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Youth Statement of Principles on Climate and Energy PDF
This is the youth statement of principles on climate and energy in pdf.
10 Principles for Just Climate Change Policies in the U.S.
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.
http://www.ejnet.org/ej/climatejustice.pdf
Principles of Working Together
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
Principles of Environmental Justice
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.
http://www.ejnet.org/ej/principles.pdf
Changing The Social Climate
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How global warming affects economic justice, the future of the progressive movement, and whether your child walks to school. A conversation between Michel Gelobter of Redefining Progress and Catherine Lerza of Tides Foundation.
A publication of TIDES Foundation
http://www.redefiningprogress.org/newpubs/2006/Changing-the-Social-Climate.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/
Apply for the Climate Justice Corps!
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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.
Film: The Long Walk Home
The Long Walk Home is a recreation of a troubled era in American history. The time is 1955; the place, Montgomery, Alabama. When Rosa Parks, an African American woman, is arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, it is the first volley in the great Bus Boycott, organized by Dr. Martin Luther King in order to desegregate the Birmingham transportation system. The boycott is a decided inconvenience for Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek), a well-to-do white woman. Now, Miriam must drive to the black section of town to pick up her maid Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg) and bring her to work. Outside of her own social circle, Miriam realizes for the first time just how privileged, sheltered and self-centered her life has been. What brings this fact home is the realization that Odessa has literally been raising two families: the Thompsons' and her own. Odessa has also sacrificed her own health and wellbeing to serve her employers without question or complaint. Awakened to the true inequities of "Separate But Equal", and impressed by Dr. King's edict of nonviolent resistance, Miriam joins the boycott. This stirs up the racist feelings harbored by Miriam's husband Norman (Dwight Schultz), who at the behest of his goonish brother Tunker (Dylan Baker) joins the Klanlike White Citizen's Council. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
View the trailer - http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/trailer.html?v_id=29947
Get the DVD - http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/dvd.html?v_id=29947
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=29947
Catalyst Project: Center for Political Education and Movement Building
Ingrid Chapman, Chris Crass, Clare Bayard and the other trainers in the Catalyst Project have been facilitating workshops with mostly white sectors of social, environmental and economic justice movements on anti-racism and movement strategy within an overall collective liberation framework since 2000.
The Catalyst Project focuses on movement based political education, leadership development, development of movement strategy, and theoretical study. To bring them to your campus for a training or facilitated discussion visit their website and click on "Contact Us".
http://www.collectiveliberation.org
Social Justice Training Institute
The Social Justice Training Institute has programs for educators and professionals as well as for students. The Institute provides a forum for the professional and personal development of social justice educators and practitioners to expand and refine their skills and competencies in designing and facilitating diversity awareness experiences.
SJTI is a developmental experience that will involve personal work. Past participants have found SJTI to be an intense experience as we work to understand the dynamics and effects of race and racism and as we engage in authentic dialogue arcoss and within race groups.
If you are looking for training tools, exercises, or "how to" activities - SJTI might not be for you. While participants do bring articles and activities to share with colleagues, the focus of the institute is personal work.
http://www.sjti.org
