‘Earth Day Sing Out’ supports climate activism, local musicians 1 Favorite 

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Apr 22 2020

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The community is invited to join with local climate activists in the “Earth Day Sing Out” from noon to 1 p.m. and 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

The event is designed to call for an economic stimulus to help prevent future climate crisis.

It is also designed to support local musicians hurting from shelter-in-place. The event is raising money to support seven local musicians to record new music — seven Earth Day songs. Local musicians are hurting from lost gigs, canceled teaching jobs and lost day jobs. Anyone who can lend a hand can donate through PayPal to Davis Independent Music Initiative (Davisindependentmusic@gmail.com). Any money that is received will go directly to musicians. In exchange, they will perform a song for the environment that community members can sing along to at home and share through KDRT and beyond.

This event is sponsored by Climate Strike Davis, in collaboration with Sunrise Movement Davis, Cool Davis, Davis Independent Music Initiative, Mothers Out Front and Extinction Rebellion Sacramento.

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https://www.davisenterprise.com/arts/music/earth-day-sing-out-supports-climate-a…
Posted by leonardjsantos on Apr 14 2020

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How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.
The event is raising money to support seven local musicians to record new music — seven Earth Day songs.
This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
Prevent climate change.

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Short-term: It's hard to tell, since this event hasn't happened yet. We'll have to see if they're able to earn money through a virtual event like this. Long-term: It's hard to tell, since this event hasn't happened yet. We'll see how many people tune into the event.