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 […]
News from Michigan, Alabama, and Russia
A common thread of resistance and environmental racism links Flint, Michigan, Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, and Waller County, Texas, where residents are fighting, respectively, state negligence, corporate encroachment, and an unwanted landfill. Phillip Luke Sintierre writes on the proposed landfill in Waller County for the African American Intellectual History Society: Opposition to Green Group’s […]
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 […]
