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Climate Equity

Climate change is a threat to all yet its impacts are not felt equally by all. Climate change solutions can and must address racial and economic inequity/inequality.
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Challenging the Dominance of Big Tech: For Us, Not Amazon in Arlington, VA

This case study follows the coalition For Us Not Amazon (FUNA) and members of the Athena Coalition as they organized to prevent one of the biggest corporations in the world from taking over the civic, social, and political life of Northern Virginia and beyond. 
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Hear Us: The Climate Crisis Demands Race-Intentional Co-Governance

Grassroots organizers in Texas offer a blueprint for cementing equity into local recovery efforts.
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Daniella Zessoules
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Biden’s Proposed Build Back Better Act Strengthens Our Economy and Democracy but Much More Remains to be Done

The Build Back Better Act would dramatically help working people and families. Now, the passage of this once-in-a-lifetime framework is in the hands of a few legislators who are beholden to corporations and the ultrarich.
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Daniella Zessoules
Houston Texas February 2021 Winter Storm

How a Lack of Democracy Worsened the Texas Storm Disaster

The winter storm disaster in Texas was a crisis fueled by a failure to address climate change and the influence of oil and gas companies in state and local politics.
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Amy Traub
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