This workshop provides an introduction to community organizing for youth/student activists, and is based on the Energy Justice Network's Campus-Community Organizing Guide (CCOG), available at http://www.energyjustice.net/campus/ccog.pdf. It is an introductory workshop, though it can be valuable for folks with a more advanced analysis and skill set.
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Working in Solidarity with Communities - Workshop Outline
This workshop provides an introduction to community organizing for youth/student activists, and is based on the Energy Justice Network's Campus-Community Organizing Guide (CCOG), available at http://www.energyjustice.net/campus/ccog.pdf. It is an introductory workshop, though it can be valuable for folks with a more advanced analysis and skill set.
Campus-Community Organizing Guide
The Energy Justice Network's Campus-Community Organizing Guide: Building Power for Lasting Change in the Youth Movement for Clean Energy. Main sections include 4 Great Ways to Help Communities, The Work Ahead, and Overcoming Obstacles. Also includes an Appendix with such resources as Examples of Campus-Community Collaboration, and the Principles of Working Together.
http://www.energyjustice.net/campus/ccog.pdf
Speaker: Mike Ewall (on Energy and Environmental Justice issues)
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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/
