Debrief, hanging out and seeing what comes next
Lenina Nadal
In it with you,If I missed anyone, I'm sorry, please feel free to get sassy and be like hey woman, what about me!If you are excited to keep working on developing a #Renternation NYC assembly in the Spring or summer and organizing tenants in need of affordable housing, keep in contact with me.Thanks to RJ and Melanie for pulling together a forceful contingent of the FOUNDRY theatre, and to the Refugees International's Climate Displacement division for marching with us. Thanks to NYC housing groups Reclaim Bushwick, NW Bushwick, Crown Heights Tenant Union, 5th Avenue Committee and RTC groups like JFREJ, FUREE, Picture the Homeless. CPA Boston, Springfield No One Leaves, City Life, MIdHudson No One Leaves, ACCE, RTC Boston/Vote, and Occupy Our Homes Atlanta/MN that marched with us!Thanks to all the folks that carried a tent or a banner or a sign, it ain't easy doing that. Thanks to Mark and Yasmeen, RTC staff for providing leadership and direction and supporting the work of the contingent members. Mark, thanks for getting together songs and a mini family contingent. Thanks to my folks for hanging with little Viva as I helped do art building and organizing. Rachel, thanks for your unbelievable work and sacrifice and coordinating 60 buses for the Frontline contingent! That ain't easy!Loves,We did it! You did it! We marched and we shared our vision and our hearts in the streets together. It was a day of wonder and excitement (though maybe a little bit hard on the feet and the parents!) Let's be real.
Shout out to the folks who met in weekly meetings to plan the vision and the intention of the people's housing and displacement contingent. Thanks to Braden for jumpstarting that idea and Rehanna for saying, yes let's do this, and being a fierce leader early on. Thanks to our great intern/volunteers JD and Niklas, for holding down a good deal of logistics. Thanks to Lolo and Josh for helping to craft the messaging and the talking points and for being a great chant leader who kept us all up and going. Thanks to the amazing team that helped build out tents and spent tons of free time at the Mayday space stenciling, spraypainting and dreaming- Enrique, Joel, Sam, Bruno, Cynthia, Bridget and Matt and the many folks, who volunteered to paint and build. Enrique thanks for the amazing pictures. Thanks to Chris and Sarah for the Rising Tides, Rising Rents, Rising People banner that made national news! Thanks to Crystal for the vision behind the Hogares Para Todos banner.
SEE PICS HERE-A special thanks to Raquel de Anda, Oja and Lucas for always looking after our small, struggling contingent and helping us make our dreams real. You two were our champions from early on.Thanks to CVH, ALIGN, VOCAL and all the great RTC groups that pulled together the Rockaway Wildfire and Sandy contingents and helped us know how to mirror your messaging.If you are excited into plugging into long-term work around climate change, check out the Our Power campaign and their goals for supporting communities who are working to transform their local economies to be models for the whole country. http://www.ourpowercampaign.org/Palante, LeninaOn Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Lenina Nadal <lenin...@gmail.com> wrote:CHANTS AND SONGS
FOR THE PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH
Here are just a few suggestions of chants from different parts of our movement!
PCM Chant - RTC Culture Team
- Leader/coro says first line, crowd repeats.
- You can use a simple 4/4 clap, or freak it if you have folks w/ rhythm.
- LISTEN TO A SAMPLE TRACK: http://bit.ly/RTC_PCM_Chant
They're heatin' up the planet
We're mad & we can't stand it
They get rich off pollution
Don’t want false solutions
These people ain't got answers
They get rich while we get cancer (They mad cuz we so handsome)
A corporation ain't no person
Conditions steady worsen
Who's getting hit the first?
Who's getting hit the worst?
We got leaders on the frontline
We execute in crunchtime
That time is right about now
To change the WHO WHAT HOW
We're rising up determined
Need system change for certain
Ecological crisis?
The solutions that are nicest
Come from the folks hit hardest
Ain't got no choice, regardless
It's system change or extinction
It's real, it ain't no fiction
We're not asking, we're takin'
Together we're amazing
(* symbol designates chants with 4 or 8-count meters that will work well with the band -Megan/Brass Liberation Orchestra)
*MOBILIZE, DON’T MOURN (pause)
IT TAKES ROOTS TO WEATHER THE STORM
Climate Justice Alliance came up with the slogan “it takes roots to weather the storm” for the People’s Climate March. “Don’t Mourn- Mobilize” is a quote from Joe Hill, a famous labor organizer from the International Workers of the World.
TWO CRISIS, ONE SOLUTION
WE ARE READY TO BUILD THE FUTURE
The NYC Host Committee chose the slogan “Climate, Jobs--Two Crisis, One Solution”
The Labor Arts Coalition is building a float for the march titled “We build the Future!”
WE HAVE COME THIS FAR
WE CAN’T TURN AROUND
WE’LL FLOOD THE STREETS WITH JUSTICE
WE ARE FREEDOM BOUND
Caribbean civil rights poet June Jordan wrote these words, which have been used in many social and economic justice movement for more than 50 years. We think it makes sense for our climate justice fight, too.
*DIVEST! DIVEST!
IT’S IN OUR BEST INTEREST!
For the past few years, the Fossil Fuel Divestment movement has been yelling this chant around the USA.
KEEP THE COAL IN THE HOLE
KEEP THE OIL IN THE SOIL
KEEP THE GAS IN THE GRASS
Heard at 2013’s Forward on Climate rally in Washington DC- origins unknown.
*COAL, GAS, OIL (pause) - LEAVE IT IN THE SOIL! (pause)
EXTREME ACTION - NOT EXTREME ENERGY (or EXTRACTION*)!
*DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE - ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!
* WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE - ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!
*ONE PLANET, NOW’s THE TIME - TO NOT TAKE ACTION IS A CRIME!
*CHINA, AUSTRALIA, USA - STOP THE MADNESS, GET OUT OF THE WAY!
*RENEWABLES ARE DOABLE!
*CHOOSE “WE” INSTEAD OF “ME”!
*POWER FOR THE EARTH (pause), NOT FOR YOUR NET WORTH! (pause)
ACT NOW, FOR YOUR KIDS, NOT THE DOW!
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not. - Lorax, Dr. Seuss
Hey Hey (pause) Ho Ho (pause)
Displacement has got to go!
HELENA AND CECI’s OFFERINGS FOR CHANGE
Key messages
systems change
frontline communities most impacted and have the solutions
climate justice not just climate action
leaders need to take leadership from people
false solutions vs. real solutions
Call and Response in Song (chant leader sings one line, people repeat same line)
We are the people
The mighty, mighty people,
Fighting ___________ (climate change / for justice / the system)
_______ _______ ______ (we’re for systems change / led by our communities / through our resistance)
Everywhere we go
People want to know
Who we are
So we tell them
(Chanted with rhythm!)
Enough of your pollution
We’ve got the real solution
Down with the corporations
Up with the revolutionChant leader: I said up with the (people, workers, students, immigrants, earth, real solutions, local economies, women, animals, etc.)
People: Yeah Yeah! (fists up and jump high)
Chant leader: Down with (money, corporations, capitalism, dirty energy, fracking, racism, false solutions,exploitation, land grabs, puppet leaders, etc.)
People: Boom, boom! (stomp their feet and get low)
*Ain’t no power like the power of the earth
cause the power of the earth don’t stopSay What!
Ain’t no power like the power of your profits
cause the power of your profits just droppedSay What!
*What do we want: systems change!
When do we want it: now!SONG:
We’re gonna lay all the (polluters / naysayers / corporations/ koch brothers) down, down by
down by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riverside
We’re gonna lay all the (polluters / naysayers / corporations/ koch brothers) down, down by
down by the riverside, down by the riverside
Cause we don’t want climate change no more
climate change no moreclimate change no more
SONG (listen to DMX Rough Riders anthem for melody):
Stop (pause) Drop (pause)
The Earth is getting too hot
Oh (pause) No (pause)
Let our planet grow
FROM OUR POWER RICHMOND CONVENING!
It takes roots, roots roots
roots to weather the storm storm
Power without pollution
*The resistance is forming
No war, no warming
Oh ay o ay o ay o ay,
clean energy today
MJ - just Clean It
do do do do, do do do do dox2
don't want no coal or dirty energy
no nuclear waste
or toxic mercury
just wanna future
that’s safe for you an me so
clean it
cause you know that its right
clean it
clean it
you know it in your heart we need it
you know that we got it,
you know that its right
solar wind power
its worth the fight
so clean it
just clean it
Detroit is on the move
Clean air good jobs get in the groove
Smoke makes me choke
This breeze makes me wheeze
3.Stop the burning
Stop stop the burning
*4.One, we are the people
Two, a little bit louder
Three, clean air, good jobs and justice
5.Stop Drop
People gonna rise up to the top
Hey Ho
Refinary’s got to go)
7.Clean air now
Stop the burning, we’ll show you how
8.We are sick of your pollution
Lets start building the solution
*Look at me I’m flirty flirty
Burning oil is dirty dirty
10.We are the people
The mighty mighty people
Everywhere we go_o
People want to know_o
Who we are
And what we stand for
We want clean air
So fresh and so clean air
We are the people
We will not be silent
Everywhere we go_o
People want to know_o
Who we are
And what we stand for
We want justice
Environmental justice
11.We’re ready, we’re ready
Just transition now
We’ve started a movement
C’mon we’ll show you how
13.Cut the crap
end corporate greed
Give Richmond/ Black Mesa/ Detroit/ Kentucky/ San Antonio/ Jackson
what we need
Tell me what you want what you really really want - Justice
Tell me what you need what you really really need - Power
From Black Mesa (Detroit, Kentucky, Jackson, San Antonio, to Richmond
A Just Transition
21.Up with the people, up with clean air, up with good jobs….
Down with Covanta, down with the burning, down with asthma…
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Lenina Nadal <lenin...@gmail.com> wrote:Please join the Housing and Displacement contingent text loop
Text @right2stay to 23559
Text Loop for Day of CommunicationPlease have your bus captains or group point people sign up for the group text loop!This will help with day of issues/information sharing!Text right2stay to 23559Social Media:On the day of, we'll be using the following hashtags:#peoplesclimate#right2stay
Here are some sample tweets.Sandy:The roots of the climate crisis are economic
- #rebuildajustNY for cleaner, safer and greener communities impacted by #climatechange
- #wemarch in solidarity with@ourcity to take down #climatechange and #rebuildajustNYC
- We’re in #ClimateCrisis because the 1% control the economy. Communities the #right2stay. #PeoplesClimate
- #JustTransition = #CommunitySolutions to cut emissions, create jobs & build a #right2stay for people & planet. #PeoplesClimate
If you have any questions please email me.
--Lenina Nadal646-661-CITY(2489) Ext. 103
Homes For All!
Reclaim. Remain. Rebuild Our Cities.
Twitter- @ourcity YouTube-rttcusa FB- Right to the City Alliance
www.homesforall.org
www.homesforall.tumblr.com
www.righttothecity.org
--Lenina Nadal646-661-CITY(2489) Ext. 103
Homes For All!
Reclaim. Remain. Rebuild Our Cities.
Twitter- @ourcity YouTube-rttcusa FB- Right to the City Alliance
www.homesforall.org
www.homesforall.tumblr.com
www.righttothecity.org
--Lenina Nadal646-661-CITY(2489) Ext. 103
Homes For All!
Reclaim. Remain. Rebuild Our Cities.
Twitter- @ourcity YouTube-rttcusa FB- Right to the City Alliance
www.homesforall.org
www.homesforall.tumblr.com
www.righttothecity.org
--
Lenina Nadal
646-661-CITY(2489) Ext. 103
Homes For All!
Reclaim.
Remain. Rebuild Our Cities.
www.homesforall.org
www.homesforall.tumblr.com
www.righttothecity.org