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Season 2 of The North Pole
Premieres Sept 10th! Watch the trailer today!
Behind The Scenes: MG As Executive Producer
Read why we executive produced the North Pole Show!
Meet MG!
Watch our new video and meet the current MG staff, plus read updates on recent staff transitions and roles!
MG's Newest Collective Member:
Deseree Fontenot!
MG's Propagate, Pollinate, Practice
A 74-page book of curriculum tools, guides, and strategy documents.
Transition Is Inevitable, Justice Is Not:
A Critical Framework for Just Recovery
(by Movement Generation)
MG's Just Transition Zine
Our 32-page long training tool. Available in English and Spanish. Download it today!

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We’re Hiring

August 27, 2019

MG is seeking two new staff members. Application deadline is Sept 6th. Read more »

Behind The Scenes: Movement Generation as Executive Producer

August 13, 2019

To learn more about the impetus for The North Pole show, Movement Generation’s investment in culture and storytelling, and the nuts and bolts of an entire organization acting as executive producer, we had a conversation with Movement Generation’s Josh Healey, Quinton Sankofa, Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan, Mateo Nube, and filmmaker and North Pole Show director and co-writer, Yvan Iturriaga. Read more »

The North Pole Season 2: The Trailer Is Here!

July 31, 2019

Season 2 of The North Pole Show premieres September 10th! Watch the trailer. Read more »

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Culture Shift Using arts and culture together with grassroots organizing to build our creative resistance and radical imagination for our peoples and the planet, building a loud, proud, and beautiful front for climate justice. Current projects include The North Pole web series!
Resilience-Based Organizing Applying our labor to directly meet our needs through shared work, democratic self-governance and, ultimately, confronting and transforming unjust policy as a critical ingredient for ecological restoration and community resilience.
Climate Justice Alliance / Our Power Campaign The Climate Justice Alliance has launched the national Our Power Campaign to win real solutions to the climate crisis – solutions that will foster quality jobs that meet people’s needs while caring for the natural resources and ecosystems we depend on.
Earth Skills Training Program A series of interactive, land-based workshops designed to help us restore and manage our relationship to our own work and to the resources that meet our basic needs.
Justice & Ecology Retreats A learning and strategy retreat that brings together a selected cohort of 25-30 local and national leaders of racial, economic and environmental justice movements explore the depths and connections of the current ecological, economic, and social crises and discuss, study and design key strategic movement interventions.

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Building Economy for People & Planet: Half Day WorkshopA half day workshop developed, in collaboration with PODER (SF), for community members and organizations to explore what we mean by economy, its relationship to ecology, and to learn about steps we can take to create a more just, sustainable and participatory economy.
Rope Exercise: From Greenhouse to Hothouse An exercise that visually demonstrates and represents the scale of fossil fuel consumption and growth.
"Brother Earth" Comedic Video MG's comedic video with Boots Riley of The Coup, “Brother Earth: The Final Communiqué.” Brother Earth deliver a hilarious, passionate plea to address our global ecological crisis.
Body Earth Metaphor Workshop A roleplay activity that uses the human body as a metaphor for the earth and the ecological crisis.