community organizing

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

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: