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Resources from MG Just Transition Retreat Sept 2015

Resources from the Movement Generation Just Transition Retreat held at Occidental Arts & Ecology Center in September 2015:

September 2015 MG Retreat for Funders

New/Additional Readings and Handouts:

Movement Generation’s Pathways to Resilience Paper for Kresge Foundation (published 2015)

Check out other articles in this new e-book produced by our partners at the Movement Strategy Center

Peer to Peer Network Training Description

(training was held Sept 6-9, 2015)

Southern Grassroots Economies Project

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Powerpoints— Folder includes:

Biocultural diversity & humans as a force of nature

Shocks, Slides, Shifts

Pillars of Extractive Economy

Three Circles, From False solutions to Real

5 Ds slide: Democratize, Diversify, Decentralize, Damper Down, and (re)Distribute!

Note: Please don’t distribute these materials as not all the images are credited and are not used for commercial purposes.

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Handouts

This folder contains many handouts as well as curriculum. The following is a link to some of the handouts and curriculum we referenced during the retreat.

— Humans as a force of nature timeline curriculum

— Body Metaphor Curriculum

— Eco Means Home

— Three Circles

— Just Transition Framework & writeup

— Resilience-based Organizing 1-pager

Please note: These resources are for access by participants in MG’s retreats.

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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.

Resources from MG Just Transition Retreat Sept 2015