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MG Behind The Lines | Part 4: Migration Is Ecological Justice

November 27, 2019 | Ellen Choy

The fourth (and final) of 4 short essays by MG, exploring a key theme in the North Pole Show Season 2. This one, written by Layel Camargo, speaks on migration, making home, and building real sanctuary.

MG Webinar: Wildfires, Shutoffs, and a Just Transition

November 8, 2019 | Ellen Choy

On 11/5 MG hosted a webinar in response to the wildfire crisis in CA. Watch the webinar and check out the resources links to learn more.

MG Behind The Lines | Part 3: Eco Means Home

October 24, 2019 | Ellen Choy

The third of 4 short essays by MG, exploring a key theme in the North Pole Show Season 2. This one, written by Deseree Fontenot, speaks on housing justice, land, and right relation to home.

MG Behind The Lines | Part 2: The Only Secure Community Is An Organized One

October 21, 2019 | Ellen Choy

The second of 4 short essays by MG, exploring a key theme in the North Pole Show Season 2. This one, written by Michelle Mascarenhas Swan, speaks on the importance of organizing to collectively meet our needs.

MG Behind The Lines | Part 1: Native Sovereignty Tends The Fire

October 1, 2019 | Ellen Choy

The first of 4 short essays by MG, exploring a key theme in the North Pole Show Season 2. This one, written by Carla Pérez, makes connections to fire ecology and native sovereignty.

We’re Hiring

August 27, 2019 | Ellen Choy

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

Behind The Scenes: Movement Generation as Executive Producer

August 13, 2019 | Ellen Choy

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.

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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.