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SUMMARY:Beehive Design Collective presents "Mesoamérica Resiste" and "The True Cost of Coal"
DESCRIPTION:A swarm is coming! The Beehive Design Collective\, a non-profit arts and activism organization dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots\,” is heading this way to share their recently completed works.\nMESOAMÉRICA RESISTE is an epic project that took nine years to complete! This is the third and final installment in the Beehive’s trilogy on globalization in the Americas. The intricate\, double-sided image documents resistance to the top-down development plans and mega-infrastructure projects that literally pave the way for resource extraction and free trade. We highlight stories of cross-border grassroots social movements and collective action\, especially organizing led by Indigenous peoples. \nWhile focusing on stories from Mexico and Central America\, the Bees will weave a much larger narrative about ways people are fighting back against a global economy based on colonialism\, land grabs\, and exploitation\, and building alternative economies\, all over the globe. This graphics campaign also celebrates cultural and ecological diversity through a cast of characters that includes hundreds of endemic (and endangered) species of insects\, animals\, and plants. \nTHE TRUE COST OF COAL graphic uses mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia as a lens through which to understand the historical and contemporary story of energy and resource extraction. With a gigantic portable mural teeming with intricate images of plants and animals from the most biodiverse temperate forest on the planet\, the Bees will share (and seek) stories of how mountaintop removal coal mining affects communities and ecosystems throughout Appalachia and beyond. \nTHE TRUE COST OF COAL examines all of our connections to coal\, while celebrating stories of struggle from mountain communities. The last chapter of the story also looks to the future\, raising questions about alternatives\, remediation\, and regeneration. \nThe Beehive is an all-volunteer swarm of educators\, artists\, and activists using images to communicate and educate about the complex realities of our times. The dizzyingly detailed\, hand-drawn\, large-format posters and banners they tour with are portable murals that come alive through storytelling\, illuminating how single issues are interconnected and part of bigger systems. Join in as the Bees deconstruct often overwhelming global issues in an engaging and interactive presentation\, using metaphors from the natural world to connect social and environmental struggles. \nThe Beehive depends on grassroots fundraising and individual donations to sustain this unique approach to activism! Posters and patches of graphics will be available for purchase by sliding scale donation. For more information\, visit www.beehivecollective.org.
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SUMMARY:Ashley Dawson presents "Environmentalism from Below" in conversation w/ Dharna Noor
DESCRIPTION:A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.\n_ENVIRONMENTALISM FROM BELOW _takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities—among the most vulnerable to but also least responsible for the climate crisis—have long been at the forefront of the fight to protect imperiled worlds. Today\, as the world’s forests burn and our oceans acidify\, grassroots movements are tenaciously defending the environmental commons and forging just and sustainable ways of living on Earth. \nScholar and activist Ashley Dawson constructs a gripping narrative of these movements of climate insurgents\, from international solidarity organizations like La Via Campesina and Shack Dwellers International to local struggles in South Africa\, Colombia\, India\, Nigeria\, and beyond. Taking up the four critical challenges we face in a warming world—food\, urban sustainability\, energy transition\, and conservation—Dawson shows how the unruly power of environmentalism from below is charting an alternative path forward\, from challenging industrial agriculture through fights for food sovereignty and agroecology to resisting extractivism using mass nonviolent protest and sabotage. \nAn urgent\, essential intervention\, _ENVIRONMENTALISM FROM BELOW _offers a hopeful alternative to the gridlock of UN-based climate negotiations and the narrow nationalism of some Green New Deal efforts. As Dawson reminds us\, the fight against ecocide is already being waged worldwide. Building on longstanding traditions of anticolonial struggle\, environmentalism from below is a model for a people’s movement for climate justice—one that demands solidarity. \nAshley Dawson is Professor of English at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of several books on key topics in the environmental humanities\, including PEOPLE’S POWER: RECLAIMING THE ENERGY COMMONS\, EXTREME CITIES: THE PERIL AND PROMISE OF URBAN LIFE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE\, and EXTINCTION: A RADICAL HISTORY. A member of the Public Power NY campaign and the founder of the CUNY Climate Action Lab\, he is a long-time climate justice activist. \nDharna Noor is a fossil fuels and climate reporter at the Guardian. She was previously climate producer and reporter at the Boston Globe. Earlier\, she worked as a staff writer at Gizmodo’s climate vertical Earther\, where she also co-produced a season of the podcast Drilled on the fossil fuel industry’s influence on education\, and before that\, she led the climate team at the Real News Network. Her writing has also appeared in publications including In These Times\, Jacobin Magazine\, and Truthout\, and was also featured in two books: THE WORLD WE NEED and FUTURE ON FIRE.
URL:https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/ashley-dawson-presents-environmentalism-from-below-in-conversation-w-dharna-noor/
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SUMMARY:Ajay Singh Chaudhary presents "The Exhausted of the Earth" in conversation w/Dharna Noor
DESCRIPTION:Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet\, it’s about the exhaustion of so many of us\, our lives\, our worlds\, even our minds. So\, what is to be done?\nTo answer this question\, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and the politics of climate change. He shows how a new politics particular to the climate catastrophe demands a bitter struggle between those attached to the power\, wealth\, and security of “business-as-usual” and all of us\, those exhausted\, in every sense of the word\, by the status quo. \nReplacing Promethean\, romantic\, and apocalyptic fairytales with a new story for every exhausted inhabitant of this exhausted world\, THE EXHAUSTED OF THE EARTH: POLITICS IN A BURNING WORLD_ _outlines the politics and the power needed to alter the course of our burning world far beyond\, far better than\, mere survival. \nAjay Singh Chaudhary is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. He has written for The Guardian\, The Nation\, The Baffler\, n+1\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, among others. Ajay’s book on the politics of climate change\, THE EXHAUSTED OF THE EARTH: POLITICS IN A BURNING WORLD\, is forthcoming from Repeater Books in February 2024. \nDharna Noor is a fossil fuels and climate reporter at the Guardian. She was previously climate producer and reporter at the Boston Globe. Earlier\, she worked as a staff writer at Gizmodo’s climate vertical Earther\, where she also co-produced a season of the podcast Drilled on the fossil fuel industry’s influence on education\, and before that\, she led the climate team at the Real News Network. Her writing has also appeared in publications including In These Times\, Jacobin Magazine\, and Truthout\, and was also featured in two books: The World We Need and Future on Fire.
URL:https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/ajay-singh-chaudhary-presents-the-exhausted-of-the-earth-in-conversation-w-dharna-noor/
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