HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!

We GIVE THANKS this season for all the activity worldwide in support of CHANGE!

Green Guerrillas are asking all our Supporters to consider making a donation to our work by participating in the online version of the Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair (IAGF).  The IAGF is a fun way to bypass the annual stress of holiday shopping and "stuff" accumulation while honoring family and friends with donations to causes that fit their values.  What's more, the IAGF provides critical support for a diverse collection of community organizations whose work has local, national, and international reach.

Here are the "gifts" Green Guerrillas are offering this year:

$5
Co-produce Green Guerrillas Blockumentary v.3 HD: Ganonyonk | Gye Nyame | Generation.

Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective is a local resource which values young people’s creative insights and capacities to transform their reality as leaders and participants for change.  In addition to four short films in 2009, Green Guerrillas have produced three Blockumentaries--Race, Rap, Renewable Energy (v.1, Summer 2006); Food Clothes Shelter Community (v.2, Summer 2007); and, Green Grease Guzzlers (v.2.5, Summer 2009)--which showcase stories of sustainability which challenge the status quo.

$10
Help transform the Green Guerrillas Diesel Bus into a multi-media, renewable energy demonstration vehicle.

Help transform the Green Guerrillas Diesel Bus (converted to run on waste vegetable oil by teen participants during Summer 2008) into a multi-media, renewable energy demonstration vehicle.  Transformation includes the addition of solar panels on the roof for electric use inside the vehicle, along with digital media equipment for use by the teens when traveling or presenting information about sustainability and social justice to others in the community and beyond.

$10
Support Green Guerrillas Spring 2010 field trips to the Allied Media Conference and the US Social Forum.

Support Green Guerrillas Spring 2010 social learning trips to Detroit to share with peers and learn from eco-justice agencies to further Green Guerrillas' local vision for a sustainable future for all.   Green Guerrillas challenge the green divide (also known nationally as “the green gap”) by learning, experiencing, applying, and sharing what they are uncovering about pollution and prisons, sustainability and social change with their peers, their families, and other members of their communities.  Since Spring 2007, Green Guerrillas have traveled beyond Tompkins County to meet similarly situated teens and share their work.  By connecting with other youth and community-based programs at the Allied Media Conference and the US Social Forum, Green Guerrillas can further develop and strengthen their grassroots campaign to close the “green divide."

$20
Help upgrade digital video production equipment for our Guerrilla Griots Human Rights Media Arts Center.

Support the upgrade of digital video production equipment for S.T.A.M.P.'s Guerrilla Griots Human Rights Media Arts Center (GGHRMAC).  Through GGHRMAC, S.T.A.M.P. offers two programs: Community Cinema and Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Training.  Community Cinema is a free monthly independent film screening series which creates accessible opportunities for civic engagement and public education around important social issues.  Green Guerrillas are young people at-risk for criminalization and incarceration who recognize the role mainstream media plays in supporting stereotypes which promote sweat shops over sustainable style, genetically modified crops over locally-grown organic foods, and pollution and prisons over sustainability and social change.

$ (open contribution)
Support youth storytellers who challenge pollution and prisons with sustainability and social change.

Any amount will support teen storytellers who challenge pollution and prisons with a commitment to sustainability and social change.  Green Guerrillas study documentary and narrative filmmaking, make their own media from posters to movies, do outreach at community events, travel regionally to interact with similarly situated peers, get their “hands dirty” learning about renewable energy, and analyze important social, political, economic and environmental issues which affect their lives.  As low-income youth of color, Green Guerrillas redefine sustainability in terms that make sense to them.  By connecting the dots between the same ideological approaches which criminalize immigrant communities and pollute the air, water, and soil we all collectively need for survival, these young people are non-traditional leaders who are setting a powerful example for an entire community.

 

If you are able to support us and would like one of the cards featured above to pass along to those you have honored, just contact us (info@stamp-cny.org) with a mailing address and we will get it to you asap!

Here's to RENEWABLE FUTURES FOR ALL in 2010... CHEERS!