Tyler's Facilitation

Welcome + Check-in (6:05)
1. What's been pulling at your attention?
2. What's been making you smile?
3. What's been giving you strength?
Discussion (6:15)
1. Ads
2. School
3. Cooptation
  1. Intercept Piece
    1. How does Sunrise Avoid this?
  2. Astroturfing
- How the hell can we beat the fossil fuel industry?
  - What tactics seem hopeless & waste of energy? What seem like they could work?
- What would "defeating" the industry look like?
  - Think back to the iceberg - what would defeating the fossil fuel industry look like on the three different levels:
    - Events - Reactive & Responsive (above the water)
    - Patterns of Behavior - Adaptive & Proactive (sub water)
    - Systemic Structures & Mindsets - Creative & Transformative (deep water)
- Do we need to "defeat" the industry in order to stop climate change and win a Green New Deal?
Presentation (6:40)
Stories (7:00)
Housekeeping (7:25)
1. Story volunteer for Next Week?
  1. Sign up sheet
2. General Feedback/ Feedback forms
3. HS study groups - Learning Pairs?
4. Whatsapp Group?
5. Meditation
Poem to ground us for next week ahead?

Class

Which countervailing force do you find most demobilizing? (10 min)
How could the narrative of demobilizing evidence be flipped to suggest the need for unprecedented levels of action? (20 min)
Presentations (30 min)

Hit these points:

They control our politics. Campaign finance reform absolutely essential. We don't live in democracy.
They are successfully convincing people that they're part of the solution. They have no desire to be part of the solution. Follow the money.
Fox news is a wonderful ally - they're not going away.
We combat their cooptation and manipulation with strong moral clarity.