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...
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...
