by Hendrik | Aug 18, 2017 | Blog Post, Fight The Bad, It Takes Roots
We call on all those who choose to stand on the side of justice, the side in opposition to white supremacy and state violence to take creative and courageous action where they live and challenge how white supremacy shows up in our communities. Join us, this Saturday,...
by Hendrik | Aug 4, 2017 | Blog Post, Build The Bigger We, Fight The Bad
CJA Alliance member Cooperation Jackson supports Nissan workers in Canton, MS, as they cast their votes to unionize. The Canton facility is one of only three Nissan plants worldwide that are not unionized. Two of those non-unionized plants are located in the U.S....
by Hendrik | Aug 3, 2017 | Timeline
On August 3, 2017, more than 500 young people from around the country met in New York City to attend the 6th Climate Justice Youth Summit, hosted in Brooklyn by UPROSE. They shared their stories and built relationships with other young people from frontline impacted...
by Hendrik | Aug 1, 2017 | Timeline
Just Transition Finance Training More than 45 CJA members from 17 different groups gathered in Detroit to discuss effective and sustainable ways of funding a Just Transition. During the gathering, members talked about how to build in this current political moment and...
by Hendrik | Jun 9, 2017 | Blog Post, Build The Bigger We, Fight The Bad, It Takes Roots, Our Power
There’s been a lot of discussion and outrage over the past week about Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord. While the administration’s decision demonstrates its willingness to do literally nothing about the climate crisis facing us, the...
by Hendrik | Jun 5, 2017 | Blog Post, Change The Rules, Fight The Bad
Congratulations to the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Communities for a Better Environment, and other EJ organizers who made this happen in Richmond! You can view the original blog post from Asian Pacific Environmental Network here. Posted on 06/01/2017 After 3...
by Hendrik | May 17, 2017 | Announcements
Senowa Mize-Fox is joining the Climate Justice Alliance as an executive assistant and has a background in labor, racial, and climate justice organizing. She spent the last three years in Burlington, VT working with her labor union United Electrical Radio and Machine...
by Hendrik | May 16, 2017 | Announcements, Move The Money
The Climate Justice Alliance is happy to welcome a staff member — Holly Baker as their new Funder Relations Organizer. Holly, who brings more than two decades’ experience of fundraising, program and event coordination, and administration within grassroots...
by Hendrik | May 4, 2017 | Blog Post, It Takes Roots
The discourse on climate change is transforming out of political necessity in a historic way. Climate justice is being coined by many of those that until now focused solely on reducing carbon as our hope forward. It is being lifted up as the solution to this...
by Hendrik | May 1, 2017 | Timeline
While organizing for PCM events, ITR also worked concurrently as part of Beyond the Moment to support translocal actions for May Day. May Day marches in Detroit, Rhode Island, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston, and San Francisco rocked the It Takes Roots...
