Meetings 11, 12, and 13: Green(?) New(?) Deals(?)
-Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
-The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
-Max Ajl, A People’s Green New Deal
Meetings 7, 8, 9, and 10: Our History Is the Future
-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Meeting 6: Toward a Decolonial Southern California, Against the Land-Grab University
-Charles Sepulveda, “Our Sacred Waters: Theorizing Kuuyam as a Decolonial Possibility” (2018)
-Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone, “Land-grab universities” (2020)
Meeting 5: Environmental Justice and Its Discontents
-Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, “A History of the Environmental Justice Movement,” from From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (2001)
-Dina Gilio-Whitaker, “Environmental Justice Theory and Its Limitations for Indigenous Peoples,” from As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (2019)
-Stephen Nathan Haymes, “An Africana Studies Critique of Environmental Ethics,” in Racial Ecologies, edited by LeiLani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams (2018)
-Nik Heynen and Megan Ybarra, “On Abolition Ecologies and Making ‘Freedom as Place'” (2020)
-John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, and Brett Clark, “Imperialism in the Anthropocene” (2019)
Meeting 4: Environmental Justice
-First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, “The Principles of Environmental Justice” (1991)
-Robert D. Bullard, “Anatomy of Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement” from Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (1993)
-Julie Sze, Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger (2020)
Meeting 3: Urban Ecologies
-Robert R. Gioielli, selections from Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago (2014)
-Matthew Gandy, introduction from Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (2002)
-Saskia Sassen, “Cities are at the center of our environmental future” (2009) and Cultures of Energy podcast
-Los Angeles Urban Rangers, L.A. River Ramble
Meeting 2: Indigenous Responses to Climate Change
-Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization is not a metaphor” (2012)
-Nick Estes, “A Red Deal” (2019), with additional draft of “A Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth” by The Red Nation (2019)
-Kyle Powys Whyte, “Too late for indigenous climate justice: Ecological and relational tipping points” (2019) and Cultures of Energy podcast
Meeting 1: Black Ecologies
-Nathan Hare, “Black Ecology” (1970)
-Paul Gilroy, “‘Where every breeze speaks of courage and liberty’: Offshore Humanism and Marine Xenology, or, Racism and the Problem of Critique at Sea Level” (2015)
-Françoise Vergès, “Racial Capitalocene: Is the Anthropocene Racial?” (2017)
-Kathryn Yusoff, “Geology, Race, and Matter” and “Golden Spikes and Dubious Origins” from A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2018) and Cultures of Energy podcast