2020 Session #4 Climate Justice Movement

Session 5: Climate Justice Movement

Music: David Bowie, "Heroes," Live Aid Concert, London, 1985 link to Video

Essential Questions:
• What is the climate justice movement?
• What non violent techniques and strategies are being used by the climate justice movement?
• What organizations are actively working for climate justice solutions?

Gathering: "What is an attribute of a hero...?"

Rick's rap:

Videos:
(1) "350.org  Climate Change is About Power," 350.org, link to video
(2) "Climate activist Greta Thunberg on the Power of a Movement," PBS, 9/13/19 Link to video
(3) "Bill McKibben on Nonviolence and Trump's election," New School, 12/2016 Link to Video
(4) "Extinction Rebellion: A Week of Protest in Three Minutes," Link to Video
(5) Xiye Bastida, "Why I Fight for Climate Change," TED Talk, July 2020 Link to video




Closing: "Something that I learned today..."

Readings:
(1) 350.org, link to site
(2) "Greta Thunberg: Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2019" Time Magazine, 12/2019, Link to article
(3) Bill McKibben, "How the Many Can  Overcome the Ruthless Few," The Nation, 11/30/16,
pp.9-36 Link to article

Resources:

• Earth Quaker Action Team, Link to site
• George Lakey, "How a small Quaker group forced PNC Bank to stop financing mountaintop removal," Waging Non Violence, March 4, 2015 http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/small-quaker-group-forced-pnc-bank-stop-financing-mountaintop-removal/

"We do need hope—of course, we do. But the one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere.", Greta Thunberg, Tedx Talk Stockholm, 2018