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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...
Ujima: Collective Work and Responsibility
Continue to stand and support frontline climate leaders and advance this visionary future for 2018! Ujima: Collective Work and Responsibility To build and maintain our community together and make our siblings' problems - our problems and to solve them...
First Days on the Boat: Feature by Kiya, Uprose Delegate
11/15/2017 My name is Kiya Kiya Vega-Hutchens and I work for Uprose in Brooklyn, New York. Today was the brigade's first full day on the boat as members of the crew. Yesterday we launched from Miami, and headed off into the big blue yonder, the ocean is...
CJA Statement on ending DACA
The Climate Justice Alliance is deeply disappointed in the President's decision to end DACA and the consistent scapegoating of immigrants to push his agenda targeting racially diverse communities. Migration to the United States is a direct consequence of...
Confronting White Supremacy from Charlottesville to the White House
We call on all those who choose to stand on the side of justice, the side in opposition to white supremacy and state violence to take creative and courageous action where they live and challenge how white supremacy shows up in our communities. Join us,...
CANTON MISSISSIPPI NISSAN WORKERS VOTE FOR RIGHT TO UNIONIZE
CJA Alliance member Cooperation Jackson supports Nissan workers in Canton, MS, as they cast their votes to unionize. The Canton facility is one of only three Nissan plants worldwide that are not unionized. Two of those non-unionized plants are located in...
5 Reasons We Will Thrive After the Paris Accord Pull Out
There's been a lot of discussion and outrage over the past week about Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Accord. While the administration's decision demonstrates its willingness to do literally nothing about the climate crisis facing us, the Paris...
Richmond Wins Strongest Refinery Rule in the World
Congratulations to the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Communities for a Better Environment, and other EJ organizers who made this happen in Richmond! You can view the original blog post from Asian Pacific Environmental Network here. Posted...
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