SBCAN
Celebrating 15 years of environmental, social, and economic justice activism

Click here for sponsorship information

For 15 years, SBCAN has been working to protect our environment and the rights of all of our county’s residents. Now, this work is more important than ever. 

Each year we recognize individuals, businesses or organizations that work selflessly to these ends during our North County “Looking Forward” Awards Dinner & Fundraiser. These awards help encourage this good work to continue. The dinner also helps raise the funds we need to keep doing our part. 

Please join us in honoring outstanding community leaders by becoming a sponsor of the dinner or by placing a Greeting in our Tribute Book. 

 The dinner will be held on Sunday, June 11 at 5 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel, 3455 Skyway Drive, Santa Maria. 

SBCAN
Celebrating 15 years of environmental, social, and economic justice activism

Hi Friend –

You're invited to the 2017 North County "Looking Forward" Awards Dinner & Fundraiser

Sunday, June 11 at 5 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel, 3455 Skyway Drive, Santa Maria

Help up recognize six individuals for their outstanding contributions that make our community a better place to live!

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

This message is from CAUSE:

Dear CAUSE friends,

As the Trump administration continues to move forward with their promised attacks on our communities, immigrants’ rights advocates have called for a national Day Without an Immigrant strike on May 1st (TODAY!)

May Day is the International Day of the Worker and Day of the Immigrant.  This May Day, we’ll be showing Trump that America wouldn’t exist without the immigrants who build our cities and homes, take care of our children and elderly, and grow and cook our food.  

With 1 in 10 residents of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties an undocumented person, we all have family members, friends, coworkers, classmates, and loved ones facing the threat of Trump’s attacks on immigrants.  We are all affected by deportations that tear apart our families, schools, businesses, and neighborhoods.  We ask everyone to stand in solidarity with our immigrant communities and join us in the streets next Monday.  

Santa Maria: 3:30pm at Broadway and Main
Santa Barbara: 1pm at De La Guerra Plaza
Santa Paula: 6pm at Santa Paula High School

Join us to show Trump what America really looks like without immigrants and call on our local leaders to make California a sanctuary state!

Thanks,

Maricela Morales

[email protected]
http://www.causenow.org

Please join SBCAN at the People’s Climate March on Saturday, April 29 at noon. We encourage you to come car free, and the event will have abundant bike parking. 

We look forward to joining a diverse group of environmentalists, youth, workers, faith community, indigenous voices, business partners, and local political activists to join the fight against climate change, starting with a commitment to 100% clean energy policy in Santa Barbara County.

To learn more about the event or RSVP, visit either of these links:

Santa Barbara People's Climate Rally website:
https://sb.peoplesclimate.org/

Santa Barbara People's Climate Rally Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/ClimateRallySB/

The event is also seeking volunteers! If you’d like to help, please see the volunteer sign up link below:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c48aaae2da0f49-volunteer

This message is from Santa Barbara Bike:

The Environmental Defense Center is representing SBCAN in opposing the subdivision of the 4,000-acre ranch know as Rancho La Laguna. 

We need your help at the County Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday, April 26. Please review this material provided by EDC:

We're giving out vegetable seedlings at the 17th annual Earth Day Celebration at Santa Maria's Natural History Museum today, Saturday, April 22, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It's located at 412 S. McClelland St. across from the Santa Maria Public Library. Free admission.

Come get seedlings to add to your garden! Stop at all the booths and celebrate Earth Day with us!

This message is from Katie Davis, V.P. Los Padres Chapter of the Sierra Club:

URGENT - We just got confirmation that Trump's Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke will be at the Reagan Center this coming Monday, April 17. He's speaking at 6:30 PM. 

We can't let Zinke come to Santa Barbara, with our history of oil spills, without making a statement of opposition. So let's resist! 

We hope you'll join us Thursday in Santa Maria or Friday in Santa Barbara to discuss several important issues:

SBCAN North County Roundtable/North County Coalition Environmental Committee

Thursday, April 13, 2017, 6 PM

NEW LOCATION FOR THIS MONTH: Bici Centro, 310 East Oak Street
(Just a half block from the Cornerstone Community Room), Santa Maria

DRAFT AGENDA

1. Call to Order by Janet Blevins; Introductions; Agenda Review (5 min.)
2. North County Coalition’s Environmental Committee. The North County Coalition has formed several committees to address concerns raised by actions of the new president and his administration. One committee is the Environmental Committee and—at least for now—the meetings are being held as part of our regularly scheduled Roundtable meeting. Open discussion of issues that the committee members want the committee to address. (40 min.)
3. Enhancing habitat at wastewater treatment plants. Jeanne Sparks will report on current independent research. (10 min.)
4. Santa Maria Community Television. Jeanne Sparks, a member of the SMCTV Board of Directors, will report on efforts to ensure the long-term viability of this community resource. (10 min.)
5. Open discussion about other items of interest. All (10 min.)
6. Suggestions for next month’s agenda (May 11).  (5 min.)
7. Tour of Bici Centro—the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition’s New Santa Maria Facility. Ken Dahmen is SB Bike’s Santa Maria Program Manager. He will report on the Coalition’s activities and give us a tour. (20 min.)

SBCAN South County Roundtable

Friday, April 14, 2017, Noon

Union Bank’s Community Room, 15 East Carrillo St., Santa Barbara

DRAFT AGENDA

(Times are rough estimates)

1. Call to Order. Introductions; Agenda Review (5 min.)
2. Brief updates from participants. (2 to 5 min. each)
3. Supervisor Das Williams on the County’s Budget Process. One of SBCAN’s Founding Members, and now First District Supervisor, will join us to discuss the budget process—which will include public hearings beginning next week—and other important issues. (30 min.)
4. Rancho La Laguna Subdivision.  Linda Krop, EDC Chief Counsel, will discuss this proposed subdivision of a 4,000-acre ranch north of Los Olivos and—as time permits—other important environmental issues. (20 min.)
5. Open discussion about other items of interest. (10 min.)
6. Next meeting.  Our next meeting is scheduled for May 12.

This message is from Jeanne Sparks in her role as a member of the board of directors of Santa Maria Community Television:

There is a meeting on Thursday that I think is important for activists. 

It’s about the local public access television station – Santa Maria Community Television (SMCTV) - that sends out locally produced television shows on Comcast Channel 25 to residents in Santa Maria and Orcutt. It also provides use of a large studio free-of-charge to videotape local programs. You could produce quality programs using the three studio cameras, furniture, props and even a green screen. 

The station is facing funding shortfalls and needs more programming to show its value to the City of Santa Maria, which oversees it operations.

The SMCTV board of directors, staff and producers are having a public meeting on Thursday to discuss the future of the station and assess the value of it to local residents.

I think most of us are active in groups that could benefit from putting programming out on the station. Thousands of people could see our programs right on their big screen TVs, the same place where they watch their favorite television shows.

We are also looking at live streaming the channel so that people who do not subscribe to Comcast can also access the programs. (We would need to do some fundraising for this.)

Please come to the meeting. It is 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 6 at the Media Center, 910 S. Oakwood Drive, Santa Maria. It’s the building behind the Mussell Senior Center. The cross streets are Park and Camino Colegio. See map below.

If you can’t come, please let me know what you think about using the resources. We need to take action now before it’s too late!

Thank you.

Jeanne Sparks
SMCTV Board Member
SBCAN Associate Director
[email protected]
805.739.1836