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“Did We Go Too Far?” Episode 6: Surprise Bonus Episode! With Tré Vasquez and Layel Camargo

May 26, 2021 | Movement Generation

In this bonus episode, our hosts leave everything on the table! As they wrap up the first season of the podcast DWGTF, Tre and Layel have a free flowing conversation and discuss astrology, returning to ancestral practices, their friendship, how they feel about the podcast and COVID. Overall some yummy chisme.

Movement Generation Seeking Finance Director Candidates

April 23, 2021 | Movement Generation

Movement Generation is seeking candidates for a Finance Director (20-30 hours/week depending on experience/skills) to help us set up and run the systems for our newly formed 501c3. Applications due May 3rd.

“Did We Go Too Far?” Episode 5: “I Love That” An Episode On Queer Ecology & Fashion (With Guests Deseree Fontenot, Curly V & Zero Waste Daniel)

April 20, 2021 | Movement Generation

Episode 5 “I Love That” An Episode On Queer Ecology & Fashion with Deseree Fontenot, Curly V & Zero Waste Daniel is up now! What does queer ecology, fierce fashion and our relationship to the living world have in common?

“Did We Go Too Far?” Episode 4: Liberated Communities (With Guests Morning Star Gali and Karissa Lewis)

April 6, 2021 | Movement Generation

Episode 4 Liberated Communities is up now! What is possible in liberated neighborhoods? We’ll take a look at the hxstory of liberated zones and re-matriated land in the Bay and what is necessary to sustain these places, how to contest for power in right relationship with Indigenous communities and how this all connects to transformative justice. Hosts Tré Vasquez & Layel Camargo are joined in dialogue by Morning Star Gali & Karissa Lewis.

“Did We Go Too Far?” Episode 3: Black Land and Liberation (With Guests Leah Penniman and Akua Smith)

March 23, 2021 | Movement Generation

Episode 3 of MG's new podcast Did We Go Too Far? is here and it's a special host takeover with collective members Crosby & Quinton! Episode 3: Black Land and Liberation, asks: how are Ecological Justice, Black Liberation and Land Reparations symbiotic and interdependent?

“Did We Go Too Far?” Episode 2: Radical Parenting in a Pandemic (With Guests Jennifer Rivera and Michelle Mascarenhas Swan)

March 9, 2021 | Movement Generation

Episode 2 of MG's podcast is here. We discuss the realities and spectrum of parenting in COVID times, from two badass, brilliant, radical mamas.

“Did We Go Too Far” Episode 1: All The Things We Don’t Have Answers To (With Guests Charlene Carruthers and Gopal Dayaneni)

February 23, 2021 | Movement Generation

The pilot episode of MG's new podcast "Did We Go Too Far?" explores the complexities of living in 2021 with a lot of unknowns.

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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.

Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project

Opening Eyes. Sharpening Lens. Focused on Action.