As climate and environmental justice organizers, social justice advocates, scientists, conservationists, environmentalists, policy experts, and concerned individuals, we are clear about the harms of war, not only on people, but also on the environment. For generations, Palestinians have been living under a system of apartheid, breathing in toxic air and consuming food grown on soil contaminated by bombs and other tools of destruction.
With this newest round of genocidal attacks by Israel on the civilian Palestinian population, which has forced thousands to flee and live without water, food and electricity and resulted in a rising death toll by the thousands, the Israeli government has defied international law. President Biden must oppose this.
We know that war breeds death, not democracy, and will only further harm people, replicate new cycles of violence, and impact the planet for generations to come. U.S. taxpayer dollars must not be used to support a policy of genocide.
We pledge to stand in solidarity with all those fighting for justice and peace, especially those families who have lost loved ones in both Israel and Palestine, and all those who continue to be under fire today.
As signers of this pledge, we call on our members of Congress to immediately:
- Support a ceasefire now and
- Stop sending aid to Israel, which is often used for the very bombs and weapons being unleashed, as a form of collective punishment, on the Palestinian population.
Signed,
Organizations
Climate Justice Alliance
UPROSE
North American Climate, Conservation, and Environment
Environmental Health Coalition
Oil & Gas Action Network
Indigenous Environmental Network
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon
Urban Tilth
Micronesia Climate Change Alliance
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Little Manila Rising
Got Green
Institute for Policy Studies Climate Policy Program
People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights
Alliance for Appalachia
Sunrise DC
Sunrise Movement Orlando
Climate Generation
California Green New Deal Coalition
Extinction Rebellion
Native Movement
PUSH Buffalo
Another Gulf is Possible Collaborative
Local Clean Energy Alliance
Zero Waste Jackson
Bronx Climate Justice North
Vote Climate
Movement Generation
Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles
Fund for Democratic Communities
Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust
Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition
Just Transition Northwest Indiana
Bronx Climate Justice North
University of Southern California Environmental Student Assembly
Youth United for Climate Crisis Action
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
Equitable Resilience & Sustainability LLC
Reclaim Our Power Utility Justice Campaign
Movement Strategy Center
Asian American Writers’ Workshop Union
Muslims Going Green
Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative
Thrive North Carolina
US Food Sovereignty Alliance
Cities Feed Cities
Safe Return Project
Midori Law Group, P.C.
Nola Aikido
Creative Wildfire
People’s Response Network
Xun Biosphere Project
HOPE Collaborative
The Worm Farm Project
Solidarity 2020 and Beyond
North Bronx Racial Justice
Rise to Thrive
Triple Justice
Terra Advocati
Sustainable Holistic Healing Arts & Activations
Faithfully Sustainable
Udja Temple
The Centre for Land Affairs
Cascadia Stack
Swamped in the Glades
Aliya Healing
Sanctuary of the Heart
Advantage Plus Home Care
Community Housing & Empowerment Connections, Inc.
Middelburg Social and Environmental Justice Alliance
Queen Bee Books
Colorado May Day Club
Istidama Wattan Organization
Mama Tortuga
Combcutters
Seeds of Resistance
Coco Canary Consulting
Terra Lumina Consulting
Higher Love International Consulting
NH Consulting
Shoshin Insights
The Reve
EnerGaia Consulting
Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles
Portland Youth Climate Strike
Washco Rising Inc.
Public Accountability Initiative
Where the Metals Meet
1000 Grandmothers
Individuals (Affiliation Listed for Identification Purposes Only)
Natalie Sampson, Associate Professor, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Adam Wilkins, Guest Scientist, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University
Jerry Rivers, Environmental Scientist, North American Climate, Conservation, and Environment
Yukyan Lam, Research Director & Senior Scientist, Tishman Center at The New School
Ana Isabel Baptista, Associate Professor, The New School
Adrienne Perovich, Managing Director, Tishman Center at The New School
Ahalia Persaud, Assistant Director, The New School
Romy Opperman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The New School
Lily Forest, student, Lewis and Clark Law School
Tatiana Brown, graduate student, University of Washington
Umaya Suliman, student, American University
Briana Carbone, student, American University
Akanksha Sinha, EcoFellow Research Associate, Georgetown University Earth Commons
Patricia Cortado, New School’s Tishman Environment & Design Center
Tina Shull, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Director of Public History
Elleanor Pangilinan, Staff, Contra Costa College
Maria Stamas, EnerGaia Consulting, Founder & Energy Justice Attorney
Cristina Cabrera, Executive Director, Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
Julian Nesbitt, Ecologist
Katie Hoeberling, Director of Policy Initiatives, Open Environmental Data Project
Jillian D, Strategist, Climate Equity Fund
Senowa Mize-Fox, Movement Engagement Manager for Climate Justice, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Kyle Heiskala, Policy Co-Director, Environmental Health Coalition
Calaix Alexander & Maritza Arango, Co-Executive Directors, OPAL Environmental Justice OR
Marina Sáenz, Communications Narrative Strategy Manager, OPAL Environmental Justice OR
Basav Sen, Climate Policy Director, Institute for Policy Studies Climate Policy Program
Morgan Towle, Neighbors for Clean Air
Sarah Faik, Sunrise Movement
Ruth Sawyer, Organizer, Sierra Club
Conor Mullen, Sierra Club Wyoming
Taylor Smith-Hams, US Senior Organizer, 350.org
Melanie Smith, US Senior Communications Specialist, 350.org
Kent Minault, Local Political Chair, Sierra Club-Knoxville, TN
Nick Davis-Iannacco, Multimedia Associate, Union of Concerned Scientists
Shaina Sadai, Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists
Kiersten Hellegers, Executive Assistant, Union of Concerned Scientists
Sarah Burke, Team Coordinator, 350 Colorado
Bobbie Mooney, Beyond Oil & Gas Campaign Coordinator, 350 Colorado
Meredith Hankins, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council
Leandre Mills, Program Operations Coordinator, National Wildlife Federation
Katie Schlegel, Event Planner, Earthjustice
Tyler Valdes, Energy Equity Manager, California Environmental Justice Alliance
Denise Glaze, Development Director, California Environmental Justice Alliance
Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network
Ahmina Maxey, Executive Director, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
Kareem Scales, Development Manager, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
Liz Jacob, Lawyer, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
Marian Rhys, Board Member, AORTA
Chlo Henson, Political Education Program Manager, Climate Justice Alliance
Isabel Avina, Senior Education Program Associate, Solar One
Susan Phillips, Executive Director, Climate Generation
Michelle Meyer, Associate Researcher, International Council on Clean Transportation
Em Whalen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Critical Ecology Lab
Patricia Kullberg, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
Nomi Green, New Mexico Earth Holders
Marya Grathwohl, Founder, Earth Hope
Vanessa Rodriguez, Worm Farm Project
Maya Canonizado, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Isaac Resendiz, Urban Tilth
Laura Navarro, Urban Tilth
Cynthia Papermaster, Extinction Rebellion
Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh, Co-founder & Executive Director, Solidarity 2020 and Beyond
Anthony Jammal, Owner, Advantage Plus Home Care
Rebecca Wood, Combcutters
Martha Hawthorne, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1021, Co-Chair of the Climate Justice Committee
Glenn Kirkindall, Member, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) local 555
Lauren Ballesteros-Watanabe, Member, Progressive Workers Union (PWU)
Jenna Cobb, Program Manager, Community Nature Connection
Rebecca Wood, Educator, Swamped in the Glades
Molly Hauck, Environmental Justice Ministry, Unitarian Universalist Congregation-Bethesda, MD
Susan Klein, Jewish Voice for Peace
Carolyn McCoy, Co-Clerk of Board, Earth Quaker Action Team
Eloise M. Cranke, Methodist Federation for Social Action
Kristin A Freeman, Recording Secretary, Faith and Climate Action Montana
Gertrude Nuttman, Sisters of Mercy-San Francisco, CA
Kadjahtou Balde, Founder, Faithfully Sustainable
Francesca de Oro, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance
Jordan Panuelo, Healing Coordinator, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance
Claire Wellin, Coordinating Committee, Showing Up For Racial Justice-NYC,
Geraldo Martins Nunez, Pastor, Mennonite Church
Andrew T. Hodgdon, Central Valley Air Quality Coalition
Sue King, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations
Barry Riesch, Veterans for Peace
Jennifer Ramirez, Senior Researcher, Tishman Environment and Design Center – The New School
Jane Roschen, Analyst, CA Public Utilities Commission
Charlie McAteer, Front and Centered
Patrick Reinsborough, Patrick Reinsborough Consulting
Quinn Mulholland, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Jorge Estevez, Communications Manager, Green New Deal Network
Mari Rose Taruc, Energy Director, California Environmental Justice Alliance
Stephanie Valenzuela, Communications coordinator, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Maricruz Ramirez, Community Organizer, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Selah Goodson Bell, Energy Justice Campaigner, Center for Biological Diversity
Esther Goolsby, Program Co-Director, Communities for a Better Environment
Adele Watts, Community Organizer, Communities for a Better Environment
Christine Cordero, Co-Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Marie Choi, Communications Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Kellyn LaCour, Climate Ecologist, Taproot Earth
Ashley Haight, ZERO Coalition
Dana Viloria, Collective member & co-director, Movement Generation
Susan Phillips, Director, Robert Redford Conservancy
Paul Faulstich, Emeritus Professor, Pitzer College
Ramya Herman, Student, Pitzer College
Amber Mogg, Student, Pitzer College
Sophia Marie Powers, Student, Pitzer College
Margaret Reeves, Senior Scientist, Pesticide Action Network
Jenny O’Gorman, Board Member, Climate Psychology Alliance
Ryan Van Lenning, Director, Wild Nature Heart
Gregory Tewksbury, Professor of Educational Leadership, Brooklyn College
Morgan Wittelsberger, Organizer, Extinction Rebellion Baltimore
Jasmine Guevara, Development Manager, Green 2.0
Daniel Chu, Energy Planner, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance
Sean Ryan, Grants Manager, Climate Generation
Claire Cooke, Program Coordinator, Climate Generation
Liangyi Chang, Asia Managing Director, 350.org
Anna Tsomo, Climate Educator / Program Director, Sixth Street Community Center
Gopal Dayaneni, Faculty, San Francisco State University
Honu Nichols, Climate Change Education Specialist, Mālama Loko Ea Foundation
Catherine Garoupa, Executive Director, Central Valley Air Quality Coalition
TTriss Williams Renard, Economic Inclusion Manager, Emerald Cities Collaborative
Kathleen Malley-Morrison, Co-chair Climate Action and Nuclear Disarmament United (CANDU), Massachusetts Peace Action
Juliana Stoner, Extinction Rebellion Boston
Yahaira Zapanta-Rosales, Director of Operations and Culture, Grassroots Global Justice
Mimi Eisen, Program Manager, Zinn Education Project
Andrew Kaplowitz, Climate and Energy Justice Lead, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
Hannah Lindell-Smith, Zero Hour, 350 Seattle
Emma Ishida, Asian Community Development Corporation
Jovanna Nieto, Program Coordinator, Community Nature Connection
Jean Tepperman, Co-coordinator, Sunflower Alliance
Carlos Fernandez, Mentor, Safe Return Project
Lauren Church, Director of Development and Policy, Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action
Brianna Vig, Student, University of Connecticut
Karin Lehnigk, Postdoctoral Student, Georgia Tech
René LaPointe Jameson, Environmental Engineer
Sophie Chien, Student, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Caroline K Smith, Student, Harvard
Leila Riker, PItzer College
Shreya Agrawal, former editor of Annenberg Media Earth, University of Southern California
Sebastian Collins, Student, Claremont Colleges
Lonise Yazzie, Student, University of New Mexico
Sarah Doppler, Student, Merritt College
Bella Isaacson, Student, Scripps College
Isabella Saldarriaga, GenCleo Youth Empowerment Movement
Amanda Dym, Jewish Voice for Peace
Laura Plascencia, Organizer, Valley Improvement Projects
Charisse Serrano, Consultant, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Jason Pfeifle, Senior Climate Campaigner
Nancy Morales, Climate Justice Organizer, Urban Core Collective
Karen Reyes, Executive Director, Firebird Community Arts
Emma Johnson, Partner, Utah Youth Environmental Solutions
