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Biden’s Call to Increase Oil Refining Sacrifices Frontline Communities – We Must Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground!
Contact: Olivia@climatejusticealliance.org 301-613-4767 June 15, 2022 - Biden’s latest move to address inflation and overall economic hardship by asking the CEOs of fossil fuel companies to increase production will not solve this current crisis. Instead it will...
An Open Invitation to Climate Philanthropy
Watercolor by Maisie Richards & Lokotah Sanborn, Creative Wildfire project. Dear Climate Funders, We are living through a time of immense and escalating challenges. We are in a decade of crisis, collapse, and transition that holds...
Climate Solutions from the Frontlines of Environmental Justice
In this discussion, which was sponsored by Grist and Climate Justice Alliance, leaders from CJA member groups UPROSE, Ironbound Community Corporation, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Indigenous Environmental Network talked about the framework of centering equity...
Not About Us Without Us — Climate Policy Must Center Frontline Communities to Succeed
Environmental Justice Communities Play Key Role in Derailing the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) While Calling for Community-Led Solutions Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) commends and stands in solidarity with environmental justice and labor organizations...
Building Black, Ecologically & Cooperatively, An Interview with Earth-Bound Building
“There is a real advantage in putting brainpower together, pooling resources together, time together, and care of children together. It’s not just based on financial incentive but the social and cultural incentive of working together and building for ourselves” — Dom...
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How to Shut Down a Coal Plant [Fight Target, Build the Food Cart Industry, Empower Women and Small Businesses, and Thrive]
By Jessica Xiao Six Environmental Justice Lessons from Little Village Environmental Justice Organization Last winter I spoke with Kim Wasserman, executive director of Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), based in Chicago, Illinois. Kim Wasserman...
Youth Spotlight: Nyiesha Mallet
“We are seeing that no one else is going to fight for youth of color like youth of color. We don't need people to speak on behalf of us when we can speak for ourselves”. Meet Nyiesha Mallet, a youth activist at UPROSE in Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn's oldest Latinx led...
Field Notes from Climate Justice Activists at the U.N. Climate Conference (COP25)
Climate justice activists from the It Takes Roots Delegation in front of a COP25 sign. From left to right: Cynthia Mellon (Climate Justice Alliance), Jésus Vasquez (Organización Boricuá), Nyiesha Mallett (UPROSE), Carlos Torrealba (Jobs with Justice Florida), Nancy...
Jeff Bezos, Here Are 4 Simple Ideas for Spending Your $10 Billion Well
The field of climate change philanthropy is far from simple. Newly-minted funders, despite good intentions, can actually do harm to communities they’re trying to help, and undermine climate targets they’re trying to reach. Perhaps the most important lesson we hope you’ll draw from this letter is: there is nothing worse The Earth Fund could do than meet behind closed doors and unilaterally decide what is best for people who live the realities of climate change every day. If you are sincere, you must share the power of your fund with folks on the ground.
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