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Special Announcement from MG: Evolutions & Transitions

February 12, 2018 | Ellen Choy

Share this: “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X Ten years ago, Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project (MG) was born in study, analysis, relationship and conversation.... Read more »

Transition Is Inevitable, Justice Is Not: A Critical Framework for Just Recovery

December 18, 2017 | Ellen Choy

Guided by the leadership of communities building and re-building home everywhere post-disaster, we humbly offer this framework for a Just Recovery.

CALL TO ACTION: Zombie March on Coal – Monday October 30th!

October 27, 2017 | Ellen Choy

Workers and youth unite against the Tagami Coal-pocalypse!

Support North Bay Fire Relief for Frontline Communities: Donate Today to the Undocufund

October 26, 2017 | Ellen Choy

The lives of so many people, plants, animals, and land that we know and love have been impacted by the ecological catastrophe of the North Bay fires. Please support communities who face significant challenges in meeting urgent needs and rebuilding their lives. Donate to UndocuFund!

Towards a Just Transition in Richmond, California: Cooperation Richmond Launches!

October 26, 2017 | Ellen Choy

Congratulations Cooperation Richmond for a successful launch!

Congratulations Michelle! Announcing the 2017 Ashoka Fellows

October 23, 2017 | Ellen Choy

We are so incredibly proud that our sister/comrade Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan has been chosen as a 2017 Ashoka Fellow!

Watch ‘The North Pole’ : Full Season Available Now!

September 28, 2017 | Ellen Choy

It's here! The full season is available to watch for free on the show's new website.

[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!

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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.