Online gatherings and related events for Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island
What is Buen Vivir?
Buen Vivir is a monthly series of presentations on global social and climate justice, typically held on the last Wednesday of each month.
“Buen Vivir” is the most common translation for the indigenous Quechua concept of Sumak Kawsay, life lived in harmony with nature and community. While it is sometimes translated into English as “A Good Life,” Buen Vivir relates to a deeper understanding of how humankind, and the impacts of our lives, affect the planet and each other.
We aren’t planning a Buen Vivir talk for December 2025. Instead, join us for Science in Resistance – Fernando Racimo (RSVP here).
Technological Somnambulism and the Failure of the Scientific Imagination
Wednesday November 19th, Noon Pacific / 3:00pm Eastern
Our speaker for November’s Buen Vivir session is Max Wilbert.
Max Wilbert is a community organizer, wilderness guide, and co-founder of the anti-mining group Protect Thacker Pass. He has a Masters in Degrowth, and currently works with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Max is co-author of the book Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It, and writes a newsletter on Substack called Biocentric.
The monthly talk series features expert speakers in facilitated discussion addressing Buen Vivir issues affecting the world’s working populations. Speakers alternate from global south and global north regions, bringing together the voices of the most affected and those who benefit, connecting the dots of our impact. By illuminating and linking the effects of continuing unjust extractivism on the lives, livelihoods and resource-rich physical lands of global south peoples, and discussing the many opportunities to address the impacts, we hope to position the social justice issue clearly at the center of the climate justice conversation in Turtle Island and beyond.
SRTI Salons
Salons are about creating a space for thoughtful conversation and camaraderie. We typically gather in the afternoon/early evening of the second Sunday of each month. Since we’re all across the continent, we do our best to create a welcoming, convivial atmosphere as we gather online.
Salons are open to everyone. We want to hear from you!
September SRTI Second Sunday Salon
Local Action Check-in
Sunday, Sept 14, 2025
3:30-5pm PT / 4:30-6pm MT / 6:30-8pm ET
These are busy times… what have YOU been up to? And how can SRTI best support local action?
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So settle in with a snack and beverage of your choice, and get ready for scintillating conversation amongst brilliant, revolutionary thinkers and science-minded peers.
We don’t record the Salons, because they’re all about participation. But we do encourage participants to take notes, and we publish summaries of some the conversations on the SRTI blog.
Meditation for Regeneration
Seeking restorative practice in transformative global community? Join us in meditation and conversation every month on the second Wednesday, at 11:00am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern.
Taking a moment to connect and meditate with others is good medicine for overall health and wellness, and makes us stronger as a community of regenerative change-makers.
Open to all levels (even first-time meditators).
We will take the first 10 minutes to arrive, settle in, and get to know one another. The meditation will go for 15-20 minutes, with some guidance and some silence together.
There is an opportunity to stay and chat after the meditation, helping us to build community and make new connections.
Michelle is a certified meditation instructor. She hosts this free monthly meditation session with the Deep Transformation Network, The Resilient Activist, THIS! Is What We Did and Novasutras, as well as Scientist Rebellion (global) and SRTI.
Past Events
Science in Resistance – Fernando Racimo
December 16, 2025
Dr. Fernando Racimo is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Copenhagen. He earned his undergrad degree from Harvard and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He is currently on a European book tour, traveling only by train. Scientist Rebellion members are engaging in NVDA in support of the talks.
About the Book
Scientists around the world rise up for climate and ecological justice
In April 2022, hundreds of scientists rose in civil disobedience, breaking the law in more than twenty-eight countries. Risking arrest, they glued their hands to roads, blocked government and corporate buildings, and chained themselves to the White House fence. In Science in Resistance, Fernando Racimo provides a first-person account of the Scientist Rebellion, a growing international movement of researchers stepping beyond conventional roles to alert the public about the need for action in the climate emergency. Combining personal stories, interviews with frontline activists, and insights from research on direct action and academia, he explores the challenges scientists face when taking a stand for climate and social justice. Reflecting on his role as a scientist-activist, Racimo describes how he came to be involved in the movement. He also explores the many ways in which academic institutions today are complicit in climate breakdown—whether by accepting funding from and collaborating with the very industries driving it, or by discouraging scientists from speaking up. Drawing on lessons from political science, psychology, ecology, sociology, and the history of science, this inspiring book shows how we can all take a stand for climate justice, by collectively organizing for change.
University of California Press
Available from independent booksellers here
Scientists Speak Out – July 19, 2025
SRTI West organized a rally and teach-in at Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA as part of Stop Billionaires Summer. We were involved in many more actions throughout the summer.
How to Disrupt Fossil-Fuel Business-As-Usual – May 2, 2025
An Unusual Public Lecture with Kevin Young & Bill McKibben
Led by renowned scholar-activists Kevin Young and Bill McKibben, this event will lay out the evidence for how and why to leverage disruptive action against ecocide and genocide…and provide an unexpected opportunity to celebrate the Cornell activists who are challenging fossil-fuel extractivism and its military enablers. Kevin Young is the author of Abolishing Fossil Fuels and a professor of history who defies convention. Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org and a professor organizing planetary-scale activism. Professor McKibben will join us virtually and Professor Young will join us live.
An event to stand up for climate justice, labor justice, decolonialism, and anti-militarism co-sponsored by Cornell on Fire, TIAA-Divest, Fossil Free Cornell, the Coalition for Mutual Liberation, the Cornell Chapter of the AAUP, Extinction Rebellion Ithaca, and Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island.
Check our YouTube channel: @ScientistRebellionTurtleIsland for recordings of some of our other past events.