#7 The Climate Justice Movement

Session Seven: “The Climate Justice Movement:  Lessons from Standing Rock

Music: "Icarus"   Paul Winter Consort https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-iulBmSVs

Essential Questions:

• What non violent techniques and strategies were used by the organizers at Standing Rock?

• What non violent strategies are being used by the climate change justice movement?

Rick's Rap:

Gathering: " When I hear the words climate change, the following idea/image comes to mind..."

Videos: 
(1) "Climate Change is about power," 350.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m95K7LClIC4
 (2) " 25 Astonishing Dakota Pipeline Facts You Might Want to Know," List25, 2016https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdNdhe_pWYQ
 (3) "Tribes across North America converge at Standing Rock hoping to be heard,"
PBS, 9/2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-EQ7BuhQq4

(4) “Naomi Klein on the People’s Climate March & the Global Grassroots Movement Fighting Fossil Fuels People’s,” Democracy Now, 9/18/14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VnWVFgqLJg

Speaker: Judy Winter, Earth Quaker Action Team, http://www.eqat.org

Readings: 

(1) 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/

(2) “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
(3) George Lakey, "How a small Quaker group forced PNC Bank to stop financing mountaintop removal," Waging Non Violence, March 4, 2015 https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/small-quaker-group-forced-pnc-bank-stop-financing-mountaintop-removal/
(4) Sual Elbein, "The Group that launched a Movement at Standing Rock," NYTimes, 1/31/17
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/magazine/the-youth-group-that-launched-a-movement-at-standing-rock.html

Resources:

• ICA & Standing Rock community members attend NYC Pension Fund hearing on Climate Change 11/30/17 https://www.indigenousclimateaction.com/single-post/2017/11/30/ICA-and-Standing-Rock-community-member-attend-New-York-City-Pension-Fund-public-hearing-on-Climate-Change
•  Nick Engelfried, * Lessons for today's youth -led movements from a decade of youth climate organizing,"Waging Non Violence, 5/3 18 go to link for article

“After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.”

        Wallace Stevens, from the poem “The Well-Dressed Man with a Beard”