Reimagine! Race Poverty and the Environment : Arise!

By: Jess Clarke

"The time has come for us to reimagine everything. We have to reimagine work and go away from labor. We have to reimagine revolution and get beyond protest. We have to think not only about change in our institutions, but changes in ourselves. We are at the stage where the people in charge of the government and industry are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It's up to us to reimagine the alternatives and not just protest against them and expect them to do better." -Grace Lee Boggs Table of Contents Introduction 6 Arise! By Jess Clarke Environmental and Climate Justice 9 Ecological Revolution By Movement Generation 14 On the Lie of Growth and the Power of the Small Dr. Vandana Shiva in conversation with Gopal Dayaneni 18 California's New Majority Confronts Climate Crisis By Jess Clarke 27 Moving the Money By Amy Vanderwarker 31 Can't See the Trees... or the Forest By Eric K. Arnold 40 Our Power Means All of Us By Marcy Rein 46 As the South Goes An Interview with Colette Pichon Battle By Marcy Rein and Jess Clarke 52 Land for the People-Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement An interview with Ana Manuela de Jesus Cha By Marcy Rein and Clifton Ross 58 People's Climate March By Margi Clarke and Marcy Rein Racial and Gender Justice 66 The Fire This Time: Ferguson by Alicia Garza 72 Domestic Workers Celebrate Bill of Rights By Dalia Rubiano Yedidia 77 Who Cares? The Politics of Making Domestic Work Visible By Preeti Shekar Urban Justice 82 Who Gets to Live Near Transit? By Dyan Ruiz and Joseph Smooke 87 Gentrification Is Making Us Sick By Zo? Levitt 89 Tenants' Rights Movement Wins New Law in Oakland By Robbie Clark 94 The Right to Rest By Paul Boden and Terry Messman 98 Absentee Condo Ownership Worsens San Francisco's Housing Crisis By Darwin Bond Graham and Tim Redmond 101 Creative Placemaking-A Cautionary Tale By Megan Wilson 106 The Beat of 24th and Mission Interviews with Krissy Keefer and Stella Adelman By Christine Joy Ferrer Arise! Can we build a "movement of movements" that respects differences in political outlook and relative power in the racial, gender and class hierarchies of our stratified society? Can we accept and celebrate difference, not only culturally, but also in the pragmatic choices that we individually and collectively need to make for our day-to-day survival? The Reimagine! project seeks to provide a platform for dialogue that does just that. Working from a grounded race, class and gender analysis to understand how the system operates, we can develop strategies that go beyond reacting to crises. Environmental racism and gentrification choke and rip apart families as surely as police assault. Politics, policy and planning trap communities of color in segregated neighborhoods, segregated schools and racialized mass incarceration.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692329641
• ISBN13: 9780692329641
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Reimagine!
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"