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1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations

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Who We Are
We are elder women and allies stepping up to the urgency of the climate crisis. We act in support of the rights of Native Americans and other frontline communities. We believe that  we cannot address the climate crisis without addressing systemic racism. That is what climate justice means to us. 1000 Grandmothers allows us to augment our individual voices and impact by providing opportunities to act collectively. We find ways to use the particular influence of our being generational grandmothers to strengthen the Climate Justice Movement. Our Principles include collective nonviolent action, community building and  kindness.

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WHAT DO WE DO?
We Show Up
  • We show up at international, national, and local climate justice actions and demonstrations;
  • We show up for legislative and electoral campaigns that confront the power of the fossil fuel industry. 
  • We show up to support indigenous and front line struggles, to protests called for by youth leaders; to hearings and boycotts and campaigns to stop the fossil fuel industry from destroying our only planet. 
As Grandmothers have a lot to say about a lot of things – but we want to do more than bring our wisdom.  We know that those who will lead us into the future, need us to have their backs.  They are counting on us to show up.  

OUR STRUCTURE:
 
Our structure is ever evolving.  Right now, for organization-wide leadership, we have a Coordinating Committee that provides oversight to the organization, along with two 'sub-committees': Communications Committee, and Engagement Committee.  We also have a Town Crier Committee consisting of reps from our different groups that will communicate to groups and circles in between newsletters and organization wide communications. 
The rest of the organization's structure includes 'circles/affinity groups' that function as support groups , and work groups that are either project specific or ongoing.  Then there is general membership that receives our newsletters and may join us in our work, but may not be in an ongoing group or circle.  Here are our current work groups:

WORKING GROUPS:
  • Art Work Group - Create art that brings attention to our messages of environmental healing in our actions.
  • Legislative WG - Lobby for legislation to help mitigate &/or adapt to the Climate Crisis and opposing detrimental bills.
  • Non Violent Direct Action - Support Grandmothers participation in  actions for climate justice.   Check out photos of some of our actions 
  • Divestment Work Group
GROUPS OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS THAT SUPPORT OUR OWN GROWTH and COMMUNITY BUILDING. 
  • Singing Group - We get together periodically to sing together and learn new songs to bring to our actions as Grandmothers.
  • Book Group - We read books and discuss them together - (particularly focussed on racism and climate justice.)
CIRCLES/AFFINITY GROUPS
  • SF circle
  • Marin circle
  • Redwood Circle
  • Green Grannies
  • Long Haul Affinity Group
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN 1000 Grandmothers WITH A FEW FRIENDS TO START A NEW SUPPORT GROUP/CIRCLE, JUST CONTACT US.  LIKEWISE, IF YOU HAVE A PROJECT YOU'D LIKE TO WORK ON WITH OTHER GRANDMOTHERS - CONTACT US at [email protected]
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Join us!
We help every grandmother (and ally) find multiple ways and levels to join in our work. And we welcome everyone to do as much or as little, whenever, and for as long as they wish.

If you want to join us to work on climate justice, please add your name and email to our list. In addition, please send us your name and address to 1000 Grandmothers.com so that we can contact you when we target particular legislators who are key to passing critical environmental justice legislation. (we are unable to include this ask in the form below)
We won’t clutter up your inbox with too many announcements. And we promise never to share your information.

Click here to join our mailing list. ​

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Our Definition of Grandmother
Some of us have biological grandchildren and some of us do not.  In the spirit of the indigenous tradition of calling all elder women, 'grandmothers', we call ourselves grandmothers.  We are all here because we care about future generations.
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Our History:
​1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations began in response to the historic resistance of indigenous water protectors and allies to the DAPL oil pipeline at Standing Rock ND in 2016.  Feeling an urgency to bring our collective wisdom and experience to help build the power of the Climate Justice Movement, a half dozen elder women from Oakland and Berkeley, CA started meeting In October 2016. Read more... ​
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  • Home
  • Join us!
  • Newsletters
  • Who We Are
    • Our History
    • Who We Are: Principles, Guidelines +
  • Recent actions
    • Calendar
  • Fundraisers
    • Georgia Benefit Concert
  • Stop Line 3 actions
  • additional Line 3 actions we participated in
  • Resources/Good reads
  • Grandmothers Bank Working Group
  • June 2023 newsletter
  • June 2023
  • sept. 2023