Tag: Film

Short Film Review |Fires and Fascism

This new film is being shown at venues all round Scotland during March. Director Peter Knapp travelled to Greece, Sicily, Spain and Portugal interviewing people affected by wild fires. The film unpicks the links between fires, the far right, big business and organised crime – and often the complicity of governments. We saw the film in Edinburgh – it’s excellent and deserves to be watched by as many people as possible as possible. It’s also possible to download the film and show yourself. It would be a great way to start off a discussion.

Find out more and check out when it’s in your local area from the Fires and Fascism website.

How can public ownership in Offshore Wind deliver good jobs for the climate transition?

Thanks to Anna Markova from Transition Economics for permission to share this video which she presented at the STUC Energy conference – ‘Building Worker Power in the context of the climate crisis’ on 20th November.  The video looks specifically at offshore wind but raises issues around public ownership and is well worth watching in full.

 

 

 

 

2019 Conference Report – Climate Rebels

The first two sessions of the conference aimed to set the scene for the discussion on the politics and practice of just transition that followed.  First up was Shaun Day from REEL News.  The idea of just transition has deep roots in the USA and goes back to the 1990’s.

In 2018, Reel News went on a 14 week tour of North America to look at grassroots struggles around climate change, particularly struggles around a “just transition” from fossil fuels to renewable energy, where workers and communities control the process so that they benefit from the transition, and around “just recovery” – recovery from extreme weather events which do not exacerbate current inequalities.
The documentary films that they made, while in the US, record inspiring and visionary struggles all over the continent, led by working class communities of colour, with people organising just transitions and just recoveries themselves.

Shaun showed short extracts from eight of the American Climate Rebels films:

Building a social and solidarity economy in Jackson, Mississippi 

Taking on the oil giant Chevron in Richmond, California

Fighting injustice, pollution, environmental damage and police oppression in Los Angeles

People United for Sustainable Housing in Buffalo

Kentucky Miners fighting for renewable energy

Towards a zero carbon, zero waste city – New York

Hurricane Harvey – just recovery in Texas

Minnesota – stopping the tar sands pipeline

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Image by Leslie Peterson CC BY NC 2.0  Stand with Standing Rock

REEL News at Scot.E3 conference

Shaun Dey from REEL News will introduce the first session at the Scot.E3 conference on 16th November in Edinburgh In 2018. Reel News went on a 14 week tour of North America to look at grassroots struggles around climate change, particularly struggles around a “just transition” from fossil fuels to renewable energy, where workers and communities control the process so that they benefit from the transition, and around “just recovery” – recovery from extreme weather events which do not exacerbate current inequalities. Shaun will introduce video clips from a range of inspiring struggles by unions, indigenous communities and people of colour in the US as a starter for the discussion and debate for the rest of the day.

Find out more about the conference here.  Book for the conference on Eventbrite and email triple.e.scot@gmail.com if you want to book one or more crèche places.

Here’s one of the longer videos from REEL News’ American Climate Rebels series

 

 

Degrowth and the Green New Deal

Gareth Dale spoke on this topic in Edinburgh earlier in the month at an event organised by the Edinburgh World Justice Festival.  You can watch a video of the talk here.  He has now published an essay on the same topic on the Ecologist website.  It’s well worth reading.

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Image by nrkbeta CC BY SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nrkbeta/47300368512 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ SXSW 2019

Saturday 16th November is the Scot.E3 conference. Check out the details on the ScotE3 home page. Bookings can be made on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/just-transition-employment-energy-and-environment-2019-tickets-68768192515  and there’s also a Facebook Event at  https://www.facebook.com/events/1133891030332559/  If you are in position to share the event it would be really helpful.

 

The politics and practice of just transition

On Wednesday 16th October, 7.30pm we have a public meeting/discussion as part of the Edinburgh World Justice Festival 

We plan to explore what is meant by justice transition and reflect on the need to develop the definition.  There’ll also be some film clips on struggles for just transition around the world.

We’ll finish with discussion on making just transition core to the politics and practice of the movement.  Who we need to reach, how we can reach them and what are the priorities for action.

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Asad Rehman speaking on Climate Justice

Climate Justice is the theme of this year’s Edinburgh World Justice Festival held at various venues in Edinburgh between 28th September and 19th October.  Among the speakers at the conference held on Saturday 12th October was Asad Rehman from War in Want.  The video is just over 20 minutes and is highly recommended.

Edinburgh World Justice Festival

The Edinburgh World Justice Festival (EWJF) began on 28th September and runs through to the 19th October.  This year the theme of the festival is Climate Justice.  ScotE3 is contributing a meeting on Wednesday 16th October when we’ll be looking at climate activism around the world and how we can make the idea of a just transition real for working class communities and organisations.  Obviously we hope you’ll come to the meeting on the 16th but do check out the nineteen other events including the conference on 12th October and the the Bookfair on 19th October.

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Stopping Oil and Gas Part 3

Daisy Jamieson was the third contributor to Scot.E3’s Glasgow public meeting on stopping North Sea oil and gas. In her talk Daisy reflected on the importance of just transition.  Part 1 of the public meeting can be viewed here and part 2 here.