so excited to be here!

Welcome Everyone to the Just Transition Listening Project Webinar. Please intro your self here. Zoom Pro tip: post to “all panelists and attendees”

Joe Uehlein, President, Labor Network for Sustainability

Glad to be here this evening Greetings from the American Postal Workers Union

Emily Hittle, Pachamama Alliance

Riddhi S. Patel, Communications Coordinator, Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment

it was a little choppy but not too bad

hey all, i’m michael wilmarth from seattle dsa

Sounding better now.

Ananda Lee Tan, Shaping Change Collaborative

Hi all! Jeremy Wells - previously at Doctors Without Borders

Kayla Lamson Sunrise Movement

Hi, everyone. I'm joining from Connecticut...am a member if Beyond Extreme Energy.

Beth Brunton, Pass the Federal Green New Deal Coalition, Washington State

Christina Herman here from Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). Glad to be here.

Jill Reese, Teamsters 117

Hi everyone, Cortney Marabetta with AFT Washington/Pass The Federal Green New Deal Coalition Washington

Kristen Wendt, Puget Sound Sage

Hi all! Jen Simmons, visual artist in L.A. and consultant for Fossil Free CA.

Hey all! I'm Abby from Denver - Mennonite Central Committee. looking forward to this!

Jack Hammond, sociology, CUNY and Professional Staff Congress/AFT

Hello! My name is Cameron Walkup (he/him) and I am a white settler living on Piscataway land in Rockville, MD. I work with Defenders of Wildlife and am happy to be here to listen and deepen my commitment to just transition.

Rick McGahey, economist, Schwartz Center at the New School in New York, currently visitor at Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz

Joshua D. Dedmond, LNS

Nadia Khastagir, Center for Story-based Strategy, Occupied Ohlone land/Oakland, CA

Katy (she/her), Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility in Portland

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Sound is getting very choppy

Jeff -you are breaking up. Could you pause a second?

Gail Woon EARTHCARE, an environmental education NGO based in The Bahamas

Thanks Jeff!

Jeff, I wonder if you could take a step/scoot back from your mic and see if that helps the sound? It seemed to be a bit better when you are a bit more distant (I think)

Laurie Dougherty 350 Salem OR in the land of the Santiam Kalapuya people

Oh no :(

Greetings from Oklahoma. Broken sound.

Hola! Lylianna Allala, Seattle WA, occupied lands of Coast Salish tribes & Duwamish people.

Yeah for some reason when he backs up it works?? Weird glitch

Julie Harris El Sobrante, CA Retired RN and Union Organizer

SEIU 1021 here in San Francisco on Ramaytush Ohlone land.

Hi! Jordan (she/her), Guilford College student

Diana from XR PDX in portland

cannot hear

I cannot understand.

Hi, Donna House, Navajo Nation citizen and activist

Carlos Alberto Velázquez López, Program Director for The Solar Foundation in Puerto Rico.

Jean from Sunflower Alliance, East SF Bay Area Hope the sound gets better!

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Are others having trouble with scrambled audio?

Yeah :(

yes

‘fraid so

Does not allow listening

Ren Dietel from the land of the Duwamish people, Seattle

HI all ,we’re working on the audio please give us a sec!

Lyn, in CT...I can't understand much if Jeff's speaking. Some sentences are clear and others broken up.

Hi from 350 Indiana - Indianapolis

oh my gosh I'm so excited for this just listening to the descriptions

The speakers sound wonderful!

Aloha from Honolulu (land of Kanaka O'iwi)

Hi From Sioux, Arapaho, Ute, Cheyenne (weld county/windsor colorado)

Kayla Lamson, Sunrise Movement Ashland Wisconsin

Native Movement: https://www.nativemovement.org/

Mariah Dignan, Long Island Organizer for Climate Jobs NY

Hey everyone! Nancy Huizar, Got Green Seattle

Enei was a co-founder or Black Mesa Water Coalition: https://www.nativemovement.org/bmwc

Hi everyone, Arely C2C promotora. Land of Coast Salish, Skagit WA

Kohtr’elneyh means “We Remember” in the language of the lower Tanana Dene peoples, the Benhti Kanaga’ language. >> https://www.justtransitionak.org/

Ya'at'eeh Enei and MIchael G. Thank you for all your work.

Alaska Just Transition Coalition: https://www.justtransitionak.org/

Cooperation Jackson: https://cooperationjackson.org/

I’m so grateful to have the incredible lessons and wisdom from Alaskan organizing informing the work of the just transition. Thank you Enei and all the relatives up north.

Hi everyone, Australia Hernandez -Community to Community Promotora. Land of Coast Salish, Whatcom County, Washington State

Jackson Just Transition Plan: https://cooperationjackson.org/blog/2015/11/10/the-jackson-just-transition-plan

Gulf South For a Green New Deal: https://www.gcclp.org/gulf-south-for-a-green-new-deal

this is awesome

UPROSE: https://www.uprose.org/

Hi,Karen Richter, Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action, Seattle

Robby Stern, Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action(PSARA), Seattle

UPROSE in Brooklyn, members of the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance: https://www.nyc-eja.org/

I got community leadership and protection act; what was the second?

And leaders of the NY Renews Coalition that passed the Climate & Community Protection Act: https://www.nyrenews.org/

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Elizabeth, you are so powerful and speaking such truth; thank you.

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Huge UPROSE Victory against gentrification: https://www.nycaribnews.com/articles/developers-back-out-of-industry-city-project-amid-opposition/

Excellent panel, thank you all!

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Well done. Congrats on Sunset Park Victory

Community 2 Community: http://www.foodjustice.org/

If you have questions for our wonderful panel please post them here or in the Q&A section!

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C2C Food Sovereignty program: http://www.foodjustice.org/food-justice

Do we need to repeat questions already sent in advance?

@Julie, we’ve got those questions! Thanks for sending them in advance.

SHE IS AMPING ME UP

C2C helped start Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) - to fight for farmworker rights in WA state: http://familiasunidasjusticia.org/en/home/

I'm in Kern County, CA so I'm loving hearing her talk

la lucha sigue

so outrageous

that's infuriating

Rosalinda & C2C also led the formation of Front & Centered Coalition, to advance EJ and climate justice policy in WA State: https://frontandcentered.org/

is this being recorded? would really like to share with folks who couldn’t make it

@Michael, yes it is! We’ll send it out to all who registered in the next few days

awesome, thanks!

+++++ Real solidarity and mutuality

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++++++ Rank and File Live in the Frontline++++++

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Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing

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YES

EJ principles and Jemez principles that have guided collaboration across Black, Brown and Indigenous communities for the last 30 years: http://lvejo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ej-jemez-principles.pdf

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I may get in trouble for saying this...Finally someone is exposing the roll unions have played in securing the rights of corporations and their right to profit over ALL else.

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The next generation of union leaders is here and ready to listen and LEARN from mistakes of the past! Let’s get into this and do the workkkkk!!

^^^ labor is shockingly pro captalist. divided on issues as common sense as universal healthcare

I love this panel so much

Thanks so much for this!!

Great documentary on Jackson MS more people need to see the destruction of what chemical companies have done to workers, community and the land!!!

Wow! Thanks for sharing, Kali.

@ Alice L. Absolutely right. --Insightful

The Jackson-Kush Plan: Struggle for Black Self-Determination & Economic Democracy: https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jackson-KushPlan.pdf

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The confluence of neoliberal & religious accelerationism is absolutely a death spiral

Excellent panel. Joined a little late unfortunately. Will the links that are being shared be emailed to us?

Coop Jackson has been leading grassroots power building and alignment through the People’s Strike: https://peoplesstrike.org/

@alyssa you can always just save the chat transcript

Okay, Jeff, you are the stale pale male union guy there. How do we get to union leadership to listen more to rank and file and to Just Transition advocates

Have to distinguish between the building trades who are on the right of the labor Movement and the service and education unions who are much more progressive. It would be good to be aware of this distinction. FYI, the ILA on the east coast is more right wing, the ILWU on the west coast with Harry Bridges as the inspiration is very progressive.

Climate Alliance for Clean Energy & Jobs ran the Prop 1631 campaign, where the AFL-CIO cantered the leadership of EJ & Indigenous communities: https://waclimatealliance.org/

@ Joseph F. So True...Sad

Actually, the ILWU is not always progressive, but is mostly progressive.

@Mark Dariemzo: Front & Centered Coalition: https://frontandcentered.org/

++ Rosalinda, that's truth. (Come from rural WA)

Rosalinda G. *****YES*****

“Fascism is capitalism in decay”

Excellent summation

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Farmworkers gained huge ground in the 60's under C Chavez by walking/marching OUT and far through Calif. THEY WON a ton; (we stopped eating grpaes for the FIVE YEARS it took them) Why not use that model now, like threaten minimum of one week stoppage for demads HAZARD PAY, (temp) M4ALL, PAID SICK time & equiment. AS LONG AS Y'all KEEP picking, they will KEEP ABUSING labor.

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Chris Smalls who got fired from Amazon now has org "newcongress" I think (since Congress does not help labor), he is welcoming coalition-collaboration unity. Amazon workers walked out for climate in 2019 climate strike day, too. How about joining together with his potentially HUGE organizing effort?

extremely good point about wide variability within the so-called labor movement which was more ‘real’ long ago, nostalgia leading to misunderstanding even for someone like me who is actually too young to have ever seen solidarity in the working class

this has been the most satisfying panel!!!!!

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where do we access the recording if we have to leave early?

Yes!

++ Alice, SAME.

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thank you for recognizing poor whites —east ky girl

Thank you! class-race fusion!

Union leadership is dependent upon capital for their jobs though.., and under neoliberalism unionized labor is always on the defensive?

With all due respect, fascism smashes unions. Except for police “unions”, US unions are opposed to trump and the protofascist movement he leads.

@Mark absolutely

IBEW locals in California fought each other in getting to Community Voice Aggregation

The as Community CHOICE Aggegaion

Climate Justice Alliance: https://climatejusticealliance.org/just-transition/

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LOL Greta. Seriously.

a fucking men......that is it exactly.

And one of CJA’s parent organizations that started building alignment between EJ Communities & Unions - the Just Transition Alliance: http://jtalliance.org/what-is-just-transition/

go off yes!

Absolutely.

Mark, for sure facism smashes unions but that alone doesn't mean all unions are opposed to DJT. It's not just police unions, either--which really aren't real labor [Seattle's got kicked out of our biggest labor group recently because of it and BLM].

agreed

++ Elizabeth

“Leadership is a continuum”

Amen!

+++++++ building coalition’s critical

EJ Principle: Let Communities Speak for Themselves !

yep. preach it. no parachuters please

Yes police unions are agents of capital

@ Elizabeth True --Then they call it an Alliance putting their NAME front and center !

+++++Frontlines Lead on Climate Justice!

YES, ELIZABETH

YEs some white. patriarchal, DNC-funded?, top-down corp "(not)-grassroots" ...not local, affinity, consensus.

Also there was much more union support for DJT back in 2016. He gave more voice to trade concerns than Hillary did

Has that legitimate concern been expressed to the “Greta” type groups??

EJ Principle: Build Just Relations

Thank you!!!

There you go

yaasssss

I feel if Greta type groups haven't seen that concern already, they're willfully ignorant of it and chose not to engage

^yup

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Kelsey, may be true. But worth it to reach out and educate them, no? Everything to build the broadest coalition.

The labor movement is also the Black and Brown-led SEIU locals in MA who are part of the climate justice movement.

EJ Principle: Emphasize Bottom-up organizing

Speaking from experience, they've been actively given the resources and those resources to engage weren't picked up.

engage, unlearn, what have you

It can be tricky, though...like Native communities don't want to be 'saved', but are afraid to buck the govt-corrupt-corp complex b/c of grants, housing, tribal funds so tend to not riseup as readliily.

I disagree with the broad critique of youngsters, even if they make mistakes, they are the most determined group in solving the climate emergency and injustices of any type. What is a "Greta" group? Here in Indy we just had a very diverse climate strike focused on environmental justice with people from the community speaking about their own experience and their ownd demands.

Fascism is tricky in that way. It’s a superficially voices the concerns of labor as a way of propping up capitalist domination

• It superficially

I am a youngster...didn't take it as a critique of young activists

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@julie: so many frontline people are tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired of educating the privileged/helicopter folks. kali’s analysis of what they need to do in their communities first is more productive

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We need to stop the siloing of generations that NGO funding promotes…..EJ movement spaces are “intergenerational” because the future needs to be informed by movements past….as Enei discussed earlier

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could listen to y’all for hours. thank you so much

This has been great. Thanks so much to everyone.

I just think there's so many different things happening at different times in different places at different times to just understand a lot of our communities are indeed struggling and need to fight for inclusivity! and listen to history!

THANK YOU ALL! In Solidarity !!

This panel is SO GOOOOD

I read So You Want to Take About Race and How to be Antiracist. and THIS discussion has brought the challenge real. Everyone at our NGO needs to see this recording, Thanks.

+++ Enei.

Some Just Transition wisdom from. Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. Indigenous Just Transition Principles: http://www.ienearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IENJustTransitionPrinciples.pdf

Let’s build labor power and leverage it toward racial justice and environmental justice

Will there be a recording of this that people can look at later?

yea

Will the recording be emailed or where can we find it?

Be Bold, and Listen with Humility ++++

it's anti-white supremacy in enviro

Self-transformation, I have heard that phrase in a few of wonderful speakers. I wonder if there are ways to nurture the self-transformation that so many people and organizations need.

EJ Youth stand in leadership with their elders, ancestors -serving all generations in their communities

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Shout out to my staff, my team, and all my co-conspirators at Native Movement, at Alaska Just Transition Collective, and all our partners across these lands.

Hope is Intergenerational ++++

You’re a gift, Kali

Hope is the struggle, suffering and survival of our ancestors

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Powerful panel. We can all spread the links to amplify these voices.

this panel is so empowering miigwetch !

Thank you for a great discussion and for your excellent work, please be assured that there are a lot of us supporting you and respecting your work.

Hope is our respect for all labor….starting with the invizibilized labor of so many who feed us, look after our kids, and clean up after us….

Hope is our love for those of our family who are still the poorest and most oppressed +++

This panel has given me the most hope I’ve had in 20 years of fighting for social and environmental justice.

how to save the chat if I’m watching in my phone?

I missed sharing with everyone so repeating:I am sending my condolences for all who we have lost to this Pandemic, man-made and natural disasters, and racial injustices and violence, and my love and prayers for everyone's health, happiness, and vitality, from Southern Maine in Wabanaki Territory.

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thanks to all for this conversation. may we stay well & resilient!

Wow, as someone who Co Founded Students in Support of Berklee College of Music in Boston when the Teachers went on Strike in 1986, I met with Billy Bragg at a Grocery Workers Union Meeting at a Grocery Store in Ballard in Seattle, and sang in their Chorus backing his Moore Theater Performance in 1990, so I am so very sorry to hear about what has happened for the Farmworkers in my former home of Washington State. Thank you so much for all of your endeavors.

Thank you all so much….our beautiful, inspiring comrades…..xoxo

Extremely powerful and inspiring, thank you so much

There are many who eyes have been opened since March, we all need to help mobilize those that want to make a difference who have woke!

See my post about my Gratitude for our First Responder Heroes, Physical Distancing, and the Paradigm Shifts that we need to consider making during this time:https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157653934092605&id=690312604

Tremendo panel. Great panel. Thanks!!

here’s to the long haul

This was the best webinar I have ever listened to. Thank you so much!!!

LOVE

The RISING INEQUALITY IN OUR WORLD is why I have worked so hard:- Co-Founding STUDENTS IN SUPPORT OF BERKLEE College of Music in Boston, when the Teachers went on Strike in spring of 1986,See my Album and "liner notes":https://soundcloud.com/heidi-j-vierthaler/sets/berklee-college-of-music?ref=clipboard- Serving as a Citizen Liaison not a Student for the HARVARD LIVING WAGE CAMPAIGNSee my post about the Occupation film about this important endeavor:https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158062967302605&id=690312604

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Thank you so much!