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    Nobel Prize Goes to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

    Over 135 countries agreed at the UN to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Two nuns, Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte, spoke here in Colorado recently about how young people worked very hard this year at the UN to form a coalition to produce a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Once 50 countries have ratified the treaty, it will become law. Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Jody Williams, Ai Weiwei, Herbie Hancock, and Martin Sheen all support the treaty. Countries that have nuclear weapons refused to participate in drafting the language of the treaty. The nuns had earlier served sentences for pouring their blood on top of the cover of a nuclear armed missile silo in Colorado. http://www.icanw.org You can ask banks to divest from nuclear weapons companies. LIST of companies involved in nuclear weapons

    Great Movie on Coral Reefs Declines Due to Warmer Ocean Temperatures

    This movie shows how 29 % or the 1200 mile long Great Barrier Reef has died in one year. People set out to photograph the changes in the reefs. First they created and anchored cameras that took pictures. Then they manually took pictures every day. They then start educating people about how to reduce climate change. Some decorate a bus to tour to schools, showing the photos. The fish, coral, shrimp, and most life dies when the temperature increases. Chasing Cora Come witness a journey that reveals how the greatest impact of Earth's changing climate may be hidden beneath our oceans. The screening will be followed by short presentations on how to take action on climate change by Citizens' Climate Lobby, 350 Colorado, and Sierra Club. Time: November 14, 2017 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. Includes time for refreshments and connecting Location: Unitarian Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder 80301 FREE, but please RSVP here to help us with planning. Hosted by: Climate Action Ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder

    Time to Treat Climate Change as an Emergency & Demand that Governments Act

    An article in the Guardian ponted out by the Earth Guaradians asserts we can still keep the temperature rise below 1.5 Centigrade, but that we need a new way to speak about and motivate change. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/21/climate-optimism-disaster-extreme-weather-catastrophe?utm_content=buffer59877&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

    Protestors and Dreamers Needed for Justice for People and for Nature

    It says that those who challenge to racism, colonialism, sexism, elitism, militarism, classism, exceptionalism, chauvinism, triumphalism, nationalism, religionism, .... are marginalized in historical accounts, yet their protests and "impossible" dreams are vital for change and justice.
    About changing what is considered doable: ( A friend said that Bernie Sanders is bringing up the possibility of not being allied with the dictatorial Saudi regime, though it is a major weapons purchaser and ally. The friend said that this is an example of the "Overton Window".)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
    We can bring up the rights of nature, of trees, of rivers, of wetlands, of coral reefs, of animals, of wildlife, of wolves, of bears, of dolphins, of whales, of birds, of endangered species, of ecosystems, and of animals. We can also bring up the right to clean water and clean air. Here are links about the rights of nature. https://therightsofnature.org/articles ,
    http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/should-trees-have-standing,
    http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39637-on-the-rights-of-nature,
    https://www.pachamama.org/advocacy/rights-of-natur,
    http://boulderrightsofnature.org/