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Resilience-Based Organizing

Resilience-Based Organizing. Meeting needs through shared work that contests for power and broadcasts a transformative story of change. Occupy the Farm, day of Albany Farm take-over, Earth Day 2012. The RBO Learning Circle. Movement Generation  PODER  Urban Tilth.

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Resilience-Based Organizing

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  1. Resilience-Based Organizing Meeting needs through shared work that contests for power and broadcasts a transformative story of change Occupy the Farm, day of Albany Farm take-over, Earth Day 2012

  2. The RBO Learning Circle Movement Generation  PODER  Urban Tilth

  3. Humans have always modified and impacted their environment in different ways… NEPAL PUERTO RICO

  4. What has changed is the SCALE…

  5. the PACE…

  6. and INTENSITY…

  7. Image by Chris Jordan This image depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds.

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  10. Image by Chris Jordan This image depicts 75,000 shipping containers, the number of containers processed through American ports every day.

  11. Image by Chris Jordan

  12. Our ecological crisis can be broken into parts: A clean water crisis A biological & cultural diversity crisis A waste & toxics crisis A food and agriculture crisis A climate & energy crisis

  13. What is causing this? “It’s The Economy, Stupid!”

  14. Globalized, Industrial, Capitalist Production Capitalist – meaning the sole goal of the system is making profit. Victor LeBeau, economist in the 1950s

  15. So how do we build a Just Transition? • Resistance: Movement Building for Power • Resilience: To survive and thrive through ecological transition • Restoration: Return to the web of life what has been forced into the chain of the market; and allow for planetary systems to heal • Re-imagine: To weave an irresistible, transformative narrative of how we could live.

  16. What do our movements • need to emphasize or • do differently in this moment? • Though necessary, conventional campaign based organizing is not enough • Draw on movements that have paired resistance and resilience. Our inspiration: • Black Panthers • MST-Landless Workers Movement

  17. Resilience-Based Organizing

  18. Meets real needs through people applying our own labor Restoring our Labor Alameda Point Collaborative, Ca MG Permaculture for the People - H2O catchment install

  19. Community based, democratic control and governance TEK-know v. Techno Dudley St. Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) Boston MA Alliance to Develop Power (ADP) Springfield, MA

  20. Neighborhood‐based models of organizing - learning by doing Reflective, Responsive Relationship to Place PODER members learning & applying land-use and spatial design skills. Urban Tilth apprentice learning carpentry skills for garden building.

  21. Creative/successful uses of Policy and Legislative hooks that secure us the resources necessary to provide our needs

  22. New or Radical uses of physical and public spaces - establishing commons From ‘mine’ & ‘theirs’ to OURS Greenway Gardens: Abandoned Railroad Tracks to Community Gardens Urban Tilth - Richmond, CA

  23. Confronting legal, political or institutional barriers - exposing illegitimate law Contesting for Power Phat Beets Produce, Oakland, Ca. Dover St. Edible garden, raised on Parks & Rec land.

  24. Scale that builds power Permaculture design plan for UT site - Adams Crest Farm. Site is an abandoned school baseball field.

  25. PODER members/community win title to a re-zoned 1.5 acre lot for affordable housing & community garden to be designed and governed by PODER.

  26. Cultural and biological diversity Diversity is our best defense Secret Garden, Mission Dist. San Francisco Cultural Cooking skill share Dudley St. Cape Verdian garden

  27. Moves people into identifying with and/or being an active part of the broader movement Broadcast a Transformative Story

  28. Our EDGE of Resilience-Based Organizing… what we’re still learning and seeking examples of. • Avoiding gentrification as a result of improving conditions, increasing green space and building resilience in our communities. • Contesting for power - asserting the right to self govern & manage, regardless of legal or political barriers and threats. • Closed-loop Economies - Circulating and concentrating skills, resources and relationships with a community.

  29. Avoiding gentrification as a result of improving conditions, increasing green space and building resilience in our communities. DSNI - capping prices on Land Trust affordable homes to stop gentrification Phat Beets - actively resisting gentrification in their community

  30. Contesting for power - asserting the right to self govern & manage, regardless of legal or political barriers and threats.

  31. Closed-loop Economies - Circulating and concentrating skills, resources and relationships with a community. Alliance to Develop Power (ADP) Land Trust Coop Housing with Tenants Association & in-house unionized Maintenance & Construction Crew.

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