by Hendrik | Apr 30, 2017 | Timeline
After 18 months of discussions and feedback from the pilot site organizations, steering committee, and full membership body, while building from the deep history and experiences from the Just Transition Alliance, CJA released a shared set of Just Transition...
by Hendrik | Apr 26, 2017 | Announcements, Build The Bigger We, Change The Rules, Fight The Bad, Press Release
PRESS CALL: Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and dozens of others to support massive labor, immigrant rights demonstrations around the country on May 1st MEDIA ADVISORY April 26th 2017 CONTACT: Brooke Anderson, Climate Workers 510-846-0766, [email protected] On a...
by Hendrik | Apr 1, 2017 | Timeline
Leading up to the People’s Climate March on April 29, It Takes Roots alliances organized translocal actions and another large, multiracial delegation to go to DC. The DC delegation hosted a variety of events to engage members, including congressional visits, a...
by Hendrik | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog Post, Build The Bigger We, It Takes Roots, Move The Money
This week, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) that will gut the Clean Power Plan, an action that will increase U.S. emissions, push for coal leasing on federal land, and accelerate the climate catastrophe for those fighting for their lives in the most...
by Hendrik | Jan 17, 2017 | Build The Bigger We, It Takes Roots, Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 17, 2017 CONTACT: Isobel White, 510-828-3554 Bernice Shaw, 310-880-1389 Women of Color Lead: A Call to Grow the Resistance against Trump, to Converge in Washington D.C. Jan 18-21 Interviews available upon request with women of color,...
by Hendrik | Jan 6, 2017 | Announcements, Blog Post
Angela Adrar, executive director of the Climate Justice Alliance, will be a speaker at this briefing next week, January 12. Read here for more information. January 12: Visionary Opposition in the Era of Trumpism Click here to RSVP January 12, 2017 12-1pm Eastern...
by Hendrik | Jan 1, 2017 | Timeline
In January, Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Right to the City Alliance came together under the banner of It Takes Roots (ITR) to hold strategic meetings and trainings and to mobilize against the new...
by Hendrik | Dec 31, 2016 | Blog Post, Build The Bigger We, Change The Rules, Change The Story, Fight The Bad, Move The Money
This winter, our member organizations gathered to finalize a visionary Four-Year Strategy for their frontline communities to lead us through a Just Transition to an Our Power economy that is based on sustainable, resilient, and regenerative, not extractive, systems....
by Hendrik | Dec 28, 2016 | Blog Post, Build The New, Energy Democracy, It Takes Roots
Twenty-four U.S. states called on Trump to “kill the Clean Power Plan” and issue an Executive Order to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from proposing similar legislation in the future. While the Clean Power Plan and EPA are far from perfect,...
by Hendrik | Nov 23, 2016 | Blog Post, Energy Democracy, It Takes Roots
November 19th, 2016 This COP22 nicknamed the “Action COP” was meant to focus on the implementation needed to get the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Close to 200 countries and 25,000 people came...
