Hey SEACers!

Here are the four pieces that we'll be reading and discussing together to help strengthen our analysis of oppression and liberation.

1. Eco-Apartheid by Van Jones

2. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

3. The Principles of Environmental Justice

4. Environmental Justice:
An Interview with Robert Bullard

Those are the articles folks! Enjoy! :)

Join the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace, Rising Tide, Mountain Justice, Coal River Mountain Watch, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Southern Energy Network and a cast of thousands as we mobilize to stop foreclosure on the climate!

Sign Up Here—www.dirtymoney.org

WHAT: Hundreds of Actions in 24 Hours against the Coal Industry and its Financiers

WHERE: Your Town USA

WHEN: November 14 & 15

CONTACT: dirtymoney@ran.org or students@sfo.greenpeace.org; or call 1-800-989-RAIN

INFO: www.dirtymoney.org

Coal is the dirtiest of all fuels and has a huge negative impact on the climate, yet the coal industry and elected officials are accepting it as a solution to the climate crisis.

It's time we stand up to say, "Don't Foreclose the Climate!"

Here's what we really need to save the climate:

• No new coal plants
• An end to mountaintop removal
• Stop financing the coal industry
• Invest in green jobs and clean and just energy!

Here's how you can stand up and say no to foreclosure on the climate:

1. Register your action now at www.dirtymoney.org

2. Download a toolkit at www.dirtymoney.org

3. Contact RAN at dirtymoney@ran.org or Greenpeace at students@sfo.greenpeace.org for support. We can send you banners and flyers, as well as help you brainstorm potential actions.

4. Join one of the upcoming conference call check-ins- Oct 28th and Nov 11th

It's time to take to the streets and send the Coal Industry and its financiers a message that we will not foreclose the climate!!

Read on for more information on why you should take action on November 14-15:

Why are the Coal Industry and Coal Financiers so bad?

* ACCELERATING CLIMATE CHANGE

This blogpost was co-authored with Amy Ortiz.

This past weekend, April 4-6th, something historic took place in Memphis, Tennessee. During the same few days where people from across the nation gathered in the place where Martin Luther King Jr’s was assassinated forty years ago to honor the man, his legacy, and his dream for America, a thousand people, the majority of them people of color, came together to take part in rebirthing MLK’s vision. At The Dream Reborn, visionaries, artists and leaders came together to “create ecological solutions to heal the earth while bringing jobs, justice, wealth and health to all our communities.” We saw environmentalism re-defined, re-vitalized, re-energized and re-imagined, and witnessed not just the rebirth of MLK’s dream, but also the birth of a transformative movement with the power to bring the kind of change that we so desperately need.

The Dream Reborn was a weekend charting a new environmentalism that isn’t so new: the marriage of movements for social justice and the environment. Environmental Justice and other groups have been working at this intersection for years. Racial and Economic justice organizations strive to put an ecological lens on their organizing, just as Environmental organizations strive to put a racial and social justice lens on their work. But this weekend was the birth of that organizing with new language that is gaining influence in the mainstream of society, energy around program such as Green Jobs, and forcing major institutions and even presidential candidates to take notice. In more ways than one, the time for a new environmental movement, one for justice for both people and the planet, has come.

We spent our time at Dream Reborn coordinating and participating in Rainforest Action Network (RAN) – and it’s youth arm RAN Youth Sustaining the Earth (RYSE)’s youth delegation. 13 amazing people aged 13-22, along with 4 RAN staff, came together from across the nation. We represented many different communities, ages, and interests. We came to Memphis to connect, learn, grow, share and ultimately leave with the tools and the inspiration to go back to our communities and build a just, sustainable future. It was a chance not only to bring diverse youth to the table as stakeholders in conversations around green jobs and movements for environmental social justice, but to offer ideas and leadership to RAN’s growing network and the evolution of RYSE.

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