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[Sept 30] Movement Generation Healing Clinic: Sign Up Today!

August 23, 2017 | Ellen Choy

MG is thrilled to collaborate with the Healing Clinic Collective for this special Earth Skills event to help equip movement workers with healing skills to care for ourselves and our communities.

[Sept 22] MG’s 10th Birthday Get Down! RSVP Today.

August 23, 2017 | Ellen Choy

We hope you'll come get down with us on Friday, September 22 to cap off 10 years of the MG Justice & Ecology Project!

[Sept 7th] The North Pole World Premiere: More Tickets Now Available!

August 23, 2017 | Ellen Choy

We're excited to announce that we are opening up tickets for a second screening for Sept 7th "The North Pole" World Premiere in Oakland, CA!

Watch The North Pole’s Trailer!

July 25, 2017 | Ellen Choy

We recently launched the show's official trailer. Check the hilarity and hometown love out for yourself.

40 Acres. 40 Cities. One Day. Black Land & Liberation Initiative Day of Action on Juneteenth

June 15, 2017 | Movement Generation

On Juneteenth 2017 (Monday, June 19th) Black people across the country will be taking back land and reclaiming space, from vacant lots to empty school buildings.

Accepting Applications: MG’s 2017 Justice & Ecology Retreat!

June 15, 2017 | Movement Generation

It’s that time again… MG is currently accepting applications for our 2017 Justice and Ecology Retreat.

NOW HIRING: Movement Generation Seeks Communications Special Projects Manager

June 14, 2017 | Movement Generation

Apply by June 20, 2017: MG is immediately hiring for a Communications Special Projects Manager to support our rapidly growing work. This is a 6-month position.

[AUDIO] An Interview with Quinton Sankofa on MG and This Political Moment

March 5, 2017 | Ellen Choy

KPFA's Project Censored interviewed MG Collective Member Quinton Sankofa last month in a brilliant conversation.

Announcing MG’s Just Transition Zine

January 24, 2017 | Ellen Choy

MG is proud to offer you our new Strategic Framework for a Just Transition Zine - a 32-page long training tool that offers a framework for a fair shift to an economy that is ecologically sustainable, equitable and just for all its members.

Worker Wisdom in a Changing Climate: Melissa Stoner: A Union Member Standing in Solidarity with the People of Standing Rock #NoDAPL

November 3, 2016 | Ellen Choy

We are excited to bring you the next installment in Climate Workers' series "Worker Wisdom in a Changing Climate." This month we're profiling Melissa Stoner - a Native American Studies Librarian, and member of UC-AFT 1747.

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Climate Workers Climate Workers is a membership organization of rank-and-file workers – union and non-union – and labor organizers that is building a worker-led, grassroots labor movement for climate justice in the Bay Area.
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.

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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

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Author Archive

[Sept 30] Movement Generation Healing Clinic: Sign Up Today!

[Sept 22] MG’s 10th Birthday Get Down! RSVP Today.

[Sept 7th] The North Pole World Premiere: More Tickets Now Available!

Watch The North Pole’s Trailer!

40 Acres. 40 Cities. One Day. Black Land & Liberation Initiative Day of Action on Juneteenth

Accepting Applications: MG’s 2017 Justice & Ecology Retreat!

NOW HIRING: Movement Generation Seeks Communications Special Projects Manager

[AUDIO] An Interview with Quinton Sankofa on MG and This Political Moment

Announcing MG’s Just Transition Zine

Worker Wisdom in a Changing Climate: Melissa Stoner: A Union Member Standing in Solidarity with the People of Standing Rock #NoDAPL