COMMUNITY, MUTUALITY, AND RESISTANCE!
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman, American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader.
Politics Wyoming https://www.facebook.com/groups/714500808932511/?multi_permalinks=1366517220397530¬if_id=1621222708840880¬if_t=group_activity&ref=notif
Stop the Money Pipeline https://www.facebook.com/StoptheMoneyPipeline/events/?notif_id=1621023364310415¬if_t=event_calendar_create&ref=notif
Stop the Money Pipeline https://www.facebook.com/StoptheMoneyPipeline/events/?notif_id=1621023364310415¬if_t=event_calendar_create&ref=notif
The Artists, Storytellers, Wisdom Keepers, and Warriors
Deadheads for Positive Progressive Change https://www.facebook.com/groups/698793524100256/?multi_permalinks=798939594085648%2C798564454123162%2C797855304194077%2C795806837732257%2C798215604158047¬if_id=1620713369797405¬if_t=group_activity&ref=notif, Delta. Sparks - Poems. Shipwreckt Books, 2020., Miller. Living on the Surface: New and Selected Poems. Louisiana State Univ. Pr., 1989.
Hope, resolve, and determination, and reconciliation.
Dr. Silvester Beaman's Inaugural Benediciton https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/dr-beaman-delivers-
benediction-to-conclude-the-59th-inauguration-99736645582
Amanda Gorman "The Hill We Climb" https://www.npr.org/sections/inauguration-day-live-
updates/2021/01/20/958743170/poet-amanda-gorman-reads-the-hill-we-climb
Deadheads for Positive Progressive Change https://www.facebook.com/groups/698793524100256/?multi_permalinks=798939594085648%2C798564454123162%2C797855304194077%2C795806837732257%2C798215604158047¬if_id=1620713369797405¬if_t=group_activity&ref=notif, Delta. Sparks - Poems. Shipwreckt Books, 2020., Miller. Living on the Surface: New and Selected Poems. Louisiana State Univ. Pr., 1989.
Hope, resolve, and determination, and reconciliation.
Dr. Silvester Beaman's Inaugural Benediciton https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/dr-beaman-delivers-
benediction-to-conclude-the-59th-inauguration-99736645582
Amanda Gorman "The Hill We Climb" https://www.npr.org/sections/inauguration-day-live-
updates/2021/01/20/958743170/poet-amanda-gorman-reads-the-hill-we-climb
The Green New Deal
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature "Rather than treating nature as property under the law, rights of nature acknowledges that nature in all its life forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles."
Land Ethics. The Aldo Leopold Foundation Digital Learning Resources
https://www.aldoleopold.org/teach-learn/digital-resources/?fbclid=IwAR2d-kbViUzUJenBv5lTuj6_4S-
kQQ6kEfkz6cbdsny77DTNMEBs0fUPmcY
National Environmental ScoreCard - League of Conservation Volters
LCV drives environmental progress through action. We understand that threats to our environment and democracy are interlinked, and that our nation’s biggest environmental challenges require political solutions. Winning these solutions means helping people use their power in all three political realms: influencing policy, holding leaders accountable, and winning elections.
UW Migration Initiative http://migrationinitiative.org
Wyoming Climate Activists https://www.facebook.com/climatecrisisaction/
Land Ethics. The Aldo Leopold Foundation Digital Learning Resources
https://www.aldoleopold.org/teach-learn/digital-resources/?fbclid=IwAR2d-kbViUzUJenBv5lTuj6_4S-
kQQ6kEfkz6cbdsny77DTNMEBs0fUPmcY
National Environmental ScoreCard - League of Conservation Volters
LCV drives environmental progress through action. We understand that threats to our environment and democracy are interlinked, and that our nation’s biggest environmental challenges require political solutions. Winning these solutions means helping people use their power in all three political realms: influencing policy, holding leaders accountable, and winning elections.
UW Migration Initiative http://migrationinitiative.org
Wyoming Climate Activists https://www.facebook.com/climatecrisisaction/
The 17 Principles of Environmental Justice (EJ) at Oct 24 1991 to Oct 27 1991. First National People of Color
Environmental Leadership Summit. https://worldhistoryproject.org/1991/10/24/first-national-people-of-
color-environmental-leadership-summit
Environmental Leadership Summit. https://worldhistoryproject.org/1991/10/24/first-national-people-of-
color-environmental-leadership-summit
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UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH April 22, 2010. Cochabamba, Bolivia "We, the peoples and nations of Earth: considering that we are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny; gratefully acknowledging that Mother Earth is the source of life, nourishment and learning and provides everything we need to live well; recognizing that the capitalist system and all forms of depredation, exploitation, abuse and contamination have caused great destruction, degradation and disruption of Mother Earth, putting life as we know it today at risk through phenomena such as climate change; [....]" The Rights of Nature. (2019). Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth - The Rights of Nature. [online] Available at: https://therightsofnature.org/universal-declaration/ [Accessed 31 Oct. 2019].
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Resilience and Resistance
The Deep Green Resistance News Service - News for Ecological Revolutionaries
The Deep Green Resistance News Service is an educational wing of the DGR movement based on the DGR book. The News Service is dedicated to broadcasting news related to the ecological and social predicament, and working to encourage strategic resistance against the forces underlying it.
https://dgrnewsservice.org
Allport, Gordon W., Kenneth Clark, and Thomas Pettigrew. The Nature of Prejudice. Basic Books, 2015., Andrew,
and Audrea Lim.
First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination. With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist
Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice. Allport's comprehensive and penetrating work examines all aspects of this age-old problem: its roots in individual and social psychology, its varieties of expression, its impact on the individuals and communities. He explores all kinds of prejudice -- racial, religious, ethnic, economic and sexual -- and offers suggestions for reducing the devastating effects of discrimination.
The Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance. Verso, 2016.
Communities Directory: a Comprehensive Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living. Fellowship for
Intentional Community, 2010.Morrison, Toni. Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement. Harper
Collins, 2012.
Keywords: NYU Press The books in the Keywords series collect essays by authors across the humanities and
social sciences, with each essay focusing on a single term and set of debates. The Keywords website provides access to online essays selected from each of the volumes, as well as preview text for all of the print-only essays. On this site, you can: Browse the online and print essays across multiple volumes, tracing uses of the same term across different fields; Search within each book, or across multiple books, to find connections within and among the volumes; Access tools for classroom use, the works cited for each volume, and a blog containing the latest news about the series.
MISSISSIPPI RISING COALITION is a non-profit, non-partisan, all-volunteer grassroots organization based on the Mississippi Gulf Coast comprised of citizens and ally and affinity organizations which support our collective vision. Our goal is to facilitate the state of Mississippi’s rise from the bottom to the top of the list of quality of life metrics by empowering individuals and communities through community organizing, education, coalition-building and advocacy in the areas of human and civil rights and social justice, and by increasing citizen engagement in the democratic processes of our state. https://www.msrising.com/?fbclid=IwAR3mFp4ksLVpB9diy5awP_YngFVPBtGV4Ev60SwsVbSc6GXqUtVEVNTaPaY
“As John Whitfield, pastor of Morningstar Baptist Church, addressed the crowd, members of the progressive group the Mississippi Rising Coalition gathered at the base of the monument, where counter-protesters were already sitting. One member of Mississippi Rising held a sign reading, “The courthouse is for justice, not racism,” as a man behind her held up a billowing Confederate battle flag.” - Lee Campbell #whitesupremacyisterrorism #TakeItDownMS
https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article245327125.html?fbclid=IwAR2gseMMjpv17MPW_eA9DhSbFZSVpKiH2wTlTccL9Fa10ykJc48yy5N54C0New Economy Coalition The New Economy Coalition is a membership-based network representing the solidarity economy movement in the United States. We exist to organize our members into a more powerful and united force, in order to accelerate the transition of our economic system from capitalism to a solidarity economy. neweconomy.netPremises of respect SEE Philip Tulawetstiwa. "Forward in Three Parts, II" (p. xv). in The Chaco Meridian... by Stephen H. Lekson.Readings for Diversity and Social Justice. ROUTLEDGE, 2018.
Political Lobbying
2021 US Exec. Branch & Congr. Members, Caucuses, and Coalitions (vers. 12/16/2020)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W-HQ8V-qlBxGcpOgayA6UGszup9uEf2UMOMtrCOvy4M/edit#gid=0
Methods for 2021 Environmental Justice Action
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k_W3SsN4LHLmqkmfctFR7nQWDsC-pQxbyJTsRGfsEqw/edit
The Deep Green Resistance News Service is an educational wing of the DGR movement based on the DGR book. The News Service is dedicated to broadcasting news related to the ecological and social predicament, and working to encourage strategic resistance against the forces underlying it.
https://dgrnewsservice.org
Allport, Gordon W., Kenneth Clark, and Thomas Pettigrew. The Nature of Prejudice. Basic Books, 2015., Andrew,
and Audrea Lim.
First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination. With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist
Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice. Allport's comprehensive and penetrating work examines all aspects of this age-old problem: its roots in individual and social psychology, its varieties of expression, its impact on the individuals and communities. He explores all kinds of prejudice -- racial, religious, ethnic, economic and sexual -- and offers suggestions for reducing the devastating effects of discrimination.
The Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance. Verso, 2016.
Communities Directory: a Comprehensive Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living. Fellowship for
Intentional Community, 2010.Morrison, Toni. Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement. Harper
Collins, 2012.
Keywords: NYU Press The books in the Keywords series collect essays by authors across the humanities and
social sciences, with each essay focusing on a single term and set of debates. The Keywords website provides access to online essays selected from each of the volumes, as well as preview text for all of the print-only essays. On this site, you can: Browse the online and print essays across multiple volumes, tracing uses of the same term across different fields; Search within each book, or across multiple books, to find connections within and among the volumes; Access tools for classroom use, the works cited for each volume, and a blog containing the latest news about the series.
MISSISSIPPI RISING COALITION is a non-profit, non-partisan, all-volunteer grassroots organization based on the Mississippi Gulf Coast comprised of citizens and ally and affinity organizations which support our collective vision. Our goal is to facilitate the state of Mississippi’s rise from the bottom to the top of the list of quality of life metrics by empowering individuals and communities through community organizing, education, coalition-building and advocacy in the areas of human and civil rights and social justice, and by increasing citizen engagement in the democratic processes of our state. https://www.msrising.com/?fbclid=IwAR3mFp4ksLVpB9diy5awP_YngFVPBtGV4Ev60SwsVbSc6GXqUtVEVNTaPaY
“As John Whitfield, pastor of Morningstar Baptist Church, addressed the crowd, members of the progressive group the Mississippi Rising Coalition gathered at the base of the monument, where counter-protesters were already sitting. One member of Mississippi Rising held a sign reading, “The courthouse is for justice, not racism,” as a man behind her held up a billowing Confederate battle flag.” - Lee Campbell #whitesupremacyisterrorism #TakeItDownMS
https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article245327125.html?fbclid=IwAR2gseMMjpv17MPW_eA9DhSbFZSVpKiH2wTlTccL9Fa10ykJc48yy5N54C0New Economy Coalition The New Economy Coalition is a membership-based network representing the solidarity economy movement in the United States. We exist to organize our members into a more powerful and united force, in order to accelerate the transition of our economic system from capitalism to a solidarity economy. neweconomy.netPremises of respect SEE Philip Tulawetstiwa. "Forward in Three Parts, II" (p. xv). in The Chaco Meridian... by Stephen H. Lekson.Readings for Diversity and Social Justice. ROUTLEDGE, 2018.
Political Lobbying
2021 US Exec. Branch & Congr. Members, Caucuses, and Coalitions (vers. 12/16/2020)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W-HQ8V-qlBxGcpOgayA6UGszup9uEf2UMOMtrCOvy4M/edit#gid=0
Methods for 2021 Environmental Justice Action
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k_W3SsN4LHLmqkmfctFR7nQWDsC-pQxbyJTsRGfsEqw/edit
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice. (2018). Fourth Edition. Routledge. by authors/editors Warren J. Blumenfeld, D.
Chase J. Catalano, Keri Dejong, Maurianne Adams, Keri “Safire” DeJong, Heather W. Hackman, Larissa E.
Hopkins, Barbara J. Love, Madeline L. Peters, Davey Shlasko, and Ximena Zuniga. The trusted, leading
anthology to cover a wide range of social oppressions from a social justice standpoint. With full sections dedicated to racism,
religious oppression, classism, ableism, youth and elder oppression, as well as an integrative section dedicated to sexism,
heterosexism, and transgender oppression, this bestselling text goes far beyond the range of traditional readers.
Chase J. Catalano, Keri Dejong, Maurianne Adams, Keri “Safire” DeJong, Heather W. Hackman, Larissa E.
Hopkins, Barbara J. Love, Madeline L. Peters, Davey Shlasko, and Ximena Zuniga. The trusted, leading
anthology to cover a wide range of social oppressions from a social justice standpoint. With full sections dedicated to racism,
religious oppression, classism, ableism, youth and elder oppression, as well as an integrative section dedicated to sexism,
heterosexism, and transgender oppression, this bestselling text goes far beyond the range of traditional readers.
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone
document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural
backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General
Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of
achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be
universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.
document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural
backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General
Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of
achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be
universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.
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Revitalize History and Decolonize
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY). (2104).
((to Howard Adams (1921–2001) Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005) Jack Forbes (1934–2011)). "Today in the United States, there are more than 500 federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the 15 million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative."
((to Howard Adams (1921–2001) Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005) Jack Forbes (1934–2011)). "Today in the United States, there are more than 500 federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the 15 million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative."
Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change by Sherri Mitchell — Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset
Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset means “she who brings the light,” and Sherri Mitchell does exactly that in this incredible tapestry of a book, which begins with Penawahpskek Nation creation stories and concludes with guidance on what it means to live in a time of prophecy. It is rare that a book so generously shares wisdom, much less wisdom about how we got to where we are, what needs mending, and what a path forward that’s grounded in ancestral ways of knowing and being might look like. of Prose From the river-raft philosophizing of a poor Mississippi Valley boy, to a journey filled with words walking without masters, American voice writers have transformed opinions and challenged stereotypes in both obvious and subtle ways.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-
peoples.html
Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset means “she who brings the light,” and Sherri Mitchell does exactly that in this incredible tapestry of a book, which begins with Penawahpskek Nation creation stories and concludes with guidance on what it means to live in a time of prophecy. It is rare that a book so generously shares wisdom, much less wisdom about how we got to where we are, what needs mending, and what a path forward that’s grounded in ancestral ways of knowing and being might look like. of Prose From the river-raft philosophizing of a poor Mississippi Valley boy, to a journey filled with words walking without masters, American voice writers have transformed opinions and challenged stereotypes in both obvious and subtle ways.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-
peoples.html
Water is Life
Western Rivers Initiative News
Get Outside and Lend a Hand to RiversSign up for Audubon Rockies-sponsored Wildlands Restoration Volunteers volunteer projects.
https://rockies.audubon.org/blog/rivers/get-outside-and-lend-hand-rivers?ms=rockies-eng-social-facebook-x-20200803_rivers_volunteers_link&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20200803_rivers_volunteers&utm_content=link&fbclid=IwAR3uq-TeLsQVprUywAOddprFWn6MYCrAiYsjA_s3u3QAIv3xHNGKQXm1FOM
Water Keepers https://waterkeeper.org
Western Rivers Initiative News
Get Outside and Lend a Hand to RiversSign up for Audubon Rockies-sponsored Wildlands Restoration Volunteers volunteer projects.
https://rockies.audubon.org/blog/rivers/get-outside-and-lend-hand-rivers?ms=rockies-eng-social-facebook-x-20200803_rivers_volunteers_link&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20200803_rivers_volunteers&utm_content=link&fbclid=IwAR3uq-TeLsQVprUywAOddprFWn6MYCrAiYsjA_s3u3QAIv3xHNGKQXm1FOM
Federal Troops in Portland Use Brutal Tactics Water Protectors Faced at Standing Rock
https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/federal-troops-in-portland-use-brutal-tactics-water-protectors-faced-at-standing-rock?fbclid=IwAR085FSvxp2Di_W7KlmNnlYh1Mmb13Tg2rganNBrXHpoKuTn5odeOMaBQtA
Bled dry An iconic western river bears witness to climate change by Chris Madson - Tuesday, Aug 4th, 2020
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/bled-dry/7715097?fbclid=IwAR1S3d26xV8uYOv0Y2qcqR7suU0K2jt_gWk8I6WVWJAoQb82lPcmGWdLj3s
Western Rivers Initiative News
Get Outside and Lend a Hand to RiversSign up for Audubon Rockies-sponsored Wildlands Restoration Volunteers volunteer projects.
https://rockies.audubon.org/blog/rivers/get-outside-and-lend-hand-rivers?ms=rockies-eng-social-facebook-x-20200803_rivers_volunteers_link&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20200803_rivers_volunteers&utm_content=link&fbclid=IwAR3uq-TeLsQVprUywAOddprFWn6MYCrAiYsjA_s3u3QAIv3xHNGKQXm1FOM
Water Keepers https://waterkeeper.org
Western Rivers Initiative News
Get Outside and Lend a Hand to RiversSign up for Audubon Rockies-sponsored Wildlands Restoration Volunteers volunteer projects.
https://rockies.audubon.org/blog/rivers/get-outside-and-lend-hand-rivers?ms=rockies-eng-social-facebook-x-20200803_rivers_volunteers_link&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20200803_rivers_volunteers&utm_content=link&fbclid=IwAR3uq-TeLsQVprUywAOddprFWn6MYCrAiYsjA_s3u3QAIv3xHNGKQXm1FOM
Federal Troops in Portland Use Brutal Tactics Water Protectors Faced at Standing Rock
https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/federal-troops-in-portland-use-brutal-tactics-water-protectors-faced-at-standing-rock?fbclid=IwAR085FSvxp2Di_W7KlmNnlYh1Mmb13Tg2rganNBrXHpoKuTn5odeOMaBQtA
Bled dry An iconic western river bears witness to climate change by Chris Madson - Tuesday, Aug 4th, 2020
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/bled-dry/7715097?fbclid=IwAR1S3d26xV8uYOv0Y2qcqR7suU0K2jt_gWk8I6WVWJAoQb82lPcmGWdLj3s