Field Notes: Doing Time in Education: The California Chapter
Forgiveness Challenge Invitation — May 2014
Breakthrough Communities Announces 20th Anniversary Edition
with a foreword by
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Dearest friends and colleagues,
We are thrilled and honored to collaborate with Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the 20th Anniversary edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty, dedicated to community resilience and climate justice in the face of global warming. Nobel Laureate and social justice visionary Archbishop Tutu has provided a foreword to our book that connects the message of interdependence in Random Kindness to the South African concept of ubuntu. Ubuntu is the conviction that interconnectedness is the very root of who we are.
As part of our collaboration, we are participating in Desmond and Mpho Tutu’s Global Forgiveness Challenge. We invite you all to join us in this remarkable, transformative adventure!
As part of our collaboration, we are participating in Desmond and Mpho Tutu’s Global Forgiveness Challenge. We invite you all to join us in this remarkable, transformative adventure!
Breakthrough Communities Frontline News — March 2014
Climate Justice Leaders Testify at
Supervisor John Gioia’s California Air Resources Board Confirmation Hearing
Supervisor John Gioia, Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg, Carl Anthony, and Paloma Pavel
February 19th, 2014 was an amazing day with environmental and equity allies converging in the California State Capitol, Sacramento, to rally around Climate Justice hero, Supervisor John Gioia! Mr. Carl Anthony and Dr. Paloma Pavel of Breakthrough Communities testified at the California Air Resources Board confirmation hearing in support of Gioia.
Chasing Ice Newsletter — April 2014
Breakthrough Communities Invites you
Climate change is often viewed as a challenge regarding the loss of the icecaps. The reality is that it is also about the effects of human communities and public health. Vulnerable communities will bare the brunt. Breakthrough Communities is helping to shape an agenda in California that addresses the central health and economic issues of climate change for all communities. Breakthrough Communities Paloma Pavel will be part of the panel with Supervisor John Gioia, sharing the current work going on in the Bay Area responding to climate change. Learn about the 6 Win Cap and Trade climate action plan and more… Come see the film and join the dialogue to build community resilience. April 17th 7pm-9pm, Cerrito Theater. Free.
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The New Metropolis — Trailer
March 2013 Film and Community Dialogue
Respond to Sea Level Rise in the Bay Area
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On March 23rd, 2013, Breakthrough Communities (a project of Earth House Center, Oakland) was delighted to partner with the City of El Cerrito’s Environmental Quality Committee and the WCCC League of Women Voters to host a film premiere and community dialogue event centered on Andrea Torrice’s documentary film, Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands, which tells the personal stories of communities that have already begun to feel the effects of global climate change and included new footage from Super Storm Sandy. The event, which took place at the historic Rialto Cinemas Cerrito Theatre in El Cerrito, drew an enthusiastic audience of over 150 attendees.
Breakthrough Communities’ Paloma Pavel was the MC and weaver of the day’s program, which included a welcome performance by local artist and Green-For-All Fellow Jennifer Johns and a blue-ribbon panel of public and elected officials including Janet Abelson, former Mayor and current council member of the City of El Cerrito and Chair of the West Contra Costa County Transportation Advisory Committee. The keynote speaker was Contra Costa County District 1 Supervisor and Chair of the Bay Area Joint Policy Committee John Gioia, who set a regional context for the issues raised in the film by discussing the Bay Area’s Climate Adaptation Effort as an opportunity to rebuild communities with a new visions for the Three E’s: Economic viability, Environmental sustainability and social Equity. Following the film they were joined for a Q & A session by Carl Anthony of Breakthrough Communities, Maria Sanders of the City of El Cerrito Environmental Services Division, and filmmaker Andrea Torrice.
Breakthrough Communities focused on linking the film screening to regional issues caused by climate change and energized eight dialogue groups to discuss issues related to water, food, energy, transportation, inter-generational, health, education & art, and community resilience. Will Travis, consultant on climate change and former Director of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission led off the activity by presenting Our Bay Area Climate Change Story, which spoke to emerging challenges and opportunities in our region resulting from SB 375: The Sustainable Communities Strategies and Climate Protection Act. The inspired dialogue groups then shared ideas and visions for opportunities in the Bay Area to transform policies and create more healthy, just, and sustainable communities.
The film screening and community dialogue event was a huge success that built on the series of community engagements around these pertinent issues. This event was made possible by the City of El Cerrito Environmental Quality Committee, the League of Women Voters, The San Francisco Foundation, the Lia Fund and the California Endowment.
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Communities & Opportunities for All — 2011
Breakthrough Communities
Invites You to
Communities & Opportunities for All
Saturday, May 21, 2011 — 9am-2pm Jacobs Center — 404 Euclid Avenue — San Diego, CA 92114
For more information please click here for announcement and contact Kendell at 619.677.7330
Please share this reminder widely with your networks!
Climate Change, Sustainable Community Strategies and Health Equity
PLEASE SAVE THE DATES
San Diego County Region May 21, 2011
Sonoma County Region June 4, 2011
Sacramento County Region June 13, 2011
“…an African American born in West Oakland can expect to die almost 15 years earlier than a White person born in the Oakland Hills.”LIFE and DEATH from UNNATURAL CAUSES HEALTH AND SOCIAL INEQUITY IN ALAMEDA COUNTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
As part of a grant from The California Endowment, Breakthrough Communities is engaging people of color throughout California in informing and implementing Health in All Policies (HiAP) Task Force recommendations in order to respond to the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act (SB375) and address health disparities caused by land use and transportation policies. Breathrough Communities has gathered information on health disparities in five metropolitan areas across the state and engaged in dialogue and planning workshops about SB 375 with NGO leaders of social movements and representatives of vulnerable communities. With Gamaliel of California we are co-creating workshops in both Spanish and English designed to reach these communities by developing and distributing a Climate Change, Sustainable Community Strategies, and Health Equity toolkit for use by community groups in the SB375 process that highlights the “6 Big Wins” and generates concrete policy recommendations that address the fatal disparities from which our communities suffer. Please join in, add your voice and your story, and help create the political traction that can save lives and make a future for the generations that follow. We gratefully acknowledge our funders in support of this work: The California Endowment, the San Francisco Foundation, the Angeles Arrien Foundation, the California Health Department, and the San Diego Foundation.Breakthrough Communities UC Berkeley Presentation — 2009
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MIT Press Interview re Breakthrough Communities Book — 2009
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Regional Equity 2008
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