Tag Archive for climate justice

Children are our future…

By Camille Landry, National Co-Coordinator …But their future is uncertain. Environmental degradation coupled with the threat of global warfare, soaring income and wealth inequality, crushing poverty and exploitation, and a planet teetering on the brink of ecological disaster threaten our future. Those of us who are now adults are charged with the care and nurturing…

December 2024 Issue: Quarterly Eco-Zine

About the zine The Quarterly Eco-Zine is an e-zine overviewing our latest news, publications, webinars, delegations and eyewitness accounts of ecological struggles, ecosocialist movements and eco-solidarity in the Americas. In an era of climate crisis and environmental injustice, we strive to inspire hope and change. December 2024 Issue: Human rights reports on environmental justice in…

Eco-Solidarity Update Episode 3: Too Hot to Handle—War, Militarism, and Eco-Destruction

View Part One of Too Hot to Handle–War, Militarism and Eco-Destruction, a brief update on the latest news from eco-solidarity struggles View Part Two, an especially informative round table with representatives from Alianza Mujeres Viequenses, Veterans for Peace, the Nuclear Resister, and AFGJ This month’s Eco Solidarity Update is on the theme of how war…

Eco Solidarity Update Episode 1-Climate Disasters in Caribbean and Around the World

The Alliance for Global Justice is very pleased to announce the launch of our new Eco Solidarity Update series on our Youtube Channel (please subscribe!). Every month, the Eco-Solidarity Update will bring you a program of critical updates, followed by special guest interviews for a more in depth focus. To begin today’s first episode ever,…

Our environment: enough for everyone’s need…but not everyone’s greed

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Yet, when it comes to the effects of climate change, there has been nothing but chronic injustice and the corrosion of human rights.” (Mary Robinson) By Camille Landry (Program Coordinator) The most fundamental human right is the right to live. This includes the…

Nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to say: How the broad climate movement has failed us

 Graffiti from Havana, Cuba By James Jordan (Originally published in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal) January 13, 2016 – It has been a month since the UN climate summit in Paris, aka COP 21. One might expect the kind of ebb and flow we often see in popular movements. Interest in climate issues, the…