by Hendrik | Mar 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Our Power Pilot Site Organizations Begin Convening 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 Hendrik | Jan 1, 2015 | Timeline
In developing strategy to move resources from the extractive economy toward regenerative local economies, CJA members convened a series of conversations in 2014 fostering relationships between student divestment campaigners with grassroots organizing groups and folks...
by Hendrik | Sep 22, 2014 | Timeline
CJA supports a mass direct action coordinated by our members in Rising Tide, Ruckus and a number of allied collectives. The aim is to pivot attention from the PCM march to the root cause culprits of the climate crises – the financial empires whose profits drive...
by Hendrik | Sep 21, 2014 | Timeline
New York City – Climate Justice Alliance mobilized our members and grassroots allies across the U.S. to lead the frontlines of the 400,000-strong Peoples’ Climate March (PCM) in New York City. This historic event was originally proposed by CJA members to...
by Hendrik | Aug 7, 2014 | Timeline
Richmond Our Power National ConveningThe Richmond Environmental Justice Coalition and CJA national leadership hosted the Richmond Our Power National Convening, where more than 450 frontline community members from across the country joined together to “build the bigger...
by Hendrik | Jun 5, 2014 | Timeline
East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC) hosted 130+ people, the majority under 25-years in age, at the Our Power Youth Gathering in Detroit. Participants got a taste of Detroit’s Just Transition work fighting extreme energy, advocating against...
by Hendrik | Jun 13, 2013 | Timeline
Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC) hosted the first national CJA gathering on Navajo Nation lands – bringing together 100 CJA members to stand in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of resistance against King Coal – from Mesa to Mountaintop, and from...
by Hendrik | Sep 6, 2012 | Timeline
After over three years of meetings as a climate justice “alignment process”, our growing grassroots movement family formally agreed to adopting the name Climate Justice Alliance. CJA membership consisted primarily of frontline communities confronting the direct...
by Hendrik | Jan 1, 2009 | Timeline
Our roots are embedded across the environmental justice movement landscape of Turtle Island (North America), 500+ years of struggle against settler colonialism, and the vision, values and principles formulated and raised up by grassroots climate justice leaders, such...
