Community Learning Resources

COMMUNITY LEARNING RESOURCES RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY

Welcome to the Community Learning Resource for Pachamama Alliance Communities! We hope this resource helps spark conversation in your Community.

Conversation is an important part of an active Community because sharing ideas allows people to explore what is possible. And when people collectively understand what is possible, they can engage in effective action together.

We invite you to view this document as a starter kit—it doesn’t provide everything that is needed to change the dream of the modern world, but it helps guide the conversation. You will find examples of root striking issues and what people from around the world are doing in their local areas, together, to create a world that works for all.

We hope that you enjoy these materials and that you will contribute to the growing list by sharing other sources you identify, and, most importantly, what your Community is doing to create a fulfilling, just and sustainable future that works for all.

In partnership,

The Pachamama Alliance Engagement Team

contact us: [email protected]

Table of Contents

I. Community Organizing

II. Politics and Corporate Personhood

III. Mass Incarceration

IV. Climate Change

V. Nonviolence

VI. Consumerism and Waste

VII. Social and Economic Justice

VIII. Evolutionary Activism

I. Community Organizing

• What is Solidarity and What Does it Mean to Practice Solidarity Organizing? by Cristina Awadalla, Move to Amend (2015) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EnEolegcM8dwmtSM9pOP-JvDBeZYJxK6CfNJEF63OEg/edit

• Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead by Karen and Henry Kimsey-House

o Book: http://www.amazon.com/Co-Active-Leadership-Five-Ways-Lead/dp/1626564566

o Audio: http://www.amazon.com/Co-Active-Leadership-Five-Ways-Lead/dp/B014XYA8JQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

• Onion River Exchange: http://www.orexchange.org/

• From empire to earth community: Casa de Paz: https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/michael-edwards/from-empire-to-earth-community-casa-de-paz

• The Take: Occupy, Resist & Produce! https://youtu.be/Sug7bWxTuSo

• WHEN BUSINESS MET OCCUPY: INNOVATING FOR TRUE COLLABORATIVE DECISION-MAKING by Alanna Krause http://www.mixprize.org/story/when-business-met-occupy-innovating-true-collaborative-decision-making-and-true-empowerment

• C.S. Mott Foundation: From the Grassroots – Community Organizing:

o Understanding the Strategy [run time: 00:03:59] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flXHRxc9q1k

o Organizing and Democracy [run time: 00:04:06] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsSfZvPjMg

o Tools of Effective Organizers [run time: 00:03:41] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbfb6B7WjEM

o Understanding the Challenges [run time: 00:04:22] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NJlWd5-lkA

o Rewards of the Work [run time: 00:03:55] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qeAnv9sIa8

o The Field Today [run tim: 00:04:32] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Ep4GFjIiw

o The Road Ahead [run time: 00:04:09] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRWKUsapox8

• Strategies for Community Change and Improvement: An Overview from the Community Tool Box, a service of the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1053.aspx

II. Politics and Corporate Personhood

• Corporate Personhood Timeline by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Move to Amend https://movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/CorpPersonhoodExplanationTimeline.pdf

• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

o Book: http://www.amazon.com/A-Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0062397346/ref=dp_ob_image_bk

o Audio: http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-Present/dp/B0030MR076

• Race Baiting 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLgIIjnpZyU

• The mass party is dying, and it won't be missed by Liam Barrington-Bush https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/liam-barringtonbush/mass-party-is-dying-and-it-wont-be-missed

• TED Talk by Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government [run time: 00:17:23] http://www.ted.com/talks/beth_noveck_demand_a_more_open_source_government.html

• Al Jazeera “Empire” Series: U.S. Democracy: The power of money [run time: 00:47:02]

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2012/09/20129127525392941.html

• David Cobb – Move to Amend https://youtu.be/zUmyjuI_mcM

• TED Talk by Lawrence Lessig: We the people and the republic we must reclaim [run time: 00:18:19] http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html

• David Korten: from Plutocracy to Deep Democracy [run time: 00:11:45] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORqjcr1u1LA

• Greg Palast on the Koch Brothers and the Road to “Citizens United” for the Real News Network [run time: 00:10:27] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ybl9roaHe0

• Moyers and Company: Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland [run time: 00:56:54] http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-plutocracy-rising/

• Moyers and Company: Sheila Krumholz and Danielle Brian on How Money Rules Politics [run time: 00:20:33] http://billmoyers.com/segment/sheila-krumholz-and-danielle-brian-on-how-money-rules-washington/

• The Story of Citizens United vs. FEC: http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-citizens-united-v-fec/

• The Story of Broke: http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-broke/

• THE CORPORATION Documentary [run time: 02:24:04] https://youtu.be/Z4ou9rOssPg

III. Mass Incarceration

• Bryan Stevenson on “Why Mass Incarceration Defines Us As a Society” for Smithsonian Magazine http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Mass-Incarceration-Defines-Us-As-a-Society-179994441.html

• Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow Laws” - 2013 George E. Kent Lecture [run time: 01:10:31] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gln1JwDUI64

• Angela Davis and Michelle Alexander: End Mass Incarceration, Riverside Church, September 14, 2012 [run time: 00:12:27] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhObhSenc5s

• Race vs. Justice: Mass Incarceration – University of Oregon School of Law student documentary [run time: 01:17:07] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQaMUxaUmk

• Center for Constitutional Rights – Resources on Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration http://ccrjustice.org/criminal-justice-and-mass-incarceration

• PBS Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly - Mass Incarceration: Does the criminal justice system in the US need reform? http://video.pbs.org/video/2186572187/

• Al Jazeera’s The Stream - Incarceration, Inc. http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/incarceration-inc-0022161

• Al Jazeera Inside Story - US: A Nation of Inmates? http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/02/201322071650496567.html

IV. Climate Change

• Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret http://www.cowspiracy.com/

• Bill McKibben - “Global Warming's Terrifying New Math,” Rolling Stone Magazine http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

• How Does Meat in the Diet Take an Environmental Toll? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meat-and-environment/

• Bill McKibben – Do The Math at Rutgers University, February 4, 2013 [run time: 1:26:00] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D88x7CeC6M

• Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options. By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2006. http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.htm

• TED Talk by James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change http://www.ted.com/talks/james_hansen_why_i_must_speak_out_about_climate_change.html

• The Scientific Case for Urgent Action to Limit Climate Change: Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville [run time: 00:59:00] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Q271UaNPo

• 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cJ-J91SwP8w

• The Story of Cap and Trade: http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-cap-and-trade/

• TED Talk by Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk http://www.ted.com/talks/naomi_klein_addicted_to_risk.html

V. Nonviolence

• Nonviolence: An Introduction by Thomas Weber and Robert J. Burrowes http://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/seasia/whatis/book.php

• TED talk by Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with non-violence [run time: 00:15:48] http://www.ted.com/talks/scilla_elworthy_fighting_with_non_violence.html

• TED talk by Julia Bacha: Pay attention to non-violence [run time: 00:10:52] http://www.ted.com/talks/julia_bacha.html

• Democracy Now! Interview with Norman Finkelstein, author of What Ghandi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistence, and Courage [run time: 00:17:46] http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/6/5/part_2_norman_finkelstein_on_what_gandhi_says_about_nonviolence_resistance_and_courage

• Summary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy and principles of non-violence http://www.thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolence is the most powerful weapon [run time: 00:08:13] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74XJJ3Tq5ew

VI. Consumerism and Waste

• As Consumerism Spreads, Earth Suffers, Study Says; http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0111_040112_consumerism_2.html

• The Story of Stuff: http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/

• The Story of Electronics: http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-electronics/

• The Story of Cosmetics: http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-cosmetics/

• The Story of Bottled Water: http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-bottled-water/

• The Effects of Consumerism by Anup Shah on Globalissues.org http://www.globalissues.org/article/238/effects-of-consumerism

VII. Social and Economic Justice

• Zinn Education Project http://zinnedproject.org/

• TED Talk by Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story [run time: 00:18:49] http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948 http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

• Historical overview of the development of the concept of international human rights [run time: 00:10:35] http://www.internationalbillofrights.org/media/10

• Robert Reich: Economic Inequality Teach In Keynote Presentation at UC Berkeley 2012 [run time: 00:34:00] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-xzeMqpbM&noredirect=1

• Moyers and Company: Martin Luther King Junior's Dream for Economic Justice [run time: 00:56:47] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8-uMyCqiI

• Moyers and Company: The United States of Inequality [run time: 00:13:34] http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-moyers-essay-the-united-states-of-inequality/

• Eyes on the Prize: 1954-1985 - History of the Civil Rights Era http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/index.html

• MAKERS: Women Who Make America [run time: 00:57:43] http://www.pbs.org/makers/home

• The Canary Effect - History of Native Americans in the United States [run time: 01:03:10] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD7x6jryoSA

VIII. Evolutionary Activism

• What Would It Look Like? By the Global Oneness Project [run time: 00:25:15] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cZ96y_yOkI0#at=151

• “Overview” by the Planetary Collective – a short film on planetary awareness [run time: 00:19:03] http://vimeo.com/55073825

• “Evolving Planetary Consciousness to Escape Self-Destruction” from Shift.Is http://shift.is/2013/06/evolving-planetary-consciousness-to-escape-self-destruction/

• Great Transition Stories wiki - Resources for different aspects of the “New Story” http://www.greattransitionstories.org/wiki/Main_Page#Humanity_Is_Growing_Up

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