So welcome, everyone. Again, if you joined late, my name is Sarah Shor. I'm here with 350.org, and this is a call to talk about the National Day of Action and Action Happening in California for Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice on September 8th. We're really excited to have these movement leaders here joining us. And we're going to go ahead and just start with intros from all of our speakers, and then we'll be going into an overview of what is Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice and and hear from each of our speakers about what's going on in their respective corners of the country and worlds. So I'm about to turn it over to our panelists to have them introduce themselves and their work. I'm going to ask y'all to just say your name, where you're based, your organization, and really try and keep it to one minute. But before we go ahead and get started with the call, I actually just want to take a minute to acknowledge the horrible crimes that are being perpetrated against families at the border right now. We've seen children being ripped away from their parents and put in cages. It's not okay. It's not moral. It's not just. It's horrible to see children separated from from their families. And we know so deeply the intersections between migration and climate change and that these connections and intersections are really inseparable. And this is just one of the reasons why we're rising up and we really are working to to just make the connections with all of our other movements for justice across the country and worlds. So let's take a breath. And I'm going to pass it over to Penny to introduce herself. Penny, go for it. Thank you, Sarah. My name is Penny Opelplant. I am here, working really hard for clean air, clean water and clean soil, and a vibrantly healthy future for generations to come. Yaki Mexican Choctaw Cherokee in European. Thank you. Penny, you broke up a little bit there, so we might, Avery might work with you to potentially call in. I think your internet was a little bit choppy there, so we didn't catch some of that. So I'm gonna actually turn it over to Mickey and we'll come back to you, Penny. Thank you, Sarah. Hi everyone. I'm Mickey Eva. Good morning from Manila here in the Philippines, and I'm the regional field organizer here on with 350.org East Asia. So my focus is on, is on organizing, mobilizing grassroots volunteers, partner organizations towards the global moment that is rise. So I'll maybe pass it on to Malik. Hi, I'm Malik Safir. I'm with Greenfaith, Interfaith Partners in Action for the Earth. I'm a Greenfaith Circle organizer. I'm based in Arkansas. That's in the American South. We do work around education and training and mobilizing on a multi-faith level in our regions. We're currently organizing Greenfaith Circles in New York City, New Jersey, Colorado, North Carolina and Arkansas. I look forward to the call. Thanks, Malik. Over to you, Lydia. Hey, good evening everyone and good morning to Mickey and others that are in the US. So my name is Lydia Avila. I'm the executive director of the Power Shift Network. I'm personally based out of Los Angeles, but the Power Shift Network is a national network of over 75 youth-focused and youth-led organizations that are working to achieve climate justice. And our members include small-student groups on campuses and big non-profits, and we're really happy and proud to be partnering with PCM and Drink of the Unothers on this great call and historic action in September. Thanks, Lydia. And over to you, Patrick. Hey everybody, my name is Patrick Houston. I work with New York Communities for Change. And so we're based out of New York City. And we organize in a lot of issues of racial, economic, climate justice, we target especially low-income communities and communities of color to do this work. And so what it looks like on the day-to-day is this work ranges from housing affordability to education reform, fighting labor issues. And as of about two and a half years ago, we had to add climate change and to our mix. And so that's what we're doing now. Thanks, Patrick. And Penny, you want to try again? Yeah, can you hear me? Is this better? Yeah, that sounds much better. Thank you. So my name is Penny Opal Plant. I'm Idle No More SF Bay, which is a group of indigenous people and allies working for clean air, water, soil, and a vibrantly healthy future for the next seven generations. I'm Yaqui Choctaw Cherokee Mexican and European. And I'm checking in from the San Francisco East Bay where I see the Chevron refinery every day from my home office. I'm glad to be here with all of you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. And we also have Avery here who is helping with our back-end digital. So thanks for helping us out, Avery, and helped pull this call together. So we just have intros from all of our speakers, which are coming to us from different parts of the world. We're actually, this call is going to be more focused on what you, it's targeted more for folks based in the U.S. So we'll be talking a lot about that, but we are going to also hear about what's happening globally and specifically in East Asia. But since we just heard from all of our speakers, it would be great to hear from participants on the call. If you could type into the chat, we have people from all over the country on the call today and we see, we want to see more about where everyone is coming from. So if you could take a second to type in the chat, what's your name, where are you sitting right now, and what brought you to this call? How'd you hear about it? Take a second to do that. Oh, we have Issa. Pretty sure Issa is in Alaska. New Hampshire, California, Albuquerque, New Jersey, Baltimore, going too fast for me to even keep track of. Well, welcome everyone to the call. Wow. People from all over. Thank you. This is wonderful to see. Pensacola, Oakland, New York, North Carolina, Denver, all over the country. So thanks everyone for joining. It's great to see folks calling in from everywhere. Oh, we have someone from Italy based in Virginia. Okay. Thanks everyone. So what is Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice? So we, as we all know, 2016 and 2017 were the hottest years on record and over the past year across the country, we've seen major hurricanes. We've seen flooding. We've seen drought here in California. We've seen massive fires hit even outside of fire season. And we're really out of crossroads. We could either continue businesses as usual and watch our communities and our climate continue to suffer, or we can really be rising up and showing that our communities have the power to make change locally. So this is really, uh, September 8th is our opportunity to demonstrate that communities are leading on the solutions and the transition and are shaping the politics we need to see on a livable planet. So on September 8th, we're going to be mobilizing in San Francisco and also in communities across the globe to push for bold action on climate jobs and justice. We'll be having a massive event in San Francisco and distribute the events across the country and the world. And the vision for this day is to really help build ongoing relationships, ongoing campaigns, and really show the power of the climate movement ahead of the 2018 elections. So a few days after we mobilize, California Governor Jerry Brown will be hosting a global climate summit in San Francisco where announcements are going to be made from local governments, politicians, private sector on what they're doing on climate. And by mobilizing a few days ahead of the summit, our goal is to really raise the bar on climate action and climate leadership and make sure that the summit is held to the highest standards. And we want to be highlighting the community driven solution that we're already showing across the country and that we're demanding. So with that, I'm going to actually turn it over to our speakers to really illustrate what's happening across the country, not just on September 8th, but also the opportunity to organize in the lead up and aftermath of September 8th rise for climate jobs and justice. So we're going to zoom out to begin with and start with Mickey, who's based in Manila. And Mickey, I'm turning it over to you. Cool, thanks Sarah. So again, good morning from Manila and I'm very excited to work on this global moment because of its really decentralized approach and just the richness of creative ideas coming in from all parts of the world, including Asia, making it truly a people power movement from the grassroots up. So rise for climate is of a particular importance for Asia because of the immense growth in the region and the large energy demand for decades to come here. Southeast Asia, for example, specifically Indonesia, here in the Philippines and Vietnam have large school projects being built right now or are in the pipeline. In other parts of the world, it's already been faced up, right? In East Asia, particularly China, Japan and South Korea, these countries and corporations, they are financing or investing in most of these coal projects and other fossil fuel projects. And in terms of political strategy, the pop international will be going to be held around the same week as rise and right before GCast, it's going to be held in Bangkok and Thailand. Therefore, there is an urgent need for our Asian constituency and movement here to rise for climate and demand our local and national leaders to say no to coal and fossil fuels and push a transition to renewable energy. Having said that, our key locations for rice actions are going to be Indonesian Philippines, Japan, and Thailand. In the Philippines and Indonesia, we are organizing actions to demand our local leaders to stop new coal projects. We engage our partners such as climate reality projects in the Philippines and Indonesia, the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice, PMCJA, and support actions across the country, such as marches, local actions at city halls, etc. We also support our 350 volunteers in these countries and also in Vietnam to send this clear message loud and clear. Our 350 Japan team has been doing some amazing work in our divestment campaign, targeting the three major big bags in Japan, which are still financing these coal and fossil fuel projects. We will continue this momentum and mobilize to rise and stop financial institutions from backrolling all these projects. In Thailand, we are working with our partner, Climate Watch Thailand, a huge grassroots organization in Thailand, and they're a large network of anti-coal movement, which includes farmers, fisher folks, women, and youth to fight these coal projects, such as those in Taipa and Krabi. We are supporting this movement by helping with both online and offline organizing and campaigning, and we also have a lot of capacity-building activities in the lead-up to rice. These include topics such as climate and gender, climate impacts, so that we can engage the grassroots communities and draw the movement and also make it more impactful. Our networks have also planning various smaller actions in communities, activities in Bangkok during the inter-sessionals, such as press conferences, actions outside at the sidelines of the inter-sessional activities. And even beyond these key locations, we also have a lot of exciting actions across East Asia. We have an Artivism Action in Taipa, Taiwan, a Climate March 1.5, and Rice and Play Activity in South Korea, our e-forum in Hong Kong. We also have a Virtual Marsh with really cool Pixel 6 here in the Philippines, zero carbon campuses and solar power dock in China, a climate boot cap and recruitment training in Malaysia, and some others being planned by volunteers or partners in the region. Now moving forward, these mobilizations and actions are very critical in demanding concrete actions from local, national, and even regional leaders. As these happen after Rice, we have the ASEAN Regional Block Summit in Singapore, the World Bank IMF Meeting in Bali, Indonesia, the Green Climate Fund or GECF Board Meeting in Sean in South Korea. So there's a really critical moment to Rice. Furthermore, we will be integrating all these partners and volunteers into the bigger and longer running fossil free campaign to one, stop new fossil fuel projects, especially coal, to divest from these fossil fuels, and push for an aggressive transition to 100% renewables. So that's all. Thank you, Sarah. Thanks so much, Mickey. I love hearing all of the events and I think it's really cool to just hear about the diversity of different kinds of events about what works for folks locally and really being able to change to fit what works for communities locally. Thank you so much, Mickey. And with that, as we know, the work doesn't just start on September 8th. We aren't having this mobilization separate from a lot of the ongoing campaigns that we're all running across the country. And so I want to turn it over to Malik from Green Faith and also representing PCM who will tell us a little bit more about some of the ongoing work that's happening in the lead up and in different places being prioritized by the people's climate movement across the country. Malik, go for it. Thank you, Sarah. I'm excited to be on this call. We are rising and a part of us rising is to realize that people have in many ways felt that they've been left behind in the movement. And so we're returning to these communities who have been in many ways marginalized by certain power brokers, politicians, lobbyists, corporate lobbyists, and, you know, industries that have actually been crippling the effort to move forward. And so as a result of that, Green Faith and the People's Climate Movement has come together with other key partners to let people know that they're not alone in this fight anymore. That even though they may be locally fighting on the ground against whoever their key opponents are against these initiatives, that there are people organizing throughout the nation and throughout the world with them so they're not alone. We're also letting them know that we are aware that this is the time now to act at a local level and that the global attention and national attention we have been seeing, we're trying to make sure that that national attention gets to the local level so that people on the local level would know how to make it personal and also make it connect to what they've already been doing. And as a result of that, we're moving intentionally into poor people's communities, people of color communities, Indigenous communities, and letting them know that there are allies who are willing to work with them now leading up to the September event to begin to mobilize a mass kind of media campaign where they would know as one voice and as one group moving together through this movement that we are serious about the changes that need to be made as it relates to transitioning off of fossil fuel to clean energy and renewable energy, creating sustainable communities, divesting fossil fuel and reinvesting in energy sources that are more sustainable and also protect the environment. So as a result of that, Green Faith is working with the People's Climate movement to move in three areas. One, for those who still need education and training to equip them with the resources and the relationships they need to become more informed and know exactly what steps they need to take moving forward to make their issues not only just real and relevant, but also realize and the next political elections that are coming forward. Two, we are on the ground working with existing campaigns, showing how those campaigns are connected to the People's Climate movement, and what we're doing with faith leaders through Green Faith so that we'll have a unified front on the front lines where people who have seen themselves working in silos will now see themselves a part of a larger initiative and now began to work pretty much as a vanguard to show that there's no division in our ranks, that we're poised now to move forward in a way that we did not in the past. And three and the third thing and most importantly is organizing because a lot of times when you have organizations that we realize have been crippled, a lot of crippling has been done because the local people have felt like they have not had the power to speak for themselves. And so as community organizers on the ground with the Green Faith circles with our other multi-faith and interfaith leaders, as well as with unions who have already been organizing around labor, we're trying to bring everyone together to say that the people's stories matter, collect the stories, present the stories to politicians and the representatives of those communities who are supposed to be leaders. And if those stories are not enough, then let the people find ways to stand for themselves in a way and stand up for themselves in a way that they haven't before. And that requires organizing them and giving them the resources that they need on the ground to speak in one voice as leaders. So going forward, September 8th is just a catalyst for what we're planning to do up to the midterm elections because we're hoping that with this unison and voice, unison and demonstration, and the kind of pressure that we're planning to put on those who are in opposition for the transitions that need to be made justly economically as well as through energy sources, we're hoping that we can begin to persuade politicians who have not been on our side to shift their position to come to our side. And then also we're hoping to help candidates who are on our side who are not elected to get elected. And then from that, we're hoping from the midterm election to move forward towards the presidential election, so that we'll know that these movements that we're having is one step further to making the agenda that has been a local agenda for people who have been harmed, poor people, people of color, and indigenous people, to make it a national agenda about having representatives on a national level and a local level reflect who we are and what our needs and our demands are. So going forward, these are the things that we're looking for our partners to do in a real way, and that is to help us identify the organizations and the people who need education and training, help us also identify campaigns that are currently going or campaigns that need to be revitalized or resurrected so that they can join the People's Climate Movement, and then three, help us organize those who have been disempowered to realize their civic duty and responsibility to engage on a civic level to help us shift the political climate in favor of climate justice. Thanks so much, Malik. Yeah, I think it's really important to talk about the ongoing work and the really being more inclusive of folks who have been left out of this movement for a very long time. So thank you for speaking to that. Okay, I'm going to move us into Penny to talk about California and what's happening in San Francisco. Yeah, thanks, Sarah. Can y'all hear me? Yep. Okay. So, you know, I've been an activist for a very, very long time since about 1981, and looking at the history of the United Nations and the cops that have been happening, you know, we're heading into the 24th cop, and obviously they have not done their job because if they had been doing their job, then we wouldn't be in the situation that we're in now with, you know, each year having more serious climate disruptions, fires. I don't need to go through the list because you all know what that list is. And so here we have these leaders including UN leaders meeting in San Francisco on September 12th to 14th, and they're still focusing on the issues that are taking us down the road to continue the fossil fuel industry to continue when that's one of the main problems in increasing global temperatures. And so we know what we need, especially as indigenous people, we are still here. You know, we are still here because our ancestors were resilient and strong and creative and resourceful. And I think that we have a lot to be able to survive 500 years of genocide and we're still here. So I just want to say, you know, we know who the real climate leaders are. It's all of us. You know, people keep looking outside of themselves and their own communities to give that authority to people that obviously don't deserve it because they haven't done enough yet. And so that's one of the messages that I really like to impart and help people empower themselves in their communities to do what's necessary right now to preserve life going into seven generations into the future at the very least. And so we know in our communities what the real solutions are. You know, they're in our communities. We're already doing things in our communities to help us survive what's coming. And I'm really excited about what we're planning for September 8th in San Francisco. It's going to be really awesome. We are having the largest climate march ever to happen on the West Coast. So the goal, initial goal was 50,000 people. And I was the first person to say, you know, given where we are in history, this is a very different year than 2014 with the largest climate march in the United States in New York or last year with the climate march, the PCM climate march in Washington, D.C. California was on fire. As were a number of other states, we're just crawling out of a drought that looks like it's going to continue. And so I am imagining and I invite all of us to imagine whatever community that we're in, imagining all the people who have been watching all of this happen around there in their communities and wondering what they can do. Well, this is what they can do. They can join all of us on September 8th in actions around the country and around the world. And in San Francisco, there'll be a huge march. It'll end at Civic Center Plaza. There are going to be 75 street murals planted, painted, planted in the street. And when those people going that are participating in Jerry Brown's G-Cast, going to walk by those streets, they're going to see our messaging. And as I don't know more, we've done these street murals and they only take about an hour to an hour and a half. And it's been so inspiring to see passersby join us and say, what are you doing? And taking their coats off and paint with us. So that's one of the things that I'm really excited about. Our next organizing meeting is this coming Monday. And if you're listening from Northern California, it will be at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist at 1661 15th Street and Julian in San Francisco from 530 to 830. You can find more information about that on the I Don't Know More SFB Facebook page and on the California Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice website. Additionally, following the March on September 8th, it takes roots is organizing several days of actions that include an art build, a solidarity to solutions summit with solutions from communities like ours being presented and direct actions rolling out that week. So I encourage all of us to stand strong together. We're the ones we've been waiting for. No one's going to come to save us.  Thank you. Thank you so much, Penny. Maybe you could drop the event for the California organizing meeting or someone could in the chat box so folks can, if you're in Northern California, come out to that meeting. And we'll also have an interactive question later in the call about how folks can be get better involved in both California and nationally. So if you were inspired by these last three speakers, I encourage you to take out your phone for one second and join our texting updates. So you can do that by texting RISE, R-I-S-E, to the number 83224. Again, that's texting 83224. And in the text, put the word RISE. And that'll subscribe you to our texting update so you can learn about all of the updates happening. So again, that's RISE to the number 83224. So with that, I would like to turn it over to Lydia Avila to talk more about what youth are doing to come together and organize across the country. Lydia. Thanks, Sarah. What an impressive group of panelists to follow. So I'm going to try my best to do it justice here. So yeah, young people are joining and leading mobilization efforts on September 8. And the thing that's really interesting about this kind of younger generation is that we've always lived in a world where climate change is a reality. It's not a theory or some looming far off threat, right? It's happening all around us. It's right here. It's right now. And young people are investing in it because it's our entire lives and that of the small children in our lives. Like I personally have a three-year-old niece who I think about all the time when I'm doing this work. So on September 8, we're particularly excited about showing public officials that it's not enough to accept the science of climate change or even to give it lip service when you're on a campaign trail, right? We get a lot of that promises that aren't kept. We need a world, we need, and the world needs, true climate champions. And that means rejecting any notion that fossil fuels have anything to do in any part of our future. Carrying forward initiatives that'll make a transition to a clean renewable energy future or priority. And that keeps workers and communities who are bearing the biggest burden of climate change front and center, similar to what Malika was saying. And we think that young people are kind of poised to do this. And that's a reason that Power Chief Network even exists is because young people have always been at the forefront of mass social movements. And they're typically the ones that are calling for the boldest actions, the policies that go to furthest pushing and really settling for nothing less than what's absolutely critical. And the climate movement and this September mobilization are no exceptions. Similar to the Parkland students message about exposing and getting gun-friendly politicians out of office, which we were so inspired by earlier this year and continue to be. The youth climate movement is exposing ties to the so-called leaders that they have to the fossil fuel industry and forcing them to pick a side. You're either with the public or you're in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry and you can't have it both ways. It's one or the other. And so far, the Sunrise Movement, which is one of the members of the Power Chief Network, have gotten over 500 public officials to sign the no fossil fuel money fudge. And as the name suggests, it's a promise to not take any money from the fossil fuel industry. And I'm sure many of you on this call can appreciate how huge that is to get folks to commit to that. So for September 8th, young people are looking to actions that are really going to catch the attention of these decision makers and the world. And we know that size isn't everything, although very impressive to have huge mobilizations. Sometimes it takes simply the right target, the right message, or even the right sign to make a big splash. So we want these actions on our end to be fun, to be inspiring, and to make our public officials sit up and take note. So we're really encouraging folks to get creative on what they do. And finally, I'll say that September 8th is a jumping off point. We stand on a peak and really speak our truth on that day. And then we're off to the polls. It's kind of a race after that, because I read somewhere that approximately 4 million people are turning 18 this year. So we see this as both an opportunity and a challenge. We have a lot of work to do to get these young adults and the many, many others for whom voting maybe is not even on their radar out to the polls during these midterm elections, leading all the way to November. I'll leave it at that. I can't wait to dig into this with all of you on this call. And thank you for being part of this work. Thanks so much, Lydia. It's obviously super inspiring to see the leadership that youth are taking across the country over the past year and for generations back. So thank you. And we are going to close out our speaker program with Patrick talking a little bit about what's happening in New York. And just before you go, Patrick, we've now touched on a bunch of the global events that are happening in East Asia. We've talked about the ongoing organizing. We've talked about what's happening in California and with the youth. And this isn't just happening in California. We're mobilizing all over the U.S. And so Patrick is going to talk about what's happening in New York, which has been a place where we've seen a ton of really amazing wins over the last year. So Patrick, I'll turn it over to you. Hey, everybody. First off, I just want to reiterate, I'm really excited to be here doing this important work with all of you. I mean, it's crazy when you zoom out and think about this time in history and our role in it and how people in the future or children, grandchildren are going to look back and be like, who was doing what? And why weren't they doing more?  So before I jump into how we've been preparing here in New York City for this action, I just want to brief over a previous action when I first started with New York Communities for Change. I started a previous campaign. So I started just last year in the fall. And I came in the middle of the divestment fight that was happening here in New York City. That was the efforts to get the New York City Pension Fund to divest it from the fossil fuel industry. And so I came in at the end of this fight. We were working with 350. We were working with Divest Invest, PCM New York and a lot of other groups also played helpful roles, integral roles in getting us to where we needed to be. And in this process, we had our particular target was the New York City Pension, you know, the board of trustees, specifically was Comptroller, the Comptroller who controls the board Comptroller Stringer. And it was months of persistent bird dogs, pickets, LTs, I'm sure all of you on this call know the deal, to get them to where they needed to be. And then it was around that time, it was in September, October, late October last year, October 29th, we had a large mobilization, it was a march across the Brooklyn Bridge, and it was around the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, which devastated especially New Jersey and New York five years ago at the time. And so we had a big mobilization there. About 5000 people turned out, marched across the bridge, demanding various climate objectives, justice objectives, and making sure that the targets at this time it was the Comptroller, it was the mayor, and a little bit of it was state levels, so the governor, making sure that those targets were clearly identified. And so that's what makes me excited for, and well the last important part is that it was soon after that march, and again in addition to all the other pickets and bird dogs and actions that were happening, that the Comptroller's office came out and finally said that they're committing to a plan to divest New York City's pension fund. So four billion dollars which they're planning in the process now of setting up the necessary structures to divest that pension fund. And so what we have, you know, I feel like what we're going into now is another amazing opportunity for us, us being here in New York City, in New York State, across the country, and that's going to see from this call even globally, to bring this targeted pressure coming in with these, you know, addressing these ultimate issues of climate change, of the inequalities inextricably linked to it, and tagging the particular targets to it. And it's especially exciting because we're right before the midterms, and also because of the buzz that the global climate summit itself is already going to build. And so that makes the potential, the potential impact for this action that much more powerful. So it's really exciting going into that. So let me explain a little bit about how we've been beginning to prepare here in New York City. So my organization, our organization is one of more than 30 at this point that are working under the leadership, or at least the coordination of People's Climate Movement in New York. So there are about 30 organizations, many based out of the city, it's labor groups, it's organization, faith-based institutions, it's climate justice, environmental justice, all of these so far it's 30 and counting that are beginning this work to spread the word for this action, and get more groups and more individuals and more communities engaged. And so how exactly have we been doing that thus far? I won't go into too much detail, but I will give you just some ideas to hopefully conjure up some thoughts and some inspiration for as you all begin your outreach in your communities. And so for about six weeks ago there was the initial meeting and since then there's been about bi-weekly meetings where all the groups come together. We've since divided into about four subcommittees, one that plans the key components of the action, another that plans the key components of the action itself, then the groups that are going to be doing the outreach, and then we have the, give me one minute, I want to make sure I get these groups right, yeah, yeah, then we have the groups that are deciding the, who are going to be the, what's going to be the core demands for New York City's mobilization, and then one with the core logistics, like the date and the time, and then we all come together, the four subcommittees come together every two weeks to provide feedback for everyone, and then from there we make decisions on how we're going to move forward all together. And so the thing that's been very evident so far is that the more that the details get secure, the more of the enthusiasm builds for organizations to participate. Once they see that this is something tangible that's coming into, into place, more groups have been more willing to get involved in the planning processes and also committing to, to turnout and to supporting whether it's with the turnout itself, preparation, or donating finances, or office space, or printing capabilities, etc. And so for our organization and so many of the organizations that we're working with here in the state, there are many campaigns that we're running already that this mass mobilization gives us an awesome opportunity to contribute, and then it's also going to help us elevate our campaigns. And so just in a nutshell, there's three core campaigns. We have two, we being New York communities for change, are working with many other groups in the city and many other groups in the state with two state level coalitions. One is New York Renews and it's pressing for two very comprehensive just transitions to 100% renewable energy by 2050 in New York state. And then the second main statewide coalition that we're part of is the all fossil fuels coalition. And this is the aggregation of all of the individual fights across the state to stop fossil fuel infrastructure, to stop this pipeline, to stop this power plant, this bomb train all coming together. And so because so many of these groups have been able to work together already and use their contacts and their networks to build the base, we have come to three core demands that we as the entire mobilization that's happening in New York City have decided on. And so that's ultimately rise for climate jobs and justice. And we're calling on Governor Cuomo, we're calling on the mayor and we're calling on all elected officials to one move to 100 first off move off fossil fuel infrastructure and then move to 100% renewable energy now. And then the third component is the third demand is to make polluters pay. And so what these three core demands, the way these work out for all of these organizations across New York state that are in New York City that are participating in this mobilization is that they're broad enough that the demands of so many fall fit into these ultimate demands. And so I'm really excited to see how we can continue to mobilize, continue to get other groups engaged and have their messaging tied into this. And so it's been stated before and alluded to before, but in closing, I just want to emphasize that it's obvious, but it's important. I mean, this mobilization, this work that we're doing to make this a powerful event to make sure that the general message of climate issues is tied to it as well as our particular demands through all the participating organizations are tied to it. It all depends. It's as big as we make it. It's obvious, but it's as big as we make it. And so right now we have a swelling concern that you see across the country, across the world about the awareness of climate change. And you also see swelling enthusiasm for climate solutions. And so we have an awesome opportunity to tap into this, this September. And I'm really excited to see how these, you know, how things here in New York City continue to develop and then see how all the other actions are popping up around the country and around the world. So awesome working with all of you, really excited to see how this is going to play out, how we're going to make this play out. Thank you so much, Patrick. That gave me the chills. Really inspiring to hear from all of you. So what I want to do now is just give a basic overview of what you heard from just now and give folks, we're going to open up a little bit more interactive part of the call where I'm going to ask you guys to answer some questions for us. So as we know, Patrick just laid out a really, just a really good pitch for why this is so important to mobilize right now. And we're asking folks that if you can get to San Francisco to the big anchor mobilization in San Francisco, you should do that. That's where you should be going. If you can't get to San Francisco, there are amazing events like what Patrick was talking about in New York happening, being organized, pulled together all over the country. And if there isn't an event where you are, you can start one. You can start building that coalition, you can start working with your neighbors, you can really start organizing. We all have to start somewhere. It's okay if there isn't a huge coalition built up yet, we have to plug in where we can. And you all have the power to really do that. So we are less than three months out and we need everyone to get to work to really make these actions big and beautiful and powerful. So here are the things that you can expect from us. And when I say us, I mean 350, PCM, Sierra Club, all of the groups that are represented on this call and over 100 organizations that have already signed on to partner on Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice. So you can expect from us, we'll be hosting regular calls for event organizers where we'll be training on recruitment, media, digital skills and best practices for event planning to help get the ball rolling. So if you sign up to host an event, be assured that you will get support to help do that. We'll also be hosting calls like this every once in a while to get more people excited, learning about what's happening around the country and plugged in. We'll be sharing artwork, digital posts, stories that really help build the hype. A few of our panelists talked about how important it is to just be telling our stories. And we really want to get the stories out there of regular people who are fighting across the country and coming up with the solutions that we need to be pushing for. So I have a few asks for you. So if you can turn your attention to your computer right now, there are going to be a few boxes that pop up with some asks for you. The first ask is if you are part of an organization and you want to figure out how to plug in your base of people, press yes, my organization is plugged in or not yet, we're not yet plugged in but we're excited and we want to be. If you are in California and you want to plug into the efforts there, press one of the options below. There's recruitment, logistics, faith outreach, youth engagement, all of these are being worked through in working groups in California and we need more folks to plug in. Our first mass meeting in California turned out hundreds of people with lines down the block and it's going to be big and we need help making it even bigger. And then the third question on your screen is if you're an individual who's excited about making rise of success in your community and you're outside of California, let us know how you might do that. So you could lead your own action or assist in planning an action that's already being planned in your community, you could support logistics, you could do outreach to members of your community, so go around to canvassing in your neighborhood or at community events that will be happening throughout the summer. You can create arts and do creative resistance or you can support with digital and comm support. So go through those three questions, you can sort of scroll down and answer them on your screen. We'll be capturing this information and following up with you for whatever you stepped up for. So I'll give folks a minute to go in, answer the questions, they're going to disappear from your screen in a second, so please go ahead and answer them and while folks are answering them or if you're done answering the questions, if you could type into the chat, what is one thing that you are already doing in your community to make rise of success? You can type this into the chat, something that you're already doing.  Is that right, Avery? That is correct. Okay, my apologies. So if one of them doesn't apply to you, you're going to have to put in an answer even though it doesn't apply to you and sorry about that technical difficulty, but in order to submit your things. So please answer all three questions. All right, so we have some answers in the chat. Let's see. We have someone who's taking part in Rise Conference calls. We have folks who are already reaching out to their friends to save the date on September 8th and join the mobilization. Someone is working on a documentary about what to do about climate disruption, communicating with people inside and outside of my organization online, networking with environmental and faith-based groups and individuals to help bring them in, sort of talking to potential partners, lots of work already happening in communities. Is there any panelists that wants to speak to any of the work you all are doing? And I know folks spoke to this already, but suggestions on ways that folks can start to plug in to make rise of success quickly for maybe 30 seconds. Panelists, if you want to speak up, you can. If not, that's fine, but if someone wants to speak to this question. Penn, you want to go for it? Which question was it? I'm sorry. Just things that folks can do to plug in in their communities now to help. Yeah, so, you know, I think it's important for us to remember that we're living in probably the most critical time for our human species and it requires us to do things that that we wouldn't normally do. I have been at meetings where my hands shake, where my lips stick to my teeth because I'm nervous and I know that I still need to do that. And so, it's requiring us to go outside of our comfort zone and do the things that we wouldn't normally do in order to preserve life as we know it on Mother Earth's belly. And so, whatever that is, I mean, I'm the kind of person where I have stood on a street with a sign by myself regularly in my younger days and waited for people to join and they joined. So, this time that we're in right now, it requires that kind of courage and moving beyond the fear that we have of putting ourselves out there. And other people will come because people understand in their beingness that this is a critical time. They see what's happening. Yeah. Thank you so much, Penny. And I would, Malik, why don't you go and then, Mickey, I think we might have to cut it because I wouldn't do one last closing before we end at the top of the hour. Go for it, Malik. I would encourage on a local level identifying groups that have been impacted by recent flooding or some other kind of environmental issue who may not have actually organized yet and just talk to them, the community residents, the homeowners about building better infrastructure, changing policies and codes that would give them a better opportunity to respond when the next flood comes or when the next natural disaster hits. That's one way to get people locally involved who have not been involved with climate justice in the beginning. Thanks, Malik. Okay. So, I have one last ask for you all before you close the call. Thank you, everyone, who's typing into the chat, who answered all the questions. We will follow up with you and plug you in. And I have one more ask for you all, which is Avery is going to share the link for a beautiful poster that was created by Claudio Martinez, who's a Milwaukee-based artist and designer. He's part of Voces de los Artistas, which is an art affinity group for the Wisconsin-based Immigrants Rights Organization, Voces de la Frontera. So, we want everyone to share this on their Facebook or on their social media to really build the hype. And I'm also seeing that there is one last quick poll, which is, if you are interested in planning an action and you don't have one on the map yet, please select yes. And we'll follow up with you individually to offer support. We have a bunch of staff people from different organizations that are helping to support all of the actions across the country. So, go into the chat, share that graphic on your Facebook wall and build hype for this action. And please continue to stay tuned to rise, plug into your local action, follow up with us if you have any questions. And I just want to say a really heartfelt thank you to all of the speakers on this call who took time out of their days and who are working so hard to organize these events and organize our communities for climate justice. So, thank you so, so much for joining us. And thanks to everyone on the phone at home who called in to help plug into this day of action. We're really excited to work with all of you and we're really excited about what's going to happen in the lead up on September 8th and the work coming out of that. So, thanks everyone. Have a great night. Bye.


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Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome, if you're new here. My name is Jen, I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on WW personal points. Happy Friday, it is Friday, it is the weekend, it's the best day ever and I am here today to share with you as always how my week was. You know that I had a little getaway this last weekend so we'll talk about that, the WW workshop topic and of course this week's weigh-in. So if you're excited, don't forget to give this video a huge thumbs up, it really helps out my channel and if you're not yet subscribed, please subscribe and ring your bell so you never miss a Friday weigh-in or another video in general, I do upload five days a week. Check out that description box down below for nutrition coaching. I offer personalized macros and calories, highly, highly recommend this and if you'd like to use me as support accountability or chat with me directly, I have one-on-one coaching as well. Links, discounts to all of my favorite things and lastly, come on over, join us in our Facebook group. We would love to have you. So let's jump into my week, my weigh-in and the WW workshop topic. Hey Friday friends, I hope you had an absolutely amazing, amazing week. I had a great week. As I mentioned in last week's weigh-in and why there was no meal prep this Monday is I actually took a little getaway this last weekend and had an absolutely amazing time. I spent some time at the pool. I spent some time with friends. I didn't work at all. I didn't even bring my computer because I just needed a little bit of me time. This is really important to recognize when we need a little bit of time for ourselves to give ourself that self care that we need in our busy lives with moving out of state, starting my real estate courses, continuing to work here on YouTube nutrition coaching. I have been so busy that for my mental health I needed a little bit of a getaway. So I had one and it was absolutely incredible. I got in a lot of walking. I did some dancing, burned some calories, got some steps. I did really well on my food considering I was on vacation. I really focused on getting in my protein every day and really just eating the foods that I would eat if I was at home and then enjoying the little desserts here and there that are part of experiencing vacation. I didn't indulge in any adult beverages. I decided that instead I would focus on my water intake and just really eat how I would eat if I was at home with a few little indulgences here and there. As you know, I have goals. I have goals to hit my goal weight by the end of the year and I didn't want this little getaway to derail my week or derail my weight loss for the week as well. So although I enjoyed myself, I just really focused on the foods that I know that my body needed and that nourished my body to get in all that activity and all those steps every day. I returned home pretty late in the evening on Sunday and this entire week I have been 100% on track. I've been eating right, getting in my water, exercising. I've been continuing to walk and this next week I'm going to start going to the gym here in my community because I'm ready. I'm ready to put some strength training back into my life. I'm going to start on the machines just to re-familiarize myself with lightweight lifting and then I'll transition over to free weights. Now that I've lost so much weight, the muscle that I do have on my body isn't covered as much with fat. So I'm hoping that by incorporating some strength training, all that muscle will start to pop through. We'll be able to see some definition in my shoulders and my arms, which is really what my ultimate goal is once I reach my weight loss goal is to be the strongest, leanest, healthiest I've ever been. So not only am I going to keep walking, keep moving my body, but I'm ready to put some strength training back into the routine. So I feel really good about my week. I feel rejuvenated and refreshed and I'm ready to kick some, you know what? For the rest of the month of May. But before I jump into my post-vacation way out, let's talk about this week's WW Workshop topic because I love it. This week's topic is how to be kinder to yourself. I just talked about this little weekend getaway and how much it was needed for self-care. This is how I'm kinder to myself. This is one way that I give myself kindness, love, and appreciation in self-care. We absolutely need to give ourselves grace and be kinder to ourselves when we're talking about setbacks, setbacks in our weight loss journey. And real talk, every single one of us is going to have a setback or two or 10 along our journey. They're totally normal. And the next time that you encounter a setback, I wanna give you some tips and tricks from WW on how to combat that and how to be a little bit kinder to yourself, treating yourself the way that you would treat a friend that was suffering from those same setbacks. So number one, imagine a friend came to you and said how disappointed or frustrated or upset she was with herself because she's bent off track, whether it was for one meal, for weeks, for months, and she's just really disappointed and upset at herself. She ate a lot more than she planned. What would you say to her and what tone, what tone would you use to convey your thoughts and opinions on her setback? And the second scenario is thinking about yourself. Now imagine if that was you and you ate a lot more than you planned or you were off track for a day, a week, a month. How would you talk to yourself and what tone would you use towards yourself? Is there a difference between the two? Would you talk to your friend a lot nicer than you would talk to yourself? I would venture to guess that there's a huge difference between how you talk to your friend and how you talk to yourself. When our friend, our family, someone we love or someone we admire comes to us and says, hey, I'm struggling, we are empathetic, we offer our hands of love and advice and support, but do we do that for ourselves?  Now I know that I can be really hard on myself, but if one of you came to me, I would offer empathy and I would love you and hug you and be there to support you. We need to do that for ourselves, you guys. We need to treat ourselves the exact same way as we would treat a friend. Setbacks are normal and we need to recognize that not only our friends, but ourselves are going to suffer from setbacks. I wanna share with you a fact versus myth from WW. Fact, tough love doesn't work. Self-compassion does. Myth, I have to be tough on myself to reach my goals. This is not true. You do not have to give yourself tough love, you do not have to be tough on yourself to reach your goals. Self-compassion, self-care, self-love works wonders in this arena, much more than being tough on yourself. Would you lecture your friend about everything they've done wrong, how they screwed up, how they're never gonna reach their weight loss goals? No, again you would offer empathy and support. Do that for yourself as well. Being tough on yourself only makes us feel bad about ourselves, bad about ourselves for setbacks that are normal, that are absolutely normal in weight loss. The truth is treating yourself with kindness is what's going to help you overcome those setbacks, overcome those obstacles, and get back on track. Responding with judgment and criticism only makes things worse, only makes us feel worse about ourselves, which then makes us lack motivation to get back on track. And don't worry, this whole shift isn't going to happen overnight. We're still going to be hard on ourselves, but when that happens, be self-aware, recognize that and stop yourself and tell yourself that's it, stop being hard on yourself, treat yourself like you would your friend. Right now it's really about noticing and being self-aware on how you talk to yourself versus how you talk to others and make sure that that's an even playing field. How you treat your friend is how you treat yourself because you're going to make mistakes, you're human, you're not perfect, and recognizing that this is normal and part of a weight loss journey will help you talk more positively to yourself, therefore keeping motivated and getting yourself back on track to reach your goals. You're amazing, you're beautiful, you're loved, remember that next time you have a setback. I really like this topic and I'll tell you, I used to be really, really hard on myself. As I've progressed through my journey and since I've learned so much while losing over 100 pounds, I am far less hard on myself now.  So remember, to treat yourself like you would a friend. So now I'm ready to jump into this week's post-vacation weigh-in. Like I mentioned, I did my best to eat the foods that I would eat at home. I still enjoyed those vacation foods, especially dessert. Dessert is my jam, dessert is my favorite thing. So if I'm going to indulge on vacation, I'm going to indulge in dessert and I made that conscious decision going into my little vacation. I gave myself self-love, I was aware of what I was eating and I allowed myself permission to enjoy vacation food. And even after being out of town, being on vacation, when I stepped on the scale this week, I am down another 1.6 pounds, almost two full pounds after vacation. It is proof, I am proof that you can go on vacation, be mindful, still enjoy those vacation foods and still see a loss on the scale. And honestly, a pretty substantial loss that I'm pretty proud of, I have to say. Never once on vacation did I beat myself up. Never once did I tell myself I couldn't have something. I watched my portions, I ate mindfully and I just enjoyed vacation and didn't focus on food. I didn't care about the food on vacation. I cared about the vacation and the experience. And I think that makes a huge impact on whether or not we can go on vacation and gain weight or go on vacation and maintain our weight or even go on vacation and potentially lose weight. So I'm happy, I'm thrilled. I'll go ahead and put my overall weight loss here on the screen for you and now I wanna hear from you guys. Let me know how your week was. Let me know if you talk to yourself differently than you talk to someone you love, a friend, a family member. I know that that was definitely the case for me and share some tips and tricks that you have to give yourself a little bit of grace and compassion. Of course, check out that description box down below for nutrition coaching as well as links and discounts to my favorite things and come join us on Facebook for a really loving, supportive group of friends and a community that is here to support you when you're struggling and in your good times sharing your NSVs, we're there for you. So make sure you come on over and join us on Facebook. Happy Friday, friends. I hope you have an amazing, amazing weekend and I'll see you all in tomorrow's grocery haul. Bye.


I'm Salvatore Bobonas and today's lecture is using data from China's National Bureau of Statistics. China has one of the most comprehensive English-language statistical websites of any non-English-speaking country. It's light years ahead of all other developing countries in this regard. China's statistical website may not be as good as the US Census Bureau or Eurostat for the European Union, but compared to other developing countries like Brazil, Mexico, Russia and India, it is fantastic. Conveniently, most Chinese data are broken down either by year or by province for easy comparison, and though there are difficulties comparing editions of the National Bureau of Statistics yearbook from year to year, you can generally find what you want if you look hard enough. There are many criticisms of the reliability of Chinese data, but most of it is probably reasonably accurate. That is most of the data, well, as well as most of the criticisms. Except for a few sensitive headline series like annual GDP growth, I think we can largely trust the numbers. In particular, demographic data from the MBS seem quite sound and seem to tell a meaningful story. The National Bureau of Statistics is China's main statistical agency and by far the most comprehensive English-language source for Chinese statistics. Most other sources you find on the web are simply repackages of data from the National Bureau of Statistics. The MBS tables are formatted as if they were tables in annual books. It's a bit old school, it's like getting a book and looking at a table instead of querying a database, but it's perfectly functional. The topics covered do differ year by year, which can make it difficult to navigate MBS data if you want to compare data series over multiple years. But for most purposes, it makes sense just to use the current year's data book, and if you need historical data for years that aren't currently reported, then go back to previous years and try to pull together the data you need. To find MBS data, just go to the web. If you Google National Bureau of Statistics of China, you'll easily get to the website. And most of the data that non-specialists will use are contained in the annual data series. You can either click on data or go to annual data. They both lead you to the same place. The most recent year for data is 2014, as of the time of this recording, which is March 2016. You can see that the data are broken up by topic. There are more than a dozen topics covered. In particular, population and national account data are covered in quite a bit of detail. I'm going to focus on the demographic data population, and first I'll show that the data, even politically sensitive data, are really forthcoming in these. For example, the floating population. The floating population in China is composed of people who have irregular hook-o status, usually people who have the right to live in a rural area, but who actually live in an urban area. You can see that there are now approximately 245 million people who are in this status. Something like a fifth of China's population have irregular status on our floating population. China distinguishes between those who just have a technical difference of residence and registration mismatch, and those that consider a floating population. But it doesn't describe exactly how it determines who is just a mistake. 289 million versus 245 million of those are a floating population. Note that China does tend to use units of 100 millions instead of units of millions or billions. So 2.45 here is actually 2.45 million, or 245 million. The same will be true of economic statistics, which are usually reported in hundreds of millions of yuan, and you have to make the appropriate comparison to get that to usually billions of yuan, will be what you're interested in. I'm going to scroll down here to table 211, which is an example of data by province instead of by year. These are dependency ratios. China doesn't always use the same definitions as other countries. China's dependency ratio is not really a ratio, it's actually a percentage. So 35% of the national population are either children or elderly. It doesn't define children and elderly. I believe that children are aged 0 through 16 and elderly are aged 64 and over, but don't cite me on that because I don't have a citation myself for that. But you can see that the child dependency ratio differs dramatically by province. The province with one of the highest is Guizhou province in southwestern China. 32% of the population are children. Compare that with Shanghai on the east coast, 11.7% of the population are children. And that illustrates the floating population problem right there. Adults from Guizhou go to work in Shanghai, leaving their children behind in Guizhou. You also see when you look at these provincial breakdowns that the provincial level units include both the provincial level cities like Beijing and Shanghai. They include provinces like Hebei and Shanxi, and they also include special regions like Inner Mongolia and Tibet. All of these are lumped together as provincial level units in China. Conveniently, the National Bureau of Statistics makes it very easy to download these data. You just press on the little icon here to download in Excel, and you get the file as an Excel file downloaded to your desktop or wherever you have downloads. The Excel file is formatted exactly the same as the view online. The data are grouped by provincial grouping, so these are the provinces around Beijing, then the northeastern provinces, then the east-central provinces, etc. And remember if you want to do any database operations that there is the national total row, and then there are blank rows separating each of the sets of provinces by row. Key takeaways. First, China's National Bureau of Statistics is a highly professional statistical agency by developing country standards. It may not stand up to the US Census Bureau or the European Union's Eurostat, but compared to any other developing country, it's a fantastic outfit. Second, economic and demographic data have particularly good coverage in the NBS annual data book. Third, often data for earlier years are actually available in earlier editions, but the table numbers change from year to year, so it can take a little bit of work to go back and reconstruct data series for multiple years. Thank you for watching this video. For more about me, go to Salvatourbebonus.com, where you can also register to receive my monthly newsletter on global current affairs.