by Hendrik | Nov 8, 2018 | Timeline
The East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC) and the Climate Justice Alliance teamed up for the Black 2 Just Transition Assembly & Training, that brought together 60+ organizers from November 8-12, 2018 in Detroit. For decades, Detroit has been home to...
by Hendrik | Nov 2, 2018 | Blog Post
While it is generally accepted within environmental and social justice circles that those of us on the frontlines of the climate crisis are impacted first and worst because of racism and poverty, we often don’t consider how the whitewashing of the mainstream...
by Hendrik | Nov 2, 2018 | Blog Post
The Climate Crisis is Not Irreversible, But We Must Act Now Christopher Flavelle recently wrote an article for Bloomberg BusinessWeek entitled “Climate Change Will Get Worse. These Investors are Betting On it.” He exposes what many of us in the environmental and...
by Hendrik | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog Post, Fight The Bad, It Takes Roots
Photo “Ato ‘Mulheres contra Bolsonaro'” by Renato Gizzi, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Jair Bolsonaro’s win of the presidential vote in Brazil on September 28, 2018 is devastating, given his previous comments supporting torture and calling for...
by Hendrik | Oct 9, 2018 | Blog Post
Thousands of families and communities in North Carolina are still reeling from the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Florence. Those hardest hit by the storm are dealing with threats to their immediate and long-term survival. As North Carolinians and...
by Hendrik | Sep 20, 2018 | Press Release, Puerto Rico
Crowd Gathers Days After President Trump’s Outrageous Comments Diminishing Loss of Puerto Rican Lives For Immediate Release September 20, 2018 Contact: Michael O’Loughlin [email protected] / 917.957.9160 New York, NY – #OurPowerPRnyc today commemorated...
by Hendrik | Sep 7, 2018 | Timeline
In September 2018, the Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Right to the City Alliance, which together form the It Takes Roots Coalition gathered in Occupied Ohlone Territory – the San Francisco Bay...
by Hendrik | Aug 7, 2018 | Timeline
From December of 2017 to the Summer of 2018, CJA members and staff worked to create the Our Power Loan Fund and Incubator. In August of 2018, the loan fund began working with a few CJA member’s just transition projects to support with technical assistance and possible...
by Hendrik | Aug 3, 2018 | Blog Post, It Takes Roots
Climate change poses a serious threat to humanity’s survival and all living creatures that we share the planet with. While it may be that California achieved its self-imposed greenhouse gas emission goals ahead of 2020, this does not signify that we are on track to...
by Hendrik | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog Post
My mother crossed the river with my brother and I, who were 5 years and 6 months old at the time, with nothing more than a couple of napkins in her pocket. She was fleeing domestic violence and a civil war (known as the war on drugs) in Colombia. Like many of the...
