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Who We Are
Green For All is a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.
By advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job training, job creation, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy – especially for people from disadvantaged communities – Green For All fights both poverty and pollution at the same time.
What We Believe
Green For All believes a shift to a clean, green economy can improve the health and well-being of low-income people, who suffer disproportionately from cancer, asthma and other respiratory ailments in last century's pollution-based economy. Such a shift can also create and expand entrepreneurial, wealth-building opportunities for American workers who need new avenues of economic advance.
In other words: we believe that the national effort to curb global warming and oil dependence can simultaneously create well-paid green-collar jobs, safer streets and healthier communities.
What We Do
To realize our vision of an inclusive green economy, Green For All will:
* Link activists, organizations, policy makers, practitioners, and business, labor, and community leaders together in dialogue to advance the vision of a green economy that benefits all Americans;
* Lift public awareness on the potential of green-collar jobs to transform the economy, curb global warming, and build pathways out of poverty;
* Leverage best practices and green policy into model programs and legislation that can be adopted at the national, state or local level;
* Provide technical assistance to mayors and community groups to implement local green-collar job initiatives; and
* Build an on-line community of practice to convene thought-leaders and share leading program models, technical documents and templates.
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What Are Green-Collar Jobs?
Background
What’s the best way to give Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds a tangible stake in fighting for issues like global warming?
Easy: Make it their livelihood. Every day, about 135 million people go to work in the U.S. Imagine what would happen if millions of those jobs—plus new ones created for people who are currently unemployed—were in fields like renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and green building. Our two crucial concerns about survival—the environment and making a living—would be combined. A person’s commitment to their job would also be their commitment to the planet.
Right now, there’s a great opportunity not only to make America’s economy stronger by making it greener, but to make Americans living in poverty part of a revitalized middle class. The first thing we have to do is provide the training that will turn 20th century blue-collar jobs into secure 21st-century green-collar jobs.
Did You Know...
* There’s already a huge green economy developing. In 2006 renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies generated 8.5 million new jobs, nearly $970 billion in revenue, and more than $100 billion in industry profits.
* According to the National Renewable Energy Lab, the major barriers to a more rapid adoption of renewable energy and energy efficiency in America are insufficient skills and training.
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* In December 2007, President Bush signed the Green Jobs Act to train workers for green collar jobs. It authorizes $125 million for workforce training programs targeted to veterans, displaced workers, at-risk youth, and families in extreme poverty. It will train people for jobs like installing solar panels and weatherization.
Green-Collar Jobs…
* Rebuild a Strong Middle Class
* Provide Pathways Out of Poverty
* Require Some New Skills (and some new thinking about old skills)
* Tend to be Local Jobs
* Strengthen Urban and Rural Communities
* Protect Our Health and the Health of the Planet
For a more detailed definition of What is a green-collar job please go to … http://gristmill. grist. org/story/2008/1/24/145628/140/
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AACW At MSMC
The African American Council of Woman is an organization that promotes the enrichment of black students at Mount Saint Mary's College and also encourages the advancement of the African Diaspora nationwide. AACW is open to all students and persons who wish to learn more about the history and culture of Black people. :D
Website: www.msmc.la.edu
- Mecca17
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to
facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the
present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice
of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and
creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the
transformation of their world."
-Unknown author
Past events
Nov. 15, 2005 -- Students at Mount St. Mary's College (MSMC)raised nearly $800 during a New Orleans-themed Hurricane Katrina relief concert on Nov. 11 at the downtown Doheny Campus. About 150 students, faculty, staff, and community members attended the event.
Please click here to view a video of the event.http://www.msmc.la.edu/pages/3066.asp
The Black Student Union, African-American Council of Women, and Latinas Unidas organizations put on the Mission Possible: Restoring Hope After Tragedy concert. The evening featured New Orleans jazz bands, the Lala Second Line Dancers from New Orleans, and various other performers. Admission was $5, but any donation was welcomed.
All proceeds will go to Catholic sisters in New Orleans to distribute to the poorest and neediest residents trying to reestablish themselves in that city. At the concert, students sold homemade pralines, cookbooks, and Katrina relief bracelets.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS
Members of the Mount's African American Council of Women on the Chalon Campus joined the Black Student Union on the Doheny Campus to create a full offering of events for Black History Month.
Feb. 7, 2007 -- The African American Council of Women and the Black Student Union at Mount St. Mary's are teaming up with community groups during February's Black History Month to present numerous activities.
Highlights include:
2.8-2.19
Pan African Film Festival, Magic Johnson Theater, www.paff.org
2.10
Black History Tour of LA: 1781 to present, 323.758.4358
2.13
Screening of Do the Right Thing, Brady First Lounge, Chalon Campus
2.20
Express Yo'self...open mic, 6 to 8 p.m., Wigwam, Doheny Campus
2.20
Screening of Hotel Rwanda, 6 p.m., Brady First Lounge
2.21
Raisin in the Sun play, 7:30 p.m., Doheny Lecture Hall
2.24
Children's quilt workshop, 2 to 4 p.m., Pasadena Museum of History
2.25
Book salon with Mount lecturer Frankie Lennon, author of Mee Street Chronicles: Straight Up Stories of a Black Woman's Life, and poet Nikki Giovanni, 5 p.m., EsoWon Books
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