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Course Correction Sessions Postponed Until Tues, June 16th

June 1, 2020 | Ellen Choy

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

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

March 25, 2020 | Movement Generation

MG is posting brief offerings in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Please check it out on our new medium.com blog at bit.ly/MGCOVID19!

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

November 27, 2019 | Movement Generation

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 | Movement Generation

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 | Movement Generation

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 | Movement Generation

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 | Movement Generation

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 APP NOW CLOSED

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.