Movement Generation Project

With the Oakland-based Movement Generation Project, OAEC has developed a series of three-day leadership development workshops at OAEC. These sessions develop practical strategies to address the increasing economic and social impacts of global environmental problems on urban low-income communities and urban communities of color.

In 2007 we offered our first set of workshops for 25 young activists from 18 Bay Area organizations working on racial, economic and environmental justice. In 2008 we will offer the same program to a second cohort of 25 urban community activists. In these workshops we look at peak oil, peak water, climate change, environmental toxins, food security, losses in biological and cultural diversity, as well as new opportunities for the development of local, sustainable, socially just economies and local participatory democracy.

Some of the organizations that sent program staff to the 2007 trainings include Asian Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership, Central American Resource Center, Ella Baker Center, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Saint Peter's Housing Committee, Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action, and Chinese Progressive Association.

Contact Dave Henson (ext. 104) for more information.