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The Work of Love and the Love of Work: Resilience-Based Organizing as a Path Forward

September 7, 2017 | Ellen Choy

An article written by MG in 2013 about the concept of "Resilience-Based Organizing" and how the vision of directly meeting needs through collective actions begins to liberate our labor from the chains of the market and restore our labor to the web of life - which is at the heart of ecological restoration and community resilience in the face of ecological disruption and economic collapse.

Biological and Cultural Diversity: Repairing and Depending On the Web of Life

September 7, 2017 | Ellen Choy

The web of life is all of what we’ve got to work with – the biological and cultural diversity that currently exists – all of the living world. This living web has strands that are connected – but the exploitative, oppressive system that we live in, in addition to creating all kinds of social destruction, is snipping away at the strings and we are getting close to collapse.

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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.

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Author Archive

The Work of Love and the Love of Work: Resilience-Based Organizing as a Path Forward

Biological and Cultural Diversity: Repairing and Depending On the Web of Life

The Meaning of Home / El significado de ‘hogar’

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