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Indigenous land holds 80% of the Earth's biodiversity, and the world has a lot to learn from those who've worked and inhabited it for generations. At the same time, 75% of US homes that don’t have electricity are on reservations and Native communities. In the face of these inequities, Native folks on the rez like Janice Day (Hopi) hold the key to solving our climate crisis with green and sustainable solutions, passing down a model of Native sovereignty and innovation to future generations. Indigenous communities lead by example in sustainable solutions for a healthy planet. Solar is renewable, good for our planet, more sustainable, and healthier for our local communities.
In this week’s Climate Woke video, join our host Layel Camargo (@thechosenlyfe) as they travel to Arizona’s Hopi Reservation to meet with Indigenous women leaders to discuss the benefits of solar power in tribal communities, the growing need for sustainable solutions to private utility companies, and the ways we can learn from the resilience and deep wisdom of Indigenous peoples.
In partnership with @ndncollective and @nativerenewables.
#ClimateWoke #LandBack
Message from 2050
For the fourth and final session of MG’s Course Correction: join us in the year 2050 to learn how 30 years (and more) of organizing and bold strategy has manifested the shifts we need to build towards liberation!
Session #4: Decolonize the Future
Tues July 14, 3-5pm PT / 6-8pm ET
Be transported to the future through visioning and reflection with adrienne maree brown. Take an organizing hxstory walk with MG’s Emeritus Facilitator Michelle Mascarenhas Swan. Then join us for 2050 reports by powerful movement leaders: Patty Berne (Sins Invalid), Akua Deirdre Smith (BlackOUT Collective / Black Land Liberation Initiative), Jade Begay (NDN Collective / Filmmaker / VR Creator), Sammie Ablaza Wills (APIENC), and Tré Vasquez (MG). Emcee’d by MG’s Ellen Choy.
Sessions will be held on Zoom and livestreamed on our FB page. Spanish and ASL interpretation and live captions provided. Make sure to register to receive the link to join by Zoom, to receive study materials, and to receive the link to the recordings after each session.
To utilize the ASL interpretation, please plan to join directly through Zoom (not FB live).
If you registered for a past session, you will automatically be registered for each subsequent session. You do not need to have watched past sessions to register (though we encourage folks to catch up on the recordings if you can!).
To register go to: movementgeneration.org/course
There is no climate justice without labor justice! The exploitation of working people is connected to the destruction of our planet and our communities. But when we fight, we win.
Check out The Center For Cultural Power’s (@culturestrike ) #ClimateWoke video about labor, breaking down the impact of extractive economies on people and planet, and why we must work together towards climate and worker justice.
#ClimateJustice #JustTransition #EnvironmentalJustice
The "New PG&E" Won't Keep Us Safe: Reclaim Our Power Press Conference
Join us for a press conference to mark the passage of the "bailout deadline" - by which PG&E was supposed to have fixed their problems to earn our tax dollars bailing them out- and our plan to build a safe, just, renewable, worker and community controlled energy system that works for all Californians!
The Press Conference will be live-streamed directly from Reclaim Our Power's page, here: https://www.facebook.com/utilityjustice/
Speakers:
- Mari Rose Taruc, Reclaim Our Power
- Gabriella Orantes, North Bay Organizing Project
- Jessica Tovar, Local Clean Energy Alliance
- Sylvia Chi, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
- Representatives from Youth vs. Apocalypse
We'll talk about the Reclaim Our Power Campaign, what we had hoped to be celebrating on June 30th, our demands of the Governor, and the path forward!
Living Our Power - 2019 CJA Member Convening
MG is a proud, proud member of the Climate Justice Alliance!
Check out this gorgeous video made by filmmaker John Acosta produced during the Climate Justice Alliance Member Convening in Albuquerque, NM. It dives into our theory of change, and introduces some of CJA's amazing members groups. We are really happy about how it came out.
The 2019 CJA Member Convening with the theme Living Our Power, was hosted by CJA member group SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP). The convening intricately weaved together cultural organizing, transformative healing, deep relationship building, and honoring the leadership of communities of color and Indigenous Peoples in Environmental and Climate Justice, while simultaneously practicing self-governance and advancing strategy development of the alliance.
To learn more about the Climate Justice Alliance, visit http://ClimateJusticeAlliance.org
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Episode 4 of @amrpodcast is up! Dr. Tallbear drops so many moments of 🔥 knowledge it’s incredible. Here’s just one!
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On this episode we talk with the amazing, badass, super cool Dr. Kim Tallbear (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), who literally wrote the book on Native American DNA. We talk about the concept of “Native DNA,” the problems of ancestry DNA tests, challenges in these areas for Native communities moving forward, Elizabeth Warren, the politics of research in Indigenous communities, and offer potential alternatives for thinking about kinship as a marker of Native belonging rather than false promises of DNA.
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We’re on iTunes, Spotify and Googleplay. Peep it! #AMRpodcast #allmyrelationspodcast #JustTransition #WokenWasteless
New inspiration for liberation from BLLI!
This Juneteenth: take action with the Black Land and Liberation Initiative! #40Acres40Cities #LandandLiberation
For more info: join the info call this THURS: bit.ly/blliconf
Marijuana: The Gateway Plant to Urban Farming
"Sometimes the biggest change can start with just one little bud."
#FullHarvestFarm #OaklandGrown #Happy420
How do you build a radical black farm in the middle of East Oakland?
With a bold vision, an activist family...and the help of one small, stimulating green plant.
"...We say... what makes home is language + love + soil + story + sacredness -- the fact that we have paved over the possibility of a relationship to place- it's the cognitive concrete. We're quite clear we have to break the real concrete and get at the real soil if you want to break the cognitive concrete..." - Gopal with Vandana Shiva tonight
