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The three candidates in the running to become Alameda County's next sheriff are set to debate key issues in a virtual forum hosted by community group Livermore Indivisible. Among the contenders is incumbent Gregory Ahern, who has held his seat at the helm of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) since 2007. His challengers are ACSO Division Commander Yesenia Sanchez and veteran San Francisco Police Department Officer JoAnn Walker.
Since 1989, with his bestseller, The End of Nature, New Yorker writer and climate visionary Bill McKibben has been at the forefront of inspiring climate action. In 2008, along with university students and friends, he co-founded 350.org, now a grassroots global network mobilizing millions of young people in the existential crisis of our lifetimes: the survival of humanity.
Since 1989, with his bestseller, The End of Nature, New Yorker writer, and climate visionary Bill McKibben has been at the forefront of inspiring climate action. In 2008, along with university students and friends, he co-founded 350.org, now a grassroots global network mobilizing millions of young people in the existential crisis of our lifetimes: the survival of humanity. So far, it’s been mostly young people who’ve spoken out about the climate crisis. But recently, McKibben has focused on engaging an older generation of Americans that might help tip the balance in time.
“We have inherited a large house, a great 'world house' in which we have to live together, a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967
Register Now for the zoom event | https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlf-GhrzkpG9dzf9zouskb1ouVUVDaT_XD Dear friends, Our friend and great public servant, John Garamendi, has been redistricted out of his longtime Congressional seat. He’s now running in a newly configured California Congressional District #8 which is described below. On January 17, we are arranging a Zoom meeting with John. It’s not […]
The communities at greatest risk from climate change are those least responsible for causing it. Extreme heat and drought, storms, floods, and mudslides — the impacts of climate change are here, and they’re exacerbating already-dire humanitarian emergencies around the world. Mercy Corps works with communities deeply affected by the climate crisis, supporting resilience and adaptation […]
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