Elders Action Network

Connect & Refresh with the Civic Values & Culture Team
2025-03-25 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom video conferencing
Tuesday, March 25
12:00 – 1:00 pm PT / 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET

Join our Civic Values & Culture Team as we pause from our activism and release our serious concerns during this challenging year. Once again, we will come together to enjoy our virtual and restorative community. We will reaffirm the values that guide our collaboration:

Integrity & Authenticity
Deep Listening with Openness, Curiosity and Presence
Appreciation of Differences

Register below to receive the Zoom link. Email event host Therese Flaherty at theresef@eldersaction.org with any questions.
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Resilience and Acceptance in the Face of Collapse
2025-03-25 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We are offering a course for Elders of all ages and faiths to gather and learn, to grieve, to plan, and have the space to speak our truths together. It focuses on inner resilience, adaptive responses, collective acceptance of the climate crisis and provides an adaptive worldview pertaining to a new and different future.
A free, nine-session online course about the ecological and cultural predicament we face starting on Tuesday, March 25 at 4:30 pm PT / 7:30 pm ET.
For more information contact the co-leaders Robert Whitehair or Geoff Ainscow.
After the course attendees will be able to:

Define collapse.
Articulate their own understanding about the Great Unraveling and at what stage of awareness they are.
More freely navigate their emotional responses to a collapse.
Name and put into practice several tools for inner resilience.
Describe and weigh out the benefits of localization for outer resilience.
Live in greater balance and harmony with all the spirits which create and support life.
Identify the benefits of acceptance most pertinent to them and their life circumstances.
Meetings are 1 ½ hours. Preparation: 2-3 hours a week

REGISTER (Maximum 25 participants)

Message From the Course Developers
“With great sadness and great love, we are convinced that this is a time of unraveling…biodiversity loss, ocean degradation, urban flooding, political strife, climate crisis and migrations, economic and political instability, food shortages, wildfires, soil degradation.
We have two choices: turning away or turning toward. For a long time, we have learned to turn our eyes away and live as we have always lived.
With these moving thoughts from the Developer’s in mind: We believe that closing our eyes has not served us. It’s time to turn towards—wake up and see what is happening in the world and in ourselves, in the ways we relate to the entire Community of Life. Turning toward takes courage, honesty and love.”
This course is not about traditional resilience solutions. Instead, the course leads participants through a process of opening their eyes in awareness and turning towards what-is with ever-deepening acceptance, through wise responses to our predicament.”

Exposing the Unspoken: Film Screening & Conversation on Energy and Environmental Justice
2025-04-10 19:00 (America/New_York)
Exposing the Unspoken: Film Screening & Conversation on Energy and Environmental Justice

Join Elders Climate Action for a screening of “Exposing the Unspoken,” a powerful documentary produced by Arm and Arm and the People’s Justice Council. This eye-opening film sheds light on corporate greed, environmental injustice, and the real cost of Southern Company’s continued reliance on dirty energy sources.
Through compelling storytelling and firsthand accounts, the documentary reveals how frontline communities are bearing the brunt of pollution, economic exploitation, and political obstruction from powerful fossil fuel interests.
Following the screening, we will engage in a community discussion, featuring the filmmakers, about the film’s themes, the role of grassroots activism, and ways we can take action to demand accountability from major polluters like Southern Company.
Date: April 10, 7 PM EST

Suggested donation $10.00
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We encourage you to join from your computer the best experience, many of our speakers share slides.

Reverend Michael Malcom is the Executive Director of Alabama Interfaith Power and Light and a licensed and ordained United Church of Christ Minister. Rev Malcom is the former Senior Pastor of Rush Memorial Congregational UCC in Atlanta, GA. He is the founder of The People’s Justice Council which is a 501(c)3 non-profit focusing on environmental justice. Rev Malcom serves as the Environmental Justice Minister for the Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ. He is a board member for the Southeast Climate and Energy Network.
Rev Malcom’s academic journey began at Beulah Heights University where he graduated in May 2008 with an undergraduate in Biblical Education and Leadership. He was accepted to and began attending The Interdenominational Theological Center where he earned a Master of Divinity Degree in 2011. To help him in the role of a pastor he completed five units of Clinical Pastoral Education at The Atlanta VA Medical Center and AnMed Health Hospital in Anderson, SC. In May of 2016, Rev Malcom graduated from the Terry School of Business MBA program at the University of Georgia. In October of 2017, he completed a post-master’s certificate in human resource management course at Cornell University. In 2019 he completed the Convergence Leader Project with the Center for Progressive Renewal and the Just Energy Academy with Partnership for Southern Equity.
He considers himself an impassioned environmental justice advocate, fighting against environmental racism and injustice. He’s heard, believes, and evangelizes the message of environmental justice. Rev Malcom does this through education and advocacy from a faith-based perspective. He sees environmental justice as the moral obligation to love your neighbor and the solution to the climate crisis. Rev Malcom says, “There can be no environmentalism without environmental justice. If you help the people, you’ll heal the planet.”

Lindsey Harper, MBA (She/Her), is currently National Coordinator for Arm in Arm and Vice President of the Board of Directors for Southeast Climate and Energy Network. Previously, Lindsay was the National Coordinator for US Climate Action Network and was invited to join the United Nations Centers of Regional Expertise, as well as the Environmental Justice Committee of the Coalition for the People’s Agenda. Lindsay also supports the Partnership for Southern Equity’s Just Energy Circle and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective’s Roundtable series. She also represents Georgia WAND at the ProGeorgia state table and several working groups, and has been elected to the ProGeorgia Board of Directors. Lindsay believes that economic empowerment through business education and community development is the strongest weapon to promote peace and combat the damage that systemic energy inequality and lack of effective policies cause all of us.

Welcome to Elders Climate Action Monthly Session
2025-04-11 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-09 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-13 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Welcome to Elders Climate Action! We are a community of elders who care about preserving our planet for our grandchildren, future generations and all life. As a new member we would like to invite you to a special Welcome Session where you can hear more about who we are, what ECA has been doing, our plans for the future, and how you can get more involved.
2nd Friday, Monthly
3 pm Eastern, 12 Noon Pacific
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Please register to receive a link to join the call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. We encourage you to join by computer so you can see the presenter’s slides. If you are unable to attend this Welcome Session, don’t worry, plan to join next month! We offer a Welcome to Elders Climate Action Session on the 2nd Friday of each month. Watch for our next call bulletin or announcement in the upcoming newsletter or check our website for the event listing.
We look forward to meeting you!

Elders for Sound Democracy
2025-04-16 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us to hear Ben Levinsohn describe the work of RepresentUS and the Action Brigade, a national team of volunteers working together online to win the most urgent anti-corruption campaigns. Learn how we can unite with others to stand up to special interests, combat political corruption, and hold the government accountable to the people.

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Building Bridges Workshop: Strategies for Productive Disagreement
2025-04-17 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Thursday, April 17, 2025
12:00-1:30 pm PT / 3:00-4:30 pm ET
Do you often feel frustrated when you’re advocating for change with elected or appointed officials, or when you’re simply trying to have a civil conversation with a friend, family member, or colleague who disagrees with you? In this workshop you will learn skills to help you manage conflict more productively, from a global expert in negotiation and mediation, and get to practice them in real time for valuable feedback.
This special workshop will be presented online on April 17 from 12:00-1:30 pm PT / 3:00-4:30 pm ET. We urge you to attend the live event to benefit from opportunities to practice your listening and assertion skills, which will not be available on the recording. Please register by April 13 to assure your place in this invaluable training.
Our guest presenter Florrie Darwin, JD, has been teaching negotiation and mediation for 25 years, as a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, a faculty member of the Harvard Program on Negotiation, and a visiting professor at several European, Asian, and Australian universities.
In addition to her academic credentials, Florrie has facilitated workshops for professionals at various corporations—including Coca Cola, General Motors, and Johnson & Johnson—as well as lawyers from dozens of countries, physicians, Palestinian and Israeli educators, real estate professionals, and trade union leaders.
Her international experience includes creating and facilitating advanced negotiation workshops for the European Commission in Brussels, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the European Central Bank, and the United Nations. Through the international organization Seeds for Peace she has trained young Palestinians, Israelis, Indians, Pakistanis, and Americans in conflict resolution skills.
A donation of $10 or more is requested.
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Connect & Refresh with the Civic Values & Culture Team
2025-04-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Tuesday, April 22
12:00 – 1:00 pm PT / 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET

Join our Civic Values & Culture Team as we pause from our activism and release our serious concerns during this challenging year. Once again, we will come together to enjoy our virtual and restorative community. We will reaffirm the values that guide our collaboration:

Integrity & Authenticity
Deep Listening with Openness, Curiosity and Presence
Appreciation of Differences

Register below to receive the Zoom link. Email event host Therese Flaherty at theresef@eldersaction.org with any questions.
register

Elders Climate Action April National Call
2025-04-22 19:00 - 20:15 (America/New_York)
Make Polluters Pay: Holding Big Oil Accountable for Climate Damages
National Call & Action Party
April 22
4th Tuesday of the Month
7PM (Eastern) | 4PM (Pacific)
8-8:15PM Action Party

Big Oil has known about the climate crisis for decades—and they lied about it to protect their profits. Now, a growing movement is demanding justice. Across the country, states and communities are turning to the courts to make polluters pay for the damage they’ve caused. New York and Vermont have passed first-of-their-kind Climate Superfund laws, forcing fossil fuel companies to cover the billions in climate damages they’ve created, and more states are following their lead. At the same time, lawsuits against Big Oil are gaining momentum, with cities and states seeking to hold these corporations accountable for their deception and destruction.
As Trump and the fossil fuel industry push an agenda of more handouts to polluters, we have an opportunity to take a powerful, populist stand: Big Oil made this mess, and they should clean it up. Jamie Henn joins us to share what’s happening and what we can do in our states and beyond to support the effort.

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Jamie Henn is the executive director of Fossil Free Media, the home of the Make Polluters Pay campaign. Along with holding Big Oil accountable, Fossil Free Media provides communications support for the broader climate movement and leads other innovative campaigns, like Clean Creatives, which pressures public relations and advertising agencies to ditch fossil fuel clients. Before founding Fossil Free Media, Jamie was a co-founder and strategic communications director for 350.org, where he worked on the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, the fossil fuel divestment movement, the People’s Climate Marches, the Global Climate Strikes, and more. He lives in Concord, NH with his wife and 4-year old daughter.

Get ready for the Action Party from 8-8:15 PM ET with the Climate Action Now (CAN) App.

Download the app now so you are ready for action! Scan the QR code using your phone or find Climate Action Now on your phone’s App Store and use ECA’s code 56 when you set up your CAN account.

Elders for Sound Democracy - A Conversation for Democracy
2025-04-23 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
What Can I Do to Make a Difference?
Join with like-minded elders in “A Conversation for Democracy”
As Cory Booker reminded us: “I do not know what John Lewis would have… done [if he were here]. I do know he would have done something….” This Spring, many of us are trying to figure out what [and/or what else] we can do to make a difference.
Several of us who have been active in Elders for Sound Democracy want to:

Welcome elders who are exploring ways to support democracy
Share a number of ways in which we are trying to support democracy
Brainstorm together for new ideas and approaches to support democracy

JOIN MEETING

Elders for Sound Democracy - Youth Civic Engagement Action Team
2025-04-23 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-07 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Youth Civic Engagement Action Team
This Spring a few determined elders are pioneering strategies to overcome the long-term challenges of encouraging civic engagement among high schoolers and supporting voter registration drives. We are beginning now to engage educators and leaders this summer for student-led drives – supported by The Civics Center – in the Fall.
Join us on Wednesdays: April 23, May 7 and/or May 21 at 2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT.
For more information, email Therese at: theresef@eldersaction.org
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Exploring Elderhood
2025-04-25 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Session One: Friday, April 25
Session Two: Friday, May 2
Session Three: Friday, May 9
10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Join us in this journey into what it means to be an Elder in a time of immense change. If you are new to Elders Action Network or want to rediscover your purpose, inner joy, sense of our interconnectedness or where to get into action, this is the journey for you.
We will explore together the redefinition of who is an elder, what it is the earth is calling us to be and why our heart, mind and soul are needed to create a new future for all life on this planet.
You will be introduced to the essence of elderhood, experience processes that will allow what is deep within you to come to the forefront, feel a sense of community and ways to get into action.
This is a three-week journey with each session running 90 minutes. There will be pre-work before each week.
Space is limited, so please register early.
Suggested donation: $55
This is a suggested amount and participants are free to offer more or less depending on their individual financial situation. We do not want financial considerations to be a deterrent to participation, and it is not necessary to make a donation in order to register.
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Nonnas watch party meeting
2025-05-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Elders Action Network is excited to share a wonderful opportunity for you to bring families, friends and communities together and share a moment of laughter, fun meaningful conversations.
Consider hosting a Nonnas Watch Party?
A coalition of the Grandmother Collective, CoGenerate, Generations United, and 1Community have come together to encourage families and communities worldwide to host Nonnas watch parties between May 9 through June 30. From cozy living rooms to bustling community centers, watch parties will create of a global movement celebrating food, traditions, and the wisdom of older women.
Nonnas is a new film which releases on Netflix on May 9, 2025. This heartwarming film, featuring stars like Vince Vaughn, Susan Sarandon, Linda Cardellini, and Lorraine Bracco and draws inspiration from Staten Island’s renowned restaurant, Enoteca Maria.
How do I host a watch party?
Join us on Tuesday, May 6 at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET for a chat on zoom during which we’ll share info on how to host a watch party and direct you to all the resources you will need.
Why host a watch party ?
In today’s fast-paced and often isolating world, social connection and community are more essential than ever for our emotional and mental well-being. As we spend more time working remotely, living far from family, and interacting through screens we become more distant from each other. These gatherings can provide a space for connection and spark meaningful conversations.
Plan to join us on May 6th to find out how you can be part of building community in this fun and unique way.
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Host a Nonnas Watch Party
2025-05-09 00:00 - 2025-06-30 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Elders Action Network is excited to share a wonderful opportunity for you to bring families, friends and communities together and share a moment of laughter, fun meaningful conversations.
Consider hosting a Nonnas Watch Party
A coalition of the Grandmother Collective, CoGenerate, Generations United, and 1Community have come together to encourage families and communities worldwide to host Nonnas watch parties between May 9 through June 30. From cozy living rooms to bustling community centers, watch parties will create of a global movement celebrating food, traditions, and the wisdom of older women.
Nonnas is a new film which releases on Netflix on May 9, 2025. This heartwarming film, featuring stars like Vince Vaughn, Susan Sarandon, Linda Cardellini, and Lorraine Bracco and draws inspiration from Staten Island’s renowned restaurant, Enoteca Maria.
How do I host a watch party?
Click here for information and all the resources you will need to host a watch party.
Why host a watch party?
In today’s fast-paced and often isolating world, social connection and community are more essential than ever for our emotional and mental well-being. As we spend more time working remotely, living far from family, and interacting through screens we become more distant from each other. These gatherings can provide a space for connection and spark meaningful conversations.

Elders for Sound Democracy Community Meeting
2025-05-14 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Barbara McQuade, author of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America, will speak about disinformation in our politics and government and what we can do about it.
McQuade is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and a co-host of the Sisters in Law podcast.
Barbara L. McQuade is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where she teaches courses in criminal law, national security, and data privacy. She is also a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

From 2010 to 2017, Prof. McQuade served as the U.S Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. She was appointed by President Barack Obama and was the first woman to serve in her position. Before becoming U.S. Attorney, Prof. McQuade worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, a lawyer in private practice, and a judicial law clerk. She and her husband have four children and live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
She has been recognized by The Detroit News with its Michiganian of the Year Award, the Detroit Free Press with its Neil Shine Award for Exemplary Regional Leadership, and Crain’s Detroit Business as one of Detroit’s Most Influential Women.

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Building Bridges Community Gathering
2025-05-15 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
12:00-1:30 pm PT / 3:00-4:30 pm ET
Transforming Disagreements Into Solutions
Can you solve a problem if you’re locked into a particular position? Are you trying to solve a “problem” that others don’t even see? Find out how to guide yourself and others through a process to clearly identify the problem and its root causes, then find and agree on solutions. We’ll use a real-life situation to create possible solutions during this session. Register here for this interactive 90-minute session.
The Building Bridges Community meets every two months to practice and learn effective ways to build understanding to help bridge America’s cultural divides. We offer a welcoming approach to theory and practical skills for avoiding conflict, asking good questions and building understanding. If you’re interested in learning to engage yourself and, by extension, your community in this process, this group is for you.
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Healing Our “Generational Legacy”
2025-05-20 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by Sage-ing International and EAN
Tuesday, May 20
10:00 am – 12:00 pm PT / 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET
An Elder is a person who deserves respect and honor, and whose work is to synthesize wisdom from long life experience and formulate this into a legacy for future generations.
–The Live Oak Project, Debbie and Barry Barkan
For many of us in our 60s, 70s, and 80s, the state of the world causes us great concern. Whether it be climate change, democracy, growing inequity, or any number of issues, this is not the world we want for those we love – yet this is our “generational legacy” – a world that is in crises.
As individuals, we are likely engaging in our individual practices and reflections as we become elders, harvest our lives, create our legacies, mentor others, and more. But how do we go forth acknowledging the concerns of our “generational legacy?”
In this webinar, we will apply Joanna Macy’s teachings of “Active Hope” as a process that we can use when hope feels elusive. Honoring our concerns, we will acknowledge what is true in our world, explore our resilience, and discover the power of constructive, collaborative action as we go forward into the future.
Facilitated by Lynne Iser and Rabbi Mordechai Lieblin.
Lynne Iser, the Founding Director of the Spiritual Eldering Institute, along with Reb Zalman. She currently works with Elders Action Network, “building a movement of elders addressing the social and environmental issues of our time,” and continues to teach Sage-ing and the Deep Ecology work of Joanna Macy, in webinars and retreat centers.
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling was the founding director of the Social Justice Organizing program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and most recently served as the Senior Advisor to POWER Interfaith, the largest faith-based community organizing network in PA. He is the Vice-Chair of Faith in Action which organizes in 22 states and 12 countries.
Fees
Supporter – $45
Basic – $40
Reduced – $35
To request one of the limited number of scholarships or with any questions, please email Rosemary Cox, r.cox@sage-ing.org.
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Elders for Sound Democracy - A Conversation for Democracy
2025-05-21 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-06-25 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
10:00 – 11:00 am PT / 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
What Can I Do to Make a Difference?
Join with like-minded elders in “A Conversation for Democracy”
As Cory Booker reminded us: “I do not know what John Lewis would have… done [if he were here]. I do know he would have done something….” This Spring, many of us are trying to figure out what [and/or what else] we can do to make a difference.
Several of us who have been active in Elders for Sound Democracy want to:

Welcome elders who are exploring ways to support democracy
Share a number of ways in which we are trying to support democracy
Brainstorm together for new ideas and approaches to support democracy

register

After registering, you will receive an email from Zoom (no-reply@zoom.us) with a unique link to join the event. Please check your email inbox.

Book Study Group
2025-05-26 09:00 - 2025-07-21 10:30, 2025-06-09 09:00 - 2025-08-04 10:30, 2025-06-23 09:00 - 2025-08-18 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Currently reading:
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By David McRaney (2022)
What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? Can you finally have a productive conversation about politics with your uncle at the next family gathering? How does an ordinary person find the courage to leave a cult? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out?
Inspired by curiosity and underpinned by diligent research, How Minds Change is an expansive, big-hearted journalistic narrative for our divided times, told with David McRaney’s trademark humor, compassion, and scientific inquiry. In engaging chapters built around eye-opening interviews and anecdotes—featuring psychologists and neuroscientists, and also former cult members, conspiracy theorists, and political activists—McRaney shows why illusions like The Dress captivate (and break) the internet; how conversational techniques can crack hardened attitudes; and what miracles are possible when we show up with open minds and a better understanding of how the human brain works.
Reaching surprising and thought-provoking conclusions, How Minds Change demonstrates that the ability to uncover our own motives and beliefs—and understand those of others—may be the greatest persuasive tool of all.
Schedule:
May 26 through July 21, 2025
Every other Monday for 90 minutes
9:00 am PT / 10:00 am MT / 11:00 am CT / 12:00 pm ET
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Unlocking Your Purpose
2025-05-27 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by Sage-ing International and EAN
Four Tuesdays: May 27, June 24, July 22, August 26
10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
This series is based on the 4th Edition of the book, The Power of Purpose, written by Richard Leider and David Shapiro. Using a highly interactive format, Richard and Gary will invite participants to explore the role of purpose in their lives.
Fees
Supporter – $95
Basic – $75
Reduced – $40
To request one of the limited number of scholarships or with any questions, please email Rosemary Cox, r.cox@sage-ing.org.
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Connect & Refresh with the Civic Values & Culture Team
2025-05-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Tuesday, May 27
12:00 – 1:00 pm PT / 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET

Join our Civic Values & Culture Team as we pause from our activism and release our serious concerns during this challenging year. Once again, we will come together to enjoy our virtual and restorative community. We will reaffirm the values that guide our collaboration:

Integrity & Authenticity
Deep Listening with Openness, Curiosity and Presence
Appreciation of Differences

Register below to receive the Zoom link. Email event host Therese Flaherty at theresef@eldersaction.org with any questions.
register

Elders for Sound Democracy Community Meeting
2025-06-18 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, June 18, 10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
The ESD Leadership Team recognizes the serious threat that disinformation poses to our democracy. The Disinformation Action Team has diligently researched the techniques and amplification methods that drive disinformation across social media platforms to address this challenge. Our mission in this first campaign is to empower social media users, particularly those in the 18 to 35-year-old group, to think critically about the information they encounter.
Join us on June 18 to learn about the launch of the ESD Disinformation Action Team’s social media campaign! Hear about and contribute ideas for our strategies to counter disinformation and discover ways you can get involved in this critical movement.
Let’s take action to combat disinformation and protect the integrity of information in our communities and beyond. Together, we can make a difference.

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Resilience and Acceptance in the Face of Collapse
2025-06-18 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We are offering a course for people to gather and learn, to grieve, to plan, and have the space to speak our truths together. It focuses on inner resilience, adaptive responses, collective acceptance of the climate crisis and provides a worldview pertaining to a new and different future.

This is a free, nine-session online course starting on Wednesday, June 18 at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET. Registration will begin on May 14.
After the course attendees will be able to:

Define collapse.
Articulate their own understanding about the Great Unraveling and at what stage of awareness they are.
More freely navigate their emotional responses to a collapse.
Name and put into practice several tools for inner resilience.
Describe and weigh out the benefits of localization for outer resilience.
Live in greater balance and harmony with all the spirits which create and support life.
Identify the benefits of acceptance most pertinent to them and their life circumstances.
Meetings are 1 ½ hours. Preparation: 2-3 hours a week

REGISTER (Maximum 25 participants)

Message From the Course Developers
“With great sadness and great love, we are convinced that this is a time of unraveling…biodiversity loss, ocean degradation, urban flooding, political strife, climate crisis and migrations, economic and political instability, food shortages, wildfires, soil degradation.
We have two choices: turning away or turning toward. For a long time, we have learned to turn our eyes away and live as we have always lived.
With these moving thoughts from the Developer’s in mind: We believe that closing our eyes has not served us. It’s time to turn towards—wake up and see what is happening in the world and in ourselves, in the ways we relate to the entire Community of Life. Turning toward takes courage, honesty and love.”
This course is not about traditional resilience solutions. Instead, the course leads participants through a process of opening their eyes in awareness and turning towards what-is with ever-deepening acceptance, through wise responses to our predicament.”

Elders for Sound Democracy - Youth Civic Engagement Action Team
2025-06-24 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Youth Civic Engagement Action Team
For three years, Elders from EAN and ESD have supported the programs of The Civics Center by writing letters and postcards (over 55,000 to PA and AZ parents in 2024), researching, and helping to connect high schools across the country with the free resources offered by The Civics Center.
If you would like to learn more or consider getting involved, join us on Tuesdays, June 24, July 22, and/or August 26 at 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET.
For more information, email Therese at: theresef@eldersaction.org
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