Breakthrough Communities

Building Leadership Skillsfor Sustainable Regions

Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel, PhD

AgendaI. Welcome

Invitation to expand empower-ment from ourselves to our re-gions, and beyond.

II. IntroductionsIntention: To invite participants to help create an exciting and infor-mative conversation. This feeling is generated by the wisdom of our ancestors, a shared sense of urgency in our time, and a hope for our children and grandchildren.

III. Where are we?Intention: To share the urgency of the global, social, economic and enviromental crisis and to understand this as one multifaceted crisis, not separate issues. This crisis has four dimensions:

Social Justice Environmental Sustainability Economic Viability SpiritualFulfillment

The goal of sustainable development is to meet today’s needs without compromising the capacity of future generations to meet their needs.

IV. How did we get here?Intention: To distinguish emergencies that we face as individuals and as a society, and to develop the capacity to envision future generations.

V. A New Story for Sustainable Regions

Intention: To recognize that a new way of seeing the world that is profoundly interconnected is emerging in our culture, consistent with life on the planet. This enables us to visualize solutions through parts of our problems that seem fragmented and disconnected, and in turn, create the possibility for a future that is not an extension of the past.

VI. Breakthrough Community Strategies

Intention: To share exam-ples of strategies adopted by communities of color and social justice advocates in the U.S. working to develop holistic solutions for our time.

VII. Where do we go from here?Intention: To express our commitment to creating an environmentally sustainable, economically viable,sociallyjustandspirituallyfulfillinghumanpresenceonthisplanetastheguidingprincipleof our times, and to identify for ourselves actions and practices which are consistent with our stand.

VIII. Compass for Collaborative LeadershipIntention: To share transformative strategies and tools that have been effective in regional contexts throughout the United States.

IX. ClosingIntention: To review the workshop and outline next steps for building sustainable communities.

Compass for Collaborative Leadership

1. Waking Up - finding a voice

2. Saying “No” to the forces destroying your communities

The value of protestTaking a standHalting destruction

3. Getting grounded

Getting grounded in communityGetting grounded in placeGetting grounded in time

4. Exploring new horizons

Building collaborative leadershipReaching toward just sustainabilityReaching toward a metropolitan scale

5. Saying “Yes”

Being proactive Framing the issues Connecting constituency to opportunity

Compass for Collaborative Leadership

Building Leadership Skills for Sustainable Regions

New Story for Sustainable Metropolitan Regions

1. Birth of the Universe -- 13.7 Billion Years Ago2. Birth of the Solar System and Planet Earth-- 4 5 Billion Years Ago3. Break Up of Pangaea and Birth of the Atlantic Ocean -- 350 Million Years Ago4. Last Great Extinctions -- 65 Million Years Ago5. Human Emergence in Africa as a Single Species – 5 Million to 35,000 Years Ago6. Last Ice Age -- 70, 000 to 10,000 Years Ago 7. Early Cities in the Afro Eurasian Network – 8,000 BC to 800 AD8. Emergence of Meso American Cities 200 BC to 1450 AD9. Medieval Cities in Eurasia and Africa 800 to1450

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16. Beginnings of Climate Change Science --189317. Metropolitan Sprawl and Abandonment – 1950s to Present18. First Endangered Species Laws --197319. 50% of World Population Live in Cities –200720. Rise of Movement for Sustainable Metropolitan Regions – 1980 to 2008

10.Western European Expansion, Colonization, and Slave Trade –1450 to 1800 11. 2% of World Population Live in Cities of More than 10,000 People – 1800 AD12. Rise of Industrial Cities--1800 to 1900 AD13. Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction -- 1861 to 187714. Failure of Reconstruction and Rise of Civil Rights Movement 1877 to 197015. Great Black Migration and Other Migrations – 1877 to 2000

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12 Breakthrough Stories1. Rekindling Hope in Cleveland / Closing the Gaps: The National Vacant Properties

Campaign Cleveland, Ohio (stories by David Goldberg and Don Chen)

2. Neighbors Building Neighborhoods Rochester, New York (story by Mayor William A. Johnson, Jr.)

3. Transforming Brownfield Communities: The Naugatuck Valley Project New England (story by Kenneth Galdston)

4. Community Activism for Creative Rebuilding of Neighborhoods Chicago, Illinois (story by Mary Nelson and Stephen McCullough)

5. Opportunity-Based Housing in Atlanta / A Regional Approach to Affordable Housing Atlanta, Georgia (stories by Steve Lerner and Hattie Dorsey)

6. Preserving Heirs Property in Coastal South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina (story by Faith Rivers and Jennie Stephens)

7. LAX Rising / Community Benefits Agreements: A Strategy for Renewing Our Cities Los Angeles, California (stories by Danny Feingold and Greg Leroy)

8. Reshaping a Region After September 11 New York Metro Region (story by Robert Yaro, Chris Jones, Petra Todorovich, and Nicolas Ronderos)

9. Faith-Based Organizing for Metro Equity in Detroit / Values, Vision, and Message: The Spirit of Metro Equity Detroit, Michigan (stories by Greg Galluzzo, Mike Kruglik, and Rev. Cheryl Rivera and Vicki Kovari)

10. Bridging the Bay: University/Community Collaborations San Francisco Bay Area (story by Manuel Pastor, Rachel Rosner, Juliet Ellis, and Elizabeth Tan)

11. Regional Solutions that Change the Rules of the Game: Confronting Poverty in

Camden, New JerseyCamden, New Jersey (stories by Howard Gillette, Jeremy Nowak and David Rusk)

12. Farms to Schools: Promoting Urban Health, Combating Sprawl, and Advancing Community Food Systems Southern California (story by Robert Gottlieb, Mark Vallianatos, and Anupama Joshi)

16. Beginnings of Climate Change Science --189317. Metropolitan Sprawl and Abandonment – 1950s to Present18. First Endangered Species Laws --197319. 50% of World Population Live in Cities –200720. Rise of Movement for Sustainable Metropolitan Regions – 1980 to 2008

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the following author contributors to the forthcoming book,Breakthrough: Stories and Strategies for Building Sustainable Metropolitan Communities (to be published in 2008 by MIT Press):

Carl Anthony Angela Glover Blackwell Robert D. BullardSheryll D. Cashin Don Chen Celine D’Cruz Amy Dean Hattie B. Dorsey Cynthia M. Duncan Juliet Ellis Danny Feingold Deeohn Ferris Kenneth Galdston Gregory A. Galluzzo Howard Gillette David Goldberg Robert Gottlieb Kizzy Charles-GuzmanBart Harvey Christopher Jones Van JonesMayor William A. Johnson, Jr. Anupama Joshi Bruce Katz Vicki Kovari Mike Kruglik Steve LernerGreg LeRoy Amy Liu Steven McCullough Mary Nelson Jeremy Nowak MyronOrfieldManuel Pastor Margaret Paloma Pavel john powell Rev. Cheryl Rivera Faith Rivers L. Nicolas RonderosRachel Rosner David Rusk David SatterthwaiteEllen Schneider Peggy Shepard Benjamin Starrett Jennie Stephens Elizabeth Tan Andrea Torrice Petra Todorovich Mark Vallianatos Robert Yaro

Design by Mary Newson.

This book is part of a new series at MIT Press. Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Books provide an exploration of the social and environmental justice dimensions of sustainability within a regional and community-based framework. Addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and connection to place are central to the mission and goals of the series.

Our work has been enriched by many colleagues, including Joanna Macy, the Pachamama Alliance, the Angeles Arrien Foundation, the Blue Moon Fund and the Ford Foundation.

About the Artist:All photomontages contained in this material are created by Keba Armand Konte, an Oakland based artist. Konte’s work refers directly to humanity – the body and the community – particularly the dynamic state of urban living. He layers memory and metaphor as he inscribes social conditions, emphasizing love, vulner-ability, decay and loss. www.kebakonte.com

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