Curriculum Guide for Freight Transport Justice

Beginning in the fall of 2009, The Pacific Institute’s Community Strategies for Sustainability and Justice Program (CSSJ) began sharing the training, research, and advocacy tools for freight transportation justice that we had developed over the past five years with organizations and coalitions in other freight transport corridors and major hubs in the United States.

The CCSJ program released Gearing Up for Action: A Curriculum Guide for Freight Transport Justice in October 2010 in order to build the power and capacity of communities to participate in decision making regarding freight transportation. This curriculum guide is designed to help communities grappling with freight transport issues share their experiences, explore the root causes of freight transport impacts, identify those responsible for dealing with these causes, and develop a plan for advocacy to advance their solutions. The activities in this guide have been designed to help community leaders engage groups of community members around freight transport issues to learn more about freight transport and connect it to their own experiences.

The creation of this curriculum guide was a shared effort across many hands, hearts, and minds. The Pacific Institute’s Community Strategies Program deeply thanks the dedicated community leaders and organizations who contributed to the activities and materials included in this guide:

Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS),  Neighborhood House of North Richmond (NHNR), West County Toxics Coalition (WCTC), West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP), and Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative (DDDC).

Download the Curriculum Guide here.

• Coalition for Clean & Safe Ports
• Port of Oakland Maritime Air Quality Improvement Plan (MAQIP)
• Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative