In Case You Missed It: Here are some of the recent Solutionary Perspective Conversations we've had with movement and policy leaders and friends: #Grounded: A Conversation with Winona LaDuke and Bill McKibben Localization of economies, democracy and resilience requires that we be/get … [Read more...]
Side With Love Urges You to Join “Share My Check” Movement
This moment exposes the failures of structures of support and the gaps are being filled by those in our communities most impacted by COVID. We see structures outside of the state creating nimble systems that get people’s needs met, keep them safe and build and strengthen relationships. The … [Read more...]
Virtual Clinic to Offer Free COVID-Related Legal Consultations for Small Businesses and Non-Profits
Communities Rise (Formerly Nonprofit Assistance Center and Wayfind) launches new Covid-19 Small Business and Nonprofit Legal Clinic: This is a new virtual clinic designed to help small businesses and nonprofits navigate the legal issues they are experiencing due to Covid-19. Small businesses and … [Read more...]
Climate Journalism Honored at Pulitzers
Other climate-related stories were also named as finalists across several different categories, including The New York Times's work on the Trump administration's war on science; the Los Angeles Times's explanatory reporting on how Californians are adapting to sea level rise; the Wall Street … [Read more...]
Everyone Should Be Able to Vote, Especially in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis puts workers, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals, Black and Brown people, and the most vulnerable among us at great risk. They are on the front lines of the crisis. While DI partners and allies are working day and night to protect their respective communities, President Trump is … [Read more...]
For tribes, casinos fund what the government doesn’t. Now, they’re closed.
Nearly 1,000 casinos across the country have closed since coronavirus hit the U.S., according to the American Gaming Association. More than half of those are on Native American land, where the facilities supplement chronically underfunded health and education programs. Now, many tribes are … [Read more...]
The Fight Against Minnesota’s Line 3 Pipeline: Bill McKibben and Winona LaDuke in Conversation
LaDuke lives on the White Earth reservation, part of the Ojibwe nation in northwestern Minnesota. She’s been a booming voice in Native American land rights for three decades, and in recent years that has intersected directly with campaigns against fossil fuels. She was at the Standing Rock protest … [Read more...]
Migrants’ rights and health must be protected in the face of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is a test of our common humanity. It has revealed our shared vulnerabilities, and only a coordinated response based on justice, solidarity and humanitarian principles can help us overcome it. Unfortunately the coronavirus crisis also is exposing problems of inequality … [Read more...]
It will take all of us: never too young to lead on the climate crisis
On Earth Day 2020, Mary Robinson launched this series of intergenerational blogs. In her special Earth Day message, she outlined the need for us to respond to the global challenges we face in solidarity. As a young climate activist, I’m often told, ‘you’re too young to understand’, … [Read more...]
The COVID-19 pandemic is widening the justice gap
In our Justice for All report released last year, the Task Force on Justice noted that 1.5 billion people had a justice problem that they could not resolve. Now, as well as before the pandemic, marginalized communities – already poorly served by justice systems – face the highest risks, as do … [Read more...]
The 10 Best Books On Climate Change, According to Climate Activists
1. Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History by Ted Steinberg 2. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken 3. Frontlines: Stories of Global Environmental Justice by Nick Meynen 4. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by … [Read more...]
Alone in ICE detention, teens fear arrival of COVID-19
Advocates and parents worry about the safety of undocumented youth being held in two Pacific Northwest facilities. While the plight of adults and migrant children in federal custody has received some attention, undocumented teenagers with troubled pasts and held by ICE in secretive facilities … [Read more...]
Steady arrests risk COVID-19 spread beyond jail walls, advocates say
“Because of the public health and safety risk presented by this virus at a jail facility, we believe that further action is needed, above and beyond the measures taken to date,” reads an April 10 letter to city and county leaders in the criminal justice system from the American Civil Liberties Union … [Read more...]
Tribes Were Supposed To Get $8 Billion In COVID-19 Aid. They’ve Gotten $0.
Tribal governments were supposed to get $8 billion in direct emergency relief from the CARES Act, the $2 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill that became law on March 27. More than a month later, they haven’t gotten any of it. Read more here. … [Read more...]
Women, minorities shoulder front-line work during pandemic
As America tentatively emerges from weeks of lockdowns, it is becoming clear that the pandemic has taken its toll on workers who have been on the front lines all along. They have been packing and delivering supplies, caring for the sick and elderly, and keeping streets and buildings … [Read more...]
Tulalip lawmaker’s retirement caps long public service career
It’s easy to find high praise for Democrat John McCoy, Tulalip, within Indian Country or from members of his own party. But praise that comes from the other side of the aisle tells volumes about the relationships McCoy nurtured during his 17 years representing the 38th District — 40 miles north of … [Read more...]
For young people, two defining events: COVID-19 and climate change
JAMIE MARGOLIN EXPECTED to speak at the Earth Day rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Instead, with the April 22 gathering cancelled, she watched a digital celebration on her laptop in Seattle, where she has been sheltering at home since mid-March with family. Her high school … [Read more...]
For Native Americans, coronavirus looks heartbreakingly familiar
Perhaps no community in North America has been more shaped by infectious disease than Native tribes. Overcoming today’s crisis means turning to deep wells of resilience. For the first North Americans, memories of pandemics are long. Lela Oman was an infant in Nome, Alaska, during the 1918 flu … [Read more...]
A FEDERAL ONE-TWO PUNCH TO PROTECT RENTERS—PANDEMIC AND BEYOND
Even before the pandemic shuttered its economy, Cascadia—like many parts of North America—faced a profound housing shortage and affordability crisis. Now, that crisis has become a full-blown emergency. Unemployment is surging toward Great Depression levels, economic output is falling fasterthan … [Read more...]
These migrant families walked north for safety. Now they face coronavirus.
More than a year later, the coronavirus pandemic has sealed the borders these groups once crossed. Some wait for asylum in the U.S. or in Mexico; many work on the fringes of the informal economy. The virus has frozen their applications, and with it, their futures. The cramped camps where they live … [Read more...]
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