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Helping Expand What’s Possible: Southwest Workers Union
By Angela Adrar, Executive Director of the Climate Justice Alliance The first step towards any winning campaign is to define what victory looks like and to boldly dream of what does not exist—yet. The earliest days of Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) held the seeds of...
Black 2 Just Transition: A Recap
By the East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC), CJA member Last weekend, East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC) and the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) gathered over 80 folks for a historic gathering to assemble and train fellow black...
“When We Change How We Are Being, We Transform the Doing.”
By Angela Adrar, Executive Director of the Climate Justice Alliance Photo: North Carolina Climate Justice Summit, 2014 The power of the Climate Justice Alliance has always been our members and our desire to consult, envision creative solutions, and take action...
Black Communities Must Be at the Center of the Environmental Movement
While it is generally accepted within environmental and social justice circles that those of us on the frontlines of the climate crisis are impacted first and worst because of racism and poverty, we often don’t consider how the whitewashing of the...
What Bloomberg BusinessWeek Isn’t Saying is the Most Important Lesson of All
The Climate Crisis is Not Irreversible, But We Must Act Now Christopher Flavelle recently wrote an article for Bloomberg BusinessWeek entitled “Climate Change Will Get Worse. These Investors are Betting On it.” He exposes what many of us in the environmental and...
The Election is Over, But the Fight is Just Beginning
Photo "Ato 'Mulheres contra Bolsonaro'" by Renato Gizzi, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Jair Bolsonaro's win of the presidential vote in Brazil on September 28, 2018 is devastating, given his previous comments supporting torture and calling for political opponents to...
A Just Recovery is the Only Way Forward in North Carolina
Thousands of families and communities in North Carolina are still reeling from the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Florence. Those hardest hit by the storm are dealing with threats to their immediate and long-term survival. As North Carolinians and...
Brown Can’t Be a Climate Leader While Discounting the Poor and Communities of Color by Pennie Opal Plant
Climate change poses a serious threat to humanity’s survival and all living creatures that we share the planet with. While it may be that California achieved its self-imposed greenhouse gas emission goals ahead of 2020, this does not signify that we are on track to...
Immigration and Climate Change are not Separate Issues
My mother crossed the river with my brother and I, who were 5 years and 6 months old at the time, with nothing more than a couple of napkins in her pocket. She was fleeing domestic violence and a civil war (known as the war on drugs) in Colombia. Like many of the...
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