Peoples’ Climate Week
In our ongoing commitment to address the pressing climate crisis, we focus on the root causes of the crisis through an intersectional lens of racism, classism, capitalism, economic injustice, and environmental harm. As part of this work, we proudly introduce the "Peoples’ Climate Week," which will take place in so-called New York on Lenape land from September 17-22, 2023, in collaboration with…
COP28 – UN Climate Change Conference in the United Arab Emirates.
The 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will convene from November 30 - December 12, 2023 in the United Arab Emirates.
An It Takes Roots delegation will be on the ground in Dubai, to engage in strategic interventions during COP28 to demand strong international agreements that protect and benefit the people…
Frontline Leaders Decry Lack of Progress for Real Climate Justice at COP27 and Call for Further Action to Protect Millions of Lives
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - As the UNFCCC 27th Conference of the Parties came to its conclusion with the adoption of the Sharm El-Sheikh Implementation Plan, climate-impacted peoples recognized critical progress while also decrying countries failing to confront the root causes of climate crisis at the scale required as the final decision maintained further openings for fossil fuels and false climate…
UN climate conference steers away from climate justice, caving to fossil fuel corporations.
NetZero is a carbonunicorn action 11/9/21 photo by Friends of the Earth International
At the conclusion of the 26th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, dozens of delegates representing workers, frontline climate justice communities, and environmental justice groups who made up the It Takes Roots delegation to Glasgow said:
If the goal of the United Nations’ global climate effort…
It Takes Roots Statement on Conclusion of the UNFCCC COP26 Conference of the Parties and Glasgow Climate Pact: Incrementalism Leaves Frontline Communities to Face Increasing Climate Chaos
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Global Day for Climate Justice 11/6/21 Photo by Climate Justice Alliance
As negotiations of the UNFCCC COP26 have concluded, the It Takes Roots alliance issues the following statement:
The Glasgow Climate Pact is shameful. Once again the UNFCCC has demonstrated that their interests lie heavily with economic bottom lines rather than in a true commitment to…
Frontline Island Nations and Community Leaders Call out climate change issues facing Islanders and uplift grassroots solutions at COP26
As part of the It Takes Roots (ITR) delegation, representatives of Island Nations, including Puerto Rico, Haiti, and the Northern Mariana Islands spoke inside COP26 and brought the voices and concerns of Islanders to the world stage. This is a profoundly important juncture for islanders and a turning point in climate change dialogues, so many Island Nations are on the brink of complete…
Grassroots Frontline Community Leaders Call Out Militarism as a Culprit of Climate Change at COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, Scotland
Grassroots Frontline Community Leaders Call Out Militarism as a Culprit of Climate Change at COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, Scotland
Protests took place inside and outside of the COP26 United Nations Climate Talks on Monday, November 8, the Day When Former Us President Barack Obama Speaks
GLASGOW, Scotland – The It Takes Roots (ITR) delegation representing more than 60 frontline…
Ananda Lee Tan (he/him), Just Transition Alliance
Ananda Lee Tan (he/him), Strategy Advisor, Just Transition Alliance
Ananda Lee Tan has been organizing grassroots movements since 1986 - building coalitions, networks and alliances for land defence, environmental justice, worker rights, energy democracy, food sovereignty, zero waste, community self-determination and climate justice around the world. Over the last fifteen years, Ananda served the…
Alejandría M. Lyons, SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP)
Alejandría M. Lyons, Environmental Justice Organizer , SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP)
Alejandría M. Lyons is the Environmental Justice Organizer with the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) located in Albuquerque, New Mexico on unseated southern Tiwa Territory. She began in 2015, by working alongside food sovereignty activists across New Mexico and later water rights activists who aim to…
Sheila Babauta, Micronesian Climate Change Alliance
Sheila Babauta, Micronesian Climate Change Alliance
Sheila Babauta is passionate about contributing to a brighter Marianas. At the age of 29, she gained the trust and confidence of her community and began serving as a member in the 21st CNMI House of Representatives. Sheila continues to serve in the 22nd CNMI Legislature and currently holds key leadership positions as Chairwoman of the Natural…
Ozawa Bineshi Albert, Climate Justice Alliance
Ozawa Bineshi Albert - Yuchi/Annishinaabe (she/her)
Co-Executive Director, Climate Justice Alliance
Bineshi is one of three women of color Co-Executive Directors of the Climate Justice Alliance. She was part of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and served as their Movement Building Coordinator and served on their Leadership Team. She has been part of the It Takes Roots alliance, tand…
Frontline Communities & Workers Delegation Demands Real Climate Solutions, ‘No Net Zero’ and an End to Fossil-Fuels at COP26
This November, It Takes Roots sends a U.S. frontline delegation of over 60 people from communities most impacted by the climate crisis to the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), the United Nations global climate change conference. They’ll bring the voices and leadership of frontline communities and workers to the global stage, demanding world leaders commit to real solutions that advance…
Frontlines grassroots groups respond to bipartisan infrastructure bill vote delay: Congress must pass a full budget that does no harm and invests in real solutions
As Congress delayed a vote last night on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, blowing past an artificial deadline set by Democratic leaders, grassroots organizations urge members of Congress to continue to deliver on climate solutions, care investments, and justice and to hold the line against dirty energy investments that harm communities in the full budget reconciliation package.…
One Struggle, Many Fronts – International Solidarity Against State Violence
While we are devastated by recent international events of state violence from Colombia to Palestine, we are resolute in our work to act in solidarity with oppressed peoples. This past Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people across the world showed up in solidarity with the people of Palestine and their resistance against the violence of settler-colonialism, including land theft and home…
Introducing the THRIVE Act
Our communities are currently facing an intersection of crises. Over the last year, millions of people have lost their jobs and healthcare in the middle of a deadly pandemic. Climate disasters like the recent winter storm in the South are becoming more and more frequent. However, right now we have a rare chance to rebuild and renew our economy and fight for a recovery package that…
We Call on Biden to Demonstrate Real Climate Leadership, Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground, Stop Supporting False Solutions
Today, as President Joe Biden convenes world leaders at a climate summit, the It Takes Roots Alliance calls for leadership and concrete commitments from the United States at the national and global levels, not just symbolic gestures. Biden must demonstrate real commitment to climate leadership by first stopping fossil fuel extraction in the U.S. and taking drastic action to keep global warming…
Grassroots, Environmental Justice Communities Call on Biden to Go Bigger, Bolder and Faster for a Climate, Care and Infrastructure Recovery Package
It Takes Roots, a multiracial, multicultural, multigenerational alliance comprised of the Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Right To The City Alliance, appreciates the beginning steps announced by the Biden Administration today as he unveiled details of an infrastructure package to help the country recover- and we implore him to go…
Feminist Economy for People and Planet
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In a feminist economy we recognize, value, and center reproductive labor as low carbon, community generating, life affirming, and skilled work that is necessary for the well being of everyone and to sustain human society and nature itself.
On February 23rd we held a teach-in on a Feminist Economy for People and the Planet, hosted by Grassroots Global…
2021 National Campaigns
A look at what is happening at a national level with It Takes Roots to hold the Biden administration accountable to the grassroots. The following are key campaigns and movement formations we are prioritizing to hold the Biden Administration accountable to the frontlines. Download flyer It Takes Roots to Win People's Solutions Right to the City Alliance Housing is the Cure Learn More…
Listen to the grassroots / Escuchar a las bases
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It Takes Roots to Win People’s Solutions. The work has just begun to hold a Biden presidency accountable to advancing the climate, racial, gender, and housing justice solutions that the frontlines have been pushing for years. We are ready to lead.
Check out this video of It Takes Roots members on solutions from the frontlines
We have the solutions…