R4FL Trainings

UPCOMING EVENTS: more soon! 🙂

Why Environmental Justice Movements must stand with Palestine. A Teach-in with Dr, Rania Masri

Join Research for the Front Lines and the Climate Justice Organizing Hub for this Teach-in with Dr Rania Masri on the critical questions of Why Environmental Justice Movements must stand with Palestine.

Come deepen your understanding of the connections between settler colonialism, environmental destruction, environmental justice Land Back and the current genocide Israel is committing against Palestinians. Learn about ways that the environmental justice movements across the work can sow up in real solidarity with Palestine. There will be lots of opportunity to ask questions.

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/450273434184631

You can register for this online event: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpdemqpz0pG9R2Rc1n31pi6X0dI1z77isW

Dr. Rania Masri is Co-Director of Organizing and Policy of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network. Rania Masri been an activist and organizer since 1993, and a professor and researcher since 2005. She has taught interdisciplinary environmental sciences, environmental justice, and communications at the University of Balamand, American University of Beirut, and the Lebanese American University, respectively. Prior to her move to Lebanon in 2005, she was the Director of the Southern Peace Research and Education Center at the Institute for Southern Studies in North Carolina (2002-2005). Throughout, Rania has worked to bring a holistic lens to the environment, and a recognition that environmental management must encompass a human rights and social justice practice and is, in and of itself, a struggle for full citizenship. In essence, it is all a question of environmental justice. Her research and activism have centered on anti-sanctions (Iraq)/anti-war (Iraq, Afghanistan), anti-occupation & anti-apartheid (Palestine), environmental justice (water and food sovereignty; pollution; land rights), and civil and voting rights. She served as an expert in the Court of Conscience during which she presented testimony on the environmental impact of the 2006 Israeli War on Lebanon

PAST EVENTS:

Good Relations: Consent, Reciprocity and Ethics in Indigenous-led Research, with speakers Elizabeth Fast, Marina Johnson-Zafiris, and Ojistoh Horn.

Monday, April 22, 2024, Research for the Front Lines, Indigenous Climate Action and Shift Centre for Social Transformation hosted Good Relations: Consent, Reciprocity and Ethics in Indigenous-led Research, with speakers Elizabeth Fast, Marina Johnson-Zafiris, and Ojistoh Horn.

Indigenous Food Sovereignty & Community-led Research

On March 20, 2024, we hosting an event on Indigenous Food Sovereignty & Community-led Research – A conversation with Tiffany Traverse and Waba Moko (Shannon Chief), and moderated by Jaimie Vincent

The Intersections of Black and Indigenous Liberation

DATA SOVEREIGNTY & First Nations Principles of OCAP

We do not have a recording of this event but here are some relevant and useful resources:

Speaking-in-Relation: A Training on Effective Communication

On August 17, 2023, we hosted a training with Dr. Sam Leguizamon Grant. He provided us with inspiring and heart opening tools for refection and connection, helping us learn to communicate in ways that build strong collaborations and resilient communities. You can watch and share the recording below.

FROM JARGON TO ACTION

On July 11, 2023, we hosted a training led by Tom Liacas and Kenzie Harris of the Global Grassroots Support Network. We learned many concrete skills for translating academic research to accessible, actionable information for communities and movements involved in transformative struggles. You can watch the recording below.

Here are the slides that were used: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1btibxbdAuKGIPPW3kTA2T0l0IEBpP-4Z3G8FYdGDDRE/edit?usp=sharing

Blueprints for Change guides:
https://blueprintsfc.org/guides/

Climate Justice Organizing HUB wikis:
Anglo
https://en.wiki.lehub.ca/index.php/Main_Page
Franco
https://fr.wiki.lehub.ca/index.php/Accueil

Global Grassroots Support Network guides on Commons Library:
https://commonslibrary.org/collection/ggsn/

DIGITAL SECURITY with Micheal Loadenthal

On March 29, from 1-3 pm EST, R4FL hosted a training led by Dr. Michael Loadenthal, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Cyber Strategy and Policy, within the School of Public and International Affairs, at the University of Cincinnati. He concurrently serves as the founder and Executive Director of the Prosecution Project, tracking cases of political violence in the US courts, and a Research Team Lead with Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative, which mitigates localized political violence. Here’s the Facebook event

Settler Colonialism 101 with Chelsea Vowel

Investigative Research 101 with Tim Groves

Click here to access Tim’s powerpoint presentation.

Indigenous Research Methods

Co-presented by Indigenous Climate Action, this event featured Professor Deborah McGregor of the Indigenous Environmental Justice Project, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. 

Learn about the rich, diverse, and dynamic world of Indigenous approaches to research and how they are contributing to the fight for climate and environmental justice across so-called Canada.

The training session was facilitated by Indigenous Climate Action’s Decolonizing Climate Policy research team.

Movement-led Research Resources

Access to Information Resources