Registration — Bette’s Weekly Happy Hour

Please register for our weekly Tuesday Happy Hour — a wellness checkin for global newsies — Tuesday, September 5, 5 pm PT

***Registration link for ‘Bette’s Happy Hour’ is located below the paywall — if you’re not yet a member, please consider joining our pro-democracy community at a 30% discount for the first year for another day. Paid members receive invites to our ‘Speakeasy’ zoom salons — including this Sunday’s zoom salon with Thom Hartmann — access to all print archives and podcasts, and the American Monsters series. Upgrade or join at the Founding Member rate for special monthly invites. On 9/17, Founders get to meet award-winning filmmaker Melissa Jo Peltier.***

Writers have value in the desert or maybe it’s simply the content I’m focused on — saving democracy and fighting ecocide — two sides of the same coin.

A Climate Crime Scene in the Sonoran Desert

I have so many new friends — Big City refugees from previous hectic lives, who made their way to Joshua Tree to slooooooow the f**k down and create beautiful things.

Please read my post from today’s starry starry night into sunrise. I was rushing to not miss the appearance of the glowing orb and have cleaned up the copy and added links if you want to support the artists I reference.

Happy Hour Registration

Bette members: Please register for Tuesday’s Happy Hour below the paywall and do note, when news breaks, our Happy Hours often become informative sessions.

Just a reminder, each week we alternate the time so as many people from around the world can checkin. Our Happy Hour time for this week is 5 pm PT, which is 8 pm New York time.

Although the Happy Hour was inspired as a wellness check, where we each offer suggestions of how we stay well during trouble times, it’s okay that we also chat about breakers and fears. That’s part of how of we do this as a community — empathy, listening, sharing.

I hope your Labor Day was spent doing something you love. I took time to listen in to Bette member Dee’s amazing Twitter spaces ‘Advocacy Arena — Good Trouble Chat: Labor Movement where I learned so much. Among my favorite quotes: ‘The filibuster was just a deal between homies.’

Alright, I am going to go back to watching cactus wrens.

I’m glad you are here.

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Bette Dangerous is a reader-funded magazine. Thank you to all monthly, annual, and founding members. Thank you as well to all those who support my work with your generous coffee tips and who buy my ebooks. Some of you prefer making subsidizing donations via venmo, and it’s always greatly appreciated. If you wish to gift a membership, you can do so by donating to the ko-fi or venmo accounts, and indicate it’s for a gift, or do so here.

Founding Members will be invited to our next monthly Founder’s Day event on September 17 featuring award-winning filmmaker Melissa Jo Peltier— please upgrade to Founding Member if you would like to join us for these special intimate occasions to meet global experts. To become a Founding member, you can enter any amount above the full annual rate — substack defaults to $210, a level many of my supporters choose, but anything above $60 gets you an invite to Founder’s Day — and for some members, it’s just a few bucks to upgrade as your original payment is counted toward a Founder’s membership.

All paid members receive invites to our ‘Speakeasy’ zoom salons, and weekly wellness checkins, Bette’s Happy Hour. Our next ‘Speakeasy’ zoom salon is on Sunday, September 10, at 4 pm PT, with Thom Hartmann, and our next Happy Hour is tomorrow, Tuesday, September 5, at 5 pm PT.

Also, a private link to an annual membership discount for older adults, those on fixed incomes or drawing disability, as well as activists and members of the media is available upon request at bettedangerous@gmail.com. 🥹

“We just have to see that the battle for democracy is broader. It's deeper.”—David Pepper

“I need people to see they're on the frontline. Wherever you live, if you’re doing this work, you are the frontline.”—David Pepper

“The message should be a fair deal… fairness everywhere.”—Martin Sheil

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“I say a silent prayer of thanksgiving as I walk upon the earth.”-Audrey Peterman.

“May the viral hope for truth and humanity wash away the chaos of these years.”-S.C., Bette community member

“Something Sacred never dies in almost all of us, who can hear the invitation of Truth…”-words from a Bette Dangerous community member

“Non-violent protest is a life-affirming activity as it seeks to promote a more humane society.”-Ellen Zucker

“Nothing but blue skies from now on…”-Irving Berlin

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Register here please xo