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Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a growing member alliance of urban and rural frontline communities, organizations and supporting networks in the climate justice movement. Member organizations lead CJA by anchoring major Just Transition projects.
We are excited to share that CJA member group Center for Story-Based Strategy has increased capacity for their Virtual Intro Training!
If you missed the original deadline, please feel free to apply at bit.ly/SBSintro26
In the coming weeks, we’ll be highlighting women who are at the forefront of climate justice — leaders, changemakers, and visionaries driving solutions and building a more just, sustainable future for all.
Stay tuned as we share their stories and celebrate their impact. ✨
Happy International Women’s Day! 🌍💜
Across the world, women are leading the fight for both climate justice and gender justice — from Indigenous land defenders and grassroots organizers to farmers, mothers, caregivers, and policy advocates.
Artwork by Lizzie Suarez
Black Communities Are Building the Future
Exploring the new documentary, 'Grasping at the Roots,' from the @cjaourpower.bsky.social.
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This #WomensHistoryMonth we honor the women who are leading the fight for climate justice & gender justice — from Indigenous land defenders to grassroots organizers, farmers, caregivers, and policy advocates. Their leadership, resilience, and vision are shaping a more just and sustainable world. 🌱🌻
Learn from Black frontline leaders who are confronting pollution, climate change, and systemic injustice — and building real solutions for their communities.
This film offers a window into a long legacy of resistance, care, and collective action.
Watch it here:
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🎬 Now streaming: Grasping at the Roots
A powerful documentary spotlighting Black leaders on the frontlines of climate and environmental justice — resisting harm, caring for community, and building real solutions.
Watch and share:
climatejusticealliance.org/gatr
Honored and proud to share that our Legislative Director Mar Zepeda is a #YoungGiftedGreen 2026 Grijalva–McEachin Legacy Circle Inductee. This recognition reflects the powerful, values-driven leadership you bring to our movement.
Over the past two years, the world has been told that the explosion in data center construction is inevitable — even essential — to power the “AI revolution.”
Read more in Center for Coalfield Justice’s latest blog ⬇️
centerforcoalfieldjustice.org/2026/01/how-...
Hear @yeampierre.bsky.social, attorney and executive director of UPROSE, talk about Sunset Park Solar, a grassroots project seeking to bring green power to Sunset Park residents.
www.wnyc.org/story/solar-...
Really appreciate this from @emorwee.bsky.social, especially highlighting democracy as climate infrastructure. Social justice is climate justice and shoutout to @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social and @cjaourpower.bsky.social for all their advocacy. Where are the Big Greens?
AI 🤝ICE
We cannot forget the ways Big Tech will gladly jump in to support violence against our communities. Kairos’ senior campaigner on AI, Irna, said it best: “Ultimately, ICE is using cloud technology and AI to centralize power.”
Read the piece: www.techpolicy.press/how-ice-uses...
Stay tuned as we count down to the February 7, 2026 online streaming release of Grasping at the Roots: climatejusticealliance.org/gatr
Black history isn’t confined to February — it’s shaping the future every day. 🌻✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾
Kick off #BlackHistoryMonth by listening to Climate Justice Alliance Board Co-Chair and Co-Director of The Smile Trust Brayland M. Brown.
Ready to build and move more decisively in your organizing and movement groups? Join the Crash Course on Facilitating Decision-Making.
Visit www.eventbrite.com/e/crash-cour... to learn more and sign up.
Across the country, our communities are rising up. People are refusing to stay silent in the face of authoritarian terror, violence, and fear. We are organizing, mobilizing, and demanding a liberated future rooted in dignity and justice. 🌻✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
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The US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions, with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service artificial intelligence.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We stand with migrant communities everywhere. We fight for dignity, safety, and freedom of movement for ALL PEOPLE.
Organize or participate in direct actions. Boycott corporations that profit from detention and deportation. Call your members of Congress and demand an end to policies that criminalize migration and real action to dismantle systems of detention and deportation, including the abolition of ICE.
This is a moment to act — together.
We call on our communities to get involved locally. Join or build mutual aid networks that support impacted families. Show up at protests and community meetings. ht for dignity, safety, and freedom of movement for ALL PEOPLE.
Climate justice is inseparable from migrant justice. Both are rooted in a deep tradition of creating a just and livable future for everyone. Both demand collective, bold solutions led by frontline communities. Solutions that build a world where everyone can thrive.
Climate-driven droughts, floods, rising heat, and extreme weather are already displacing people worldwide and making entire regions unlivable. Borders do not stop climate collapse, and they should not be utilized to deny people their freedom, humanity, and dignity.
These attacks don’t exist in isolation. Poverty, racism, war, and climate change are deeply interconnected crises that shape people’s lives and force millions to leave their homes in search of safety and survival.
Across the country, our communities are rising up. People are refusing to stay silent in the face of authoritarian terror, violence, and fear. We are organizing, mobilizing, and demanding a liberated future rooted in dignity and justice.
Federal immigration raids and militarized enforcement are terrorizing our neighborhoods. Families are being torn apart. Communities are being destabilized. Human rights are being violated under systemic policies rooted in colonialism, racism, and xenophobia.
Community members in Dilley, Texas rallied to demand the release of detained migrant families, calling for dignity and freedom for parents and children. The peaceful crowd was met with pepper spray from state police.
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This work is rooted in care, protection, and unity—showing up to heal, to feed, and to stand for people of all colors and walks of life. 🪶
Support our relatives who are on the ground, doing the work of community safety and collective care. Strength comes from solidarity.
Did you know the Minneapolis-St. Paul area hosts one of the largest and most diverse urban Indigenous populations in the U.S.?
As federal agents turn the city into a war zone, frontline community groups are on the ground supporting one another.
Artwork by Mas Paz
Grasping at the Roots — a love letter to the Black Environmental Justice movement — will be available to stream for free.