How to Make Beautiful & Good Trouble: Direct Action Tactics and Strategies
It has never been more urgent to rise up for the planet and her people, and for all of us to show up to expose the violence and injustice in our country. Yet to be effective, we need to be strategic in choosing our approaches and tools. Leading activists with long experience in frontline struggles will share their expertise, exploring such topics as how to determine which tactic is right at a given moment, how best to prepare for an action, and how to engage to obtain real results. With: Jodie Evans, co-founder, CODEPINK; Nancy Mancias, Divest from War campaigner, CODEPINK; Scott Parkin, Organizing Director, Rainforest Action Network, Roberta Giordano, Finance Campaigner, the Sunrise Project; Dragonfly Wilson (aka Robin LaVerne Wilson/Miss Justice Jester), a conceptual artist, performer, storyteller, musician, writer, educator, photographer, and filmmaker..
December 13th | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Panelists
Jodie Evans
Co-Founder
CODEPINK
Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK and a peace, environmental, feminist and social justice activist for 50 years, served in Governor Jerry Brown’s first administration and ran his 1992 presidential campaign. Jodie, who has published 2 books: Stop the Next War Now and Twilight of Empire and is a documentary film producer, is currently board chair of Rainforest Action Network and 826LA and sits on 12 other boards including for the Institute for Policy Studies, Global Girl Media, and The Peoples Forum.
Nancy Mancias
Campaign Organizer
CODEPINK
Nancy L. Mancias, a highly effective Campaign Organizer for the renowned peace and social justice non-violent, direct action group, CODEPINK, has also been part of the movement against torture, a proponent of closing the Guantanamo prison, and, as a key figure in the Justice For All campaign, an advocate for bringing all war criminals to justice.
Scott Parkin
Organizing Director
Rainforest Action Network
Scott Parkin, a trainer, coordinator and organizer, has worked with anti-corporate, global justice, anti-war, labor, environmental and climate movements in North America, Europe and Australia. Currently Rainforest Action Network’s (RAN) Organizing Director, Scott previously spent 12 years as Senior Campaigner on RAN’s Climate Team, helping lead campaigns against, among others, Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining, and the Keystone XL pipeline. Scott also co-hosts a regular podcast on environmental and social justice politics called the Green and Red Podcast.
Roberta Giordano
Finance Campaigner
The Sunrise Project
Roberta Giordano, born and raised in Rome, Italy, is the Finance Campaigner at the Sunrise Project. Previously, she worked with Amazon Watch, campaigning to expose the immense financial firm BlackRock's investments in oil and gas companies operating in the Amazon basin directly threatening Indigenous communities. While a student at UC Berkeley, Roberta worked to pressure the UC system to move its money out of fossil fuels investments.
Dragonfly Wilson
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