鈥淲e launched our movement to breathe clean air 鈥 amid the Movement for Black Lives chanting 鈥榳e can鈥檛 breathe鈥 and a pandemic disproportionately killing Black people.鈥
Activists in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Nebraska are proving that building collective community power can successfully counter Big Oil鈥檚 monied interests.
鈥淭he treaties are not just a concern for Indigenous people. They were entered into by the U.S. government, and as citizens, we have a responsibility to ensure our government honors that law.鈥
An appeals court overruled the shutdown of DAPL, pending a full environmental review. The fight against a pipeline that provoked unprecedented resistance continues.
Since 2010, the Unist鈥檕t鈥檈n have fought the transit of fossil fuels through their hereditary lands. In the last few days, police finally moved in. Here鈥檚 how we got to this point.
The effort to divest from Wall Street鈥攁nd stop environment-killing projects gained momentum after the historic pipeline protest. Here鈥檚 what a city needs, and could gain, from municipal banking.
An encampment of protesters in Louisiana is resisting the crude oil industry, whose environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor and people of color.