With the existential crisis of climate change being completely ignored by the current administration, what would a change in Senate and Presidential leadership mean for our country’s environmental policy? Eban Goodstein will tell us exactly what to expect. Q&A session with Global Youth Caucus’s Alex Rehbinder and Quyen Nguyen to follow. Please come ready with your questions! 

Date:  July 7, 2020 at 1pm Eastern Daylight Time

Eban Goodstein’s background:
B.A. (Geology) Williams College; Ph.D. (Economics) University of Michigan. Goodstein is Director of the Center for Environmental Policy and the MBA in Sustainability at Bard. In recent years, Goodstein has coordinated a series of national educational initiatives on climate change involving over 2500 colleges, universities, high schools and community organizations.  He  is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the  Environment, (John Wiley and Sons: 2017) now in its eighth edition; Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming (University Press of New England: 2007); and The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. (Island Press: 1999). Articles by Goodstein have appeared in among other outlets, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, Chemical and Engineering News, The Economist, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record, and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Follett Corporation.

As important as the individual right to vote is in a functioning democracy, the sad fact is that a significant number of Americans don’t vote. According to Yahoo News, nearly 137 million people voted in the 2016 election — roughly 56% of the U.S. voting-age population. However, nearly 100 million people living in the U.S. who had the right to vote didn’t. Among overseas Americans, these statistics are even more depressing: in the 2016 election, less than 10% of qualified U.S. voters living overseas bothered to vote. This general election year, we must do better. Our votes, which are sent back to all 50 states, can and will make a critical difference in getting more Democrats elected to local, state and national offices. 

Democrats Abroad Barcelona is launching a massive new effort to identify and register as many as possible of the estimated 10,000-20,000 Americans living in Catalonia, so that they will be able to cast a vote this November. 

Please join us for a one-hour introductory session where we will brainstorm tried-and-true as well as outside-the-box strategies to enable a more effective GOTV effort in the coming months. RSVP to the event in order to receive the Zoom connection details. 

Join us in Finland for some summer socializing, virtually from where ever you are! Bring a beverage of choice, a burning topic you'd like to share and connect to https://meet.google.com/kdn-ouva-cam.

Join us and find out information to help you with your tax issues.

This will be an informal Zoom call, you can drop-in for 5 minutes to ask one question or stick around for the whole hour.

Some things that will be discussed include:

• Have you received your CARES Act stimulus payment? If so, how? If not, why?
• The latest updates on Residency Based Taxation.
• Why you have nothing to worry about when it comes to voting and taxes!

July 15th is also the new deadline to file your US taxes with the IRS this year (usually it's June 15th for Americans living abroad but the US government extended it this year due to Coronavirus.)

Please RSVP to receive the Zoom Link.

We hope to see you there!

This session is offered as a special invitation to Global Black Caucus members. Open to everyone.

Calling is one of the best ways to get our members to vote! It’s easy and effective!
Do you, especially now, have time to make a few calls? Many of our members are at home, eager to receive them.

Learn how to phonebank at this online live training. For beginners or to refresh your skills or to share your experience! We’ll focus on the basics, take questions, describe the new texting feature and discuss how it will be to call in the current environment.