Movement Generation Cultivates Home, Confronts Crisis With Hope
On a starry night in 2015, Quinton Sankofa sat with new friends in the serenity of Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, preparing to return to Oakland the next day. Sankofa was leading Permaculture for the People, an intensive course organized by Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project (Movement Generation). For a week they had lived in this beautiful rural California center, learning the theory and concepts of permaculture and linking them with justice.
Real Solutions on Climate, Right Now
As world leaders and peoples movements gather in Paris to forge agreement about how to address the climate crisis, some common wisdom can guide us. Solving any problem requires three basic steps:
Our Family, Our Future: My Global Migration Pledge
As I write this, the bodies of hundreds of people are being pulled from the water off the coast of Libya, after two boats sank, drowning women, men, and children migrating in desperation from [...]
The How of Transformative Change
A few weeks ago I got to spend two days in Oakland with a tremendous group of wonderful people brought together by the Movement Strategy Center.
We came together to explore one big question: [...]
“This Is About Energy Sovereignty” — One Step Toward Home
As someone working to change policies and practice to bring us closer to food sovereignty, I think a lot about land and how our current systems are built on private property ownership. I [...]
Learning to Walk: Gender, Economy, & Ecology
I am learning how to walk again.
I lost my walk after an intensive yoga training — the third of nine I am undertaking to strengthen my personal practice and my role as a [...]
Mothering Through Climate Chaos – Mamas Day Our Way
Our kids love it when we tell good stories. Throughout time, we mamas have imparted wisdom and values through storytelling. Like all humans, mamas are narrative creatures. But many of us have lost the art of storytelling, forgotten the values and wisdom of our ancestors. Our kids hear their stories from mainstream media, often closing their minds to the possibilities of another world—or as the Zapatistas say, a world of many worlds. So we try to find good books for our kids—stories that depict our girls as the agents of change, images that show the real diversity of our families, teach the morals of taking care of each other.
From French Fries to Fracking — Inspiring Movement Moments of 2013
Remember this spring, when the Associated Press finally dropped the I-word, and youth of color defeated prison-to-pipeline policies in Los Angeles public schools?
Or remember back in February when 50,000 people rallied in DC against the XL [...]
