Funding Disruptive Climate Protests
Margaret Klein Salamon is the Executive Director at Climate Emergency Fund. In conversation with Matthew Monahan.
Climate Emergency Fund: https://www.climateemergencyfund.org/
Facing the Climate Emergency book: https://www.amazon.com/Facing-Climate-Emergency-Transform-Yourself/dp/0865719411
Margaret's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-klein-salamon/
TOPICS
00:00 Introduction
04:56 Facing climate truth
21:34 Declaring an emergency
24:25 The power of social movements and nonviolent disruption
35:05 Funding for protest movements
40:01 Case studies of disruptive protests
45:18 Being unpopular but effective
53:01 Challenges in funding activism
55:36 The radical flank effect
59:05 Climate Emergency Fund
01:08:42 Closing thoughts
EPISODE RESOURCES
Margaret’s op-ed in The Chronicle of Philanthropy: https://www.philanthropy.com/article/coco-gauff-won-so-did-climate-change-protestors
Tipping points in social movements: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/advocacy-social-movements/paths-resistance-erica-chenoweths-research
Research from Social Change Lab: https://www.socialchangelab.org/_files/ugd/503ba4_f2b72008b8fd47d087b019a620533236.pdf
Insulate Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulate_Britain_protests
Just Stop Oil: https://juststopoil.org/
Last Generation: https://letztegeneration.org/en/
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