WHEN: Sat, January 25, 2025 @ 2-4pm 
WHERE: North University Library Community Room / 8820 Judicial Dr - San Diego, California 92122

This is your chance to be a part of something big. Help plan our upcoming 2025 climate march. Let's show the nation that CA will continue to lead and take bold action forward! 

MLK Day and the Inauguration all on the same day? Seems like an oxymoron, right? 

MLK Day is a day to remember Martin Luther King Jr., a fierce leader and a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, which fought back against racial discrimination and injustice. 

On this same day is the Inauguration of a president who stands for something very different. A president who actively seeks to rollback people’s rights – women’s rights, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, etc. For the next 4 years, many of our friends and neighbors will live in fear. To top it all off, we are swearing into office a climate change-denying president, who’s cabinet members have vested interests in fossil fuels, all in the midst of a major climate disaster (LA Fires). 

If you feel paralyzed, scared, and anxious for the future – you are not alone. But it’s times like these that bring people together and make movements stronger and more powerful. Dr. King said “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” So let’s be loud – Day 1 of Trump in office is day 1 of us combating his rollbacks and fighting for the rights of all people and our planet. 

- Jaidacyn Madrigal, Marketing & Fundraising Coordinator 

Legislation can make a long-lasting impact on climate change? Let’s dive into the process of California legislation and how it plays a role in our work at SD350. This work is done primarily by SD350’s Legislative Team and Youth v. Oil’s Legislative Team. Our priorities for legislation and regulatory policy are: 

1. Keep fossil fuels in the ground. 
2. Support local renewables and promote energy affordability.
3. Support mass transit.
4. Promote building decarbonization. 

Why is state legislation so important to climate activism? Solutions to global warming and environmental justice arrive from a synergy of education and policy. Lawmaking, is the means by which our ideas for change become reality. How do laws move from ideas to durable actions? (read the article)

Help us turn ideas into action! As a Legislative Team member you can:

• Make calls / emails to Sacramento
• Write endorsement requests
• Help with comms & events 
• Support SD350 campaigns
• Travel to Sacramento to lobby

Join the Legislative Team or Youth v. Oil Legislation Team here.

- Katharine Harrison, Legislative Team Co-Lead

After I started volunteering, I discovered a whole new world of important work that needed to be done, and that volunteering was fulfilling and a lot of fun.
- Chris, Transportation Team Co-Lead

Reaching out to our youth is so rewarding when we actually get to educate our peers. Students all over San Diego deserve to know what is happening within our environment and lives. - Azalea, Youth4Climate Media Lead

I had never done any political or advocacy work before and hadn't a clue how it gets done. But I read Jane Fonda's book What Can I Do? and jumped in. Now I feel engaged, empowered, and humbled. - Katharine, Legislative Team Co-Lead

This past Saturday, we joined hundreds of fellow activists at the San Diego People’s March. We stood up for all people and our planet! See photos here. 

Looking for a way to support the work we do at SanDiego350? Visit our donations page to help drive climate-focused policy in San Diego County.