Leanna First-Arai
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Leanna First-Arai
is an educator and writer intent on bringing awareness to the connections between climate breakdown and economic &聽racial injustice.
Leanna First-Arai
鈥淲e must move funds to frontline communities for clean energy projects and stop fossil fuel developers from perpetuating conventional investments in dirty energy and injustice.鈥�
Students across generations are flocking to online crash courses on movement building and the Green New Deal.
In New Orleans, colorful street festivals celebrating death grew out of necessity, incorporating West African rhythms and syncretized dance.
May 24 is the second global 鈥淔ridays for Future鈥� strike modeled after climate activist Greta Thunberg鈥檚 weekly demonstrations outside the Swedish parliament building.
The youth-led movement builds on the momentum of the increasingly Black and Brown leadership behind the Green New Deal.
The Equal Justice Initiative is using soil to document the lynchings of more than 4,400 African-descended people between 1877 and 1950.