Feminist, Anti-racist Leadership Practice for Diversifying Power :
Can intersections of energy, environmental, and climate justice provide new leadership models?
"Power structures": Social changes are occurring in tandem with and enabling energy transitions that combat inequality
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Though many social justice movements have roots in anti-colonial struggles, and many contemporary social movements date back over five decades ago, much work remains to bring equity, justice, and peace to today's nations and the marginalized communities within them. This case draws on the work of Dr. Jennie Stephens, who selected the specific examples here based on her research about leadership in the USA to make "polluter elites" more accountable.
This online module offers supplementary historical and media context to show how traditional, patriarchal power structures impede paths toward environmental and climate justice. Our goal is to amplify the urgent need for diverse, inclusive leadership, and make Stephens's clear examples even easier to share, or update. But perhaps the most compelling summary of this module's value comes from a key character whose leadership is featured in it, Jacqueline Patterson of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP: along with a few other examples, this module walks the learner through new models for leadership, and why they matter.
"Our future must be rooted in a just transition. This involves moving away from a society functioning on extraction to one rooted in deep democracy and to one integrating regenerative processes, cooperation and acknowledgement of interdependence and again, where all rights are respected (indigenous, women’s, and all marginalized communities) and honored. This absolutely must include earth rights as well. We have to respect the vessel. We have to get to a place where we can live in harmony with each other and the Earth." -Jacqueline Patterson
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