Unknown Speaker 00:01 Do you ever think it's really important that you do take on a networking opportunity? I want to learn that you'd like to learn from that organization way of identifying stuff that wants to make connections that don't know each other isn't in the room. Let's go around the table Unknown Speaker 00:33 My name is Diana Henley and I work for the United States associated with animal world and since I do that facilitated therapy, which goes to Unknown Speaker 00:45 nursing homes hospitals, also nursing school as Unknown Speaker 00:55 well College and I'm interested in Unknown Speaker 01:04 Jeffree Star My name is Kathleen McGuire and again New York City. It started with an organization called the Trump administration. And we have downstairs you might want to see it workers Unknown Speaker 01:46 My name is Chris Ferguson, Girl Scouts to USA just three values it matters to us I'm Chris I'm federal state Supreme Court judge for 20 years connected to all Americans. My name is Pearl Silva. I graduated from law school here at the Tampa Bay International Unknown Speaker 02:43 Law Education working for this person we were very involved in among other issues, environmental issues Unknown Speaker 02:54 on our graduates and right now I'm working as a social worker Unknown Speaker 03:07 education programs for university students looking for connections Unknown Speaker 03:19 My name is Adam Lucas and I'm also a student at Sarah Lawrence College and I'm here because I want to help lead the way especially for women environmental Unknown Speaker 03:33 arena and she's a longtime feminist and artistic and also write for COVID-19 review books on art and Unknown Speaker 03:45 Environmental Engineering at the Masters Unknown Speaker 03:52 University looking for a job down here in Unknown Speaker 04:05 America I'm Noel sturgeon I teach Unknown Speaker 04:21 at Washington State University and I also edit the ICO which comes out at the end of the day. 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And I also work for the women's health education project in the city and I was on trying to get some ideas about what the most effective educational and career directions are. I'm Sarah I'm running Breitbart and I Unknown Speaker 07:17 teach them geographer but I teach Urban Studies and Feminist studies in Hampshire College. And I do community work as well in the area of affordable housing for women and children. And also I've done some work with kids in the urban environment, inner city, kids in New York. Unknown Speaker 07:41 Now everyone knows who each other if someone's interested in tapping on that sheet to find it, then you want to find ways of keeping in touch with one another in might use another class, okay, my name is. Imran Khan, as you can tell, I'm originally from Brazil. And now a resident of the United States and many teach in College London, I have a theory that confession that date back. And further to the cause of these conversations, and we have quite a lot of backgrounds including as they physically have a shared interest in Unknown Speaker 08:42 political Unknown Speaker 08:46 issues and women's involvement. And we began thinking a while ago about connections between women and college, but in the context of because much of the environment and much of feminist thought and activism, were either happening in more rural areas or have a more rural concern more wilderness, you know, to form a rather symbolic action, like the women's Pentagon action at the Pentagon, and medals of connection, but we began to be more interested in what we were doing specifically in urban areas around the nation. And when I visualized it, in my mind is that kind of triangle we asked ourselves, so who's talking about politics? And even feminists didn't talk to me about the environmental influences similarly, not always taking initiative Many women are active in community organizing within cities, not necessarily connected to either ecofeminism or to environmental movement. So those are the three sort of points on this triangle. And I think that what you deal with wanted to do is try and find ways of going and making the connections that both Vanessa just talked about the jumping off point, presentation today, to begin to talk about two threads identified, historically, the contemporaneous ones the more kinds of environmental strand, the side that is always looking at environmental issues, looking at physical appearance, of disease, and so on. And another strand that watch another social justice. And this is a lot of generalization. But remember, we presented this as working. There seems to be some clear gender connection between. Last year on the west coast of wakeful colleges, I hosted the first international ecotourism conference in Berkeley, and stated purpose of this conference, was to draw attention to the ways in which this has been built in disregard natural to promote healthier ecological and social arrangements in the future. And has dealt with a range of that they still manifest in how the environment became a wider nation. And then thing to be clear division between people who wait of environmental change, to questions of social and economic destiny, and things whose explicit was an environmental land. And I think that kind of dichotomy runs through a lot of the literature, and the organizing, that's currently going on around that, we see a lot of emphasis on issues of animation, water congestion, for energy consumption, toxic the deterioration of the physical fabric, environment, and the absence of open space. All those factors are often identified as key factors in this approach. And the problem often has to be connected to current technologies, and the physical design space within the city. So that that often leads people then to make restrictions or redesigning or even abandoning existing cities, and creating whole new towns. And I think we characterize it as a kind of broad stock list of recommendations that comes up again and again, through these kinds of proposals. And naturalizing, existing Heartland reviving a redesign is too often to reduce the traffic flow. Let's relax. And there is an alternative forms of public transportation, green cities retreat has a huge community. I didn't want to suggest that we think without clearly all the things have got value in context. I think the point you're trying to make here is that this focus on the physical environment as the source of the phenomena, and then tumor in the environment as the solution to that problem is really two things. The assumption seems to be writer and activist, if you want by environment, then you solve the problem. And there's somehow mentioned with native social, economic, cultural, and political obstacles, to bring about change the entrance really want to kind of rebound architectural, transportation technologies and at best, we feel this approach tendencies fragment, and avoid environment, environmentally sound environment, but we often feel ignored by crucial issues, and crucial health segments. The translation historic building always raises the question of whose history indeed and whose history by implication and green consumerism in which many of us have been involved in recycling, although often valuable, often ignored the potentiality of toxic production process and environmental concern, I think that Detroit when we're buying recycled paper, or whether the side of the detergent packets in great shape is fine. The next step in the process, it's a production process in and of themselves, both the investor and applicant cultural connection. And sometimes plant communities are an example here. When we came up with the Florida architects who attempted to environmental issue, only present options. At best with them, this approach really the whole area of why Unknown Speaker 16:08 we think that it actually diminishes the quality if it wasn't for Unknown Speaker 16:15 taking historical preservation again. Unknown Speaker 16:19 There's a need to love that historical preservation of buildings often promote people and gentrification by raising crops in neighborhoods can no longer afford to. And in some cases, preservation for years environmental rhetoric, to oppose even well thought out, affordable housing. I think there's also a risk that current efforts to rebuild a city in balance with nature, kind of fear or minimize or distract attention away from continuing the range in which you call answering, amongst others, environmental wolf warns against and with the urban environment adapted as a concept, which must lead to social justice, multicultural awareness, and ecological restoration. So that being an environmental justice in a very weird way, it's our contention that within a capitalist economy, and I'm just learning has never been about solving problems of housing, land speculation, it's always been designed to really meet the needs of the market system is now equipped and motivated or plagued to solve many of the other problems, which arise in other areas of activity. In that sense, I think we've been very much a part of the problem. I think because Unknown Speaker 18:06 cities have have this capacity to reveal the kind of systemic social roots behind environmental problems, that they provide a really unique setting for launching a more powerful environmental movement. But this potential really hasn't hasn't been realized. And I think that if we were to launch such a movement, then we would have to take an approach to environmental urban environmental change, which would incorporate some of the land use planning dimensions that are outlined earlier, but will also draw needed attention to the more critical aspects of urban survival and present. And again, that list is familiar everything, affordable housing and toxic waste to an environmental health workplace, which has a particular interest in New York City now that there's been somewhat of a revival of sweatshops, of sweatshops within certain immigrant communities, and so forth, as well as violence in the home and in public places and for any general issues of personal safety. The people who are organizing around these issues today in urban neighborhoods are more often than not women who seem to understand the connections between the deterioration of their neighborhoods, the physical aspects of their neighborhoods, and issues of economic inequality and racism. And I think for many of these women and for many of these community organizations that the human spawn, the connections between social justice and equity are really central. And altering the built environment altering land use is some component of what they do, but it's only one of what they what was Interestingly, when I when we started to think about these connections and these issues is that they seem to have historical antecedents. Both the more, both the approach that was sort of more plays more emphasis on land use planning, and the approach that that plays more emphasis on social justice within cities that have real historical antecedents. And as far as the social justice, the connections go, one of the groups of one of a group of women who seemed to be making these connections at the turn of the century, were called material feminists. I don't know how many of you are familiar with the work of florist. She's actually architectural historian. But she's written a book called The Grand domestic revolution, which is about Unknown Speaker 20:47 the work of a group of women who Unknown Speaker 20:51 she's called material feminists to live in cities primarily at the end of the 19th century. And were involved in urban reform in a very active, active way. They've been largely forgotten and ignored in history. And one of the wonderful things about her book is that she revives revives. This group of women actually recognized that the source of the urban environmental problems which they were seeing within immigrant neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods, within large cities, like New York, at the turn of the century, had really was really social and economic rather than physical and that to create a new city, they had to create a new social order. So they saw that there was a role for environmental design, in this process of change. But that environmental design alone and land use planning couldn't be the sole basis of change. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of these women who the large hadron cross, a material feminist. And she actually came up with and she she, she did this in a variety of ways. She wrote novels, and fiction to illustrate some of her ideas. But she also wrote straightforward kind of nonfiction, diatribes in magazines and such like things but she, she actually came up with a fairly comprehensive, an idea that a comprehensive program of urban change, had to have certain components to it, that were really seen a corner office, and one of them was the elimination of poverty. The other was nurturing people from childhood under the best of conditions, and she devoted a lot of her time to thinking about children and child raising as a professional occupation. And thirdly, demonstrating the role of mutual aid and cooperation in satisfying basic survival needs to be in the city in the neighborhood. And she really believed that it would be women who had scars down this road to change, and that this could be accomplished in part by inventing new ways of doing traditional tasks. One of the things for example, she became concerned with was the wastefulness of food production systems, like individual households were the consuming units. And she thought about how beneficial it would be within cities and city neighborhoods to incorporate some forms or opportunities for communal food production and distribution. And as a result in cities like Boston, New York, and even small towns in Iowa, there were little pockets of material chemists to at the end of turn of the century actually began initiating building projects for kitchen lists apartment houses, communal dining halls, and cooperative laundries. And in these facilities, they employ new technologies of the time, like stoves, methods of refrigeration, washing machines, and so forth elevators, but they were all employed at a scale that exceeded the individual nuclear family in the household. They were very much in favor of apartment living, for example, but they, they thought that one of the advantages was that you could take some of these new technologies and apply them on a large scale and become really efficient in terms of producing food for people and distributing and so forth. And childcare was also incorporated into their schemes, you know, childcare. In contrast, they were very much in contrast to many of the male urban reformers of their time, who assumed that the market would and could provide for people's needs as long as certain minimum building and safety standards were set. Unknown Speaker 24:31 It Up opposition to this many of the material feminists take a lot of time pointing out the ways in which they felt the political economy of capitalism so verted the positive aspects of growth and why I think that the work and materials feminist has really been carried through into the threads present by a number of grassroots activists but also by professional Settlement House workers and also of women who got really actively involved in promoting public housing in the 1920s and 30s. And if you look at the work of women like Catherine now I need to tell her what the vision of public housing that they were presenting back in the 1920s and 30s. And their active work for passage of the first Housing Act of 1937 was very, very different from what Acts actually gets built in the 1940s and 50s. In there, they had a vision of public housing, SB family housing, they were never going to be 25 and 40 storey buildings with minimal accoutrements and amenities that are more like prisons, or houses, they had a very alternative view of what they meant by public housing. And they continue to promote the idea that the diminished quality of urban life and the neighborhood degradation of urban environments rested primarily on two factors, economic inequalities that seemed to be based on a system of private property, and various forms of discrimination based on sex, race, ethnicity, and class. So while Catholic that was primary interest was to provide public housing, she never she was relentless, really in her support of safe jobs, providing living wages for city dwellers, as well as the rights of everyone, not just the deserving poor, but everyone to a life and health helpful and safe environment. And they did a number of social surveys and they interacted on a daily basis whether been with your report, and from this experience came to understand the drastic social consequences of a system which could not or would not guarantee people, even the basics. These women encountered an awful lot of opposition to their ideas, they were accused of absolutely everything under the sun. They were ridiculed by politicians, they were ridiculed by male sociologists and planners, and even by men who call themselves urban ecologists. This was particularly so in Chicago school of sociology in the 1920s. These demand who were calling themselves urban ecologists conducted their own social and physical surveys of urban ethnic neighborhoods in cities like Chicago, as allegedly detached social scientists and the surveys. They used to try and draw parallels between what's happening within these urban neighborhoods, the process of urban degradation, the process of change within these urban neighborhoods, and what they felt were natural processes in the animal and plant community. In other words, they would actually compare changes that were taking place in Chicago neighborhoods, to the ecological processes of adults, adapting to a changing environment through competition, succession and domination, the words they lifted sort of Darwinian concepts and tried to apply them to explain the kinds of changes that were taking place within cities. By doing this, in a sense, they were implying that these changes were natural and inevitable consequences in the social world as they were in the natural world. And they consequently use their surveys to measure things like community, disorganization, or community ufology, within urban neighborhoods. And this was again very much in contrast to many of the female social reformers and activists over time, who were rather focusing on the very rudiments of a broader critique of the capitalist city. And we're beginning to challenge explanations of housing problems, poverty, poor health, that blamed disorganized family structures rather than underlying social and economic systems. And they also some of them at least tried to draw some attention to the negative consequences, environmental consequences of racism within cities. I guess. Unknown Speaker 29:09 Picking up that strand. We then wanted to look at some contemporary events and picking up the idea of environment voices and I'm not going to spend a lot time now talking about women toxic organizing, that is not identity different about this afternoon in the session, from what time the environment but many of you will know that an investment across the country is organizing against top down initially I can communicate the purpose Hi everyone, my name is Axel canal. But the network around the country particularly pelonis, through an organization called query voice, which is based in Virginia, and having been active for about 10 years and able to reflect on all the different local campaigning, the people have been able to see how clearly women's leadership has been embraced. In this particular movement, and a hazardous waste, it is very important resources to know about legal aspects, medical plans, and so on. Organizing, interesting retail store, living with many children, oftentimes children who are suffering, health from the new infinity of topics. And at the same time involving parents regarding the physical action. NASA talks about kitchen table. And that's a term that I use a national women's Environmental Health Network, very much concerned about toxic chemicals used in production and the industry. But the idea that women who are seeing the direct effects of pollution in there all the time initially, until doing that kind of everyday research, getting together the picture of what's going on, and then being in a position to need to challenge whether it's the factory eligible the school authorities and so on, and take up these environmental issues. They're embedded in a thing was talking about her landlord originally coming in, that she was imagining problems with apartment and the whole business about being said not to be sufficiently qualified to have any rights issues, technical and so on is a normal question that easily try and and they have business growing has to produce a really interesting book called empowering women and toxic organizing, which we happen to have people want to see it wasn't happening so much about it. Talk a lot about women's leadership, and the stress and difficulty for doing work that as good organizer. These actions are arranged in so that what are the obstacles to doing organ? And then what are the solutions, then for every different sessions that you see? I don't know whether to Dance Day, but suddenly a man address but back to that for people who might be interested. But there are many other resources. And we'll get to as growing umbrella organizations they provide information and the role of government, particularly as not as you start to notice patterns and children being crucial things that kicked off Unknown Speaker 33:55 this community and then was asked to confront. And I think this has had several aspects, which was interesting to think about what we think is what are the principles of ecological urbanism? One of the things that I think has shown is, you know, whenever you break into something that it's actually connected or a circle, you find yourself moving from one thing to the next that you understand and develop. And one of the things that I think has been very clear, coming to this talk, the organizing is the way when we understand the way the economy and how that most of them all our families are the people who the corporation that profiting at you know, in the workplace, and being tied to the community and being neutered by things that I wouldn't call Viper. I think they're out there a way that production process work. And so that those two things working processes to help or lack of help in a working environment become very intimately connected with life. And being that kind of double kind of as both workers and people who are forced to live in an unhealthy environment, the dimension of empowerment empowerment as an aspect of effectiveness. Many women say over and over again, we've never done anything like this before, we have never been we've never gone to go. We've never been acted in this way in the public domain and the confidence scale, incredible strength of that against another really Unknown Speaker 35:53 Yeah, we have another example, which kind of illustrates how really selective we could be or the environmental movement can be and who and what we choose to protect within that environment. The example that I'm going to talk about is an example from a city called Holyoke, Massachusetts. I teach early studies at Hampshire, rural Amherst. And it's hard to teach European studies in a rural setting like that, but Holyoke is our closest city and it certainly has an array of problems that would qualify it as a, as a city worth becoming involved in. Holyoke itself was in original plan city in this country at one it was one of our in original mill town, industrial mill town plan in the 1840s, with all the accoutrements waterpower, canals olding, the old industrial buildings, but it kind of missed the boat and textiles were actually beginning to even leave New England at the time, and Holyoke actually got underway, with the exception of the silk mills, or within the city. And so it became primarily a place to produce paper. And it predated because of all the males and all the cows and so forth. Lots of housing was built for workers, immigrant workers who were coming to Mills. So much of the Physical Plant within this city today is over 100 years old, any of the houses are 100 years old factories, or at least not older. South polio, known as the flat became the site of sort of worker mill housing. And there was no journey to work for workers who live there, they just walked across the street from the factory. And that's where they went to work each day ever immigrants came in with different immigrant groups pass through this neighborhood, many of them moving out and up the hill, as they got better jobs. The last immigrant group to reach Holyoke, however, was Puerto Rican. And they moved primarily into Holyoke in the 1960s and early 70s. And the Puerto Rican movement into holiest was in part occasioned by by formwork, there is there were actually farm labor jobs in the Connecticut Valley, harvesting tobacco and so forth that attracted people to the city. But they were caught in the changing political economy of the city and in global processes of deindustrialization factories that were picking up moving out of old New England cities and towns into things to the Third World. In this context, the neighborhood and the city as a whole was declining fast. There were abandoned buildings, there was arson, there was a lack of investment in the physical infrastructure, and declining social programs. One of the mayors of his city in the 1970s was very concerned about market decline and about neighborhood decline and publicly blame this decline on market forces. Privately however, he really believed that the Puerto Rican in migration was responsible for the decline of his housing stock and indirectly responsible for discouraging new businesses in the middle class from staying in the city. And he began to use environmental as well as economic rhetoric to justify a restoration and revitalization program within this part of the city. And a series of measures that were designed to remove basically the population, Puerto Rican population from this neighborhood and from the city as a whole. And one of the ways he did this was to designate their neighborhood as an industrial rather than residential neighborhood. Which meant that, you know, play spending money in this neighborhood to rehabilitate housing became increasingly difficult. Non Puerto Rican women brought a class action lawsuit against him in the late 1970s. And they allege that these policies C's were systematically demolishing low income housing for racist reasons as well as economic reasons. And that, in his effort to try and replace housing with industry, he was actually trying to eliminate a whole population from the city itself. The evidence they use for selective enforcement of building codes, how people would go in and actually enforce building codes in this neighborhood in a way that they weren't being enforced elsewhere. Forced landlords, in many cases to abandon those buildings, they then be subjected to arson, and ultimately demolition. And when the fee when there were a few buildings that were rebuilt, those would be for elderly housing and not for family. What they did I fall in this lawsuit was to form a neighborhood development corporation called Live Unknown Speaker 40:51 Esperanza new code. Unknown Speaker 40:52 And this, that this, this development corporation decided to focus its efforts on one neighborhood rather than a few, they wanted to make a real difference within one part of the city rather than a smaller difference within several nations in the city. And they focused initially for survival reasons, I'm saving the few buildings that remain within the city, and providing and focused on providing in these buildings, housing for large families, and doing substantial rough and moderate rehabilitation. They encountered a number of problems that are I think, common to a lot of urban development corporations. One of the problems they encountered is one that they were in a sense becoming too successful by kept by rehabilitating a few buildings, the neighborhood was known as becoming a kind of more desirable place and consequently land speculation setting and buildings that they could get for absolutely a song 10 years ago now cost a fortune are in much worse shape than they were require much more spending on them. But now that they have been become establishment in this neighborhood, and they have focused on certain improvements in a physical environment, they're broadening their efforts to address social problems within the neighborhood as well, they're using. They're, they're using pride, they have always tried to use minority contractors, and to make sure that minority contractors hire neighborhood workers in the rehabilitation projects to encourage employment. They have a teen pregnancy prevention program, they started a teen Art Center, which I worked with last summer in which our main object was to get these teenagers recognized within the city. Instead of removing them from the streets of Holyoke, our efforts were designed to get them into the streets. And we actually design a public art project in which the kids design street banners reflecting their feelings about the changes that are taking place within the city and the neighborhood and so forth. They've started a community land trust within the neighborhood and community garden. I think that in some ways, it's a it's an organization is very typical of a lot of neighborhood development corporations that have started within cities. But one of the things that I think is interesting about this group and others that are similar is that they were right up front, you connect the environmental degradation to the changing political economy of the city and two issues of racism. And in pointing out that these processes of physical neighborhood define were not inevitable ecological phenomenon that were happening naturally within the within an urban setting. South Holyoke did not die a natural death and died a planned death. And they tried to prove that through their efforts. Also, I think that they they were very active in trying to prove that environmental symptoms of social problems should not be allowed to become an excuse for depriving a whole population of their right to live in the city. And that was a significant underlying base to their organizing efforts. And although their short term goals were to increase affordable housing to create a more livable urban environment for themselves, their larger mission was really twofold. It was to promote community participation, and involvement in issues affecting the neighborhood to really claim a space for themselves within the city. And I think they claiming a space and empowering themselves. They saw as as a really prerequisite to envision a change and a different future for themselves in a sustainable urban context. And I think the other thing that they illustrate is that if we are going to embark on an urban environmental movement, then we have to remember one of the most important principles of ecology, which is the principle of diversity and social diversity. And that was also a very large component of their activity. Unknown Speaker 45:00 We have one last tip that comes from a user guide. And many believe that familiar with various parts of the of the particular garden that I want to talk about and somebody within North Philadelphia, black community very rundown to have enough of the typical characteristics Unknown Speaker 45:26 in a desert areas Unknown Speaker 45:29 and the implications of that as a community we flirtation is the organization that has several branches to its project. It has renovated houses and made them available as an interesting program for adults Unknown Speaker 45:55 on employment, but the garden is has become, I think an important focus for us organizing employee for children and adults. With the garden, I fell in love. connections. And as we know the absolute number of family members, number of people who have become involved so far, I think there's really no budget on the operation. The wider parent organization, the local community accreditation Corporation, and federal work, and a bunch of for contact that's been going on for those that are independent contractors Unknown Speaker 46:56 once and how intense the clock and go to the actual costs that are having to pay Unknown Speaker 47:09 is that where the garden, I believe in terms of the community building, there is a real focus on especially for children building skills competent. I thought I know more than I did or doing having constructive was the man that was the one that produced the most impressive. That looks at the beginnings, people are not actively involved in the rod, and cans at the end of the summer. And says there's a very close connection between consultations and a whole lack of alignment to be able to possibly one of the children. And the fact that growth is unnatural in school, and that's perfectly Unknown Speaker 48:15 fine, because the bad news is so you're Unknown Speaker 48:18 talking about what ecological projects that make these wide financial integration. Unknown Speaker 48:29 Very clear about what Unknown Speaker 48:30 to help the environment. And what as an individual connection to help them realize the idea that if we're able to find ways to involve cloud life, human life in your code in a mature way to react and the time that it is about connection with us. And I like to find the people who are involved in this project. I've been in meetings very badly and so often have a potentially a much wider agenda for education. And that brings me on to talk about what we identified as a fourth principle of ecological urbanism. Nothing works with less precision, not feeling logical to them. And when they provide for the data cleaner out and to have the heroes need to catch up again And during the life being provided clean and clear Unknown Speaker 50:18 what does the government have to provide for their housing, but at the expense of the surrounding area, that third point to remember is that one political party have a right to do, it should not pay for it. Whether that's rural areas in the country, Unknown Speaker 50:43 or in the more global economy, Unknown Speaker 50:45 first of all, you should not be in a third world unit or rural area. Germany Unknown Speaker 51:04 and France a socialist version, and he was expressing an atmosphere which met my parting words, independent, and self esteem overnight. There isn't the whole point about what kind of Unknown Speaker 51:22 discipline to do, it kind Unknown Speaker 51:24 of fizzled, where I'm proud of them for community, other people. And it needs decision and atmosphere to foster this sense of connection. The third point is one must take account of specialization. I think one of the one of the factors is the rationalization and to think too many of those areas are currently on know there are different people depending on what I suppose social identity is. So ecological isn't when people combine specialization. Unknown Speaker 52:08 With a greater integration of work life and work. Unknown Speaker 52:14 Done here, we're getting that incredible separation that can exist in the intelligence community. And particularly for women are often connecting up to the day having school day can't play shopping, one, and so on, they asset to day life very much in February, you don't see it quite frequently. And because of that happened, we still have remnants on there. Especially older, I know that today, in most northern areas, you have to deal with the various people. And most of them daily, I don't think it has to do with reconnecting all these different new forms of life that don't actually separate out. Some of you will be familiar with danger, work, The Death and Life of Great American, which is positive. But I think the principle of community and connection to do a short walk to walk net in the area in Delaware with a dog that can go into different meetings. And the last one picks up on learning about diversity and ecological as long as try and try and get back to us with exploration. And adventure. Doesn't have a bad rap. I can even mine, particularly that can be done anything. And it was okay to have a whole list of things. And it's really important to remember that businesses have been incredible soap boxes that people could buy and the rise in the popularity of deamination and interactive badminton in which we keep hold on can do Unknown Speaker 54:20 better than Unknown Speaker 54:28 any programs that we might want to devise Unknown Speaker 54:31 to promote these principles Unknown Speaker 54:35 would have to have as their base a sound critique of political economy as it exists globally, and aim directly at reducing social and economic inequalities so I've been surviving it's have in the presence out to be an important part of a program by the park At this point in examples is going to illustrate that they also have a in a much expanded concept of quality of life, definition of health, unhealthy environment in the future. So I think that ecological urbanism is, is as much, it has to be much more than a concept that describes a static concept that describes new land uses, which is oftentimes what eco city galleries are about that ecological urbanism has to be about the process of social struggle, and the empowerment process. That takes place. And it has to be as much about the social struggle and the process of building organizations as it is about the physical redesign. And I think this lesson is one that comes directly out of women's involvement in urban activism enabled activism in the past, and also in the present. And so I guess, you know, just a summit where we go, it's encouraging to see that the environmental movement is paying more attention to cities. After ignoring them for quite a while, I really think the potential for ecological urbanism is far greater. And what we're hoping to do now, and especially when you're running time is to engage in a discussion about race. So we've come up with a few questions that we might want to focus discussion on that we were really hoping that you might come up with some questions of your own, and share some of your own experiences that enable us to invest in some of these issues. A little bit further, I'll throw out the questions that we've come up with, but you can come up with some of your own. Think that one question has to do with starting out by acknowledging and uncovering the diverse ways in which urban environmental problems in the present in the urban crisis is affecting the population? So how do for example gender, age, race, ethnicity, class stage of life cycle, household composition, differentially affect the way people experience the decline in the quality of urban life today? How can we construct a strategy? And how do we develop a series of tactics to support women who are currently targeting the force for change within their neighborhoods? And how do we extend the benefits of these individual neighborhood struggles by both making them more visible but also connecting them to one another? What are the things the masks are doing that the obstacles that prevent us from doing that? And I think it's more and more communities, urban communities, urban neighborhoods become aware of the negative environmental conditions that are Rehan. And they become involved with struggles Unknown Speaker 57:58 to to oppose the location Unknown Speaker 58:02 of certain kinds of facilities within their neighborhoods. The question arises, how do we prevent exporting unacceptable land uses so that they don't end up in a less well organized community? There's a lot of evidence now that more and more urban communities are organizing against, for example, toxic waste, or sewage treatment plants and so forth, that as they're becoming more adept at doing that companies are hiring consultants, to help them do demographic studies to determine which communities in this country which neighborhoods within which cities will be less likely or least likely to oppose the imposition of these facilities and Unknown Speaker 58:44 and if he does something Unknown Speaker 58:45 you have to be really aware of. So those are some of our questions, and we'd like to open Unknown Speaker 58:54 them up for discussion and we'd like to introduce more questions about coal policy. I have a strong opinion about whether certain does everything they know or housing is a term that was invented in coffee written by two people on the west coast in California who were graduate students, I think, at the University of California, Berkeley when they took a year off and went to Denmark and spent at least a year if not more, living in one of these unusual kinds of residential communities within Denmark in other parts of Scandinavia. They gave the name cohousing to these communities what these communities were about what it was about people living together in a way that helped them through their practical problems. It was about clustered housing. It was about attached housing. It was about people having smart giving us space in their individual units, private units in order to be able to build a communal unit or a facility that everybody could use. So in most cohousing arrangements in Denmark, people have much smaller kitchens than the ordinary house. But there is a communal house which has a communal kitchen and eating facility that people can choose to eat at the eat their evening meals, and usually it's just eaten a meal. And they take turns cooking meal, generally, you only have to cook one meal out of the month as a family. And they're in a communal building also incorporates other other things. There are rooms for teenagers, there are workshops for doing woodworking, there are all kinds of things like this. And some of them are built in urban communities, and some of them are built out in rural areas. And actually, the whole idea is really appealing on a lot of levels. I mean, it's appealing ecologically because they separate automobiles that they privilege pedestrians within those communities and, and moving about, and they're designed very thoughtfully by architects to encourage socialization, and socializing among Unknown Speaker 1:01:22 people who live within the community and Unknown Speaker 1:01:24 so forth, and their energy conserving entities and so forth. What's happened is that the idea is being promoted in this country. And these two people are doing major speaking engagements throughout the country trying to promote cohousing arrangements. What what's often to what they oftentimes ignore, though, are these economics that underlie the possibility of setting up these new communities. And, and issues of cultural and ethnic diversity. I think, you know, one of the things that's clear about Denmark is that there's much less cultural and ethnic diversity within that society. And that may be one of the reasons why these ideas have never taken off as they are and there seem to work so smoothly is that there isn't quite the degree of cultural and ethnic diversity here, and there isn't. And there's a supportive welfare structure, which guarantees people the absolute basics, and we don't, we don't have the, you know, that's not existing in this country. And I think the other thing is that they the, in promoting this idea, and I just went to a talk by these two people recently, one of the ways they've been selling this idea to the American public has been as a, as something that we can do without them. This is something that all it requires is 12 families, many of our households getting together, and sort of talking about this and deciding intentionally for the community and then going out there finding the land buying, you're fooling them sources and so forth. And it is very dangerous thing to go around selling Unknown Speaker 1:03:07 the idea Unknown Speaker 1:03:09 of Unknown Speaker 1:03:11 really appeared to in form of housing and has the potential to be perhaps the most used to single parents to poor and working class people but to promote it in a way that precludes the possibility of those segments of the population actually becoming involved. So I mean, that's i It's not that I think the ideas without potential are tremendously appealing in lots of ways. I just think it has to be promoted in this country in a very different way. Unknown Speaker 1:03:42 There is one such Unknown Speaker 1:03:55 incident mixed community mix. Unknown Speaker 1:04:09 But they certainly had to have a certain income Unknown Speaker 1:04:12 in order to find Unknown Speaker 1:04:23 just very few, so called advice, the same principles in adding new customers, but I also think that at the rate of psychotherapy out on the table, I think our society into the major social revolution, and see that in order to get the sort of work. Everything we do every day just affect the learning close has some integrated environment. You can choose to go out and make an introduction table Have you ever been to? I don't know quite how to start to move that or you into the process and how to do it. Is there any place in your mind that you see as some sort of model ecological city, I've never been anything that was made Seattle, Washington, Wisconsin had a pretty successful cycling program. In terms of love, he, he implemented all those principles Unknown Speaker 1:05:38 could happen, but Unknown Speaker 1:05:41 it will be one of the reasons why we're trying to emphasize the process of social change as well as the product in process of that very long. Unknown Speaker 1:05:54 Road to to change if you don't, Unknown Speaker 1:05:55 if, if those changes aren't brought about by people trying actively involve themselves, then they're very likely to go off course. And the ultimate change is going to take a whole lot longer. Unknown Speaker 1:06:10 And it's going to be a much more interesting winding road, remember, come about at all. Unknown Speaker 1:06:18 I don't know one of the things that seems to come clear in that in the way of Esperanza case was that people couldn't envision a lot of changes, until they have the basics. You know, I mean, until, until, and this was true. Also, in my conversations with women who struggled for shelter for years, it wasn't until they actually got secure, affordable shelter, for example, they're able to really begin to address a lot of other concerns in their lives and a lot of other problems and become more actively involved in organizations. Just because the basics was so tiny, and so Unknown Speaker 1:07:00 overwhelming, they didn't allow me Unknown Speaker 1:07:06 to do so many levels. And there are a lot of things going on splashing throughout the country. And how do you reach people? The only way they can survive with images fiber, very often in ways that are very degrading to environment. It's not just something I can control want to find any reason or no? Environment is true that poor survive countries that are consuming coffee Unknown Speaker 1:08:30 you know, if you want to, Unknown Speaker 1:08:33 I think that's probably the number that for working class 30 years are going to be less environmentally interest. And the fact is, is that the strongest communities and neighborhoods are in the poor working class areas. There has been a a image that we know our political structure is very good at getting groups so that all the stories you see are constantly taking the issue of jobs versus, you know, people's jobs and livelihoods hurt the ecological environmental issue. And I think that that's a real effort to divert the ability of environmental movement to make these strong links across racial class lines, but in ways where I am and I think you have a speaker down the hall right now we have one in Harlem, on the other side of the hall. Right now we're talking about all the things that are going on, that people are doing in neighborhoods with people, you know, that's where they're gonna live for their lifetime and documented the inside. Here's John like, me, I think it's really the middle class, the upper class and the FE and the whole etiology that come out of those groups that are much more environmentally dangerous. It's just that the organizing has to go back there. And that is that and that you can link these things together. The problem is is that a lot of organizing is then it's like you have to be your laundry pain or organization to do We would like to go into housing, childcare environment do we need to, and this is where I think women are so critical because we have more issues developing. And having integrated agenda, and figuring out ways that you can make linkages, which really is, you know why I think that from a woman's perspective, we'll solve the problems at the local level. But we have to claim me, at this point on to the local organizing in neighborhoods, whether they're there and they're there, I'm not ready to engage in with respect, and putting these issues around life and life affirming internal abortion, these are progressive people. Yeah, I mean, these are the progressives that are out there with men and women, they think they have these images of what they think are working class people are gonna listen to or not listen to. And so that means consciousness is not linked together in a way that's going to take the next step. So I think that we're at a point, so I think your workshops are important is that it's raising some consciousness and making linkups. And, and putting out on the agenda, you know, putting out into the front of people's image that we need a new way of talking about these risky movements. I need to find that our graduates communities with the outcome Unknown Speaker 1:11:22 to recession and number two are separated yet. No people are here. And that's our cities are organized. There's many seats sitting over 50% of people of color. And you know, first the sticker talked about issues and whoever was involved. Unknown Speaker 1:11:53 As an organization, it's really frustrating for me looking for role models for communities that I Unknown Speaker 1:12:03 am not planning to keep moving, outdoor Unknown Speaker 1:12:10 education. Unknown Speaker 1:12:14 He was talking about Section Unknown Speaker 1:12:27 Jenkins, then workshops were Unknown Speaker 1:12:29 mentioned, Unknown Speaker 1:12:31 representing happy and many other people in this room right now. Unknown Speaker 1:12:39 suggestions about your own life. Unknown Speaker 1:12:45 I'm Chris, I want to compliment the patient, not just the content, but I want to say something about the feelings has struggled over time climate and think that has made me scared and worried that sort of international stuff and some particularly urban problems, the concept to find urban economics, the global city with the world city for the city, like Tokyo, New York, that are sort of like constructed by these huge, primarily financial networks, so that the things that happen, are caused by connections and networks that are that are global and very far from what I really liked about what he said, what he did was he dances Unknown Speaker 1:13:40 examples of local organizations that are working on these problems, don't just talk about it Unknown Speaker 1:13:45 into the way in which cities are Unknown Speaker 1:13:48 falling, right. Unknown Speaker 1:13:51 So that these kinds of problems that these people are working on what feeds are really trying to squeak through organization, can be are the same problems that are perhaps having very different cultural specific when it comes to the online world, and so that they can deserve as examples for other people. And you could also have examples from international city from other countries that would help us do this, as well. And I just wonder if you have any thoughts on those networks? Unknown Speaker 1:14:29 I think you're right that there's a lot going on Unknown Speaker 1:14:33 and your level of Unknown Speaker 1:14:35 evil now. One of the things Unknown Speaker 1:14:40 that students really do bad example things started to think that it was going to be a short article. Now it will be extended. Because I think that was so empowering. That was difference bathroom that's in this country and elsewhere in the world. If you say how much with the current thing for patching everyone, you get them but not much of happening through the labor come down here, National Living wasn't always the norm. And yeah, that's a real need to be doing more about finding our focus on information. When again, you need to hit as many pieces as you can. After a long time, that was just that you need to have some way of knowing what you were doing in other parts people. Unknown Speaker 1:15:59 You surprised you are. Unknown Speaker 1:16:02 One of the areas of connection I think a lot of work is being done on is global capital mobility. And the way in which, you know, what's happening to economic basis cities, first world is very much related to what's happening in third world, and the revival of sweatshops in the first world is very tied to the mobility of capital all around. And basically, the ability to capital has now been technology dedications of creating whatever communities that wants Unknown Speaker 1:16:33 to wherever it wants to go. And Unknown Speaker 1:16:37 there's some effort on an international scale into this group in Amsterdam, to try to connect workers throughout the world come work for common multinational corporations, to start newsletters amongst Phillips workers, Unknown Speaker 1:16:52 for example, large cap Unknown Speaker 1:16:57 branches, many cities in many parts of the world. And they started to put out a newsletter that circulates amongst workers, all of these various settings about working conditions, wage levels, everything so that people can begin to compare, compare and contrast their conditions, and come to understand a little bit better how the company is maneuvering by pitting one set of workers against another Unknown Speaker 1:17:24 foreign country, Unknown Speaker 1:17:28 and so forth. And eventually Unknown Speaker 1:17:38 I would like to say, this month's issue about the US simple discussion Unknown Speaker 1:17:44 on urban versus rural life versus that when they say it's not really a popular position can play more devil's advocate. I really appreciate what you said and how color are you struggling to survive, and how you show that they Unknown Speaker 1:18:07 can just have to get into the shelters before they can have these other consciousnesses. Two examples, I would like to point out, if you look at a lot of people concerned about business, spider's web, and one of the slogans is very light and simple. Feminism is very white middle class. One example is a much common family finances in South Africa, and helping them like the Constitution. And there needed to be a predatory ecological perspective. And that it was it was just on paper, there was no consciousness there really at all. And they're going to, you know, a consensus was, well, we had to look it up and running or whatever, before we can even deal with that. A lot of third world, countries are leaving to get their own resource. Another example was here in New York, there was organizing guys went to war. And one of the groups that was Unknown Speaker 1:19:08 us wanting to be Unknown Speaker 1:19:12 involved was transportation alternatives, who are really promoting part of green New York, a beautiful concept. And some people of color, were saying citizens of the EU identified a wacky kind of idea. And you're telling the people in the house that they can't have cars. And it is really difficult to I agree, because we will cover our novel The survival issues. They don't necessarily plan the experience consciousness and the topic has been this very uncomfortable thing that I put out there because nobody wants to say, Well, we are more consciousness Kimbrough that I think we're dealing with it we have the privilege Ah, like in my class hierarchy of levels, or whether we had the privilege of not having to worry about food, clothing and shelter, so we can think about these things. And so on the one hand, I think we are kind of thinking about it a little more, and then someone who's wanting to tell them what to do. But at the same time, I feel that I need to cover these are white people issues. And I'm really concerned with how we can integrate this without saying, Well, this is, this is the politically correct time and you don't have it. But you have to realize that they're no longer understanding Unknown Speaker 1:20:36 that Unknown Speaker 1:20:37 this really matters, nobody is going to get what she's saying about Unknown Speaker 1:20:45 you, instead of saying that she's Unknown Speaker 1:20:51 changing your beliefs and your cultural values, but they're still the idea of a God, do you partner excuse me, Chris singles, right, man? So it's, it's changing and changing, do the same? How, how are we? Unknown Speaker 1:21:07 We are, is it through what I Unknown Speaker 1:21:13 ran through or? Unknown Speaker 1:21:17 Electrically? Because I think, I think we can get a minute today? Can we just in time, it's hard to read it day by day generalization. And that's a lot of ways. And we've heard a number of different things that could take the form. And one thing that might be useful to differentiate an amendment is evenly between the day in real life. So that was one of the things let's say, because deployments in any particular measure monitoring that could be Unknown Speaker 1:22:05 about Unknown Speaker 1:22:07 middle class, lifestyle, and local people. And we've been very happy to hear that how many people in the community are really active around, Unknown Speaker 1:22:21 I divide that Unknown Speaker 1:22:23 divide? What issues environmental things getting kind of dark costume? I'm not sure that that's what you said or intended. But in case that was the way it was picked up, let's be clear about it. But I just I continue is actually a valuable one the teacher needs to do. And I'm very familiar with this nicely into the idea why? Why do you want to start the next on your leisure, etc. It's we're concerned about kids. And certain others, we're in a particular kind of way. And then myopia, that's what you want, I can't not recognize the way working class people look into the code very active around in a whole range of way, but because we don't have to say we now as a member of the white people in 1982, ourselves with Accenture consulting, that we are using out to other people who are new current vision. Now I know Unknown Speaker 1:23:26 some of you are saving the previous Unknown Speaker 1:23:30 point is I want to apologize to the victims of the distortion of what we're saying. I'm doing it. So those are the kinds of Unknown Speaker 1:23:38 cut through because Unknown Speaker 1:23:42 it partly is back Unknown Speaker 1:23:43 to YouTube anyways, right? Beginning where we are not going to work through and you know, that we need to do we need to kind of know where they'll be waiting to get out when they're lonely for me. It's gone. And you know, it's got a few primitives around certain kinds of activities, and not everyone's going to activate them. So there's lots of different layers going on. are currently in the Navy. But I think that what's very hard to do generally isn't involved. It's interesting. In these roles, create time, many people come up very nice. So many words, but the new sculpture really easily and had a miserable prevalence and educational program to the Great Depression lonely Unknown Speaker 1:24:54 what made an additional point Unknown Speaker 1:24:55 that Unknown Speaker 1:24:58 one of the attraction for ritual respect I Unknown Speaker 1:25:00 think in terms of us, as opposed to previous events around preferences in spite of the fact that in an urban setting, survival issues and environmental issues are the same, you don't have one without the other. What we have is movies that are separated by class and refugees and migrants who live in their community have different concerns, because of the different environmental crisis they're facing, and how they've done their jobs, transportation, it will be different within each community, because of what's falling apart in motor services, what's wrong in Parkland level, but Hi, there, they're all environmental issues and world survival issue. And one of the things we have to keep in mind is if we're going to be diverse, we have to recognize what diversity is. And it's not just Unknown Speaker 1:25:49 a question of online that, in fact, is no one else's religion. Unknown Speaker 1:25:52 I mean, that's who I am, I now understand what I'm talking about. But it doesn't mean that I have no connection with what's going on in Williamsburg, or in the Bronx. They're working on their problems, and we're working on cars. And the trick is to look for keys whereby the connection points out what is different, we are in connection problems, because we really are all addressed from the same issue. And that way, how growing issue, Unknown Speaker 1:26:21 I think end up becoming critical that the reason we get drawn in and interested in a particular way. Unknown Speaker 1:26:33 When you are Unknown Speaker 1:26:35 in the same bad water with all the names that are being poisoned, because the animals that were really awful things that are happening, are suddenly happening to us. Know Unknown Speaker 1:27:03 how I understand how desperate he was talking about it today, which is an effort to really redefine what we mean by the college environment includes issues of social justice, racial equality, and so on. And that's really hard for some people to do who only think of the environment or environment that way. But that when you do meet a client, in such a way, you start seeing all the kinds of work that people are doing the hands Unknown Speaker 1:27:34 on environment issues, Unknown Speaker 1:27:36 women and Wilmette ground Unknown Speaker 1:27:38 with athletes in England, and also, United States without their time has a cool quote, that talks about ghetto colleges, which makes this kind of protected redefinition. She talks about surviving as a cancer, that and that cancer is a kind of is an environmental issue that affects many engineers color in this country, and that's one example of beautifying. Right, that's what I think that right that you Unknown Speaker 1:28:10 need to do to learn how to do that and then Unknown Speaker 1:28:13 perhaps things before that, that invisible to them, the Unknown Speaker 1:28:19 activities of color that show how their crops that are very ecological. Unknown Speaker 1:28:40 The agreement between the city and green markets was the idea of having a raised incentive more closely to put on Unknown Speaker 1:29:00 the market city including school playground as seven days a week Unknown Speaker 1:29:13 when actually the talk was so genius in science, Unknown Speaker 1:29:28 that everything is agri business that comes in, ready to do so just there is a movement to make an organization actually New York state Unknown Speaker 1:29:47 is trying to vote for me Unknown Speaker 1:29:52 around the perimeter of a town or community that produce space and spiritual to that community and I Unknown Speaker 1:30:07 agree market produces immediate difference. Unknown Speaker 1:30:12 People have actually been to that. Because when you keep going and you see the same inequality that the number of farmers and people start talking to Unknown Speaker 1:30:20 each other and either promote them, which is totally right, but the minute people are allowed to float around, right kind of picks up out, you start comparing the athletes, and you'll see in the different places that is integrated, it's more European Unknown Speaker 1:30:42 I want to talk a little bit about customers Unknown Speaker 1:30:51 and, which was a conference brought together on rubber tappers and indigenous people run into Amazonian countries to talk to Americans who are after all, a big part of how we accomplish deforestation. And some of these people, you know, were literally feeling dizzy from malaria attacks and gotten on the plane and came here anyway. Unknown Speaker 1:31:14 And Unknown Speaker 1:31:16 these are people who are fighting for the lines and I just felt that that need to be pessimistic or more deployed to the duration so not to work on my end of the problems is a luxury that I can afford. And that's just it just seemed like such a it would be so presumptuous of Unknown Speaker 1:31:33 me to get Unknown Speaker 1:31:34 discouraged and throw in the towel when these people are burning you know, burning Portuguese and learning English and and try to network with with each other when you know maybe 20 years ago that hadn't had any contact with white civilization yet. And they're they're they're they're dying you know, day by day from malaria and other diseases brought in by five white settlers. being discouraged is a luxury. Unknown Speaker 1:32:09 Customers are frustrated Unknown Speaker 1:32:26 I just wanted to make a general statement. Nothing ever, ever underground, a small effort or start somewhere