by Hendrik | Mar 8, 2019 | Timeline
On the two days following the People’s Climate March, CJA hosted the People’s Climate Justice Summit & Tribunal across the street from the United Nations, where the “official” UN Climate Summit was taking place. Over 50 CJA members and allies, including local...
by Hendrik | Mar 8, 2019 | Timeline
Thousands of people took to the street for the second ever People’s Climate March. The effort was organized by the coalition formed from the 2014 People’s Climate March, which brought over 400,000 people to the streets of New York City and many more around the world....
by Hendrik | Mar 8, 2019 | Timeline
To build a rooted foundation for our vision of a Just Transition, CJA identified seven pilot sites to strategize and grapple with what it means to make Just Transition real on the ground. The pilot sites were anchored by long-standing EJ organizations, including APEN...
by Hendrik | Mar 7, 2019 | Timeline
On May 9-11, 2018, CJA held our second Just Transition Finance Training at the Voluntown Peace Trust near Providence, Rhode Island. 38 people representing 18 CJA member organizations and staff spent three days grappling with the question of how to concretely finance,...
by Hendrik | Mar 7, 2019 | Timeline
The It Takes Roots Alliance, representing 150 organizations nationwide, joined together with the Ruckus Society at Wildseed Farm in Millerton, New York from June 1-5, 2018 to train nearly one hundred leaders, organizers and community members – many from disaster...
by Hendrik | Mar 7, 2019 | Timeline
The member groups of the Climate Justice Alliance converged in March 2019 for the 3rd CJA Member Convening. The convening with the theme Living Our Power, was hosted by CJA member group SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), and intricately weaved together cultural...
by Hendrik | Feb 13, 2019 | Blog Post
As advocates of Just Transition, a group of Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) members in the northeast concerned with the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) and its process decided to convene fellow CJA member organizations throughout the region. The...
by Hendrik | Jan 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
The CJA In-District Advocacy Days are an opportunity to ensure members of Congress hear from and begin a conversation and consultation with frontline community leaders. Face-to-Face meetings and building relationships with Members of Congress are critical in shifting...
by Hendrik | Jan 10, 2019 | Timeline
After intervening in the discussions about the Green New Deal proposal with the statement A Green New Deal Must Be Rooted in a Just Transition for Workers and Communities Most Impacted by Climate Change, CJA followed up in January 2019 with a frontline delegation that...
by Hendrik | Dec 21, 2018 | Blog Post
By Angela Adrar, Executive Director of the Climate Justice Alliance Framed by corruption and crisis, 2018 was a year that felt like walking through a long dark tunnel. Fascism, white nationalism, and family separations are on the rise. Yet, 2018 was also a year where...
