Communities Uniting for a Just Transition

Panelists

• Samantha Harvey, Overbrook Foundation

(Moderator)

• Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan, Movement

Generation

• Cindy Wiesner, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

• Diana Copeland, East Michigan Environmental

Action Council

• JihanGearon, Black Mesa Water Coalition

• MiyaYoshitani, Asian Pacific Environmental

Network

• FarhadEbrahimi, Chorus Foundation

Climate Justice Alliance

• Lorax

Extractive Economy

False Promises

Building Our Power for a Just Transition

Clean Community Energy

Zero Waste

Public Transportation

Regional Food Systems

Efficient, Affordable, Durable Housing

Ecosystem Restoration & Stewardship

Restoration of watersheds: “slow it, spread it, sink it,”vs“Pave it, Pump it, Pipe It”.

ENDTHE EXTRACTIVE

ECONOMY

CREATEAN ECONOMY FOR

LIFE

ECOLOGICAL

RESOTRATION

LOCAL, CLEAN,

COMMUNITY

CONTROLED ENERGY

RELOCALIZED

PRIMARY

FOOD SYSTEM

COMMUNITY

CONTROLLED

HOUSING ZERO WASTE

PUBLIC and

MASS TRANSIT

PEOPLE’S HEALTH,

EDUCATION and

WELL BEING

Non COMMERCIAL

ART AND CULTURE

WORKER

OWNERSHIP and

DEMOCRACY

RESPONSIBLE

RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT

MOVETHE RESOURCES

SUPPORTOUR ECONOMY

BUILDOUR POWER

WRONG WAY

THE ONLY

WAY

CHANGE THE RULES

FORGE A DIVERSE, MULTI-

SECTORAL MOVEMENT

TOWARDS A JUST TRANSITION

Local

‘Hot Spots’

Richmond, CA

Detroit, MI

Black Mesa, Navajo Nation

Detroit, MI

Black Mesa, Navajo Nation

Richmond, CA

Tran

• Expand Hot Spots.

Carry Out Local &

Statewide Just

Transition

Campaigns

• Convenings in

Detroit and

Richmond

• National Campaign

Convergence

• Political Education &

Leadership

Development

• Strategic

Communications

• Research &

Documentation

2014 Work

• Alliance for Appalachia

• Asian Pacific Environmental Network*

• Black Mesa Water Coalition*

• Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy

• Center for Story-based Strategy

• Communities for a Better Environment*

• Community to Community Development

• Cornell Global Labor Institute

• East Michigan Environmental Action Coalition*

• Energy Justice Network

• Environmental Justice and Climate Change

Initiative

• Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives

• Global Justice Ecology Project

• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance*

• Grassroots International

• Indigenous Environmental Network*

• Institute for Policy Studies

• Ironbound Community Corporation

• Jobs With Justice

• Just Transition Alliance

• Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

• Labor Community Strategy Center

• Labor Network for Sustainability

• Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

• Movement Generation*

• Movement Strategy Center

• NAACP Climate Justice Initiative

• New York City- EJ Alliance

• People Organizing to Demand Environmental and

Economic Rights (PODER)

• POWER

• Right to the City Alliance

• Rising Tide North America

• Ruckus Society

• Southwest Organizing Project

• Southwest Workers Union

• UPROSE

* Denotes Steering Committee member