Brooke Anderson

Brooke Anderson began organizing through the environmental justice movement, fighting medical waste incinerators in her hometown in IL when she was just 17. She led anti-war and anti-racist organizing campaigns as a student activist, and joined the labor movement as an organizer for the Graduate Employees Organization at UIUC.

She spent several years grassroots organizing for health care access at Champaign County Health Care Consumers, then spent a decade in the labor movement both as a staff organizer and an elected leader of her local. She moved from Champaign Illinois to Oakland, circa 2005. She most recently served 7 years at the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) in Oakland, where she waged campaigns for justice for hotel workers and port truck drivers, eventually serving as Deputy Director.

In the course of worker rights campaigns, she saw first-hand how the rapidly accelerating ecological crisis hits workers at home and on the job, so she is excited to join MG to build the power of workers to transform the U.S. labor movement into a powerful champion for climate justice. Circa 2014, Brooke organized 30+ unions and worker justice organizations to march together as a 300+ person Labor Contingent for Climate Justice against the Keystone XL Pipeline and Chevron Refinery in Richmond, CA. She also coordinated the release of a letter from 60+ environmental and climate justice organizations to the AFL-CIO.

When she’s not organizing, Brooke uses photography to tell the stories of unsung heroes/heroines in struggles for social, racial, economic, and ecological justice. Her work can be seen at Stills of Our Stories & Struggles.^[1]

Brooke Anderson is The New Arab's correspondent in Washington DC, covering US and international politics, business and culture.

Her most recent work can be found in YES! Magazine, Teen Vogue, and In These Times. She covers social movements for climate justice and worker power. She is a proud member of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, CWA 39521, AFL-CIO.

Vietnam Veterans Against the War

In 2005 Brooke Anderson was a Vietnam Veterans Against the War member and lead organizer for the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy in Oakland, California.^[2]

Oakland Rising 5 year birthday party

June 2013 Oakland Rising poster; ·

Our 5 year birthday party is just 10 days away! Do you have your ticket yet? — with Richard Raya, Nikki Fortunato Bas, Pamela Drake, Jahmese Kathleen Myres, Michael Riemenschneider, Andy Katz, Mimi Ho, Igor Tregub, Andy Kelley, Steven Pitts, Melanie Cervantes, Nicole Derse, Lailan Sandra Huen, Kim Carter Martinez, Nwamaka Agbo, Brooke Anderson, Mary Thomas, Kate O'Hara, Timmy Lu, Peggy Moore, Dani McClain, EO Okiwelu, Lanese Martin, Marc Philpart, Rebecca Saltzman, Alex T. Tom, Jose A. Dorado, Rachel Richman, Tonya Love, Sheryl Walton, Andrea Lee, Aimee Allison, Sharon Rose, Rebecca Kaplan, Esperanza Tervalon-Garrett, Cole B. Cole, Jessamyn Sabbag, Malcolm Amado Uno, Phil Hutchings, Michelle Matos and Maria Poblet.

OURWalmart SF

Gordon Mar June 29, 2013.

Gordon Mar

OURWalmart, community and labor allies meeting now, preparing for action today at 12pm at 757 Market Street, Walmart director Marissa Mayer's penthouse apt and Gap at Market and Powell demanding WMT & Gap sign Bangladesh sweatshops fire safety accord. — with Maria Guillen, Jenya Cassidy, Blesilda Ocampo, Annelisa Luong, Feng Kung, Kasi Farrar, Mabel Tsang, Lotus Yee Fong, Brooke Anderson, Dan Harper, Kathe Burick, Pilar Schiavo, La Colectiva de Mujeres and Shanell Williams at Unite Here! Local 2.

MG personnel

Movement Generation leaders as of December 2015.^[3]

Brooke Anderson - MG Staff Collective Member
Carla Maria Perez - MG Staff Collective Member & MG Planning Committee Member
Cinthya Jeannette Munoz Ramos - MG Planning Committee Member
Dave Henson - MG Planning Committee Member
Doria Robinson - MG Planning Committee Member
Ellen Choy - MG Staff Collective Member & MG Planning Committee Member
Gopal Dayaneni - MG Staff Collective Member & MG Planning Committee Member
Josh Healey - MG Staff Collective Member
Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan - MG Staff Co-Director & MG Planning Committee Member
Mateo Nube - MG Staff Co-Director & MG Planning Committee Member
Quinton Sankofa - MG Staff Collective Member
Sara Mersha - MG Planning Committee Member

"Migrant Rights in a Hostile Climate: From Border Wars to Ecological Justice"

Fruitvale Senior Center Wednesday 27 January 2016, "Migrant Rights in a Hostile Climate: From Border Wars to Ecological Justice" organized by Movement Generation.

Featuring speakers:

Hosted by Ellen Choy and Gopal Dayaneni from Movement Generation

Cosponsored by: Arab Resource and Organizing Center , Asian Pacific Environmental Network , Black Alliance for Just Immigration, CultureStrike, Mujeras Unidas y Activas.

Those indicating attendance on Wherevent included Vivian Yi Huang, Ellen Choy, Carolina Prado, Paul Bubblehouse, Jessica Cook, Eli Isaacs, M. Solis Whelan, Megan Zapanta, Josh Cadji, Yosimar Reyes, Josh Healey, Mateo Nube, Lulu Palestina, Maria Alejandra Escalante, Espejo Ahumado, Erika Minkowsky, Layidua Salazar, Lara Kiswani, Nicolas Gonzalez Medina, Paul Bissember, Jacky Rivera, Alvina Wong, Zachariah Barghouti, Kelly Lou Densmore, Gerardo Omar Marin, Gerardo Omar Marin, Sharif Zakout, Micah Bazant, Terri Kay, Isaac Lev, Scott Parkin, Pulga Autonoma, Cayden Mak, Katina Castillo, Shiva Patel, Aimee Molina Cuellar, Luna Giulianna Reiley, Brooke Anderson.^[4]