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“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.

Layel Camargo On Our New Podcast “Did We Go Too Far?”

February 2, 2021 | Ellen Choy

Check out this short interview with the host of our “DWGTF?” podcast Layel Camargo.

Special Announcement: The MG Podcast will debut in February

January 12, 2021 | Movement Generation

MG's new podcast "Did We Go Too Far?" will be available on Spreaker, iTunes, and Spotify at the end of February 2021!

Meeting Chaos With Calm: How To Prepare For A Potential Coup

November 17, 2020 | Movement Generation

The new offering on our blog - a post-election message from MG collective member, Mateo Nube. He offers pointers that come from his experience as a child who lived through multiple military coups.

Course Correction Sessions Postponed Until Tues, June 16th

June 1, 2020 | Movement Generation

We are postponing Course Correction sessions until June 16t - to honor the space folks need right now to respond to, process, and grieve the moment - taking care of yourself and loved ones, praying at your altar, showing up for your community, taking to the streets, or organizing with your folks.

[REGISTER!] MG’s Course Correction: Just Transition in the Age of COVID-19 // Cambio del rumbo: una transición justa en la era del COVID-19

May 6, 2020 | Movement Generation

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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.

Author Archive

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

Layel Camargo On Our New Podcast “Did We Go Too Far?”

Special Announcement: The MG Podcast will debut in February

Meeting Chaos With Calm: How To Prepare For A Potential Coup

Course Correction Sessions Postponed Until Tues, June 16th

[REGISTER!] MG’s Course Correction: Just Transition in the Age of COVID-19 // Cambio del rumbo: una transición justa en la era del COVID-19

This Is The Beginning… A Collection of Short Offerings From MG During COVID-19

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

MG Webinar: Wildfires, Shutoffs, and a Just Transition

MG Behind The Lines | Part 3: Eco Means Home