City Film Showing of “Trashed,” and Forum on Solutions to the Trash Problem. Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street, New York City

June 19, 2012- Kettleman City press conference and action. Kettleman City, California

May 18 and 19, 2012. Public Meeting and Protest to Save Green and Colorado Rivers from Proposed Nuclear Plants Moab, Utah

April 18, 2012. Joint Action at California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Berkeley, California