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...
by Hendrik | Jan 1, 2015 | Timeline
In developing strategy to move resources from the extractive economy toward regenerative local economies, CJA members convened a series of conversations in 2014 fostering relationships between student divestment campaigners with grassroots organizing groups and folks...
by Hendrik | Sep 22, 2014 | Timeline
CJA supports a mass direct action coordinated by our members in Rising Tide, Ruckus and a number of allied collectives. The aim is to pivot attention from the PCM march to the root cause culprits of the climate crises – the financial empires whose profits drive...
by Hendrik | Sep 21, 2014 | Timeline
New York City – Climate Justice Alliance mobilized our members and grassroots allies across the U.S. to lead the frontlines of the 400,000-strong Peoples’ Climate March (PCM) in New York City. This historic event was originally proposed by CJA members to...
