The right wing could use the shutdown as a pretext to accelerate cuts to public services it deems ‘inessential.’
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Climate Justice
In order to avert a climate catastrophe, we must transition away from fossil fuels to a clean energy economy. On both a domestic and a global level, climate change hurts poor people and communities of color first and worst, so we seek solutions that center economic and racial justice as critical components of addressing climate change.
Latest Work
Youth Movements Changing Tactics in the Face of Climate Crisis
From occupying House offices to suing the federal government, young people are exploring creative strategies to spur action on climate change.
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We Welcome Asylum Seekers and Defend Their Rights
An open letter from over one hundred artists, activists, scholars, and writers
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Let’s Honor Rosa Parks by Continuing Her Struggle for Transit Equity
Barriers to public transit access make it harder for people, particularly people of color and the poor, to get to jobs and schools.
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Democratic Leaders Failed Their First Big Test on Climate
Kicking the can down the road appears to be a bipartisan sport in Washington.
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Are You Ready for an Epoch Fail?
Globalists Really Are Ruining Your Life
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The Trump Administration’s War On Science Is Worse Than the Inquisition
The White House’s crude deflections on science aren’t simply ignorant — they’re calculated to serve the fossil fuel industry at the entire planet’s expense.
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Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change?
Some 250 million years ago, life on Earth survived an existential climate crisis. But that Earth had a distinct advantage. No rich.
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There Can Be No Climate Justice Without Workers’ Rights
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Marc Lamont Hill Was Arguing for the Rights of Humans, Not of States
The important demand that CNN rehire Hill has obscured much of the actual content of his speech.
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Reports
Report: No Warming, No War
In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.
Report: The Battle For Another World
The Progressive Response to the New Right
Report: Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget
Everybody Has the Right to Live
Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines
Ten Violations that Should Prompt Its Removal