by Hendrik | Sep 1, 2016 | Timeline
CJA worked with the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) to send support to Standing Rock in resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. In September, a small delegation, including staff and members of PODER and Movement Generation, went to the camp to help and scout...
by Hendrik | Jun 1, 2016 | Timeline
130+ representatives from more than 50 CJA member and ally organizations attended the CJA National Convening in St. Louis, MO, hosted by Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment. The convening focused on four tracks of work: Building the Bigger We, Reinvest...
by Hendrik | Jan 13, 2016 | Timeline
On Martin Luther King Day, CJA organized the first environmental justice action targeting all 10 regional Environmental Protection Agency offices in one day. CJA members and allies drafted the Our Power Plan in order to challenge and improve the Clean Power Plan (CPP)...
by Hendrik | Dec 1, 2015 | Timeline
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Climate Justice Alliance and the Indigenous Environmental Network brought 100+ grassroots organizers from the US and Canada to Paris for the UNFCCC COP21. Through the course of a week, the It Takes Roots delegation participated in a...
by Hendrik | Sep 1, 2015 | Timeline
Primarily organized by The Working World and supported by CJA and others, the first peer network training was held to establish a cooperative of local non-extractive loan funds. This was the birth of The Financial Cooperative to share learnings, share services, and...
by Hendrik | Jun 1, 2015 | Timeline
CJA organized a series of programs building the relationships and capacity of the frontline pilot sites. We initiated multiple Just Transition Fellowships, placing 10 fellows in each of the anchor organizations, as well as an Indigenous and a Gulf South fellow.Just...
