upholding the beloved community - a vision for a sustainable, thriving transition
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Upholding The Beloved
Community
A Vision for a Sustainable, Thriving
Transition
What is the Beloved Community?
Vision of the
Residents of
Gulfport, MS
• Access to basic needs/commons—
food, water, clothing, shelter
• Safety
• Good Schools
• Livelihood/Jobs
• Good Educational System
What Threatens Our Vision?
• Disasters
• Pollution
• Scarcity
• Development (non-people-centered)
• Crime
• Racial Profiling/Police Brutality
• Conflict/Violence/War
• Lack of Democracy
Our Current Course
Historical Context
• Rampant Extraction and Exploitation of Humans and Natural Resources
• Trade/Manufacturing/Finance Policies/Rules Benefitting Corporations and
Industrialized Nations While Completely Disregarding Human Rights and
Earth Rights
Human and Civil Rights FrameworksHUMAN RIGHTS
• Right to Self Determination
• Right to Safe and Healthy Work Conditions
• Right to Highest Standard of Physical and Mental Health
• Right to Food
• Right to a Decent Living Condition
• Equal Rights Between Men and Women
• Right of Youth and Children to be Free From Exploitation
CIVIL RIGHTS
• Ensuring peoples' physical integrity and safety.
• Protection from discrimination on grounds such as gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, national origin, age, immigrant status, etc.
• Equal access to health care, education, culture, etc.
Equity Framework
• Procedural equity encompasses fairness in political processes and
participation in decision making.
• Distributive equity highlights the need to consider not just the
allocation of benefits, but also the costs and risks with a focus on
the outcomes of allocation decisions.
• Contextual equity recognizes the fact that the playing field is never
level but that people’s capabilities and their access to resources and
power determine the extent to which they are able to utilize
procedural equity to determine the best distributive outcome for
themselves.
IMMIGRATION STAGUS
POLITICAL POWER
ECONOMIC STATUS
EDUCATION GENDER
RACE
Global South Nations
and Environmental Justice
Communities in the United States
COMMON CAUSE
“Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere”
OIL
Waste Being Dumped in Our
Communities
COAL
Waste/Incineration
Transportation/Goods Movement
Environmental Justice Impacts
Effects of Pollution
Disproportionate IMPACT
Always Watching,
Too Seldom Playing
Underresourced School Systems
School to Prison Pipeline
CLIMATE IMPACTS
During Hurricane Katrina, over 1,800 individuals died because they were unable to evacuate the city.
Persons with special health conditions and persons who were elderly, poor, or differently abled were the most likely to die.
Low-income African Americans often could not evacuate because they had no personal transportation.
Stark Reality
CARIBBEAN NATIONS ARE ALREADY FEELING THE IMPACTApproximately three quarters of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean are estimated to
live in disaster risk areas.
Jamaica Bahamas Haiti
Coastal Erosion in Benin
INTERSECTIONS
Madison Family Home Site
Criminalization
Three Sisters United
• Sheila Holt Orsted
• Katherine Egland
• NeAnna Roane McLean
International Linkages
Ex. CLIMATE DRIVEN MIGRATION
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you have to understand,that no one puts their children in a boatunless the water is safer than the land
“HOME” By Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali Poet
LIMITED
AMBITION/COMMITMENT
Per Capita Responsibility
for Carbon Emissions
“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”
Deforestation
Popul
ation
contr
ol is
not
the
Answ
er
Clean Coal?
The Story of Cap and Trade
Australia’s U-Turn on Climate Commitments
PM Vows to Repeal Carbon Tax
“Reject socialism masquerading as environmentalism….
Will not sign up to any new agreement that involves spending money or levying taxes”
The United States Blocks Equity and
Accountability at Every Turn
Climate Change
REGULATIONS ON FRACKING?
Halliburton
Loophole
Upholding the Beloved Community
Advancing Human Rights
Resistance
Resilience
Reclamation
Revolution
Systems Change, Not Climate Change
• Political/Governance
• Economic/Finance/Manufacturing/Trade/Labor
• Food/Agricultural
• Waste/Recycling
• Energy
• Transportation
What Systems Do We Need to Change?
Advancing True Democracy
Civic Engagement
Transforming Policies and Practices
Increased Decision Making Equity
Clean Energy
Food
Waste
Trade Policies
Tax Systems
Etc.
In the Meantime….
BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD
Uniting in Resistance
POLLUTERS TALK—CIVIL SOCIETY WALKS“We Will Be Back”
Curtailing Financing of Fossil Fuels
Gender Justice-Uniting Across Oceans
Standing Together in Solidarity with The Philippines
Mechanical Flower
We Are All Interconnected
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Eliminating Corporate Overreach
Strengthening Local Economies and
Systems in the Commons
Reclaiming the Grid
Economic Opportunity
Building the Local Food Movement
Our Daily Bread
IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
GREEN SCHOOLS
Green School Results
• An analysis of two school districts in Illinois found that student attendance rose by 5% after incorporating cost-effective indoor air quality improvements.
• A study of Chicago and Washington, DC schools found that better school facilities can add 3 to 4 percentage points to a school’s standardized test scores, even after controlling for demographic factors.
• A recent study of the cost and benefits of green schools for Washington State estimated a 15% reduction in absenteeism and a 5% increase in student test scores.
Green School Impacts
• “Third Creek Elementary School replaced ADR and Wayside Elementary Schools, schools that were two of the district’s lowest performing school in regards to test scores and teacher retention/absence.
• This same group of students and teachers improved from less than 60% of students on grade level in reading and math to 80% of students on grade level in reading and math since moving into the new Third Creek Elementary School. Third Creek had the most gains in academic performance of any of the 32 schools in the school system.
TRANSITIONING WASTE SYSTEMS FROM DUMP AND BURN
Achieving 75% waste diversion in
2030 would:• Create 1.5 million new jobs
• Lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
by 515 million tons
(~72 coal plants or 50 million cars)• Significantly reduce pollution impacting
human & ecological health
Diverting Waste
$600 million for 1,500 ton-per-day incinerator
$8 million for 1,500 ton-per-day recycling
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Advancing Equity Based
Transportation
BUS RIDERS UNION
Equitable, Affordable Housing
AFFORDABLE, EQUITABLE, SUSTAINABLE HOUSING
NEW ORLEANS HOUSING DISCRIMINATION VICTORY
PENN SOUTH—MITCHELL LAMA
Clean Water for ALL
Flint Participatory
Planning Process
Social Cohesion--Networks of Caring
and Support in the Transition
FRONTLINE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
Principles and Practices of Environmental and Climate Justice Movement Building
• Principles of Environmental Justice • http://www.ejnet.org/ej/principles.html• Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing• http://www.ejnet.org/ej/jemez.pdf• Bali Principles of Climate Justice• http://www.ejnet.org/ej/bali.pdf• People’s Agreement of Cochabamba• http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/peoples-agreement/• Everybody’s Movement• http://www.yale.edu/divinity/dislocations/documents/everybodysmov
ement_AngelaPark.pdf• Cultivating the Grassroots• http://www.ncrp.org/files/publications/Cultivating_the_grassroots_fin
al_lowres.pdf
Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing
Be Inclusive
Emphasis on Bottom Up Organizing
Work Together in Solidarity and Mutuality
Build Just Relationships Amongst Ourselves
Commitment to Self-Transformation
“‘It takes strong roots to weather the storm.’ -Community leadership is imperative to address the root cause of the climate crisis and foster resilience.”
—Climate Justice Alliance
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I can never be what I ought to be until you are
what you ought to be. This is the interrelated
structure of reality.”
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Focus on the Star of Your Photo
“All We Need is Love”
Together We CAN!
