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- 1. Upholding The Beloved Community A Vision for a Sustainable, Thriving Transition
- 2. What is the Beloved Community?
- 3. Vision of the Residents of Gulfport, MS • Access to basic needs/commons— food, water, clothing, shelter • Safety • Good Schools • Livelihood/Jobs • Good Educational System
- 4. What Threatens Our Vision? • Disasters • Pollution • Scarcity • Development (non-people-centered) • Crime • Racial Profiling/Police Brutality • Conflict/Violence/War • Lack of Democracy
- 6. Historical Context • Rampant Extraction and Exploitation of Humans and Natural Resources • Trade/Manufacturing/Finance Policies/Rules Benefitting Corporations and Industrialized Nations While Completely Disregarding Human Rights and Earth Rights
- 7. Human and Civil Rights Frameworks HUMAN RIGHTS • Right to Self Determination • Right to Safe and Healthy Work Conditions • Right to Highest Standard of Physical and Mental Health • Right to Food • Right to a Decent Living Condition • Equal Rights Between Men and Women • Right of Youth and Children to be Free From Exploitation CIVIL RIGHTS • Ensuring peoples' physical integrity and safety. • Protection from discrimination on grounds such as gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, national origin, age, immigrant status, etc. • Equal access to health care, education, culture, etc.
- 8. Equity Framework • Procedural equity encompasses fairness in political processes and participation in decision making. • Distributive equity highlights the need to consider not just the allocation of benefits, but also the costs and risks with a focus on the outcomes of allocation decisions. • Contextual equity recognizes the fact that the playing field is never level but that people’s capabilities and their access to resources and power determine the extent to which they are able to utilize procedural equity to determine the best distributive outcome for themselves.
- 10. Global South Nations and Environmental Justice Communities in the United States COMMON CAUSE
- 11. “Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere”
- 12. OIL
- 16. Waste Being Dumped in Our Communities
- 17. COAL
- 31. Always Watching, Too Seldom Playing
- 33. School to Prison Pipeline
- 34. CLIMATE IMPACTS
- 38. During Hurricane Katrina, over 1,800 individuals died because they were unable to evacuate the city. Persons with special health conditions and persons who were elderly, poor, or differently abled were the most likely to die. Low-income African Americans often could not evacuate because they had no personal transportation.
- 39. Stark Reality
- 41. CARIBBEAN NATIONS ARE ALREADY FEELING THE IMPACT Approximately three quarters of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean are estimated to live in disaster risk areas. Jamaica Bahamas Haiti
- 43. Coastal Erosion in Benin
- 46. INTERSECTIONS
- 47. Madison Family Home Site
- 48. Criminalization
- 51. Three Sisters United • Sheila Holt Orsted • Katherine Egland • NeAnna Roane McLean
- 53. International Linkages Ex. CLIMATE DRIVEN MIGRATION
- 54. By layering multiple objects on a different background, you can create dynamic layouts
- 55. you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land “HOME” By Warsan Shire Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali Poet
- 58. Per Capita Responsibility for Carbon Emissions
- 59. “All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”
- 60. Deforestation
- 62. Clean Coal?
- 63. The Story of Cap and Trade
- 64. Australia’s U-Turn on Climate Commitments PM Vows to Repeal Carbon Tax “Reject socialism masquerading as environmentalism…. Will not sign up to any new agreement that involves spending money or levying taxes”
- 65. The United States Blocks Equity and Accountability at Every Turn
- 67. Climate Change
- 70. Upholding the Beloved Community Advancing Human Rights
- 71. Resistance Resilience Reclamation Revolution Systems Change, Not Climate Change
- 72. • Political/Governance • Economic/Finance/Manufacturing/Trade/Labor • Food/Agricultural • Waste/Recycling • Energy • Transportation What Systems Do We Need to Change?
- 78. Transforming Policies and Practices Increased Decision Making Equity Clean Energy Food Waste Trade Policies Tax Systems Etc.
- 79. In the Meantime…. BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD
- 82. POLLUTERS TALK—CIVIL SOCIETY WALKS “We Will Be Back”
- 83. Pan African Climate Justice Alliance “2 Degrees is Suicide”
- 84. Curtailing Financing of Fossil Fuels
- 85. Gender Justice-Uniting Across Oceans
- 86. Standing Together in Solidarity with The Philippines
- 87. Mechanical Flower We Are All Interconnected
- 88. Background Removal allows you to quickly and easily remove backgrounds to isolate items in your image. Eliminating Corporate Overreach
- 90. Strengthening Local Economies and Systems in the Commons
- 95. Building the Local Food Movement
- 99. GREEN SCHOOLS
- 100. Green School Results • An analysis of two school districts in Illinois found that student attendance rose by 5% after incorporating cost-effective indoor air quality improvements. • A study of Chicago and Washington, DC schools found that better school facilities can add 3 to 4 percentage points to a school’s standardized test scores, even after controlling for demographic factors. • A recent study of the cost and benefits of green schools for Washington State estimated a 15% reduction in absenteeism and a 5% increase in student test scores.
- 101. Green School Impacts • “Third Creek Elementary School replaced ADR and Wayside Elementary Schools, schools that were two of the district’s lowest performing school in regards to test scores and teacher retention/absence. • This same group of students and teachers improved from less than 60% of students on grade level in reading and math to 80% of students on grade level in reading and math since moving into the new Third Creek Elementary School. Third Creek had the most gains in academic performance of any of the 32 schools in the school system.
- 103. TRANSITIONING WASTE SYSTEMS FROM DUMP AND BURN
- 104. Achieving 75% waste diversion in 2030 would: • Create 1.5 million new jobs • Lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 515 million tons (~72 coal plants or 50 million cars) • Significantly reduce pollution impacting human & ecological health Diverting Waste
- 105. $600 million for 1,500 ton-per- day incinerator $8 million for 1,500 ton-per- day recycling center Slide courtesy Brenda Platt, ILSR
- 109. BUS RIDERS UNION
- 112. AFFORDABLE, EQUITABLE, SUSTAINABLE HOUSING
- 113. NEW ORLEANS HOUSING DISCRIMINATION VICTORY
- 115. Clean Water for ALL
- 118. Social Cohesion--Networks of Caring and Support in the Transition
- 120.
- 124. Principles and Practices of Environmental and Climate Justice Movement Building • Principles of Environmental Justice • http://www.ejnet.org/ej/principles.html • Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing • http://www.ejnet.org/ej/jemez.pdf • Bali Principles of Climate Justice • http://www.ejnet.org/ej/bali.pdf • People’s Agreement of Cochabamba • http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/peoples-agreement/ • Everybody’s Movement • http://www.yale.edu/divinity/dislocations/documents/everybodysmov ement_AngelaPark.pdf • Cultivating the Grassroots • http://www.ncrp.org/files/publications/Cultivating_the_grassroots_fin al_lowres.pdf
- 125. Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing Be Inclusive Emphasis on Bottom Up Organizing Work Together in Solidarity and Mutuality Build Just Relationships Amongst Ourselves Commitment to Self-Transformation
- 126. “‘It takes strong roots to weather the storm.’ -Community leadership is imperative to address the root cause of the climate crisis and foster resilience.” —Climate Justice Alliance
- 127. “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
- 128. Background Removal allows you to quickly and easily remove backgrounds to isolate items in your image. Focus on the Star of Your Photo
- 129. “All We Need is Love”
- 130. Together We CAN!