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Voices for Justice
Stories of local and national leaders fighting for social justice and the Earth.
How urban gardening is regenerating L.A.’s soil—and community
By Sytonia Reid
By Sytonia Reid
Walmart, Victoria’s Secret, and even Whole Foods have used US prison labor to keep their production costs down. Are those workers being exploited?
By Sytonia Reid
By Sytonia Reid
Produce sold in US stores are picked with care by a largely immigrant farmworker force. The work is hot and exhausting, and too many farms cut corners on worker health, safety, and wages. But workers are showing farms exactly how they can improve.
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
Color of Change is a giant community standing up for racial justice in the US. We talked to a senior campaign director about how economic justice connects to civil rights.
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
As we work toward Drawdown, it’s critical to address the impacts of climate change in communities of color, which are often hit “first and worst.”
By Jacqui Patterson, director of the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice program
By Jacqui Patterson, director of the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice program
Photo credit Brittani Flowers via Wikimedia Commons.
Note: This interview is from an article in published in the Fall 2007 issue of Co-op America Quarterly, now called Green American.
Dr. Robert D. Bullard is Ware professor of sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at…
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
The Rev. Dr. Jim Antal leads 375 congregations. He's also a climate activist.
By Martha van Gelder
By Martha van Gelder
Native youth run to draw attention to the impacts of pipelines on water supplies.
By Eleanor Greene
By Eleanor Greene
Catherine Coleman Flowers fights for water and sanitation justice—and against unequal, racist enforcement of sewage laws.
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
Water shut-offs in Detroit hit overburdened Black families the hardest.
By Eleanor Greene
By Eleanor Greene
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We have had many big breakthroughs recently. Major companies across all industries are changing -- proof of the power of consumer pressure. We are witnessing how our economic power is truly changing the world for good and towards a simpler, more sustainable way of living. We are winning and we are opening doors for more businesses to go green.
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