A quick recap of our many accomplishments in 2024, with lots of inspiring photos, and 2025 plans to get excited about!
Category: Featured
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Our movements held the line at the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Where do we go from here?
We leave the UNEP Plastics negotiations without a meaningful treaty to end the plastics pollution crisis. We do not leave defeated, as we have built a growing opposition to false corporate schemes.
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For Immediate Release: Organization Statements Against Plastic Credits and Bonds in the GPT
Environmental justice and worker organizations join to oppose plastic credits and bonds.
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“Just Markets” Training: Shared Learning Towards a Just Transition for Dollar Stores
Our Just Markets Training focuses on dollar stores because many people of color, low-income communities rely on dollar stores for basic necessities and food...
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JTA at UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Edgar Franks of Familias Unidas por la Justicia represented JTA as part of a delegation at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Cali, Colombia. These are his reflections...
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Demanding a Voice at the UN Climate Conference
We raise our voices to remind government officials that there cannot be a just transition if affected communities and workers are not part of the decision-making process.
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JTA Attends the First Congress of International Alliance of Waste Pickers
During the IAWP congress, José and Ananda participated in tours of various recycling facilities run by waste worker cooperatives...
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Wins and Losses for United Auto Workers
Working class communities were inspired by the UAW's spirited and ambitious “Stand Up Strike.” But there have been setbacks as well. Some lessons to be learned...
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American Climate Corps: We Want More!
We are excited about the potential, but see this initial phase as the tiniest of baby-steps, and we hope to see it ramped up significantly and rapidly. Some of our suggestions...
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Earth Day to May Day: Inspiring Legacies
Let’s make “Earth Day to May Day” a continuous ten-day festival of resistance! A quick lesson on the radical history of these two very important holidays.