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We’re ready for action
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…
What Happened in Texas?
“I keep reminding folks that if we had started working on this plan a year ago, paying particular attention to adaptation measures, we could have avoided some of the devastation people endured from the storm.” Dolores Belmares, Climate Justice Organizer, Public Citizen (Texas office) Lots of people have been wondering what happened in Texas. To…
Celebrating Black women leaders in the environmental movement
For generations, Black women have built a movement around community and climate resilience. In the face of racial injustice, gender inequity, economic disparities and disproportionate environmental impacts, Black women have forged a path which recognizes that justice in any form requires justice in all forms, and a thriving earth requires thriving communities. In the 1970’s…
WEA Women speak out on unity, hope and what’s next
Things feel different today than they did at the start of this month. While the events of early January prove there is still tremendous work to be done to heal our fractured communities and threatened environment-from both the immediate hardships we face as well as the legacies of injustice and environmental destruction-we are breathing a bit…
U.S. set to rejoin the Paris Agreement
With this months’ shift in leadership came some long-awaited shifts in policy as well. Within the first few hours of taking office, President Joe Biden recommitted the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement, permanently stalled the Keystone XL pipeline, and ordered federal agencies to start reviewing and reinstating more than 100 environmental regulations that had…
Black Lives Matter
Dear Community, We hope you are taking care of yourselves and each other right now. If there is someone you’ve been meaning to check in with, please do it. The brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless other Black people are simply horrendous. Once again, this moment reveals what is always…
Summer Edition of the WEAvings Newsletter: We know this…
Read the latest WEAvings Newsletter Today Dear Friends, In a sea of unknowns, we know this: The women leaders of our global alliance are made for this moment. We are in Aceh, Indonesia, St. Louis, Missouri, and Assam, India launching food distribution programs, caring for our elders, providing clean water, creating mutual aid, and ensuring…
We were made for this.
To our Community and Beyond, All of us at Women’s Earth Alliance are thinking of you, your families, communities, and organizations during this time. From our home headquarters to yours, we are cheering for you—as you juggle work, home-schooling, financial stressors, staying connected to loved ones, community organizing, and remaining healthy. And for those of…
Say hello to our Spring Interns: Hi Kiya!
Name: Kiya Leake Role at WEA: Programs + Operations Intern Hometown: Los Angeles Fun Fact: Being on an amateur baking show is on my bucket list. I might have to move to Britain. Why did you want to intern with WEA? I wanted to be able to be surrounded by a diverse group of women…
What is advocacy?
ADVOCACY is at the core of what Women’s Earth Alliance does – but what exactly does that mean? To us, advocacy is storytelling with a purpose. It is solidarity with those who face injustice, and using our collective power to uplift and amplify their voices. How does WEA practice advocacy? Providing technical legal…