by Hendrik | Aug 7, 2014 | Timeline
Richmond Our Power National ConveningThe Richmond Environmental Justice Coalition and CJA national leadership hosted the Richmond Our Power National Convening, where more than 450 frontline community members from across the country joined together to “build the bigger...
by Hendrik | Jun 5, 2014 | Timeline
East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC) hosted 130+ people, the majority under 25-years in age, at the Our Power Youth Gathering in Detroit. Participants got a taste of Detroit’s Just Transition work fighting extreme energy, advocating against...
by Hendrik | Jun 13, 2013 | Timeline
Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC) hosted the first national CJA gathering on Navajo Nation lands – bringing together 100 CJA members to stand in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of resistance against King Coal – from Mesa to Mountaintop, and from...
by Hendrik | Sep 6, 2012 | Timeline
After over three years of meetings as a climate justice “alignment process”, our growing grassroots movement family formally agreed to adopting the name Climate Justice Alliance. CJA membership consisted primarily of frontline communities confronting the direct...
by Hendrik | Jan 1, 2009 | Timeline
Our roots are embedded across the environmental justice movement landscape of Turtle Island (North America), 500+ years of struggle against settler colonialism, and the vision, values and principles formulated and raised up by grassroots climate justice leaders, such...
