11/28/22 WFS 2020: Session Seven: Nonviolence and Climate Justice with Daniel Hunter and Judy Winters

  

 

 

Session Seven: Nonviolence and Climate Justice

 

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

 Welcome and Introductions

 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?

 

Agenda Preview: 

 

 

Gathering: " A question that I have for the speakers is..."

 

 

Rick’s Rap: (homework, News of the day, community sharing)

 

 

Speakers: Daniel Hunter and Judy Winters      

                        

 Readings:

• 350.org Link to Site

• 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 Link to Site

• Daniel Hunter, "How to Build a Resilient Culture of Resistance in Hard Times, Waging Nonviolence Link to Site

• Michael Nagler, "What Would Gandhi Say Today On The 150 Anniversary of His Birth? Metta Center for Nonviolence, 10/1/19 Link to Site

• Jessica Corbett, "Climate Scientists Urge More Civil Disobedience to Signal 'How Deep in the Sh*t We Are,"  Common Dreams, 8/30/22 Link to Site

• Andrew Marantz, "The Youth Movement Trying To revolutionize Climate Politics," New Yorker 2/28/22

Link to Site

• Bill McKibben, "How the Many Can  Overcome the Ruthless Few," The Nation, 11/30/16,
pp.9-36 link to site

Resources:

• Nick Engelfried,"How Young Climate Activists Built a Mass Movement, to be Reckoned With," Waging Nonviolence, 11/15/22Link to Site

• Daniel Hunter, "Climate Resistance Handbook, " 350.org Link to Site

•  Chris Moore-Blackman, "How to Help My Daughter Face Climate Change With an Open Heart," Yes! Magazine, December 2017 Link to Site

• Rob Nixon, "Naomi Klein's This changes Everything," Sunday Book Review, NY Times, 11/6/14 Link to article

•"Greta Thunberg: Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2019" Time Magazine, 12/2019, Link to article

• "Extinction Rebellion: A Week of Protest in Three Minutes," Link to Video

 

 

"We do need hope - of course, we do. But then thing we need more than hope is action.   Once we start to act, hope is everywhere."

        Greta Thunberg