This Newsletter dives into the movement for climate justice that is being fearlessly led by communities on the frontline of the climate crises.
Table of Contents
By
·Julian Matthews and Saif Rahman
May 3, 2016
“The People” United Can Stop ExxonMobil
Editor’s Note: Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment is a new Resist grantee that is bravely standing up to one of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world. Once we heard how they were physically putting a stop to ExxonMobil “mega-load” trucks that were driving through their community, we knew we had to share this story with Newsletter readers. These trucks were destined for Alberta,...
Activists Call for Inclusion of Rights of Indigenous Peoples in UN Climate Agreement
Indigenous leaders, activists, and their allies gathered along the banks of Bassin de la Villette, Paris’s largest man-made lake, as 25 Indigenous activists from North and South America formed a canoe flotilla on the lake. Renowned Indigenous North American climate activists from the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma to the Tla’Amin First Nation from British Columbia to Lummi Nation youth from Washington State, among others, participated...
“Frontlines of Crises, Forefront of Change”
If you were one of the 300,000 people that marched through the streets of New York City in September of 2014 at the People’s Climate March (or if you read Resist’s 2014 Annual Report Edition of the Newsletter in which the march graced the cover), you were probably moved by the lead banner that read, “Frontlines of the Crises, Forefront of Change.” The people holding...