Climate Warriors

Session 9: Climate Warriors

Music: Tom Petty , "License to Kill" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CEfNY02n5E
Jon Hall, Carly Simon, "Power"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ_73_8kzo
Essential Questions: 

• What are the characteristics of a warrior?
• What is a climate warrior?
• What inspires a person to become a climate warrior?
• What legacies about the environment do we want to leave our children and grandchildren?

Rick's Rap:

Gathering:  "A positive characteristic of a warrior is..."

Video: "The Next System," YouTube, 2015 Next System/Youtube

Speakers:  John Sykes and Lisa Locke, Delaware Interfaith Power and Light
                   Judy Winters, Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) http://www.eqat.org
               
Exercise:  "Visioning myself as a Climate Warrior."

Closing:  "One thing that I will do to make my life more climate friendly is..."

Rick Channels Paulo Freire:  a ver, a pensar, a actuar, a celebrar

Reading:   

• "Be a Climate Hero,"  Yes! Magazine, Winter 2010
• Yes! Magazine, Winter 2010
• George Lakey, "What Role were you born to play in social change?", Waging Nonviolence, February 3, 2016 http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/bill-moyer-four-roles-of-social-change/
• 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/
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Resources

•  Bill McKibben, “How the Many Can Overcome the Ruthless Few,” The Nation, 11/30/16. pp.9-36 https://www.thenation.com/article/how-the-active-many-can-overcome-the-ruthless-few/
  • “Orientation direct action training and principles,” “We are our own Medicine,” Special Report from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribes, Land and Unceded Territory, American Friends Service Committee,      October, 2016, https://www.afsc.org/sites/afsc.civicactions.net/files/documents/We%20Are%20Our%20Own%20Medicine_2.pdf
  • "Another Inconvenient Truth that Normal Channels are Not Enough," International Center for Non Violent Action, August 2017, https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/blog_post/another-inconvenient-truth-normal-channels-not-enough/

Be the change you wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi