From Mothers for Peace:

Friday, July 11, 9am
The Cliffs Hotel
2757 Shell Beach Road
Pismo Beach

Attend the California Coastal Commission meeting in Pismo Beach!

PG&E still needs approval from the California Coastal Commission (CCC) to extend the operation of Diablo Canyon. It requires a ‘consistency certification’ and a ‘coastal development permit’. These permits expired for Unit 1 in November 2024, and Unit 2’s permits will expire in August 2025.

PG&E has been recalcitrant in completing the applications and providing sufficient information. Our ACTION request is that you show up at the July 11 meeting at 9am during public comment. In supportive numbers and multiple speakers, we will ask for a hearing on this topic. Please attend even if you do not wish to speak. People in the audience matter.

Please plan your remarks to be 2 minutes in length. If you’re unable to attend the meeting in person, you can speak via Zoom. Fill out the speaker request form.

Talking Points
In every comment, request a hearing and thorough analysis.

RISK TO PUBLIC SAFETY: A 20-year license renewal continues and exacerbates risk to the public due to potential:

• seismic events
• routine discharge of radioactive materials into our ocean water and our air
• even greater amounts of high level radioactive waste to be stored onsite
• tsunamis

MARINE LIFE:

• Over the past 40+ years the Once-Through Cooling system has resulted in substantial losses of marine life due to entrainment and impingement. The impacts on marine life for an additional 20 years must be assessed.
• The mitigation program for Once-Through Cooling was intended to be an interim program, not a plan for an additional 20 years of entrapment losses.
• The effectiveness of the mitigation projects must be analyzed.
• Thermal discharge is having adverse effects on Black Abalone, a protected species.
• Cooling towers must be required.

DEVELOPMENT: Although PG&E asserts that extending the license does not involve ‘development’, the CCC contends that the proposed extension would affect a variety of coastal uses and resources by:

• extending the time for the intake and discharge of seawater
• intake cove dredging
• new or expanded spent fuel storage facility
• installation of structural components, equipment, or infrastructure

FISHING AND RECREATION: The proposed license renewal significantly delays public access, ocean recreation opportunities, and commercial and recreational fishing due to continued public safety and security issues.

From Santa Barbara Channelkeepers:

Climate Fridays
Friday, July 11, 2025
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. 
CEC's Environmental Hub 
1219 State Street, Santa Barbara 

Join climate activists, students, community partners, and friends to learn about regional climate change issues and how to take collective action to protect our planet. July's gathering will focus on plastic reduction and feature talks by CEC and Santa Barbara Channelkeeper.

These events, organized by the Community Environmental Council, the Society of Fearless Grandmothers Santa Barbara, and the Santa Barbara Sierra Club, take place on the first Friday of each month.

Learn more and register here.

From the Environmental Defense Center:

Join us for the best happy hour in Santa Barbara!

For more than 20 years, EDC’s tgif!s have been a staple of the south central coast’s summer season. The EDC team is very excited to bring our community together again in our downtown courtyard in summer 2025.  Known as one of the best happy hours in Santa Barbara, tgif! features live music, refreshing beverages, and local food vendors. tgif! is a great gathering of regional nonprofit and environmental organizations, elected officials and good people from throughout the south central coast. EDC is joined at each tgif! by four nonprofit partners who are present to speak with the audience about their current work. This season is generously underwritten by Keller Rohrback LLP. 

Event Details

WHAT: Beer, wine, food trucks, live music, good company & a raffle!

WHEN: July 11, September 12, October 10, 2025, from 5:30-7:30 PM

WHERE: EDC Courtyard, 906 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA

TICKETS: $20 at the door (Includes 2 drink tickets). Kids under 10 years old are free.
**No dogs permitted other than service animals.**
Sliding scale tickets available by calling Brandi Webber at 805.963.1622 x 104.

SEASON PASS: $95 ($125 Value)

• Admit one to all three tgifs!
• Commemorative tgif! wine glass
• Six free raffle tickets per event
• Annual membership to EDC
• SPECIAL VIP SEASON RAFFLE
  All season pass holders will be entered into a special end of season raffle for a chance to win an overnight stay in San Diego, CA at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club.

More information and tickets

From The Fund for Santa Barbara:

Dear FUND Friends, 

Like many of you, I am still very shaken by the militarized ICE activities in Carpinteria and Camarillo.  ICE agents descended on our communities carrying out violent raids that tore families apart. Protesters were met not with dialogue, but with tear gas. Let us be clear: this is state-sanctioned terror.

We are saddened and enraged by the brutality we witnessed today. We condemn ICE’s presence in our backyard and the militarization of our streets. No one should live in fear of being ripped from their loved ones. No child should have to wonder if their parents will come home. This is not safe. This is not justice.

We applaud the actions that the City of Carpinteria took to protect immigrants in their City. We call on every City and the County to do the same. 

The FUND for Santa Barbara was created for moments like this: to stand firm, to organize, to fund resistance. We have granted over $450,000 to immigrant-rights groups across the County and will continue to raise dollars to ensure that groups on the ground have the resources they need. We will not stay silent while our communities are targeted. The time to act is now. We demand accountability. We demand justice. And we demand an end to ICE raids in our communities.

We stand with the families.
We stand with the protestors.
We will not back down.

Best, 

Eder Gaona-Macedo, MPA 
Executive Director 
Fund for Santa Barbara
[email protected] | 805-450-3505
fundforsantabarbara.org 
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Ways to help: 

• Donate – The most effective resistance is resourced. Support grassroots groups defending democracy and justice.  Give to The FUND »
• If you see something, say something. Report ICE sightings to the Rapid Response Hotline at 805-870-8855, or text “ALERT” for real-time updates. Follow @805immigrantcoalition to stay informed.
• Support immigrant-serving organizations. Every dollar is critical to keeping families together. You can also volunteer your time by visiting 805undocufund.org/alerts to join the Immigrant Rapid Response Network or sign up for an upcoming community training.
• Call your representatives. Demand policy change and real protections for immigrant families.

Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us—not just on single days of mass action, but through sustained organizing in our communities.

That’s why this summer, we’re launching One Million Rising—a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. This is how we build people power that can’t be ignored. You’re invited to join us—and lead.

Let’s build a force bigger than fear and louder than hate. Let’s get ready. Let’s get organized. Let’s stop Trump.

Session 1: The Moment & Your Mission - July 16 Get oriented to making meaning of this moment and the role you can play in coordinated strategic action.

Session 2: How to Make it Happen - July 30 This train-the-trainer session is how we get to one million. Learn not just our strategy, but how you can train others and get them on board. You'll host your first community resistance gathering after this session.

Session 3: What Now? - August 13 You'll be onboarded to basic campaign design and learn how to implement it locally as well as get plugged into our next national campaign work. Your second community resistance gathering will move this action forward.

Sign up for all 3 sessions to get the most out of this experience. Watch it live with a friend in person, and get ready now to host your own community resistance gatherings after the second and third sessions. This is how we get to 1 million!

From Santa Barbara Channelkeepers:

Proposed Changes to California's MPA Network Under Evaluation 

This summer, the California Fish and Game Commission will continue to assess petitions for possible changes to the California Marine Protected Area (MPA) Network. These petitions for changes were submitted by community members, non-profit organizations, scientists, and fishermen at the end of 2023 and include several petitions for changes to MPAs in the Santa Barbara Channel.   

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife created an MPA Petition StoryMap that includes an overview of the evaluation process and timeline, up-to-date information about the individual petitions including a map, status updates, and instructions for how to engage and provide comments through the CA Fish and Game Commission as they consider the proposed evaluation framework and petitions.   

At the Fish & Game Commission’s Marine Resource Committee meeting on July 16-17, the committee will receive an update about the draft evaluation framework that the department will use to evaluate and develop recommendations for the MPA petitions. The evaluations and recommendations for the petitions are expected towards the end of 2025. 

SBCAN has taken a position in favor of a new Pt. Sal MPA.