News Roundup, Friday November 27th
This week our family celebrated Indigenous-Genocide-Was-Not-Successful Day. Here is some climate news, much of it Indigenous-related. 400 Years After the ‘First Thanksgiving,’ the Tribe That Fed the Pilgrims Continues to Fight for Its Land Amid Another Epidemic Why...
News Round Up, Friday Nov 13
Climate Mandate for Joe Biden Biden-Harris campaign announces tribal nations plan The Green New...
Georgia on my Mind: The Remedy for Post-Election Disorientation is Pre-Election Action
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross developed a theory of seven stages of grief for dealing with the phenomena...
Access to Open Space IS Access to Education
I recently watched a class on gardening. I have a tendency to inadvertently kill plants. Negligence and over compensation. And the class looked accessible. Not something that was going to overwhelm me with complex nutrient-to-dirt ratios or make me feel like a failure...
BLACK LIVES MATTER collage #1 – STRIKE today!
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News, Friday July 17th
Biden Announces $2 Trillion Climate Plan: Joe Biden’s plan connects tackling climate change with the economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis, while also addressing racism. The proposal drew praise from his onetime critics....
Liberal Racism: Harper’s Cancel Culture Letter Censors Black Lives Matter
Last week, Harper’s published “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” in which they censor the Movement for Black Lives. The signatories include a wide array of writers, scholars, activists, artists and cultural critics, Their letter says, “Powerful protests for racial...
The Commons of Public Trust and Climate
071520 The Commons of Public Trust and Climate By Vijaya NagarajanJust this past Sunday, on July 12, Huey Johnson passed away. Huey Johnson was one of the greatest environmental activists and defenders of the commons in California during the past 50 years. He saved...
Hope is a Verb
I’ve been watching the Coronavirus pattern. Scientists and health experts say, if we do X and don’t do Y things are going to get worse, cases will spike, hospitals will get overwhelmed. And then we do X anyway and don’t do Y, and lo and behold, things get worse, cases...
Confessions of a Black Climate Activist…without naming names
Earlier this year, I saw that a local organization had an all-white climate panel. I had some connections to that organization, so I got the organizer's info and sent her an email. You will not be surprised to learn that she is a white woman. Here's what I said: "I...
Climate and Racial Justice news for Friday, July 10th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAET2x_rwZ8&feature=emb_logo The Movement for Black Lives Introduces the BREATHE Act Biden’s Big Climate Decision: Will He Embrace His Task Force’s Goals? The former vice president’s allies and some of the...
“Let…Justice…Open,” a found poem for climate justice in response to the Harper’s letter on cancel culture
Tuesday, Harper's published A Letter on Justice and Open Debate. The Daily Beast called it "a 532-word document that celebrates untrammeled free expression above all and rebukes the so-called 'cancel culture' that might take offense..." and explains how it has quickly...
Inequality by Vijaya Nagarajan
Brutalities are there all over the place. There are specific kinds of Brutalities emerging from the imbalance of power–––between men and women, between the white race and the black race, between the dominant stories of whiteness and people of color, between the human...
Distributed Empowerment
During the initial Covid-19 outbreak, when the US was short of critical personal protective equipment at hospitals and care facilities, an interesting thing happened. Individuals, hobbyists, with access to inexpensive 3D printers, began a wave of distributed...
Reasons for Hope in the Climate Movement and Beyond
One of the biggest challenges of organizing for the climate movement is that the information about the the climate crisis is terrifying. For some people, terror can be a motivating force. For most of us, it is immobilizing. How do you organize people when the...
News updates, Friday July 3rd
House Democrats just put out the most detailed climate plan in US political history: A new select committee report is perfectly in tune with the growing climate policy alignment on the left around standards, investments, and justice. Summary here. National Black...
Our kid-friendly Black Lives Matter protest in Oakland got in trouble for chalking – but it won’t stop us…
When we developed a family-friendly action, FREEDOM FRIDAYS: A Family Walk & Chalk for Black Lives, we had no idea that chalking the sidewalk was legally considered graffiti in Oakland. I would like to begin the defense with Exhibit A: Sidewalk Chalk. This chalk...
063020-Climate, Race and Caste: First Notes of Four by Vijaya Nagarajan
The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis has just released their report on June 30, 2020. It stems from House Resolution 6 on January 9, 2019, which authorized this study. What is important to note now is that the words are strong and clear, that our human...
It’s not enough to tell people to vote: help them register
As a person who just advocated that people go out and vote, it seems like the natural follow up is to offer some tools to make sure that you actually can vote.
Afrofuturism collage series 5: Racial Justice & Climate Justice are connected. Pass it on.
The latest in my Afrofuturism collage series. This is it. This is our time, Black people. Let's do it. Let's save ourselves. Let's save the future.
News Round Up Friday, June 26th
The Protests Are Already Changing Elections: The past few weeks of activism have directly fueled the wins of a handful of black progressive candidates. Kentucky Senate candidate Charles Booker: ‘I’ve stood beside the people crying out demanding change’ Minnesota...
June 2020 – For George Floyd: A Spoken Word Confession & Vision
The text of this spoken word piece was originally published by The Acentos Review, a quarterly literary and arts journal that promotes and publishes Latinx work, in their June 19 issue, titled Black and Glorious: Towards Black Liberation. For so many of us Black...
If Black Lives Matter, Climate Change is Racist AF
In a recent article for Patagonia, environmental forerunner Bill McKibben notes that when he published his first book, The End of Nature, thirty years ago, his main worry was about nature itself, and the way that beloved landscapes and species would be wiped out if...