“Elections have consequences.” That’s the Told Ya So of 2017: annoying and yet valid. Among the consequences: the AP reports that the acting US Army Corp chief has authorized resumption of the Dakota Access Pipeline project. Construction is moving forward yet again, over the objections of the Standing Rock Tribe and coalitions like the Indigenous […]
Grassroots responses
I teared up this morning watching a 30-second video of indigenous women singing at yesterday’s Women’s March. An indigenous women's march makes its way down Constitution Ave., to cheers. pic.twitter.com/Z9hH3kfgdx — Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) January 21, 2017 Deborah Parker, a Tulalip Tribes organizer and policy analyst from Washington, explained to Pearce that she and the […]
The good news of solidarity
Part of my do list this week has been to develop materials for an organizational partner. When an organization is learning how to offer substantive support to LGBTQ employees and their families, it may need some guidance on identifying what “support” actually means. Who defines the terms of support also matters: so much can go awry when programs […]
Take action: An update on #NODAPL
Kandi Mossett of the Indigenous Earth Network shared a live update from Standing Rock today. She describes the way the National Guard, police from five states, Energy Transfer Partners, and the Dakota Access corporation have corralled indigenous people in camps near DA Pipeline construction. And she calls for trans-ethnic solidarity. [These states are] sending their […]
Get up to speed on #NODAPL
Last summer, Peterson Toscano’s Climate Stew podcast included segments imagining major turning points in environmental justice. Each of these segments featured ordinary people moved to act and the determined grassroots activism they developed to mobilize others and create change on energy or climate policy. “On This Day In Climate History” will one day need to include this […]
