A commitment to a continuing process of critical thinking is a necessary tool in every change-maker’s repository.
The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them.
- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By expanding our critical awareness of the world around us, by interrogating the root causes of systemic injustices, and by challenging ourselves to unlearn what has been inculcated within us, we transform ourselves and the world we live in.
The power of education can never be underestimated.
Please enjoy this resource list, recently compiled on the foot of the 2020 Mobilise. Resist. Tranform course. It will be regularly updated.
SYSTEMS THINKING AND PROBLEM-FRAMING
Media Justice - Telling a New Story A Collaborative Checklist for Social Justice Leaders Using Narrative Strategies for Change [Resource]
LifeMosaic Communications [Video]
Center for Story-based Strategy [Website & series of resources]
Story-based Strategy 101.pdf [Resource]
Framing for Social Change [Article]
Social Movement Technologies’ Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/DigitalCampaignSupport/about/
INTERSECTIONALITY
Systems thinking: Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking [Article]
Crisis opportunities and threats: Naomi Klein and Angela Davis Teach-in on movement building in the time of the coronavirus crisis [Webinar recording] (fast forward to minute 3 when the audio starts)
Some root causes:
Gender oppression: Climate Change is About...Women > Climate Change and Women in Bolivia: A View from the Ground [Article]
Colonialism - The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25
[Video]
Capitalism: Capitalism - a short explanation [Video]
White supremacy: On environmentalism, whiteness and activist superstars | gal-dem [Article]
Racialization: The History of Race and Racialization [Video]
Social media to follow:
The Decolonial Atlas: The Decolonial Atlas (@decolonialatlas) (also on Fb & Insta)
Indigenous Environmental Network - https://twitter.com/IENearth (also on Fb)
Wretched of the Earth - WretchedOfTheEarth (@wretchedotearth) (also on Fb)
Women/youth of colour environmental & climate activists:
o https://twitter.com/MaryHeglar
o https://twitter.com/zhaabowekwe
o https://twitter.com/israhirsi
o https://twitter.com/nadiabaltimore
o https://twitter.com/xiyebastida?lang=en
o https://twitter.com/xiuhtezcatl
EXTRACTIVISM AND CLIMATE FINANCE
Everything!
Homebound: Capitalists and Other Cannibals with ALNOOR LADHA /172 [podcast] - with the former Executive Director with The Rules (organisation that Maeve mentioned)
Extractivism
Undermining Human Rights: Ireland, the ESB and Cerrejón coal [report, read the executive summary]
EJAtlas | Mapping Environmental Justice [Map of environmental injustices]
Gas in Europe / gas subsidies
Europe wants to do WHAT?! [Video]
Fossil Gas Part of the problem, not the solution [Video]
Fossil fuel subsidies in Ireland Financing Climate Chaos [Report, read the executive summary]
Climate Finance
Fossil Free EIB | The climate clock is ticking. [Website and campaign]
COMMUNICATIONS
Media Justice - Telling a New Story A Collaborative Checklist for Social Justice Leaders Using Narrative Strategies for Change [Resource]
LifeMosaic Communications [Video]
Center for Story-based Strategy [Website & series of resources]
Story-based Strategy 101.pdf [Resource]
Framing for Social Change [Article]
Social Movement Technologies’ Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/DigitalCampaignSupport/about/
COVID-19 AND CLIMATE JUSTICE
- Open letter demands for a just recovery from 350.orghttps://350.org/just-recovery/
- Corona Capitalism video from Naomi Klein https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-capitalism/
- James Murray - the myth of silver linings https://www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/4012857/myth-silver-linings
- Gal-dem collective response to covid https://gal-dem.com/the-state-will-not-save-us-only-we-can-save-us-a-collective-response-to-covid-19/?
- Open democracy article on politicalness of a pandemic https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/theres-nothing-so-political-as-a-pandemic/?
- Framing climate justice https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MK24JlSGd0Vfjo-py8VS0u5wEdXGYu9AWPn4CVsxGVY/edit#slide=id.g7dff4f974c_3_5 https://publicinterest.org.uk/talking-climate-justice/
- Carbon emissions drop due to coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/10/coronavirus-could-cause-fall-in-global-co2-emissions (25 March) https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/david-harvey-anti-capitalist-politics-in-an-age-of-covid-19
- Coronavirus: Lockdowns continue to suppress European pollution - BBC News (27 March):https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52065140?at_custom4=77919F66-7053-11EA-893C-A5FF39982C1E&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom3=BBC+News&at_campaign=64&at_medium=custom7
- Debt relief https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/coronavirus_debt_relief_loc/ and importance of supporting Africahttps://www.ft.com/content/c12a09c8-6db6-11ea-89df-41bea055720b https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/anticipatory-anxiety-africa-on-the-cusp-of-pandemic/
- ‘Marshall Plan’ needed for workers https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/workers-need-a-coronavirus-plan-today
- We can respond to emergencies - so why not respond to climate change https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/climate-change-coronavirus-pick-evil-protesters-200306195937709.html
- UN Climate Change Secretariat Has New Organizational Structure - UN (1 April): https://unfccc.int/news/un-climate-change-secretariat-has-new-organizational-structure
- UK government’s new ‘decarbonising transport’ plan - UK GOV (30 March) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/876251/decarbonising-transport-setting-the-challenge.pdf
- What will the world be like after coronavirus? Four possible futures - The Conversation (30 March): https://theconversation.com/what-will-the-world-be-like-after-coronavirus-four-possible-futures-134085
- How is the coronavirus changing the world? Evgeny Morozov’s The Syllabus gives you essential reads and analyses - The Correspondent (26 March): https://thecorrespondent.com/374/how-is-the-coronavirus-changing-the-world-evgeny-morozovs-the-syllabus-gives-you-essential-reads-and-analyses/800399270-c436d14b
- Nature has sent us a terrible warning about our future – the fossil fuel industry is over - Independent (26 March): https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/voices/coronavirus-pandemic-budget-rishi-sunak-climate-crisis-a9424226.html
- Coronavirus: 'Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chief - Guardian (26 March) :https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/coronavirus-nature-is-sending-us-a-message-says-un-environment-chief?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1585138334
- David Harvey: Anti-Capitalist Politics in an Age of Covid-19 - Tribune Magazine (23 March) https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/david-harvey-anti-capitalist-politics-in-an-age-of-covid-19
- The coronavirus crisis reminds us that electricity is more indispensable than ever - IEA (22 March) https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-coronavirus-crisis-reminds-us-that-electricity-is-more-indispensable-than-ever
- How our daily travel harms the planet - BBC (18 March) https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200317-climate-change-cut-carbon-emissions-from-your-commute
- Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination
- https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rob-Wallace/Big-Farms-Make-Big-Flu--Dispatches-on-Influenza-Agribusin/21921929
- https://www.campfireconvention.uk/profile/daniel-pinchbeck/we-may-never-have-another-chance-one?
SOLIDARITY
What are Social Movements? [Article]
How to build across difference
Five ways to build solidarity across our differences [Article]
Three more ways to build solidarity across our differences [Article]
How to be aware of privilege in solidarity actions/work
You Say You Stand in Solidarity – But Do You Know What That Really Means? [Video]
Extinction Rebellion Is Overwhelmingly Shaped by Middle-Class White People. It Does Not Serve Us [Article]
Supply chains, transnational corporations based in Europe
BLOOD COAL ** WAYUU AND AFRO COLOMBIANS SPEAK TO EUROPE / UK SUPPLY CHAIN ** [Video]
Rights for People, Rules for Corporations | TerraJusta [Video]
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GLOBALLY
Let Us Fight For A New World, Environmental Politics For A Changing World: An Excerpt, by Nathan Thanki [Article]
A New Normal, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice Statement
Groups to follow/join
Grassroots Environmental Campaigning Groups [Map]
Stop Blood Coal Ireland - Home [Facebook]
Not Here Not Anywhere – For a Fossil Free Future [Website]
Climate Case Ireland [Website]
Love Leitrim (@love_leitrim) [Twitter]
Futureproof Clare - Home [Facebook]
Home | SCAN [Website]
Why #StopShannonLNG? - Stop Shannon LNG [Website]
Resources for future work (incl. online)
Training For Change | Movement and Capacity Building at the Grassroots
Trainings – Facilitating Online Meetings
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