by Hendrik | Mar 11, 2019 | Timeline
Thousands of families and communities in North Carolina are reeling from the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Florence. As those hardest hit by the storm are dealing with threats to their immediate and long-term survival, the CJA member group North Carolina...
by Hendrik | Mar 11, 2019 | Timeline
The Indigenous Environmental Network and the Climate Justice Alliance effectively change the conversation around carbon pricing, with the launch of the report Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance at COP23 in Bonn, Germany. Carbon market...
by Hendrik | Mar 8, 2019 | Timeline
In the Fall of 2013, CJA penned an open letter from our members and allied EJ group to the leadership of the AFL-CIO, asking the labor movement to join hands with is in our struggle for climate justice, fighting corporate power, deepening democracy, organizing a Just...
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...
