Generation Green is building power with and for Black communities through our base building and sustainability and wellness programs. We believe that the best way to build long-term movement capacity is to invest in the education, training and well-being of our ecosystem of Black organizers and activists. We are focusing our efforts on mobilizing members of the global Black/African diaspora who are between the ages of 18 to 35, because we know that young people have been at the forefront of most major social and environmental movements. By focusing on this demographic, we will build global diasporic power with the constituency that usually has the least investment from philanthropy as well as access to networks and connections.
The Learning Network connects members of the Global Black/African diaspora through virtual workshops, community-building spaces, and shared resources. This includes professional development, organizing training, world-building, and trauma-informed workshops that prioritize healing alongside activism. Our goals are (1) Provide a safe and affirming space for global Black environmentalists to build community and organize on the issues that matter most; (2) Create a space that is conducive to intergenerational and cultural learnings and exchanges; (3) Cultivate care and sustainability of members in the ecosystem in order to sustain ourselves, maintain our humanity, and build stamina, wellness and enjoyment. Through the Learning Network, members of our ecosystem will strengthen their own work in their communities by connecting with and learning from other activists.
Generation Green is building Mutual Aid infrastructure in order to create a culture and infrastructure within the Ecosystem that will help meet the immediate needs of members and facilitate systemic transformation in our community care structures. Our goals are (1) Create a culture of interpersonal exchange where people feel safe and comfortable to make requests, receive support, and give support to meet each other’s immediate needs. (2) Create structural processes to receive and give mutual aid via optional member dues that pay into a shared fund, including cases of anonymity.
The Healing Fund is an investment tool to provide Black/African Diaspora people who contribute to the environmental liberation movement with monetary support for their healing and wellness needs. We created a corresponding directory of healing and wellness practitioners.
Healing Circles are 90-minute to 2-hour sessions facilitated by Circle Keepers to provide a safe space for Generation Green community members to process issues like burnout, anxiety, work-related stress, and other related issues. These Circles encourage dialogue, promote empathy, and help create an environment conducive to expression, resolution and healing. They also center embodiment practices such as breath work, meditation, and movement.
Our Regional Reporters program will build narrative power by training a collective of autonomous Black journalists across the world to report on local environmental news with an environmental liberation perspective. Generation Green will develop an independent public news service to capture the local narratives of Black people across the world and their environmental wins.
Movement Schools is an in-person training camp to empower young leaders to develop their organizing and advocacy skills, as well as political education on environmental liberation, diasporic organizing, and global racial capitalism. These schools will take place in different regions within the diaspora, with the aim of uniting attendees around their common regional and local environmental issues.
The EL Room is a series of virtual community learning sessions where Generation Green introduces and expounds upon our ideological framework (environmental liberation) with Black people.
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