The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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How Catholics Are Confronting Climate Change This Week – With or Without the Bishops
Catholics from as far as Florida and Argentina are coming to New York "to indicate our prayerful support of God’s creation."
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Green Latino Movement Pushes Climate Change Further Into Electoral Arena
Nine out of 10 Latinos support government taking action to combat the threat of climate change – and 56 percent of Latinos see climate change as an extremely or very serious issue compared to 43 percent of all voters.
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Unite, Focus, Act: The Global Convergence for Climate Justice In New York City
The history of resistance movements shows that when 3.5% of a population mobilizes on an issue, no government can withstand it – and organizers hope the climate justice movement can reach that level.
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An Australian's Call to Action: Reclaim the Climate Movement
This weekend I won’t be marching for the climate, but I won’t be sitting around doing nothing either – I’ll be at the sixth annual Australian Climate Action Summit in Queensland delivering some inconvenient truths.
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Why I Am Marching: A Canadian In New York
The People's Climate March will begin in Columbus Circle – chosen in clear recognition that Indigenous people are on the frontline, leading struggles to protect all of our communities against polluting fossil fuel industries.
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Why Yes for Scotland Means Yes For Earth's Renewable Energy Transition
Shifting toward community-based renewable power is a strong thread running through Scotland's Radical Independence Campaign, and a free Scotland could inspire other countries to relinquish their fossil fuel addiction.
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People's Climate Train: A Journey Toward Justice
If the people at the UN are not ready to take action, they should move to the side, because the people will.
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A People's Climate Train Rolls East As Energy Builds for New York Protests
Organizers haven't been shy about their underlying intentions: using the September march in Manhattan as a platform on which to build an international environmental social movement unlike any previously seen.
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Primer for NYC Protests: How We're Broadening and Sharpening the Climate Justice Movement
In addition to speaking with a common voice on climate justice and the policies needed to achieve it, today's "movement of movements" needs to reach beyond environmentalists.
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What Will It Take To Create Climate Justice?
There's still a long way to go to stop the division in the environmental movement and get traditional groups to treat climate change as an urgent disaster for which real solutions – not false compromises – are needed.
