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5pm | SM General Plan Study Session | SM |
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Fri Nov 14 |
Noon- 130pm |
SBCAN Roundtable | Online |
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Sat Nov 15 |
2pm |
Collective Action Now with SBCAN |
SM |
| Sat Nov 15 |
1230pm- 4pm |
Day in the Park! Sustainability Community Fair |
Guadalupe |
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Sun Nov 16 |
1030am |
Gubernatorial Candidates Town Hall |
SM |
| Mon Nov 17 |
4pm- 5pm |
One Million Rising Small Group Meeting |
Orcutt |
| Sat Nov 22 |
2pm | Transgender Day of Remembrance | SB |
| NEWS | |||
| 18-story housing development proposed for Carpinteria | |||
| Video of SBCAN's Nov 7 Roundtable on Paseo Nuevo | |||
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Support persons with disabilities |
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No Kings Alliance Weekly Actions |
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Indivisible (national): |
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| Now | - | Help support Eastside SB |
Petition |
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WEEKLY EVENTS |
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| Every Monday | 4pm- 530pm |
Support Palestinians |
SM |
| Every Thursday | Noon- 1pm |
Indivisible: What's the Plan? |
Online |
| Every Thursday | 4pm |
Culture of Protest |
Online |
| Every 1st Friday | 330pm- 5pm |
Climate Fridays | SB |
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OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE |
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Open until filled |
County Hiking and Riding Trails Advisory Committee |
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Items in red are new since our last action alert. |
SPECIAL EVENTS |
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 |
Santa Maria General Plan Study Session
A November 13th special study session agenda of the Santa Maria City Council and Planning Commission has been posted, and can be viewed here: Special Study Session agenda.
The Meeting Portal can be viewed here to see other agendas of interest: AGENDA CENTER & MEETINGS PORTAL | City of Santa Maria
For technical problems accessing the links, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at [email protected].
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 |
MESSAGE FROM SANTA MARIA BRANCH OF AAUW
Collective Action with SBCAN
Join us in learning from fellow branch member, Jeanne Sparks, and her husband, Ken Hough, as they provide information about their work on environmental, economic, and social justice issues as Co-Executive Directors of Santa Barbara County Action Network (SBCAN).
They will also share the ways we and fellow residents can work together to face the challenges our community is currently experiencing. Invite your friends and neighbors to this program! If you are on social media, be sure to share the club’s posts on your page!
MESSAGE FROM THE DUNES CENTER
You're Invited! Day in the Park: Sustainability Community Fair
📍 Leroy Park | 4689 11th St, Guadalupe, CA 93434
📅 Saturday, November 15, 2025 | 12:30 – 4:00 PM
Come celebrate Guadalupe! Enjoy free food, lively music, and fun activities for kids, all while connecting with neighbors and discovering resources to support your family and community.
At this free, family-friendly gathering you can:
- Learn about easy sustainability tools and tips to support your household and community.
- Check out local projects that are helping Guadalupe residents and our environment
- Talk with organizations who want to hear your thoughts and ideas on projects that affect Guadalupe.
Bring your family, enjoy time with neighbors, and celebrate Guadalupe while looking ahead to a sustainable future.
The event is hosted by the Guadalupe-Nimpono Dunes Center and County of Santa Barbara as part of the Guadalupe–Lompoc Initiative. and part of the Guadalupe-Lompoc Initiative.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 |
MESSAGE FROM UDW
Gubernatorial Candidates Town Hall
Streamed live to Santa Maria UDW Office
Sunday, November 16 at 10:30 a.m.
SEATING IS LIMITED - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Hello My Friend!
UDW is going to host a townhall for candidates that are running for governor on Sunday the 16th. The event will be held in our Riverside office but will be streamed live into our Santa Maria office.
It is open to the community as well as UDW members.
Here is the invitation. Feel free to share it.
Have a great evening! See you soon!
Robert Gibson <[email protected]>
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 |
MESSAGE FROM INDIVISIBLE SANTA MARIA
One Million Rising Small Group Meeting
Monday, November 17
4pm-5pm
Gloira Dei Lutheran Church, 4380 Orcutt Road, Orcutt
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 |
MESSAGE FROM WOMEN'S MARCH SANTA BARBARA AND SBTAN
Transgender Day of Remembrance
De La Guerra Plaza, Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network (SBTAN) invites the community to come together in solidarity for Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) on Saturday, November 22 at 2:00 p.m. at De La Guerra Plaza in downtown Santa Barbara.
Participants will gather at the plaza and then march down State Street carrying signs bearing the names of transgender individuals lost to violence this year. This annual observance honors their memory and calls attention to the urgent need for equality, safety, and dignity for all transgender people.
“Transgender Awareness Week and TDOR are a time for trans people to share experiences, educate, and advocate for their rights,” said Michal, organizer with Women’s March Santa Barbara. “This is more important than ever as attacks on the trans community — and the organizations that support them — continue to rise across the country.”
Community members are encouraged to RSVP at https://sbtan.org/march to help organizers plan sign-making and ensure the greatest possible impact.
Please join in standing with the transgender community — in remembrance, resistance, and hope.
Follow: @womensmarchsb.bsky.social
Website: https://sbtan.org
Contact:
Michal Lynch Womens March [email protected] (805) 895-4885
Megan Overland Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network [email protected]
NEWS |
Story in the Santa Barbara Independent: https://www.independent.com/2025/11/08/carpinteria-threaten-by-an-18-story-housing-project/
Information from the City of Carpinteria: https://carpinteriaca.gov/city-hall/community-development/housing/5115oganroad/
Video of Santa Barbara County Action Network's
Nov. 7, 2025 Roundtable
Proposal for Housing at Paseo Nuevo
Thank you to those who joined us for our November South Coast SBCAN Roundtable featuring a presentation by Santa Barbara City Administrator Kelly McAdoo. McAdoo presented an overview of the proposal to transform Paseo Nuevo with a large-scale housing development.
The terms of the plan include significant concessions to Paseo Nuevo leaseholders. These terms, and the fate of affordable housing, are among questions being raised by city planning commissioners, some members of the city council and the city housing authority. The roundtable provided participants with more information to understand the debate, which is important to the city's future.
Click here to view the recording.
CALLS TO ACTION |
SUPPORT PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES |
Urgent Request for CPUC to Reconsider Disallowance of the
Disability Disaster Access and Resources (DDAR) Program
MESSAGE FROM JACOB LESNER-BUXTON
My name is Jacob Lesner-Buxton, and I am the System's Change Coordinator at Access Central Coast. (ACC) ACCis a disability advocacy non-profit organization that serves the Tri-Counties. We offer services such as assistive technology, benefits assistance, housing navigation, peer support, and more. We also advocate for community-wide change to improve the lives of people with disabilities.
I want to share this sign-on letter about how Southern California Edison cut its funding to organizations like mine throughout Southern California to assist persons with disabilities in preparing for disasters.
Please consider signing the letter at the link below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0hewseMgX0hhuNJIAPs9-FftnnUi8rqChxon81sagz8IRrg/viewform
Thanks
Jacob--
NO KINGS ALLIANCE |
MESSAGE FROM NO KINGS ALLIANCE
Mass Mutual Aid
There will be more mass protests in our future, but before that, there will be authoritarian overreach to defend against…and quickly. What we do will change week to week. Whatever the moment requires, we’ll adapt. Because authoritarianism doesn’t stand alone — it survives on silence, complicity, and cash flow. The No Kings Alliance is simple: make it impossible for anyone — in power, in profit, or in denial — to quietly capitulate.
- Donate to your local food bank
- Support your local community shelter
- Host a local give-back drive
INDIVISIBLE (NATIONAL) |
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MESSAGES FROM INDIVISIBLE (NATIONAL)
Our Demands for Spotify
Until our demands are met, we will withhold our subscriptions and our support. We are calling on Spotify founder and current CEO Daniel Ek, as well as Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström who will become the new co-CEOs starting in January 2026, to:
- Immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts with Spotify.
- Spotify must update its Advertising Policy to prohibit government propaganda and hate-based recruitment campaigns.
- Spotify must commit to defending civil rights and standing up for communities under threat from authoritarian actions.
What You Can do
We are asking every listener and artist to take three key actions:
- Cancel your Spotify subscription, TODAY until the ICE ads are removed.
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Engage in peaceful, public protest outside of Spotify offices, studios, or major events to demand they stop their ICE recruitment ads.*
- Bring your community together to make your voices heard, peacefully and powerfully.
- Use your signs, stories, and creativity to demand that Spotify drop ICE ads and stand on the right side of history.
- Share photos and videos from your protest on social media and tag Spotify on their social media accounts.
- Use hashtags: #CancelSpotify #DontStreamFascism #StopICEAds
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Tag Spotify publicly and urge artists, podcasters, and labels to denounce these ads and oppose the platform complicity.
- Use our social media toolkit to post online.
How to cancel Spotify Premium
We've included instructions on how to cancel Spotify via website, iOS app, Android, or if the service is bundled with a mobile/internet provider.
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Help Promote Eastside Santa Barbara's Businesses & Resources |
Last year, Eastside residents approached SBCAN for help to promote Eastside businesses and resources. Residents consider Milpas Street Santa Barbara's "second State Street," but do not feel like there is enough investment in the Eastside to help boost its economy. Long-standing businesses are struggling due to various factors including lack of visitation from tourists staying on Cabrillo and from locals.
Thank you to our volunteer Abigail Lindros for helping create this petition to urge the City of Santa Barbara to help promote social and economic justice in Santa Barbara's Eastside. The Eastside is a community rich with diversity and resources and should be treated as such.
"To revitalize the Eastside, a community of Eastside residents alongside SBCAN and other organizations, propose creating a dedicated Eastside Resources/Businesses page on the official City of Santa Barbara website. This page would include hyperlinks to local business websites and contact information, enhancing visibility and accessibility for residents and visitors alike. Additionally, this page would promote Eastside resources such as libraries, community centers, and services for families to bolster community resilience and increase use of existing services.
To elevate Eastside’s online presence, we call for the hiring of City staff or the designation of funds towards a local nonprofit to manage social media accounts that uplift our Milpas restaurants to attract more visitors and invigorate our community’s economy."
Please sign this petition to urge the City of Santa Barbara to create an Eastside businesses and resources tab on the official City website and designate funds to promoting Milpas restaurants on social media.
WEEKLY EVENTS |
MONDAYS |
Support the Palestinians
Every Monday 4pm-530pm
MESSAGE FROM SANTA MARIA RESIDENT GALE MCNEELEY
THURSDAYS |
What's the Plan?
Every Thursday at noon
Online
The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back.
The antidote: Coming together in community to process what’s happening, to sift through what’s important and what’s just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back.
Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what’s happening and – more importantly – what’s the plan.
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/773746/
MESSAGE FROM DICK FLACKS
Culture of Protest
Every Thursday at 4pm
KCSB Radio, 91.9 FM in SB
www.kcsb.org
SBCAN Co-president Dick Flacks has been doing a weekly radio show on KCSB (91.9 FM) for 43 years.
Contact Dick Flacks for a downloadable link to the prerecorded episode or to get on his email list: rflacks@gmall com
FRIDAYS |
Climate Fridays Santa Barbara
Friday, November 7, 2025 (AND every first Friday in 2025)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
CEC's Environmental Hub
1219 State St., Santa Barbara
Join CEC, the Society of Fearless Grandmothers Santa Barbara, and the Santa Barbara Sierra Club on the first Friday of each month. At these events, climate activists, students, community partners, and friends gather to learn about regional climate change issues and how to take collective action to protect our planet. November's gathering will focus on regenerative agriculture and feature guest speakers from CEC, Harris Gaviota Farm, and SEEAG, along with sustainable food expert Gerri French.
OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE |
COUNTY RIDING AND HIKING TRAILS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- District 1 Kim Fly, Kevin Snow (2 Vacancies)
- District 2 Jack Bish, Otis Calef - Chair, Dan Gira (1 Vacancy)
- District 3 Faith Deeter - Vice Chair, Linda Rubenstein, Desiree Woodlill - Secretary (1 Vacancy)
- District 4 John Karamitsos (3 Vacancies)
- District 5 (4 Vacancies)
Email Teralyn Evans-Gutiérrez; Phone: 805-568-2467
| ELECTED OFFICIALS CONTACT INFORMATION |
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U.S. CONGRESS Senator Adam Schiff Washington, DC: (202) 224-3553 Fresno (559) 497–5109 San Francisco (415) 981–9369 Sacramento (916) 448–2787 Los Angeles (310) 231–4494 San Diego (619) 239–3884 Congressman Salud Carbajal Santa Barbara: (805) 730-1710 San Luis Obispo: (805) 546-8348 Washington, DC: (202) 225-3601 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE Senator Monique Limón
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COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 1st District Supervisor Roy Lee 2nd District Supervisor Laura Capps 3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann |
4th District Supervisor Bob Nelson 5th District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino
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