grassroots strategies for a just transition - jan 21 briefing
TRANSCRIPT
Communities Uniting for a Just Transition
Panelists
• Samantha Harvey, Overbrook Foundation
(Moderator)
• Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan, Movement
Generation
• Cindy Wiesner, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
• Diana Copeland, East Michigan Environmental
Action Council
• JihanGearon, Black Mesa Water Coalition
• MiyaYoshitani, Asian Pacific Environmental
Network
• FarhadEbrahimi, Chorus Foundation
Climate Justice Alliance
• Lorax
Extractive Economy
False Promises
Building Our Power for a Just Transition
Clean Community Energy
Zero Waste
Public Transportation
Regional Food Systems
Efficient, Affordable, Durable Housing
Ecosystem Restoration & Stewardship
Restoration of watersheds: “slow it, spread it, sink it,”vs“Pave it, Pump it, Pipe It”.
ENDTHE EXTRACTIVE
ECONOMY
CREATEAN ECONOMY FOR
LIFE
ECOLOGICAL
RESOTRATION
LOCAL, CLEAN,
COMMUNITY
CONTROLED ENERGY
RELOCALIZED
PRIMARY
FOOD SYSTEM
COMMUNITY
CONTROLLED
HOUSING ZERO WASTE
PUBLIC and
MASS TRANSIT
PEOPLE’S HEALTH,
EDUCATION and
WELL BEING
Non COMMERCIAL
ART AND CULTURE
WORKER
OWNERSHIP and
DEMOCRACY
RESPONSIBLE
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
MOVETHE RESOURCES
SUPPORTOUR ECONOMY
BUILDOUR POWER
WRONG WAY
THE ONLY
WAY
CHANGE THE RULES
FORGE A DIVERSE, MULTI-
SECTORAL MOVEMENT
TOWARDS A JUST TRANSITION
Local
‘Hot Spots’
Richmond, CA
Detroit, MI
Black Mesa, Navajo Nation
Detroit, MI
Black Mesa, Navajo Nation
Richmond, CA
Tran
• Expand Hot Spots.
Carry Out Local &
Statewide Just
Transition
Campaigns
• Convenings in
Detroit and
Richmond
• National Campaign
Convergence
• Political Education &
Leadership
Development
• Strategic
Communications
• Research &
Documentation
2014 Work
• Alliance for Appalachia
• Asian Pacific Environmental Network*
• Black Mesa Water Coalition*
• Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy
• Center for Story-based Strategy
• Communities for a Better Environment*
• Community to Community Development
• Cornell Global Labor Institute
• East Michigan Environmental Action Coalition*
• Energy Justice Network
• Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Initiative
• Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
• Global Justice Ecology Project
• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance*
• Grassroots International
• Indigenous Environmental Network*
• Institute for Policy Studies
• Ironbound Community Corporation
• Jobs With Justice
• Just Transition Alliance
• Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
• Labor Community Strategy Center
• Labor Network for Sustainability
• Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
• Movement Generation*
• Movement Strategy Center
• NAACP Climate Justice Initiative
• New York City- EJ Alliance
• People Organizing to Demand Environmental and
Economic Rights (PODER)
• POWER
• Right to the City Alliance
• Rising Tide North America
• Ruckus Society
• Southwest Organizing Project
• Southwest Workers Union
• UPROSE
* Denotes Steering Committee member