2020 Osher Fall/virtual Nonviolence Climate Justice #6/2

 Session 6: 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:

• Homework for week #7, Nonviolence news Link to site
• News: 

    •Nonviolent response to election chaos Link to site

    • Nonviolence News - Link to site
Videos:
(1) "350.org  Climate Change is About Power," 350.org, link to video

(2) Michael Gagne, "Why Nonviolent Direct Action," Link to video
(3) "Climate activist Greta Thunberg on the Power of a Movement," PBS, 9/13/19 Link to video

Speaker:

• Judy Winters, EQAT

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

Readings:
(1) 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/

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
(4) • Rob Nixon, "Naomi Klein's This changes Everything," Sunday Book Review, NY Times, 11/6/14 Link to article
Resources:
• Earth Quaker Action Team, Link to site

• "Bill McKibben on Nonviolence and Trump's election," New School, 12/2016 Link to Video
•  "Extinction Rebellion: A Week of Protest in Three Minutes," Link to Video

"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