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Our New Year’s Resolution and Last Chance to Donate in 2016!
This winter, our member organizations gathered to finalize a visionary Four-Year Strategy for their frontline communities to lead us through a Just Transition to an Our Power economy that is based on sustainable, resilient, and regenerative, not...
Confront Climate Lies NOW. Support Our Power Climate Justice Leaders & Solutions Today
Twenty-four U.S. states called on Trump to "kill the Clean Power Plan" and issue an Executive Order to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from proposing similar legislation in the future. While the Clean Power Plan and EPA are far from perfect,...
COP22 Open for Business; Navigating the Rising Sea of Climate Deniers and Climate Profiteers
November 19th, 2016 This COP22 nicknamed the "Action COP" was meant to focus on the implementation needed to get the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Close to 200 countries and 25,000 people came...
The Election Crash: The End of the Inside Game
We are reaching out to you, CJA member and allies, to respond to the many messages we have received expressing feelings of disbelief, anger, mourning, and real fear as a result of the elections and Trump's 100 day plan. In this difficult moment, let us...
CJA Calls for End of State Violence Against MST
The Climate Justice Alliance stands in solidarity with the Landless Workers Movement (MST) and calls for an end to the state violence being wielded against them. On November 4, police raided the Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (ENFF) in Guararema, Sao...
CJA Letter to AFL-CIO on Dakota Access
Dear AFL-CIO President Trumka and Our Sisters & Brothers in the Labor Movement: In 2013, on the eve of the AFL-CIO convention we wrote a letter to you calling for a dialogue between environmental justice organizations and the AFL-CIO. Although our...
Reflections on CJA #NoDAPL delegation
I recently had the opportunity to travel to North Dakota and visit Sacred Stone camp as part of The Climate Justice Alliance's delegation to support our partners at the Indigenous Environmental Network. My experience affirmed my belief in how critical this...
Angela Adrar joins Climate Justice Alliance as Executive Director
The staff and steering committee of the Climate Justice Alliance are excited to announce that Angela Adrar, will be joining CJA as Executive Director, pivotal in the Alliance's commitment to expanding and amplifying the voice of Climate Justice communities...
Why Those Who Care for Climate Justice Should Support the Movement for Black Lives
One year ago, on July 12, Black Lives Matter organized Black Lives Matter Sunday in response to the massacre of nine people at the Emanual African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC, and the burning of at least 7 Black churches across the South....
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