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Grassroots Strategies for a Just Transition - Jan 21 Briefing
- 1. Communities Uniting for a Just Transition
- 2. 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
- 5. • Lorax
- 9. Building Our Power for a Just Transition
- 11. Zero Waste
- 14. Efficient, Affordable, Durable Housing
- 15. Ecosystem Restoration & Stewardship Restoration of watersheds: “slow it, spread it, sink it,”vs“Pave it, Pump it, Pipe It”.
- 17. PEOPLE’S HEALTH, EDUCATION and WELL BEING ECOLOGICAL RESOTRATION LOCAL, CLEAN, COMMUNITY CONTROLED ENERGY Non COMMERCIAL ART AND CULTURE RESPONSIBLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CREATE AN ECONOMY FOR LIFE PUBLIC and MASS TRANSIT COMMUNITY CONTROLLED HOUSING RELOCALIZED PRIMARY FOOD SYSTEM WORKER OWNERSHIP and DEMOCRACY ZERO WASTE
- 19. WRONG WAY CHANGE THE RULES THE ONLY WAY
- 20. FORGE A DIVERSE, MULTISECTORAL MOVEMENT TOWARDS A JUST TRANSITION
- 21. Local ‘Hot Spots’ Detroit, MI Black Mesa, Navajo Nation Richmond, CA
- 22. Detroit, MI
- 23. Black Mesa, Navajo Nation
- 24. Richmond, CA
- 25. Tran 2014 Work • 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 &
- 26. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 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
Editor's Notes
- CJA is a unique new alliance of nearly 40 networks, alliances, and organizations that carry out or support grassroots organizing through research, communications, training, and policy work. The grassroots community-based organizations in CJA have a long history of taking on the root causes of environmental and climate disruption at the source—and winning.
- We have been building relationships through shared work over the last several years—in some cases, decades and in 2012 formally launched a new vehicle to provide critical leadership to the climate movement in taking on the root cause of the interrelated crisis of economy, climate, and democracy.
- We are clear that the root cause of the climate and ecological crisis is that the current economy is extracting resources at a pace that outstrips the capacity of the system to regenerate. It’s the story of the Lorax– if you are knitting thneeds out of truffula tufts and you chop down all the truffula trees, your economy collapses. And the brown barbaloots will have no more truffula fruits and the fish with crummies in their tummies will have to go somewhere else. If you’ve amassed enough wealth, you might come up with ways to isolate yourself from these impacts or go somewhere else and repeat the process…
- But ultimately, the lesson is: your economy must not outstrip the regenerative capacity of the ecosystem it depends on. You can’t take more out than is being put back in. This is the lesson of this moment.
- Without a proactive agenda for a just transition, we will continue to find ourselves on the defensive having to respond to false promises, bad policies, or half-measures that exacerbate inequality, a lack of democracy, and ecological disruption. From fracking for ‘energy security’ to synthetically derived fuels that result in land grabs, these pathways to respond to the inevitable crisis are well paved but will only exacerbate the problems.
- JUST TRANSITION Forging a different path, CJA launched the Our Power Campaign in 2013 putting forth a bold vision and program to remake economy in line with the principles of resilience and regeneration.
- We launched the campaign in June 2013 starting with 3 hot spots– home to key grassroots groups who are poised to take on extreme energy interests while building the pathways for a just transition.The Hot Spots are building coalitions with a shared vision of a Just Transition.These are sites of extreme energy in working class communities, indigenous communities, and communities of color. All 3 are anchored by strong grassroots organizations who have deep roots in these communities.Detroit, MIBlack Mesa, AZRichmond, CAWith sufficient resources, we plan to build out to a dozen hot spots by the end of 2014.Over time, the hot spots will provide diverse examples urban and rural areas transitioning to local living economies in ways that address each localities unique challenges and builds on its strengths, culture, and history. Through shared work, common messaging, and movement building done in localities across the country, we will build our power to shift the political landscape to bring these real solutions to scale.Each hot spot has its own strategies and tactics unique to local circumstances on-the-ground, but all of them include coordinated base-building, coalition building, communications, direct action, and policy strategies.They are providing beacons and models from which we can build new movements
- Diana Copeland, East Michigan Environmental Action Council
- MiyaYoshitani, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
- Nearly 40organizations, networks, and alliances- rooted in grassroots organizations in working class communities and communities of color.