Archive for March 2021

Founder of LEAD (Local Environmental Action Demanded), Rebecca Jim has been a powerful advocate and spokesperson for Oklahoma’s Tar Creek Superfund site since the river “turned bad” in 1980, and became the official Tar Creekkeeper in 2016. . Tar Creek is considered to be one of the most toxic environments in the world and includes…

Dominique Thomas is a grassroots organizer, researcher, Afrofuturist Black feminist nerd based in Harlem, New York. In 2020 she launched The Climate League, a training program for BIPOC to learn organizing and campaigning skills, with a focus on racial justice in the climate movement. Also serving as Training Manager at the Climate Advocacy Lab, she…

The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a proposed 303-mile pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia  that is intended to carry fracked gas from the Appalachian Basin , and the proposed he Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Southgate Extension would continue an additional 70 miles from Chatham, Virginia into central North Carolina so that the gas can…

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. NGO/CSW65 took place from March 15-26, 2021 on a virtual platform with close to 30,000 advocates from all over the world. WEA was honored to be alongside fellow…

This International Women’s Day, please join us in taking action alongside grassroots women leaders who are caring for our communities—saving indigenous seeds, selling clean cookstoves, launching sustainable farms, providing safe water, protecting land rights, and more—in some of the most environmentally threatened regions on earth. Gather (virtually) with us at one of our special International Women’s Day…