July 3, 2020 View all news A commitment to a continuing process of critical thinking is a necessary tool in every change-maker’s repository.The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them.- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the OppressedBy expanding our critical awareness of the world around us, by interrogating the root causes of systemic injustices, and by challenging ourselves to unlearn what has been inculcated within us, we transform ourselves and the world we live in.The power of education can never be underestimated.Please enjoy this resource list, recently compiled on the foot of the 2020 Mobilise. Resist. Tranform course. It will be regularly updated. SYSTEMS THINKING AND PROBLEM-FRAMINGMedia Justice - Telling a New Story A Collaborative Checklist for Social Justice Leaders Using Narrative Strategies for Change [Resource]LifeMosaic Communications [Video]Center for Story-based Strategy [Website & series of resources]Story-based Strategy 101.pdf [Resource]Framing for Social Change [Article]Social Movement Technologies’ Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/DigitalCampaignSupport/about/INTERSECTIONALITYSystems thinking: Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking [Article]Crisis opportunities and threats: Naomi Klein and Angela Davis Teach-in on movement building in the time of the coronavirus crisis [Webinar recording] (fast forward to minute 3 when the audio starts)Some root causes:Gender oppression: Climate Change is About...Women > Climate Change and Women in Bolivia: A View from the Ground [Article]Colonialism - The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25[Video]Capitalism: Capitalism - a short explanation [Video]White supremacy: On environmentalism, whiteness and activist superstars | gal-dem [Article]Racialization: The History of Race and Racialization [Video]Social media to follow:The Decolonial Atlas: The Decolonial Atlas (@decolonialatlas) (also on Fb & Insta)Indigenous Environmental Network - https://twitter.com/IENearth (also on Fb)Wretched of the Earth - WretchedOfTheEarth (@wretchedotearth) (also on Fb)Women/youth of colour environmental & climate activists:o https://twitter.com/MaryHeglaro https://twitter.com/zhaabowekweo https://twitter.com/israhirsio https://twitter.com/nadiabaltimoreo https://twitter.com/xiyebastida?lang=eno https://twitter.com/xiuhtezcatlEXTRACTIVISM AND CLIMATE FINANCEEverything!Homebound: Capitalists and Other Cannibals with ALNOOR LADHA /172 [podcast] - with the former Executive Director with The Rules (organisation that Maeve mentioned)ExtractivismUndermining Human Rights: Ireland, the ESB and Cerrejón coal [report, read the executive summary]EJAtlas | Mapping Environmental Justice [Map of environmental injustices]Gas in Europe / gas subsidiesEurope wants to do WHAT?! [Video]Fossil Gas Part of the problem, not the solution [Video]Fossil fuel subsidies in Ireland Financing Climate Chaos [Report, read the executive summary]Climate FinanceFossil Free EIB | The climate clock is ticking. [Website and campaign]COMMUNICATIONSMedia Justice - Telling a New Story A Collaborative Checklist for Social Justice Leaders Using Narrative Strategies for Change [Resource]LifeMosaic Communications [Video]Center for Story-based Strategy [Website & series of resources]Story-based Strategy 101.pdf [Resource]Framing for Social Change [Article]Social Movement Technologies’ Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/DigitalCampaignSupport/about/COVID-19 AND CLIMATE JUSTICEOpen letter demands for a just recovery from 350.orghttps://350.org/just-recovery/Corona Capitalism video from Naomi Klein https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-capitalism/James Murray - the myth of silver linings https://www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/4012857/myth-silver-liningsGal-dem collective response to covid https://gal-dem.com/the-state-will-not-save-us-only-we-can-save-us-a-collective-response-to-covid-19/?Open democracy article on politicalness of a pandemic https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/theres-nothing-so-political-as-a-pandemic/?Framing climate justice https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MK24JlSGd0Vfjo-py8VS0u5wEdXGYu9AWPn4CVsxGVY/edit#slide=id.g7dff4f974c_3_5 https://publicinterest.org.uk/talking-climate-justice/Carbon emissions drop due to coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/10/coronavirus-could-cause-fall-in-global-co2-emissions (25 March) https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/david-harvey-anti-capitalist-politics-in-an-age-of-covid-19Coronavirus: Lockdowns continue to suppress European pollution - BBC News (27 March):https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52065140?at_custom4=77919F66-7053-11EA-893C-A5FF39982C1E&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom3=BBC+News&at_campaign=64&at_medium=custom7Debt relief https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/coronavirus_debt_relief_loc/ and importance of supporting Africahttps://www.ft.com/content/c12a09c8-6db6-11ea-89df-41bea055720b https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/anticipatory-anxiety-africa-on-the-cusp-of-pandemic/‘Marshall Plan’ needed for workers https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/workers-need-a-coronavirus-plan-todayWe can respond to emergencies - so why not respond to climate change https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/climate-change-coronavirus-pick-evil-protesters-200306195937709.htmlUN Climate Change Secretariat Has New Organizational Structure - UN (1 April): https://unfccc.int/news/un-climate-change-secretariat-has-new-organizational-structureUK government’s new ‘decarbonising transport’ plan - UK GOV (30 March) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/876251/decarbonising-transport-setting-the-challenge.pdfWhat will the world be like after coronavirus? Four possible futures - The Conversation (30 March): https://theconversation.com/what-will-the-world-be-like-after-coronavirus-four-possible-futures-134085How is the coronavirus changing the world? Evgeny Morozov’s The Syllabus gives you essential reads and analyses - The Correspondent (26 March): https://thecorrespondent.com/374/how-is-the-coronavirus-changing-the-world-evgeny-morozovs-the-syllabus-gives-you-essential-reads-and-analyses/800399270-c436d14bNature has sent us a terrible warning about our future – the fossil fuel industry is over - Independent (26 March): https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/voices/coronavirus-pandemic-budget-rishi-sunak-climate-crisis-a9424226.htmlCoronavirus: 'Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chief - Guardian (26 March) :https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/coronavirus-nature-is-sending-us-a-message-says-un-environment-chief?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1585138334David Harvey: Anti-Capitalist Politics in an Age of Covid-19 - Tribune Magazine (23 March) https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/david-harvey-anti-capitalist-politics-in-an-age-of-covid-19The coronavirus crisis reminds us that electricity is more indispensable than ever - IEA (22 March) https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-coronavirus-crisis-reminds-us-that-electricity-is-more-indispensable-than-everHow our daily travel harms the planet - BBC (18 March) https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200317-climate-change-cut-carbon-emissions-from-your-commuteCapitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combinationhttps://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rob-Wallace/Big-Farms-Make-Big-Flu--Dispatches-on-Influenza-Agribusin/21921929https://www.campfireconvention.uk/profile/daniel-pinchbeck/we-may-never-have-another-chance-one? SOLIDARITYWhat are Social Movements? [Article]How to build across differenceFive ways to build solidarity across our differences [Article]Three more ways to build solidarity across our differences [Article] How to be aware of privilege in solidarity actions/workYou Say You Stand in Solidarity – But Do You Know What That Really Means? [Video]Extinction Rebellion Is Overwhelmingly Shaped by Middle-Class White People. It Does Not Serve Us [Article]Supply chains, transnational corporations based in Europe BLOOD COAL ** WAYUU AND AFRO COLOMBIANS SPEAK TO EUROPE / UK SUPPLY CHAIN ** [Video]Rights for People, Rules for Corporations | TerraJusta [Video]ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE GLOBALLYLet Us Fight For A New World, Environmental Politics For A Changing World: An Excerpt, by Nathan Thanki [Article]A New Normal, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice StatementGroups to follow/joinGrassroots Environmental Campaigning Groups [Map]Stop Blood Coal Ireland - Home [Facebook]Not Here Not Anywhere – For a Fossil Free Future [Website]Climate Case Ireland [Website]Love Leitrim (@love_leitrim) [Twitter]Futureproof Clare - Home [Facebook]Home | SCAN [Website]Why #StopShannonLNG? - Stop Shannon LNG [Website]Resources for future work (incl. online)Toolkit | NEONTraining For Change | Movement and Capacity Building at the GrassrootsTrainings – Facilitating Online Meetings⚡Facilitating online meetings & trainings⚡Join SMT's Online Communities Categorised in: Activism