2020 Osher Fall/Virtual Nonviolence Climate Justice #5

Session Five: The Climate Justice Movement

Music:  Chris Hadfield, "Space Oddity," Link to site

Agenda Preview

Essential Questions:

• How can a society transform itself to mitigate and adapt to climate change?
• What historical precedents are there for transformative systemic change?
• What will it take to initiate the changes necessary to stabilize the climate?
• How important is the role of people power to create political change?
• What is the Green New Deal? Does it meet the requirements of a positive vision?

Gathering: "A question that I have about Climate Change or the Climate Justice Movement is.."

Exercise:  Imagine a positive environmental attribute of a future world that you would like your children to live in..."

Exercise: Spaceship Earth Emergency

Rick's Rap:
• homework for Session Six

Videos:
• "Message from the Future II:The Years of Repair," The Leap & The Intercept , September 2020  Link to video

•"Inside the Sunrise Movement: How Climate Activists Put the Green New Deal on the Map, NBC News, March 2019 Link to Video


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

Readings:

• Kate Aronoff, "With a Green New Deal, Here's what the world could look like for the next generation," The Intercept, 12/5/18 Link to article 

• Breanna Draxler, " The Power of Inclusive Intergenerational Climate Activism," Yes! Magazine,  9/21/20 link to article

Resources:

•  "Extinction Rebellion: A Week of Protest in Three Minutes," Link to Video
• 350.org video
• Xiye Bastida, "Why I Fight for Climate Change," TED Talk, July 2020 Link to Video

• Sunrise Move Campaign Guide, Link to article

• Sunrise Principle Link to Site
• 350.org Link to site

• Extinction Rebellion Link to site

• Bill McKibben, "We Literally Need to Declare War on Climate Change,"  New Republic, August 15, 2016 Link to article

• "The Green New Deal explained", Vox video, June 12, 2019 link to video
• Thomas Friedman, "The Green New Deal Rises Again," NYTimes, 1/8/19 Link to article
• Sunrise Movement students are arrested, Common Dreams, link to Article

• David Brooks, "A Nation of Weavers," NYTimes,  2/18/19 Link to Article

•"The Green New Deal with Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez," Chris Hayes Show, MSNBC, 4/1/19   link to Video
• H.Res. 109, "Green New Deal," 116th Congress,  Link to article

 •Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes interview, Chris Hayes Show, MSNBC , 4/1/19 link to video
•"The Next System Project," link to video

• Rob Nixon, "Naomi Klein's This changes Everything," Sunday Book Review, NY Times, 11/6/14https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/books/review/naomi-klein-this-changes-everything-review.html?_r=0

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here

assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.”

FDR, 1932

quoted in the Sunrise Movement National Handbook