Emergency Call with Allies & Members Affected by Harvey…

CJA EMERGENCY CALL WITH DIRECT UPDATES FROM ALLIES & MEMBERS AFFECTED BY HARVEY AND IRMA

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have devastated communities from the Caribbean to the southern United States. Climate Justice Alliance is hosting a call at 8:00pm EST Wednesday evening to hear directly from our members and allies in Houston, Florida, Puerto Rico, and Haiti.

Find out ways you can support a frontline response that is inclusive of all communities in the recovery effort. Now is the time for all of us to pull together to advance a Just Transition and rebuild for resilience. JOIN US WEDNESDAY!

This call is open to CJA allies, members, and those seeking to help in a Just Transition recovery. The call is limited to 500 members so REGISTER NOW!

#ItTakesRoots: What’s Next?

Coming out of our arc of resistance from the elections in November 2016, to the inauguration in January 2017 and through the first 100 days of the current administration, we are now preparing for what comes next.  On May 17th, Compton Foundation hosted a funder briefing for It Takes Roots leaders to share lessons and next steps for the work we are doing to build a Visionary Opposition in the Era of Trumpism.

Click here to watch the recording from the May 17th briefing, to see a brief slideshow report of the first 2 phases, and to download a 2-page wrap up of It Takes Roots at the People’s Climate March.

For more in depth background, click here to watch the video recording of our January 12th briefing.

SPEAKERS:

Sharon Lungo, Executive Director of The Ruckus Society, has been a trainer with Ruckus since 2001, a founding member of the Indigenous Peoples’ Power Project (IP3) Advisory Board, and a key member of the Ruckus staff since 2007. Sharon has an unwavering commitment to holding a racial justice analysis within non violent direct action organizing and implementation, and is the daughter of migrant parents from the Pipil nation (indigenous to Cuzcatlan, El Salvador). She was born and raised in Los Angeles. She is a proud mother, sister, daughter, granddaughter, and auntie.

Melissa Miles is the Environmental Justice and Community Organizer with theIronbound Community Corporation and in that position is responsible for community level base building around local campaigns. She sits on the NY/NJ Coalition of Healthy Ports and participates in national coalitions such as The Moving Forward Network and the Climate Justice Alliance.

Huy Ong is the Executive Director of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon. He leads an all POC staff in building power for civil rights and environmental justice with low-income and communities of color. For over the past two decades, Huy has been active in local, regional, and national intersectional organizing. He is leading the effort to build the Oregon Just Transition Alliance to center frontline communities and build power with base-building organizing groups statewide. A refugee from Vietnam, Huy calls Portland home and is raising Rosalía with the support of his partner, and extended movement family.

Claude S. Copeland, Jr. is a member and Board Co-Chair with Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). He was born and raised in Queens, NY, where he still currently resides. Claude is the Climate Justice/Energy Democracy organizer at Northwest Bronx Community Clergy Coalition and a lay leader at his church, New Day Church, in the Bronx. He has been working to highlight the importance of people of color being made aware of the importance of their voices in discussions about climate change, especially around the issue of environmental racism. As a member of IVAW, even further connections have been made around how militarism has played a role in climate change, especially, for communities of color abroad and here in the US.

Cindy Wiesner is the National Coordinator of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Alliance (GGJ) and Co-Chair of the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) and the Our Power Campaign.  She has been active in the grassroots social justice movement for over 25 years. Cindy is originally from Los Angeles and is of Salvadoran, Colombian and German descent and identifies as Queer. She is based in Miami, Florida.

Angela Adrar is the new Executive Director of the Our Power Campaign and Climate Justice Alliance. She has committed her life to advancing the role of the grassroots sector and provides agile leadership to address the changing and complex priorities of local communities while influencing national and international agendas.  She has served as a leading member of local to international organizations that include; La Via Campesina North America, US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA), the Building Equity and Alignment for Impact Initiative (BEAI), US Friends of Movement of Dam Affected Peoples (MAB) and others.

Kandi Mossett: Deriving her heritage from the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples of what is now North Dakota, Kandi Mossett of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) has emerged as a leading voice in the fight to bring visibility to the impact that climate change and environmental injustice are having on Indigenous communities across North America. After completing her Master’s Degree in Environmental Management, Mossett began her work with the IEN as Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator, engaging with more than 30 tribal colleges to instate community based environmental programs, discuss issues of socio-ecologic injustice, and connect indigenous youth with green jobs. She currently serves as IEN’s Native Energy & Climate Campaign Organizer, focusing at present on creating awareness about the environmentally & socially devastating effects of hydraulic fracturing on tribal lands.

Dawn Phillips is Executive Director of the Right to the City Alliance. Prior to coming on as Executive Director in January 2016, Dawn served as the Board Chair.  Dawn has been an organizer engaged in a range of social, economic and environmental justice organizations and fights in the Bay Area and nationally for almost 25 years, most recently with Causa Justa :: Just Cause (CJJC) in Oakland, California, a founding member of the Right to the City Alliance.  Dawn is also the Co-Director of Programs at CJJC, a Bay Area membership organization focused on community development, housing and immigrant justice issues.

It Takes Roots is continuing to #GrowTheResistance

Today, we are launching our 10k by May Day Fundraising Campaign: #GiveToGrow!

As you know, we are working with our It Takes Roots partners and The Majority to take Trans-Local action on May Day. May Day emerged out of the fight for an 8-hour day in 1886 in Chicago, where striking workers clashed with police, resulting in several deaths and four of the protesters were later hanged. In the context of a new President using grandiose promises of job creation to mask the fundamentally anti-worker and pro-corporation nature of his policies, it is as important as ever that we put forth a true vision of economic and worker justice for all people and a Just Transition on this day.

This administration is intent on destroying our bodies, our homes, our communities and Planet Earth. Will you join us to stop them, and help build the world we want to live in? From the People’s Climate March to May Day and beyond.

Give to grow the resistance and help us raise 10k by May Day!

Donate here to get us started!

Our beautiful It Takes Roots to Grow The Resistance T-shirts are on sale here for one week only. Sale proceeds go to cultivating our power, because we give to grow. Click here to purchase by Tuesday April 18.

 

Want to be an even dreamier supporter? Contact Egina at ([email protected]) to create your own fundraising page, or to pledge a matching gift for our campaign.

 

Beyond the Moment

BTM is gaining energy across the country. Check out the exciting recent coverage of BTM and The Majority. Huffington Post  Alternet Mic.com

 

Tonight at 9PM EST / 6PM PST join the first weekly Beyond The Moment May Day Planning call to share action plans, learn about actions being planned across the country and join this critical cross-sector mobilization to fight for our people and the planet.

And if your organization is planning a May Day Action tell us about it here!

You must register to participate in these planning calls at: bit.ly/btmccall

 

People’s Climate Movement

Check out this video that highlights It Takes Roots members as the March for Climate, Jobs, and Justice approaches!

Do you or your organization want to attend the March for Climate, Jobs, and Justice or have a sister march in your community?

Connect with Senowa Mize-Fox ([email protected]) to get started.

 

SAVE THE DATE – FRIDAY APRIL 28 at 2pm

JOIN THE IT TAKES ROOTS RED LINE ACTION in DC

WEAR RED

 

Join us April 28th in Washington DC as we unite as Mother Earth’s RED LINE to take direct action against the corporations and politicians driving the extractive economy.

The day before the People’s Climate Mobilization (link), on April 29th, we’ll form a red line to defend our planet, protect our people & communities.  The Red Line is a line that cannot be crossed. We draw a red line through the militarization of the federal budget, and the rising wars at home and abroad, and the “dig, burn, dump” economy. We hold a red line to defend our environment, our homes, our families and our future generations. We will work to build a just transition towards “local, living economies” where communities and workers are in charge.  We demand an investment in communities and sustainability, and a divestment from militarism and extraction. t

Will you hold Mother Earth’s Red Line with Indigenous, Black, Brown and Frontline communities on April 28th?

Contact Jaron ([email protected]) to get involved! Or sign up on our facebook event page (link), more details to come.

SAVE-THE-DATE

Why?

We are building a just transition in our communities, moving away from capitalism and exploitation of our bodies and the earth and towards sustainable and healthy solutions. We are taking action to stop pollution and poverty at the source, confronting multinational corporations that profit from and create the current climate crisis.

Where?

In the streets of Washington DC. Details to come.

When?

On April 28th, the day before the March for Climate, Jobs, and Justice, at 2PM

How?

We will be forming Mother Earth’s Red Line. We will need YOU to be there to defend, resist, and protect. Wear red.

Donate to It Takes Roots: http://bit.ly/ITR-donate

January 2017 It Takes Roots went to Washington DC

From January 18-21, 2017 organized the It Takes Roots to Grow the Resistance Delegation to Washington DC, plus several Trans-Local Actions happening across the country in the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

The #ItTakesRoots to Grow the Resistance delegation was our response to the broader call to action in the face of the rising attacks under the incoming Trump Administration on the gains that people of color, women, immigrants, LGBTQ communities, and workers have fought for.  This will have implications locally, nationally, and globally for years to come.  Now is the critical time for a resistance movement to be visible and strong, on the defense and the offense.

Click here to watch a recording of the reportback from our January delegation.

The grassroots organizations represented in our Mobilization to DC and our Trans-Local Actions during the first 100 days of the Trump Administration are intergenerational, comprising a mix of youth organizers and veteran community leaders, who hail from Indigenous, African American, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander and rural white communities in the frontlines of movements for economic, racial, gender, and climate justice, including:

• AfroEco
• Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
• Black Mesa Water Coalition
• Chinese Progressive Association (CPA-SF)
• Causa Justa // Just Cause
• Chainbreaker Collective
• Cooperation Jackson
• Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
• Community to Community Development (C2C)
• Direct Action For Rights & Equality (DARE)
• Detroit Peoples Platform
• El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA)
• East Michigan Environmental Action Coalition (EMEAC)
• Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island
• Fuerza Unida
• Families United For Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE)
• Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
• Got Green
• Grassroots International
• Housing Justice League
• Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
• Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
• Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)
• Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC)
• Just Transition Alliance
• Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
• Long Beach Residents Empowered (LiBRE)
• Miami Workers Center
• National American Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• New York City Environmental Justice Alliance
• Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC)
• People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Justice (PODER)
• Right to Survive
• Ruckus Society
• Southern Maine Workers Center
• Southwest Workers Organizing Project (SWOP)
• Southwest Worker’s Union (SWU)
• UPROSE
• Vermont Workers Center
• WE ACT for Environmental Justice
• Worcester Roots

They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we…

Women of color led the way.  This weekend we all helped to build the largest mobilization against the inauguration of a President in the history of the United States!  From DC to Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta, New York, Oakland, to countless cities and towns across the country and around the world, millions of people took to the streets.  While many of the marches drew broad participation from primarily white women of many ages, the majority of these mobilizations were multi-racial, led by women of color and gender non-conforming folks. #ItTakesRoots to #GrowtheResistance is an effort led by women of color on the frontlines of racial, housing and climate justice across the country, which brought together over 100 grassroots leaders in DC this past week to grow our resistance, and organized translocal actions in 8 cities on inauguration weekend.  It is an outcome of years of organizing and relationship building across the Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Right to the City Alliance. We came together as four national grassroots alliances immediately after the elections because we heard loud and clear from our membership that our priority in this next period should be to build a visionary opposition to the racist, misogynist and xenophobic politics and practices of Trumpism.  The leadership of frontline communities in the historic mobilizations of this past week are a testament for what is to come. Within hours of taking office, President Trump signed an executive order to pave the way towards repealing the Affordable Care Act, and reinstated the global gag rule originated by Ronald Reagan in 1984 that prohibits US funding to any international organization that includes education about abortion in their reproductive health and family planning options. Today he signed executive actions to advance the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines–both of which have been the center of some of the largest environmental justice mobilizations in US history. This President is intent on destroying our bodies, our communities, and Mother Earth. We will not let it happen.  Join us to Grow the Resistance. Training Labs and Strategy Exchanges Our delegation to DC spent a day and a half together in training labs and strategy exchanges.  Members shared models of 21st century Sanctuary Cities and rapid response collectives, discussed the connections between climate justice, gender justice, land, and housing fights, strategized around what a Just Transition will look like for our communities in this period, and trained each other on direct action tactics for strengthening our visionary opposition. J20 Action at DOE and HUD In the final hours before the inauguration of Donald trump, we led a two-part action starting at the Department of Energy and ending at the Department of Housing and Urban Development calling out the incoming administration’s picks for both departments and demonstrating the kinds of policies we want them to put forth that represent community solutions. Learn more about the actions in this piece by Yessenia Funes with ColorLines J20 Marches and the J21 Women’s March On January 20th and January 21st, the #ItTakesRoots women of color-led contingent was on the frontlines of resistance to Donald Trump’s inauguration at #DisruptJ20 and the historic Women’s March on Washington. The contingent of Black, [email protected], Asian, Arab, and Indigenous women and gender nonconforming people are leading grassroots voices and organizers for climate, housing, gender, racial and indigenous justice. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE PHOTOS Solidarity in Action The #ItTakesRoots delegation was supported by the Ruckus Society and the Center for Story-Based Strategy.  On Thursday we supported an action by indigenous groups to protest outside a Trump gala with a flash round dance led by indigenous women and youth.  On Saturday, we marched with our sisters from the National Domestic Workers Alliance and other allies to be one of the liveliest contingents with our songs, drums, chants and dance. Where do we go from here? You are not alone.  We have your back and we need your support now more than ever.  It Takes Roots to Grow the Resistance is our response to this moment.  We are committed over the next 100 days to translocal actions around the country, to continued conversations on longer-term strategy, and to developing our sector to fight together. Join us to #GrowTheResistance and build a world with liberation and justice for all: Take the pledge at: www.GrowTheResistance.org Follow Indigenous Environmental Network for updates on how to support the continued fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone XL pipeline, in the wake of Trump’s executive order. Host an #ItTakesRoots strategy session and rapid response collective action in your city or region to #GrowTheResistance.  Contact Malcolm at  [email protected] to get connected. Support the #ItTakesRoots to #GrowtheResistance Movement.  Click this button to donate online TODAY Mark your Calendar Join our national call: Lessons and Next Steps from #ItTakesRoots to #GrowtheResistance on Wednesday, February 8th from 1-3pmPT/2-4pmMT/3-5pmCT/4-6pmET.  Click here to RSVP Join us April 29 – People’s Climate Mobilization in Washington DC.

Lessons and Next Steps from #ItTakesRoots to #GrowTheResistance //…

On February 8, 2017, we held a reportback from members of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Climate Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network and Right To The City Alliance about the historic #ItTakesRoots to #GrowTheResistance mobilization in D.C. and around the country and discuss next steps in the first 100 days to grow the resistance.

We heard from this incredible group of women of color leaders:

• Angela Adrar and Liliana Molina, Climate Justice Alliance
• Bayan Jaber, SouthWest Organizing Project
• Cindy Wiesner, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
• Ahmina Maxey, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
• Shatia Strother, FUREE and Right to the City Alliance
• Melissa Miles, Ironbound Community Corporation
• Kandi Mossett, Indigenous Environmental Network
• Leticia Arce, Causa Justa::Just Cause
• Eva Cardenas, The Ruckus Society
• Maria Zamudio, Center for Story Based Strategy

Click here to watch the recording of the call in english

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El 8 de Febrero, 2017, hicimos una llamada con la Alianza Popular para la Justicia Global (GGJ), La Alianza para la Justicia Climática (CJA), la Red Indígena Ambiental (IEN) y la Alianza por el Derecho a la Ciudad (RTTC) sobre la movilización histórica de Se Necesitan Raices para Cultivar La Resistencia en DC y en todos partes del país. Discutiremos los pasos siguientes en las primeras 100 días para cultivar la resistencia!

Escuchamos de este increíble grupo de mujeres/líderes de color:

• Angela Adrar y Liliana Molina, Alianza para la Justicia Climática
• Bayan Jaber, Proyecto Organizativo del SurOeste
• Cindy Wiesner, Alianza Popular para la Justicia Global
• Ahmina Maxey, Alianza Global para Alternativas a la Incineración
• Shatia Strother, FUREE y la Alianza para el Derecho a la Ciudad
• Melissa Miles, Corporación Comunitaria Ironbound
• Kandi Mossett, la Red Ambiental Indígena
• Leticia Arce, Causa Justa::Just Cause
• Eva Cardenas, la Sociedad “Desmadre”
• Maria Zamudio, el Centro para la Estrategia Basada en los Cuentos

Haga clic aquí para escuchar el audio de la llamada en español

 

Storms, Roots, And Seeds: Beyond COP21!

“What other than injustice could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?”

— Wynton Marsalis, Jazz musician

The storm hurtled across the land, bringing the sea and everything with it. Trees snapped, houses washed away, vehicles became projectiles into second story windows, coconuts became cannon balls smashing bone and wood beams. My great grandmother’s cashew farm splintered in the salt and the wind. This particular storm was called Typhoon Haiyan and it hit the Philippines in November 2013 – the largest storm on Earth ever to make landfall at that time. The Philippines has still not recovered from the impact of Haiyan —or rather its government and the corporations it is beholden to are trying to militarize and privatize it.

This year I was at work and another storm hit me right in the chest. The LA area Exxonmobil refinery a block away from where I grew up had an explosion that registered 1.7 on the Richter scale. A faulty fluid catalytic converter caused the blast and threw an 80,000 pound piece of equipment a hundred feet. Windows blew out and the sky filled with “ash”. I got on the phone and breathed again when I heard my mom’s uninjured voice, my dad was busy outside with a mask, watering the house down so nothing caught on fire—their vegetable garden ruined as sludge gray water loaded with heavy metals oozed over the front yard.

As it stands, the COP21 agreement is brewing another kind of storm for communities on the frontline. World leaders converged to talk about greenhouse gas emissions in the parts per million, keeping up endless growth through a force of green consumers, and making sure polluters and their false promises can come along for the ride without losing any profits. Without long-term vision, accountability, and concrete steps to de-carbonizing all economies, we’re headed towards destruction that neither we nor this planet deserve.

At the end of these talks much is being heralded about the US actually signing on to an agreement despite internal right wing pressure and climate deniers in Congress. There is a lot of talk about state-by-state innovations—including California Governor Jerry Brown pushing offsets agreements with regional partners. These steps are at best helping climate change become a daily conversation. At worst they are pushing for increased privatization, confiscation of Indigenous People’s lands, loss of cultural and biological diversity, and human rights violations. What we need now post-COP is bold action to keep fossil fuels in the ground, reject the fundamentalist ideology of globalization, a commitment to the well being of people over the profiteering of a few, and infrastructure and resource support for locally owned and controlled renewable energy solutions.

Earlier this month, I traveled to Paris as part of the It Takes Roots delegation to build towards just that: a community rooted deeply in place, connected globally through solidarity, and that has the strength and know-how to weather all the storms that are yet to come. We know our communities have been on the cutting edge of true climate resiliency work for generations. We have always been the ones hit first and worst—and we’re still here and will continue to lead the transformative path towards a regenerative economy and a living planet.

Community by community, we’re linking up to show our own solutions. At the  Asian and Pacific Environmental Network, (APEN) we build leadership and power in the Asian American & Pacific Islander communities for bold action. Our members stand up to the largest stationary polluter in the state of California, educate legislators and neighbors on climate policy in six languages, and are working on building a living model of a just transition through community-owned solar power.

APEN and the groups who are part of the It Takes Roots delegation are just some of the many grassroots organizations in the US doing the work necessary to change the system, build people power, and save our climate. Amazing solutions are happening all over the world too. In the Philippines—a country of over 7,000 islands and 175 languages in a portion of the Pacific known as “Typhoon Alley”—solutions are sorely needed. Salugpongan International is one network that speaks to the core of climate justice: supporting Indigenous People’s local initiatives to protect rights to the land and culture, of knowledge of place, and of education by the people for the people. A global movement—against war, against warming, for community rooted power—is growing.

The indigenous people of the world deserve to thrive. The people of Richmond, California, deserve to thrive. Your community deserves to thrive. The COP21 process closed without real, durable and lasting commitments that bring us any closer to a cleaner, greener world—much less a more just one. But life goes on after the COP and so does grassroots organizing. So let’s feel our roots, keep an eye on where we can sprout and build the world we do deserve.

But there is unspeakable love:
we use our ten thousand tongues
let the tides loose and truths
be storm surge
in this surrender
to our humanity

–Of Storms and Tears, Aimee Suzara

 

Shina Robinson is a part of the It Takes Roots Delegation and works with the Asian and Pacific Environmental Network.

Incineration Is Not the Solution: Zero Waste for Climate…

 

For decades the incinerator industry has been plaguing environmental justice communities worldwide. Now, rebranded as so-called “waste-to-energy,” this dirty industry is trying to position itself as a source of clean power. The US government, and many others, are using COP 21 to push for incineration as a solution to climate change. However, incinerators create very little energy— and a lot of climate and toxic pollution. To produce the same amount of energy, incinerators release even more carbon dioxide than coal plants.  At the same time, the toxic air pollution from these facilities greatly harms local communities.  

In the United States, in cities such as Detroit in the state of Michigan, residents suffer from the health and environmental consequences of incineration. Community leaders like Siwatu Salama-Ra of the It Takes Roots delegation became involved in the fight against incineration out of love for her family, community, and city. In Detroit, asthma rates are three times the state average, and many members of Siwatu’s family suffer from this preventable disease. These rates are only exacerbated with every year that the incinerator remains open.

After 23 years of climate negotiations, governments are no closer to meaningful action on climate change.  

“GAIA (Global Alliance of Incinerator Alternatives) will not stand for corporations pushing their agenda of greenwashing (false solutions) to combat climate change during these negotiations, the only solution is a zero waste solution” said GAIA delegate Mahyar Sorour from Minnesota Public Interest Research Group.  

To call out false solutions such as incineration, It Takes Roots and GAIA delegates protested on Wednesday, December 9th at the Ivry incinerator in Paris.  We stood in solidarity with local community organizations – Collectif 3R and Zero Waste France – who are pushing for zero waste alternatives to incineration.  The Ivry incinerator and others like it in the Paris region, are responsible for burning the majority of Paris’ waste.  In fact, much of the waste currently being generated at COP 21 will be burned in nearby incinerators, leaving local communities to bear the burden of toxic and climate pollution.

In addition to pushing back against false solutions via direct action,  GAIA members from around the world demanded that our government leaders and the COP21 delegation confront industry lies and promote community-based solutions.

Some highlights of these demands:

• We highlight the negative health impacts that incinerators impose on host communities and the environmental injustice this represents.
• We welcome the global consensus that carbon based pollution is driving dangerous climate change that cannot be ignored.
• We call for an end to climate finance for incineration.
• We urge all governments to remove the eligibility criteria for biomass burning in all renewable energy credits, benefits and subsidies.
• We call for investment in zero waste solutions to address impending climate threats.

Co-Written by Molly Greenberg from Ironbound Community Corporation and New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance and Ahmina Maxey from GAIA.

Molly, Ahmina and Siwatu are also It Takes Roots delegates.

To read the full GAIA declaration visit www.no-burn.org.

 

US Activists Demand Real Action From Obama on Climate…

Watch A Powerful Video Of the It Takes Roots’ delegation’s Dec 10 Human Rights Day Action @ the Peace Wall in Paris:

Just Transition Assembly

One of the first big assemblies of the Climate Action Zone was the Just Transition Assembly put on by the It Takes Roots delegation. The event kicked off with a panel of climate leaders talking about the connections between labor and climate, and the importance of local economies in a just transition. Grassroots Global Justice board member and delegate Jose Bravo started off the discussion by talking about the history of a just transition. Workers and “fenceline” environmental justice communities are both impacted by irresponsible and global production at all levels.

Following the panel, participants were given the opportunity to talk about the vision and challenges of achieving a just transition in their communities. To learn more about work around a just transition, visit Our Power Campaign or Grassroots Global Justice Alliance.

For live coverage of the event via Twitter, check out Our Storify Feed.