• Environmental activists reoccupy the Weelaunee Forest, a preserved forest that is scheduled to be developed as a police training center, on March 4, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. (truthout.org)
  • In January of 2023, the Activist Academy program invited its inaugural cohort of activists, which included individuals aged 16-35, to represent our regional area from Los Angeles to Orange County. (sierraclub.org)
  • Boeve attended Middlebury College, where she became involved with environmental and social justice activism. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cambodia's Buddhist monks have taken to social networks in a big way to drive their traditional role in activism and champion causes, overcoming a lack of support from religious authorities and some apprehension from politicians. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • A new report in the peer-reviewed journal Conflict, Security, and Development , published by King's College London, takes a deep look at the way monks are using social media to expand their historic connection to activism, with Facebook emerging as the platform of choice for a new generation of net-savvy monks in a country where almost a third of the population is active on social media. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • In 2016, Miriam received the Carlos Escaleras environmental prize for her 30 years of activism defending Garifuna communities. (quixote.org)
  • For 45 years, our work on the frontline of environmental activism continues to draw new generations of activists and leaders into the movement. (foe.org.au)
  • One can find many of the characteristics that scholars identify with the contemporary movement in Douglas's later life: the deployment of grass-roots activism, the lessons of ecological science, the rise of environmental justice, the admixture of anthropocentrism and biophilia, and the socialized sensibilities of womanhood. (historycooperative.org)
  • Wetlands Activism Collective (http://wetlands-preserve.org), a NYC based, volunteer organization working on human rights, environmental, and animal rights issues, has recently opened an office in Brooklyn, We are looking for donations of any of the following items. (wetlands-preserve.org)
  • Participants of this leadership program joined the Activist Academy to get skills and training to build their activism in issues related to Environmental Social Justice and the Climate Energy Justice movement. (sierraclub.org)
  • It has been a pleasure to share space with the incredible leaders and help them find a home for their activism whether it is with us at the Sierra Club or the movement at large with our Environmental Justice partners. (sierraclub.org)
  • and Rosario Dawson, an actor struggling to use her celebrity for social change while staying authentic in her activism. (beacon.org)
  • Over the past decade, our activist projects have included developing democratic anticapitalist perspectives within the alterglobalization and Occupy Wall Street movements , opposition to genetic engineering of food and corporate biotechnology, articulating visionary climate justice activism , building municipalist and right to the city movement s, and bringing a directly democratic approach to a variety of other social and ecological issues and movements. (social-ecology.org)
  • In my previous research I have examined, among other things, discourses on riots, feminist and democratic activism in the Middle East, participatory budgeting in South America, the room for critical reflection in higher education, and environmental movements. (lu.se)
  • Hernandez is an environmental justice activist and educator from Los Angeles. (metropolismag.com)
  • Janet Dahlem, associate professor, educator-activist, came to SCU in 1990 serving as program director for 18 years. (bepress.com)
  • Professor Kaveh Madani is a globally recognized scientist, educator, and activist, working on complex human-nature systems at the interface of science, policy, and society. (lu.se)
  • 2021). A legal paradigm shift towards climate justice in the Anthropocene. (lu.se)
  • The same is true for the critical issues facing environmental groups, consumer advocates and social justice activists. (teamster.org)
  • It's not unusual for an incoming administration to restructure the White House website, but environmental advocates said they were concerned by the speed with which specific climate content was targeted. (eenews.net)
  • I am proud to join with 19 other climate campaigners, gender activists, human rights defenders and anti-poverty advocates in signing this letter. (businessgreen.com)
  • A quarter-century later, environmental justice advocates and even many officials at top green groups say the movement still isn't doing enough. (politico.com)
  • Twelve young climate activists from various states formed the Sunrise Movement in 2017 with the goal of creating an army of young people aimed at solving the climate crisis while creating millions of green jobs. (streetroots.org)
  • As governments and some 40,000 corporate negotiators, scientists of different persuasions, and other mostly corporate-friendly parties prepare to attend the Nov. 30-Dec. 12 United Nations Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris, environmental and climate-crisis organizations are preparing massive and perhaps unprecedented mobilizations around the world. (socialistaction.org)
  • The first reason for civil society to pursue climate litigation is the failure of multilevel commitments and governance to address the climate crisis, that is, the lack of effective climate mitigation, adaptation and justice despite thirty years of global climate governance. (lu.se)
  • As climate activists and environmentalists, we stand for climate justice and prioritizing the needs of frontline communities. (google.com)
  • Led by the Ironbound Community Corporation, environmental justice and social service programs, including early childhood and after-school enrichment, empower the low-income community - with its garden, Down Bottom Farms, proof that transformative change is possible. (montclair.edu)
  • We invite you to share and hear stories from Friends of the Earth's 45 years of history building transformative social movements for environmental justice. (foe.org.au)
  • These 20 activists and 2,000 supporters represent the universal and indivisible nature of the Goals - and the passion from all sides that 2020 must be a transformative, radical year for change and progress and new finance - for people and planet. (businessgreen.com)
  • My teaching/scholarship/service reflects the intersection of holistic health, social justice, transformative learning, community-engagement, feminism/gender justice, and environmental & food justice/injustice. (bepress.com)
  • With so many social ills affecting our communities, non-governmental and non-profit organizations have become the saving grace for those who need help to survive. (earthlife.org.za)
  • Boeve is among relatively few women leaders of large environmental organizations, and was quoted saying "There's a structural sexism problem, full stop. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nearly 100 civil rights, women's rights, environmental, labor and social justice organizations bsent a letter last week to 11 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee urging them to fulfill their constitutional duty to help vet and confirm a new Supreme Court justice following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. (feminist.org)
  • Palestinian organizations cite both political and environmental reasons for their calls to stop this water and land grab that would impede Palestinian rights. (grassrootsonline.org)
  • Few, if any, environmental and related movement organizations believe that the world's greatest polluters have any intention of subordinating their highly profitable fossil-fuel extraction to the interests of humanity. (socialistaction.org)
  • Activists from 350.org and a broad range of other concerned organizations on the East Coast are making preparations for a massive mobilization in Boston on Dec. 12, the last day of COP21. (socialistaction.org)
  • Leading organizations include 350.org chapters in all Bay Area counties, the Sunflower Alliance-which focuses on defending frontline communities-System Change Not Climate Change, and a host of groups aimed at fighting California fracking, coal transport, explosive bomb trains, and environmental racism. (socialistaction.org)
  • The lack of people of color in decision-making positions in your organizations such as executive staff or board positions is also reflective of your histories of racist and exclusionary practices," the leaders wrote in a letter to the heads of the 10 top environmental organizations. (politico.com)
  • He called on big green organizations to work more closely with communities of color and to encourage donors to give money to smaller organizations focused on environmental justice issues. (politico.com)
  • Other agencies and groups (such as federal and state health and environmental agencies, tribal governments, local health departments, citizens' advisory groups, medical advisory groups, academic organizations, non-governmental organizations, elected officials) may already be working with and providing information to community members at a site. (cdc.gov)
  • The Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize," is an international award given annually to honor individuals, organizations, and movements that have made significant contributions to the promotion of social justice, sustainable development, and environmental protection. (lu.se)
  • Farmers and activists in Cameroon say a jail sentence handed down on an environmentalist who exposed land-grabbing by a multinational agro-industrial company, sends a dangerous signal to communities trying to protect their land and resources. (ipsnews.net)
  • Increasing numbers of farmers, consumers, environmental and animal welfare activists, economists and scientists are talking about the potential power of regeneration. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • In Nebraska, a group of citizen activists who support regeneration , with help from the Nebraska Farmers Union, are working to keep a giant Costco factory farm out of their state. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • The ISE has also provided specific technical and organizational assistance for the development of community supported agriculture, low-income housing cooperatives, and community currency projects, with constituents as diverse as Puerto Rican urban homesteaders, Vermont farmers, environmental justice activists in New England, and community organizers in New York City. (social-ecology.org)
  • In just a couple of months, we were able to create deep connections, and have uncomfortable but necessary conversations about environmental racism, climate justice, indigenous people's sovereignty, and the radical leadership needed to serve and protect our BIPOC communities from further harm from climate change. (sierraclub.org)
  • A new social movement is bringing together Indigenous activists and TikTok creators to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (yesmagazine.org)
  • As both scholar and activist, Sturgeon approaches ecofeminism with a critical yet sympathetic voice, offering fresh insights that will be immediately useful. (routledge.com)
  • Karla Armbruster, NWSA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 210-216 As both scholar and activist, Sturgeon approaches ecofeminism with a critical yet sympathetic voice, offering fresh insights that will be immediately useful. (routledge.com)
  • It wasn't until the 1990s that monks began to re-emerge as leaders of social movements for environmental protection, human rights and sustainable development, among other issues. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • PAUSE is a grassroots group of individuals who have come together to promote safe, sustainable energy and fight for environmental justice. (google.com)
  • Social Ecology presents a broad-ranging critique of current anti-ecological trends while offering concepts, skills and tools to develop an alternative social vision for an ecologically sustainable society. (social-ecology.org)
  • Racism is a root cause of your inaction around addressing environmental problems in our communities. (politico.com)
  • Racism is a woman's issue, as Sturgeon makes clear, and addressing this issue is central to the history and future of ecofeminism and all movements for social and environmental justice. (routledge.com)
  • Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon's Global Security Operations Center reveal the company's reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements. (europe-solidaire.org)
  • In Northern California, a broad coalition of environmental groups, labor unions, social justice, antiwar, and human rights groups, and a number of socialist parties, has been meeting in Oakland union halls for the past two months to plan a mass march and rally through downtown Oakland on Nov. 21. (socialistaction.org)
  • This has not only been critical to creating awareness about people's environmental rights. (earthlife.org.za)
  • Their innovative approaches to the Bangladesh constitution has enabled them to interlink environmental pollutionswith the threats to people's well-being. (thedailystar.net)
  • He is a veteran activist and co-founder of the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and Climate Justice Charter Movement. (monthlyreview.org)
  • A mere week after the RICO indictment of 61 activists , the newly christened Block Cop City wing of the movement issued a call to action to supporters around the country: Show up. (truthout.org)
  • He's passionate about making environmental education accessible and advocating for social justice in the environmental movement. (metropolismag.com)
  • By studying Douglas, one encounters the linkages between the modern environmental movement and early conservation impulses. (historycooperative.org)
  • The Sierra Club, the nation's biggest environmental group, is out to prove that the green movement isn't just for well-to-do white people. (politico.com)
  • That's a major shift for a political and social movement long viewed as the domain of affluent white activists, and it's been decades in the making. (politico.com)
  • Robert Bullard - who is often called the "father" of the environmental justice movement that seeks fair treatment for people of all races, nationalities and income levels - said green groups' attempts to become more diverse amount to "incremental progress. (politico.com)
  • As a cultural critic with experience as an activist in the women's peace movement, Sturgeon seems perfectly positioned to tell. (routledge.com)
  • I've previously been affiliated with the Department of Sociology at New York University, the Center for Social Movement Studies in Florence, the Institute for Urban Research at Malmö University, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Lund, and I've been a "Visiting Democracy Fellow" at Harvard Kennedy School 2017-2019. (lu.se)
  • Masked gunmen have murdered an environmental activist in Pueblo Rico, department of Risaralda, during the night of Thursday 1 February. (justiceforcolombia.org)
  • Instead, become a community-based social and environmental justice activist. (earthlife.org.za)
  • Through the Tembisa Go Green Environmental Forum, we planted trees in schools and in other community spaces, in addition to clean-up campaigns, in a bid to eliminate dumping sites (which is a big problem in many of our communities). (earthlife.org.za)
  • We hear first from speakers at the rally, including Rick Morris Public Citizen's Climate Program followed by Alice Nascimento of NY Community for Change, and Bekah Hinojosa of South Texas Environmental Justice Network. (mediasanctuary.org)
  • Community activist Carol Van Strum and investigative journalists Peter von Stackelberg and Eric Francis Coppolino discuss how they met decades ago and recently worked together on "The Poison Papers," a project to create a searchable online archive inspired by Van Strum's extraordinary collection of three tons (literally) of documents about the chemical industry. (akaction.org)
  • Growing up, he lived in a community that faced environmental injustice and his experiences led him to found @QueerBrownVegan in 2019. (metropolismag.com)
  • We strive for the Earth Activist Training community to reflect a diversity of age, race, ethnicity and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation, and lived experience. (earthactivisttraining.org)
  • Krishna Polius, a PhD student in Environmental Science and Management, knows what it means to fight for a cleaner community. (montclair.edu)
  • The industrial neighborhood - a concentration of factories and warehouses, a power plant, chemical refineries, the state's largest garbage incinerator and a Superfund site - has long been the focus of protests and activists dedicated to uplifting this overburdened community of color, continuing a fight for clean air and land. (montclair.edu)
  • The site has evolved from an abandoned and contaminated freight rail yard into a community asset that promotes sustainability and food justice. (montclair.edu)
  • Rooted in arts and education we are community people, community gardeners, and environmental and social justice activists. (volunteermatch.org)
  • Coalition is a group of community people, community gardeners, and environmental and social justice activists, rooted in arts, promoting the development and preservation of community gardens as well as the cultivation of fallow land in New York City. (volunteermatch.org)
  • The activists' cry for bolder action comes just a week after UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on the international community to make the 2020s a "decade of action" and 2020 "the year of urgency," as he outlined his priorities for the year to the UN General Assembly. (businessgreen.com)
  • Over four months, these activists participated in sessions that focused on a variety of issues, including community organizing, campaign planning, power mapping, collective decision-making, and generative conflict. (sierraclub.org)
  • Planting trees is a way to build community and bolster benefits to human and environmental health. (yesmagazine.org)
  • The ISE's approach to grassroots organizing is rooted in the principles of decentralism, community control, and direct democracy that have broadly inspired many of today's movements for global justice. (social-ecology.org)
  • Has the community expressed feelings of stress related to environmental site contamination? (cdc.gov)
  • Is the level of community concern higher (or lower) than would be expected based on the environmental health risk alone at the site? (cdc.gov)
  • Is the community already experiencing economic or environmental burdens or social vulnerability ? (cdc.gov)
  • How many community and/or activist groups are involved? (cdc.gov)
  • Every year we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his work toward social justice, civil liberties, and equal rights for all. (cdc.gov)
  • 2022). Legal pluralism and environmental governance: The regulatory design potential of Bhutan's gross national happiness and Canada's reconciliation approaches. (lu.se)
  • We can see imaginaries as make believe, as thinking outside the box, and as social practices. (lu.se)
  • The research shows that latent networks, involving homeowners and local businesses, has played a crucial role in transitioning PV practices from activist hubs to mainstream adoption. (lu.se)
  • Street Roots is an award-winning, nonprofit, weekly newspaper focusing on economic, environmental and social justice issues. (streetroots.org)
  • Over a career of more than 40 years, Peter has written thousands of news stories, briefs, and reports on environmental issues, technological change, issues shaping the future of global society, and a multitude of other topics. (akaction.org)
  • Teiwes is a sustainability and corporate responsibility professional with over 20 years of experience working on issues from climate change to social labor compliance and everything in between. (metropolismag.com)
  • He has experience working on a broad spectrum of economic and social justice issues, including anti-oppression, education and environmental justice. (leanpub.com)
  • It would have negative and substantive effects on an entire range of policy issues, including criminal justice, law and order, social cohesion, environmental stewardship, public education, labor fairness, and infrastructure burdens. (fairus.org)
  • Are there particular issues of concern (e.g., environmental justice, child health, Brownfields and Land Reuse) at the site? (cdc.gov)
  • How we create, talk about, dislike and dispute the stories and myths, facts and fictions regarding media related issues such as the environment and mobility, platforms and technologies, or inequalities and social justice, is of pressing concern for citizens, media researchers and industry professionals. (lu.se)
  • 2022). Environmental Legal Mobilization. (lu.se)
  • Håkan Johansson took his PhD in social work (Lund University, 2001) and has a background from sociology and the department of Sociology, Uppsala University. (lu.se)
  • He became Associate Professor in 2007 (Växjö University) and serves since 2012 as a Professor in Social Work, School of Social Work, Lund University. (lu.se)
  • Opinion by Matthias Lehner, postdoc at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University. (lu.se)
  • Sovath's blog, which calls for social and engaged Buddhism, contains dozens of YouTube videos of him talking about women's rights and housing for low-income families. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • For a social, ecological, safe railway, let's take the right path out of the crisis: let's choose the right switches now! (europe-solidaire.org)
  • In the wake of the November 8, 2016, presidential election that saw Donald Trump elected as the 45th president of the nation, a small group of activists decided to take action into their own hands and start training the country's next generation of leaders. (therainbowtimesmass.com)
  • CDC's National Center for Environmental Health, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects (EHHE) held its first-ever Summit on Environmental Hazards and Health Effects January 26-29, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia. (cdc.gov)
  • Activists and politicians in Iowa and Wisconsin are calling for moratoriums on the construction of new industrial factory farms. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • Can activist politicians be agents of change? (lu.se)
  • Her current research examines the role of social institutions in governance in sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA region. (lu.se)
  • Her work unites legal analysis and sustainability science for examining environmental and human rights governance challenges and innovative levers to address them. (lu.se)
  • Participants had the opportunity to meet and learn from the leaders and Sierra Club National staff on the ground leading our various climate and energy justice campaigns at each session. (sierraclub.org)
  • Other projects have been shown in Washington DC at the Corcoran Gallery as part of Fotoweek DC, where she received second place in the photojournalism and social documentary category, and in a group show about cities in Los Angeles, California, sponsored by the International Photography Awards. (leanpub.com)
  • Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this outlet has been consistently involved in challenging mainstream scientific findings on global climate change in the course of defining its own religiously-based concept of environmental stewardship. (motherjones.com)
  • Stewardship" which stated, "While some environmental concerns are well founded and serious, others are without foundation or greatly exaggerated…Some unfounded or undue concerns include fears of destructive manmade global warming, overpopulation, and rampant species loss. (motherjones.com)
  • Miriam Miranda is a Honduran Garifuna human rights activist and land defender. (quixote.org)
  • In 2015, Miriam received the Óscar Romero Human Rights Award , alongside fellow Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated less than a year later. (quixote.org)
  • That's the dramatic message sent to world leaders from 20 high profile climate, environmental, justice, and human rights campaigners, in a letter calling on governments to "act faster" to tackle the interlocking crises facing the human and natural worlds. (businessgreen.com)
  • It is also a question of human rights and social justice. (cottagelife.com)
  • Join us for a dialogue with Alyn and other leading experts on this subject as it links several topics such as international law, peace, disarmament, climate, biodiversity, human rights and social movements and transformation. (lu.se)
  • Her main areas of expertise are international law of human rights, humanitarian law and criminal justice. (lu.se)
  • For the last 20 years, she has worked on human rights and environmental law (in particular biodiversity and climate change). (lu.se)
  • Neshan Gunasekera has a background in international law, human rights, international relations, programme and project management and has worked to promote environmental considerations within the humanitarian-peace-development nexus. (lu.se)
  • But it's an important one, particularly now, when Atlanta has ensnared dozens of activists in criminal proceedings while conspiring against democratic resistance. (truthout.org)
  • sometimes, the crisis of capitalism is also the crisis of the historical social forces meant to resist it. (monthlyreview.org)
  • City officials are waiting to see if the 11th Circuit Court rules in favor of the activists and forces the validation. (truthout.org)
  • She moves from detailed historical investigations of important manifestations of US ecofeminism to a broad analysis of international environmental politics. (routledge.com)
  • We upgraded our new website and expanded our social media strategy to make it easier for students to find information on sustainability in and around Lund. (lu.se)
  • Cases have been filed by public-spirited persons (lawyers, journalists, social activists or academics), and more recently NGOs and lawyers have been bringing lawsuits on a regular basis. (who.int)
  • On this call, you will hear how Van Strum assisted other communities and environmental groups on similar cases, amassing over 6,000 documents (more than 150,000 pages) about the chemical industry through lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests. (akaction.org)
  • Alarmed at the prospect that the new administration might edit or erase data sets used by climate scientists, environmental groups are trying to protect them. (eenews.net)
  • Tribes and environmental justice groups say management of the Delta harms traditional food systems and causes pollution. (hcn.org)
  • For other environmental groups and other big green groups, the clock is ticking," he said. (politico.com)
  • In 1990, over 100 leaders of minority communities condemned the country's biggest environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, for ignoring their interests and failing to build more diverse memberships. (politico.com)
  • For our last installation of this year's Black History Month series, we are highlighting the life and work of Honduran Garifuna activist Miriam Miranda. (quixote.org)
  • In 2018, Carol received the international David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition for her outstanding environmental and social justice work. (akaction.org)
  • If you have the opportunity to meet some of these activists, give them a warm welcome and I invite you to learn about them, and the wealth of knowledge and experience they bring to our work. (sierraclub.org)
  • Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists profiles the work of eight activists, doing what they can to make this world a better place. (beacon.org)
  • Its initiative has a far-reaching effect of setting a goal for other social activists in Bangladesh to strive for. (thedailystar.net)
  • Two other NGOs -- Dejusticia: The Center for Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia) from Colombia, and The Legal Agenda from Lebanon -- were also named joint winners of the award, according to a press release. (thedailystar.net)
  • The Activist Academy leadership program was created last year to invite new, young activists to the Sierra Club and to invest in these individuals' personal and professional growth. (sierraclub.org)
  • Additionally, donations and contributions from members like you are appreciated to keep the Activist Academy and programs like this funded. (sierraclub.org)
  • In partnership with News Decoder and the Climate Academy at the European School of Brussels, we're delighted to announce Ecologues , a series of interactive webinars featuring experts on various aspects of the environmental crisis. (americanlibraryinparis.org)
  • The $10-billion proposed canal would divert water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea in an effort to save the later from "environmental degradation. (grassrootsonline.org)
  • By successfully persuaded the domestic courts to recognise its legal standingson behalf of the people afflicted by environmental degradation, BELA established the path for public interest litigations in Bangladesh. (thedailystar.net)
  • News flash: We've just heard that the night before she begins an eight-city speaking tour aimed at protecting the Great Lakes watershed, Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow will be presented with a Heart & Vision award from the United Church on Monday, May 14 "for her exemplary commitment to social justice and for her leadership of the international effort to establish the fundamental human right to water. (cottagelife.com)
  • Utilising innovative strategic litigation, informed by rigorous scholarship, these organisations have shown exemplary perseverance in promoting greater individual, social and environmental justice, in milieus where the foundations of the rule of law are under severe challenge," the press release said. (thedailystar.net)
  • It becomes a string of political and social disasters and convulsions, and under these conditions, punctuated by periodic economic catastrophes and crises, accumulation can go on no longer. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Our one-sentence answer was that it is not filled with true representatives of the people who fight for economic, racial, social, and environmental justice. (therainbowtimesmass.com)
  • Environmental quality and social and economic equity intersect and support each other in significant ways. (earth911.com)
  • Our concerns ranged from environmental pollution, health, food safety and food sovereignty to economic and social justice, the global refugee crisis and global warming. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • We use art and participatory action to promote social and environmental justice and freedom of creative expression. (mediasanctuary.org)
  • Her extraordinary resurrection in the last decades of her life as a public activist-and one more assertive than before-dramatizes the larger transformation in American environmentalism. (historycooperative.org)
  • While the general public reflects a distrust of legal authorities, BELA promotes the rule of law and environmental justice through public interest litigations, legislative advocacy, research and publication, as well as capacity-building for actors both in the public sector and civil society. (thedailystar.net)
  • Ever since the first public interest litigation in 1994, BELA has conducted more than 250 public interest lawsuits and advocated for legislative reform for environmental justice. (thedailystar.net)
  • Before public service, he was a tenured faculty member of the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London. (lu.se)
  • I teach and supervise on topics such as democracy, public administration, social movements, political theory and qualitative methods. (lu.se)
  • Environmental activists featured in the film will discuss the potential resurgence of nuclear power in the Pacific Northwest through supposedly safe, small, factory-built nuclear plants. (columbian.com)
  • Climate protection and nuclear abolition: Hope from the International Court of Justice. (lu.se)
  • Alyn ware is an advisor to these young leaders and has supported several outstanding movements in the past to move the International Court of Justice, including the significant case on the Legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons in 1996. (lu.se)
  • There is a clear nexus between the fight for Climate Justice, including the protection of the biosphere and nuclear disarmament. (lu.se)
  • An intimate event interweaving activist stories with theatre performance. (foe.org.au)
  • After coming under fire from environmental and social justice organisations for violations of land protection laws, Herakles Farms, a New York-based agricultural company, has suspended a large, controversial palm oil project in Cameroon. (ipsnews.net)
  • Her task that night was to persuade the commission to limit construction on 155,000 acres of privately held land "of critical environmental concern. (historycooperative.org)
  • Local environmental justice activists are there to explain how the effects of pollution are disproportionately higher in your area than in other parts of the county. (cdc.gov)
  • Last year, Haaken produced a film about the courtroom victories of local oil-train protesters called "Necessity: Climate Justice and the Thin Green Line," which screened, along with a panel discussion, at Vancouver's Kiggins Theatre. (columbian.com)
  • The screening will be followed by onsite speeches from Oregon Rep. Tawna Sanchez (D-Portland) and local activists Sarah Iannarone and Antonio Zamora. (streetroots.org)
  • When she died in 1998, at 108, she had been one of the most celebrated environmental leaders in the last decades of the twentieth century. (historycooperative.org)
  • A group of Stop Cop City activists aim to change that, to once again put their bodies on the line to block Cop City, to buy time before the Atlanta Police Foundation can destroy the remaining 50 or so acres of forest. (truthout.org)
  • A group of determined activists in Mountain View, N.M., fights for environmental justice in a poor and polluted neighborhood. (hcn.org)
  • The International Criminal Court (ICC) will pay more attention to crimes of environmental destruction and land-grabs, according to a new policy paper published by the court. (ipsnews.net)
  • Through many years of lobbying, writing, educating, and cajoling, she helped raise the plight of the Everglades to the top of the national agenda, resulting in important state and federal legislation that signified changing environmental policy. (historycooperative.org)
  • We write for a wide audience of stakeholders interested in the benefits of PHR, including researchers, practitioners, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, social activists, funders, students, and anyone who wants to contribute to social justice and health equity. (lu.se)
  • An Idaho court just ruled against industrial agriculture by striking down most parts of an Idaho "ag-gag" law prohibiting undercover investigations at livestock facilities aimed at exposing animal abuse and violations of environmental laws. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • Are environmental health risks known or unknown? (cdc.gov)
  • Empowerment has been a key conceptual underpinning of participatory health research (PHR), both as a set of processes that inform how partners and diverse stakeholders engage with each other, as well as a set of outcomes that contribute to improved health and social equity. (lu.se)
  • PHR aims for transformation through the action of people: Participatory research in health seeks to produce social changes favorable to the lives of the people involved in the study. (lu.se)
  • Your gift to the New Israel Fund promotes democracy, equality, and justice in Israel. (nif.org)
  • We are a small growing environmental nonprofit with a budget of around $75,000. (volunteermatch.org)
  • "Atomic Bamboozle" is the latest in a series of timely, social-issue documentaries directed by Jan Haaken, a retired Portland State University psychology professor. (columbian.com)
  • Gordon has also been a grant recipient of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting for a project on justice in post-war Liberia. (leanpub.com)
  • Meeting two of Ecologues, a series of interactive webinars featuring experts on various aspects of the environmental crisis. (americanlibraryinparis.org)
  • According to the INDEPAZ organisation, 21 social leaders were killed in January 2018. (justiceforcolombia.org)
  • I am happy because we can explain to young people the importance of social engagement, and we use You Tube and Facebook. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • This year began with the incredible journey that young leaders from the Pacific Islands were taking to move the highest court in the world, the International Court of Justice for an Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. (lu.se)