Important Announcements

CURRENT INFORMATION: go to our Facebook group "Waco Friends of the Climate." 1) Beginning Jan. 2025, our focus has been on resistance to Donald Trump, since his policies are our greatest threat to the climate. Thus, we are not having monthly meetings at this time. We hope to hold monthly meetings in the future. Visit our Facebook group for current activities, Waco Friends of the Climate. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330231820335851 2) Our role in the resistance includes a weekly protest at the pedestrian bridge in Waco, Valley Mills Dr. & Bagby Avenue, each Sunday, 1:00pm-2:30pm. We began the protest in March 2025 and it has been carried on weekly for over one year. We provide huge, highly visible banners. Please join us. RESISTING FASCISM, ONE SUNDAY AT A TIME. 3) Because of the sad passing of our webmaster, Harrison Ward, we have not been able to keep the website up to date. For the most current information, please visit our Facebook group, Waco Friends of the Climate : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330231820335851 4) To join our email list and be informed of actions, activities, and campaigns, email our Director Alan Northcutt at anorthc@aol.com 5)Free "climate crisis is here" yard signs may be obtained by emailing anorthc@aol.com. Delivery of signs is available. Help raise awareness of the climate crisis, deeply needed in Waco. 6) Winners of the "Sixth Annual Climate Crisis Art Exhibit" may be found in the Archives, April 2023. Some incredible climate art may be viewed.

NOVEMBER Meeting with "YASUNI MAN", Nov. 28, 6pm, South Waco Library

-Waco Friends of the Climate monthly meeting for November, at the large meeting room of the South Waco Library, 2737 S. 18th St., Waco., 76706.
--6pm business session reviews recent actions & discusses upcoming campaigns, and volunteer request.
--Approx. 6:30pm our program begins with a stunning documentary entitled "Yasuni Man."
--"Yasuni Man"is a journey into the heart of Ecuador's battle between preservation and exploitation. The film details how the desperate struggle between conservationists and oil interests plays out, as the indigenous people living in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon struggle to preserve their way of life against encroaching modernity. Filmmaker and biologist Ryan Patrick Killackey documents the staggering biodiversity of the Yasuni region at risk of destruction. In the era of impending climate crisis, it's a more urgent story than ever.
--The film highlights the brutal greed of the fossil fuel industry: continued new extraction that the industry KNOWS will doom our planet.
--Winner of more than 11 international film festival awards.
--"Yasuni Man" film is an intimate portrait of a beautiful land under siege for its oil."--The Guardian
--Film followed by discussion of this documentary & whatever urgent climate issues are on the minds of our members.
--Vegan refreshments and non-alcoholic beverages, supplied by our members.
--Everyone welcome; all FREE.
--Transportation needed? text: 254 744 1682
--More information: anorthc@aol.com
--website: www.friendsoftheclimate.org
--Virtual 5th Annual Climate Crisis Art Exhibit: www.climatecrisisartexhibit.org

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