José says, "There is nothing like knocking on somebody's door and having a conversation, and building community."
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“Hey Joe, don’t make it bad” – choose community solutions over dirty energy
At this historic event, President Biden said that it was time to take away the subsidies that fossil fuel companies receive.
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Clean Energy Solutions or Dirty Energy Subsidies?
We applaud the real progress embodied in certain aspects of this legislation, but we also implore Minnesota legislators and the communities they represent to go further in future amendments.
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How Effective is Civil Society at the UNFCCC, Really?
Ever since the 2015 Paris Agreement ushered in a new era of polluter subsidies, opening the door for the deceptive buzzword “Net Zero Emissions,” philanthro-capitalism has guided NGO climate actions to become increasingly performative...
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Critique of COP27 & Article 6
In many respects, these proposed false solutions and techno-fixes are in fact “dangerous interferences with the climate system” ...
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The Greenwashing Scam Behind COP27’s Flop
CCS is a largely unproven technology with an empirical record of failure, and relying on it to deal with averting climate catastrophe is reckless. Many climate activists liken reliance on CCS to a belief in unicorns.
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Frontline Voices Challenge False Solutions at COP27
We pressured members of the U.S. political delegation to make bold commitments to support climate reparations for people most harmed by the climate crisis, and to abandon its support for pollution trading schemes and corporate techno-fixes.
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While Celebrating the Defeat of Manchin’s Dirty Pipeline Deal, Just Transition Alliance Continues to Condemn Polluter Subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act
"As long as the Inflation Reduction Act continues to be implemented, the Just Transition Alliance will continue to warn Congress and the Biden administration that we will not stand by in silence while they gamble with the lives of our communities.”
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José Bravo Arrested Protesting Manchin’s Dirty Deal
JTA Executive Director José Bravo joined nearly a dozen other climate, economic and environmental justice leaders in a civil disobedience action calling on the Senate to reject Manchin’s proposal to fast-track fossil fuel projects.
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What does restorative environmental justice look like?
In a special Upstream Indisposable Podcast episode honoring Juneteenth, host Matt Prindiville talks about environmental justice and how the one-way, throw-away, linear economy doesn’t just trash the planet, it destroys lives and communities as well.