Melissa Jun Rowley

Thank you, #JaneGoodall, for making science tender, activism enduring, and wonder inseparable from responsibility. #RIP

How is harvesting cannabis worth a military-style raid? ICE arrested 200 farmworkers and teargassed protesters, including children. This isn’t about safety or justice. It’s about filling a quota. Support groups fighting for immigrant families like the national day laborer, organizing network.

When Propaganda Drops As Fast As Bombs Yesterday, the U.S.

Some things to keep in mind as we’re consuming information about war 👇

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Honoring Juneteenth And Why Justice Can’t Be Seasonal Juneteenth marks the day freedom finally reached the last enslaved people in Texas—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

As #Juneteenth is marked across Slack channels, here’s a question biz leaders can ask:
- Where is justice still being delayed in my business & what will it take to stop the delay?
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The goal is to make him a dictator and dismantle the government, creating a country where the billionaires get richer and everyone else can “die” (to paraphrase Joni Ernst) 2/

If you listened to what he was saying on the campaign trail or read Project 2025/Agenda 47, everything the Trump Administration is doing is not shocking at all. 1/

June is for Justice, Joy, and Disobedience The month of June is chock-full of occasions to celebrate, honor, and protect what’s precious to us.

June is for Justice, Joy, and Disobedience
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Climate Action Without Democracy & Justice Is Just Greenwashing We’ve been taught to treat climate change, injustice, and the attack on democracy like separate lanes on a highway—climate in the far left, democracy in the center, public safety riding the shoulder, ...

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When the Password Is Freedom, but the CAPTCHA Is a Border You Can’t Click Through Once upon a time in America, we talked about freedom like it was our middle name.

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Bernie Takes The Main Stage Because Culture Is The Main Show

When @sanders.senate.gov walked on stage at Coachella he wasn’t just giving a speech. He was sounding an alarm. Festivals are more than escapism. They’re cultural accelerators where values get tested in real time and where the crowd becomes the chorus 🎶

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The Real Threat to Free Speech Isn’t Silence—It’s Spin On Saturday, April 5, 2025, millions of individuals participated in over 1,300 “Hands Off!” protests across all 50 U.S.

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Why do YOU #Persist?

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We’re asking our community to share your own “I Persist because…” stories in a video or comment.

We Persist because fired-up women change everything. 💥
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What Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Speech Can Teach Us About Mastering Storytelling and Communications 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: Booker didn’t just speak — he persisted.

What #CoryBooker’s 25-Hr Speech Can Teach Us About Mastering Storytelling and Communications @booker.senate.gov

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YESSS!! @booker.senate.gov just broke the record!!!

Let’s remind everyone that the last Senator who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes did so to stop the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

The last time someone spoke for over 24 hours on the Senate floor was to stop Black Americans’ right to vote.

You Can’t Protect the Planet Without Pissing People Off In Europe, companies can be sued for not doing enough on climate.

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Calling the war-focused content of Signalgate “sensitive,” not “classified" is the national security version of “we were on a break.”
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If A Corporation Can Silence Greenpeace, Who’s Next? A North Dakota jury just handed down a staggering $660 million penalty against Greenpeace for its role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, one of the largest anti-fossil fuel demonstrations in US ...

A North Dakota jury handed down a $660 million penalty against @Greenpeace for its role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
If this ruling stands, it could bankrupt Greenpeace’s U.S. operations and set a chilling precedent for advocacy groups everywhere.
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How The EPA’s Environmental Rollbacks Will Make More Americans Sick—Literally And what we can do about it.

Deregulation is being sold as a way to boost businesses and save money, but the truth is it will cost us much more in the long run—in terms of healthcare costs, lost productivity, and the inevitable toll on people’s lives.

#climate #environment #health #EPA

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DOGE staff entered the U.S. Institute of Peace with D.C. police help The U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress, was the scene of a hostile takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has tried to install new leadership at the institute.

The U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress, was the scene of a hostile takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has tried to install new leadership at the institute.

Let this sink in—the head of the EPA has now labeled climate science as “religion”, and reframed the purpose of the EPA to “lower the cost of buying a car… and running a business”—the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY!

That’s where we are now.

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See you in Austin! @sxsw.com @sierraclub.org

Real Leaders Still Exist (Even If Cowards Are Getting More Airtime) I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership lately—or rather, the lack of it across the U.S.

“You don’t need a political title to leave. You just need a story that’s your own. Start telling it.”
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The President of the United States does not speak for all Americans.

If you are boycotting complicit businesses (and you should be), please also tell them to delete your personal data and accounts, and remove any associated apps from your devices. All of these metrics are important to company valuations. #EconomicBoycott #Resist

Trump Just Gave Himself a Permission Slip to Rule Without Oversight Trump’s Executive Order Gives Him Authority over the SEC, FTC, and FCC. No matter where any of us fall on the political spectrum, this is bad for all of us. But we can do something about it.

This isn’t just about Trump. It’s about what happens when we let any leader—Republican, Democrat, or anyone else—entirely erode the foundations of a functioning democracy.

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Simply Responding to Climate Denial Won’t Save Us, Telling a New Story Might How to Beat the Misinformation Machine Without Playing by Its Rules

Misinformation spreads 6x faster than factual news. But fact checking isn’t enough. People dont change their minds because they got fact checked into submission. They change when they see themselves in a new story.
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Presenting the Gaffe I mean ‘Gulf of America’ and Attack on Press Freedom From 'Gulf of America' to Gagging the Press, Trump’s Latest Power Move Threatens Democracy & International Ties

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