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Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project, Incorporated |
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| Mission Statement S.T.A.M.P. challenges criminalization, exploitation, incarceration, and pollution by encouraging self-respect, empowerment, leadership, and self-determination among young people, adults, and families most affected by criminal justice and environmental policies which disregard individual needs, erode community assets, and undermine planet security. |
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| 19A | $10 | Co-produce Green Guerrillas Blockumentary v.2.5: Alternative and Sustainable Transportation (estimated release date: Spring 2009). 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. Green Guerrillas have produced two Blockumentaries--Race, Rap, Renewable Energy (v.1, Summer 2006) and Food Clothes Shelter Community (v.2, Summer 2007)--which showcase stories of sustainability which challenge the status quo. |
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| 19B | $20 | 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. | ||||||
| 19C | $25 | 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. | ||||||
| 19D | $40 | Support Green Guerrillas Spring 2009 social learning trip to the Bay Area 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 in the Bay Area--such as B-Tech ( http://btech.berkeley.k12.ca.us ), Solar Richmond ( http://www.solarrichmond.org/index.html ), and The People’s Grocery (http://www.peoplesgrocery.org )--which offer tangible examples of eco-justice within communities of color, Green Guerrillas can further develop and strengthen their grassroots campaign to close the “green divide” regionally by contributing a unique perspective to further the collective goal of making Ithaca the most sustainable city of its size in the United States. | ||||||
| 19X | $ open | Any amount will support youth storytellers in Tompkins County 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. | ||||||
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