environmental justice

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Overview:
This facilitator's guide provides an introduction to fighting dirty facilities through grassroots community organizing. It is intermediate level, and can be used to form an ambitious and effective campaign.

Focus/Goals:
-Provide grassroots community activists and organizations with the tools and advice they need to defeat proposed dirty energy and waste facilities in their own backyards
-Develop participant's understanding and articulation of their own motivations for the issues at hand
-Develop action items for a collaborative campaign

 

Full workshop available at http://www.energyjustice.net/resources/fighting-facilities.pdf
Handouts available at http://www.energyjustice.net/resources/fighting-facilities-handout.pdf

http://www.energyjustice.net/resources/fighting-facilities.pdf

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Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice.

For ten years as organizer Clayton has gained vast experience in grassroots movement building, organizational development (fund raising), and strategic campaign planning and policy development. With his roots in the inner city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Clayton’s humble beginnings came from fighting against disparities in the Aboriginal community as a result of poverty and Winnipeg's youth gang epidemic. He co-founded the youth organization known as Aboriginal Youth with Initiative (AYII) and served as the organizations executive director for two years. The Manitoba Aboriginal Youth Achievement Awards recognized Clayton’s leadership skills and his devotion to community development in 1997, when he was presented with the Senior Community Volunteer Award.

Clayton went on to achieve many accomplishments as a youth leader in the Aboriginal community. He was cofounder of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Youth council as well as the architect behind the National Assembly of First Nations National Youth Advisory Council. As youth spokes person for the Assembly of First Nations he chaired the AFN National Youth Conference in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in 1999, were the first elections of the National First Nation Youth Council were held. As national youth spokes person of the Assembly of First Nations, Clayton was instrumental in the development and design of initiatives such as the Urban Aboriginal Youth Multi Purpose Center Initiative (UMAYC), a fund that to this day is sponsoring hundreds of Aboriginal youth initiatives across Canada.

Clayton’s work has taken him to five continents across our Mother Earth. Some highlights are:

UN ministers responsible for youth conference, Lisbon, Portugal First Nations youth representative on Canadian youth delegation with Minister Pettigrew and Minister Blondin (8-12 August, 1998)

5th World Indigenous Youth Conference in Waitangi, New Zealand; Coordinator of national Aboriginal delegation of Indigenous youth of Canada. (1999)

International training for Indigenous activists, Taos, New Mexico, USA Non-Indigenous Youth Alliance Network. (INIYA) Coordinator (2002)

International training for Indigenous activists, Rio Bronco, Acre, Brazil. Non-Indigenous Youth Alliance Network. (INIYA) Coordinator (2002)

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2003) New York City, New York, USA Delegate (2003)

3rd prep-com of the WSSD in New York City, New York, USA Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples Delegation (2003)

4th Prep-com of the WSSD in Bali, Indonesia, Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples delegation (2004)
World Indigenous Peoples Pre-Summit on Sustainable Development, Kimberly, South Africa Coordinator of North American Indigenous Peoples delegation (2004)

World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa. Coordinator of North American Indigenous Peoples Delegation (2004)

Social Forum of the Americas Quito, Ecuador, Delegate (2005)

COP/MOP 11 UN Framework on Climate Change, Montreal, Canada, Coordinator of North American IEN delegation, Indigenous Peoples Caucus and World Indigenous Peoples day celebration. (2005)

Until recently, he served as the Native Energy organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. Clayton has been on the front lines of stopping industrial society's assault on Indigenous Peoples lands to extract resources and to dump toxic wastes. He has worked across Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 states with grassroots indigenous communities to defend their Inherit, Treaty and environmental rights against unsustainable energy policies and transnational energy corporations.

Clayton is also a gifted poet and spoken-word performer. He is happily married and has recently become a father. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Clayton is that he’s just getting going. He’s been recognized by Utne magazine as one of the Top 30 under-30 young activists in the United State

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This is a joint report from the Apollo Alliance and Urban Habitat about what the new Green Economy will look like.

http://home.apolloalliance.org/community-jobs-report/

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Representatives of the people's movement and activist organizations working for social and environmental justice have developed core principles to begin to build on international movement of all peoples for climate justice.

http://www.ejnet.org/ej/bali.pdf

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The Environmental Justice movement has demonstrated that pollution's effects often fall disproportionately on the health of people of color, Indigenous Peoples, and low-income communities. These groups are the first to experience negative climate change impacts like heat death and illness, respiratory illness, infectious disease, and economic and cultural displacement. These 10 Principles for Just Climate Change Policies in the United States will ensure that climate policy protects our most vulnerable communities.

www.ejnet.org

http://www.ejnet.org/ej/climatejustice.pdf

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The multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit adopt these Principles of Environmental Justice.

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http://www.ejnet.org/ej/workingtogether.pdf

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The multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit adopted these principles of environmental justice. These principles serve as a defining document for the growing grassroots movement for environmental justice.

www.ejnet.org/ej/

http://www.ejnet.org/ej/principles.pdf

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Mike Ewall is founder and director of the Energy Justice Network, one of the Energy Action Coalition's founding members. EJN helps grassroots community groups around the U.S. and beyond in their efforts to stop polluting energy and waste industries. Ewall has worked extensively with student and community environmental groups since getting involved in 10th grade in high school in 1990. A skillful public speaker and organizer, he's been a national leader in developing networks of students and community members seeking to stop proposed coal power plants, incinerators and numerous other damaging energy industries. He has led winning campaigns to stop proposed nuclear waste dumps, incinerators, liquefied natural gas terminals and much more. Through his research and networking, he has educated many students and community groups on the hazards posed by dirty energy generation and has helped them work together in campaigns to protect vulnerable communities.

Topics include:

• Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism
• Energy and Environmental Justice
• Replacing all Dirty Power with Clean Energy Within our Lifetime
• Don't Nuke the Climate!
• Green Energy or Green Scam? -- "Green Energy" Marketing and Biomass
• The Burning Issues with Biomass and Biofuels
• Beyond Combustion Engines: Breaking the Oil Addiction with Clean Energy in Transportation
• No New Coal Plants!
• Global Warming Loopholes

Contact info and descriptions of these and other workshop topics can be found here:

http://www.actionpa.org/speaking/

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Send your completed application to ejccdirector@gmail.com by May 29th, 2007.

The Climate Justice Corps Fellowship Program

A subset of the Climate Justice Corps (CJC) Institute, the CJC Fellowship Program is a project of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC). It is a campaign to provide leadership development for young activists, organizers, and researchers from disproportionately affected communities and to invigorate a new constituency for climate action. CJC Fellows comprise a group of young activists and researchers who are chosen by and housed at different EJCC member organizations and affiliates during the summer. Fellows come together at the beginning of their residency for an intensive training in organizing, communications, and the health and environmental dimensions of climate justice issues. They then spend the next ten weeks learning from and working with their host organizations. Due to the start date of the internship, if students must return to campus, we will work with you to either complete your final weeks in your school state or plug into programming on your campuses. Once in the field, Fellows will, depending on the needs of their host organizations, develop strategies for grassroots actions and media events, write issue and policy briefs on key local dimensions of climate and health problems, and support existing organizing. In the year after their placement, CJC Fellows are also required to organize one direct action centered on climate justice either on their college campus or within their community.

CJC Fellows receive a taxable stipend of $2500 (about $1000 per month), travel to and from their training and host site, and a materials stipend.


Eligibility and Qualifications

CJC Fellows must be between ages 18 to 28. Applicants under the age of 18 will be considered if: 1) they have graduated high school in the spring before their internship, 2) they will turn 18 during the summer of their internship, 3) they will work in their home community with an organization with which they have a previous relationship. Although it is not a requirement, strong applicants will have experience working in communities of color and in either organizing or relevant environmental or social justice-oriented academic research. The ideal candidate will be able to quickly orient themselves to the field of climate justice and be both strategic and creative in their approach to climate justice work. Because of the leadership component of this program, applicants will be expected to demonstrate strong potential for leadership on environmental justice and climate change issues in the future.

For more information about the EJCC, CJC Fellows, or Climate Justice,
please visit our website at www.ejcc.org

Send your completed application to ejccdirector@gmail.com by May 29th, 2007. 

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Ariel Luckey is a 26 year old Oakland native whose community and performance work dances in the crossroads of education, art and activism. He attended his first workshop at the age of 2 with his father, Paul Kivel, a writer and political educator, and has been active in the community ever since. Ariel has developed a powerful approach to arts activism through his training with Wavy Gravy and Patch Adams at Camp Winnarainbow, June Jordan at UC Berkeley's Poetry for the People and Augusto Boal at Theatre of the Oppressed workshops. Ariel's lyrical language and political vision have inspired and transformed audiences from the streets of Seattle's WTO demonstration to Cafe Cantante in Havana, Cuba to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York.

In the Bay Area, Ariel has performed at the Intersection for the Arts, La Pena Cultural Center, Project Theatre Artaud, Ashkenaz, SomArts, the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, UC Berkeley, St. Mary's College, the Writers Corp and various local high schools and community centers. His work includes developing curriculum and facilitating workshops with the Todos Institute, GreenAction for Health and Environmental Justice, the Bioneers Conference, Y-Step, Jewish Youth for Community Action and the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts. He loves learning the journey of fatherhood with his new baby.

Topics covered

• Poetry for People Power: The Pen, The Mic and The Movement
• Acting Out Change: Theatre of the Oppressed for Collective Liberation
• ToxiCity: Art and Organizing for Environmental Justice (Part One)
• New World Water: Art and Organizing for Environmental Justice (Part Two)
• Ancestry in Progress: Connecting Our Family Histories to Our Global Future
• Free Land: Unearthing the Legacy of Manifest Destiny and White Privilege thru Hip Hop Theatre

http://www.arielluckey.com/