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📢 Save the Date! 📢 Join us during NYC #ClimateWeek for our upcoming Story Salon: SEASON OF DISSENT ~ Expression & Unity in the Environmental Justice Movement 🌍✊🏾 RSVP NOW: https://lnkd.in/gdSPTpT7 Dive into powerful conversations as we gather to honor and elevate the power of expression, unity, and civil disobedience in the EJ movement. The salon style conversation will be hosted by our Executive Director Michael McKenzie. 📅 Date: September 23, 3 PM EST 🎤 Storyteller lineup announced soon! 📍 In-Person Only - Limited Seating #NYCClimateWeek #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice #Storytelling

🌊🌊🌊The theme of this year’s Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC) Policy Summit was ‘Black Healing, Justice, Convergence and Resurgence.’ ‘Convergence’ speaks to the bodies of water in the Ohio River Valley, where the coalition is based. Photo of Bishop Marcia Dinkins by Jon Cherry. #PeaceAndRiot #CoalMining #StopFossilFuels #ClimateChange #BlackAppalachia #HealingJustice #EnvironmentalJustice

Counterstream’s #SolidarityRides are amplifying the voices of frontline communities like those in Brazoria County, where the fight against toxic pollution is fierce. 🚗💪 People in Brazoria Country live in close proximity to Chevron Phillips’ Ethylene Cracker Plant, which emits hazardous air pollutants linked to serious health risks. Ethylene cracker plants convert ethane into ethylene for plastic production. #SolidarityRides #HealthyCommunities #StandWithBrazoria 📷 Photos of Solidarity Riders by Michael McKenzie Pictured: Solidarity Riders from Counterstream’s Angleton Solidarity Ride Safe Diversity Community Texas Campaign for the Environment  Beyond Petrochemicals New Liberty Road Community Development Corporation

How are you commemorating #BlackAugust? ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 📸 Photo 2: (1972) Two unidentified women sit on a bench after collecting bags from the People’s Free Food Program, a community service program run by the Black Panther Party that focused on providing free breakfast for children before school. 📸 Photo 3: (1971)  George Jackson's casket, draped in a blue flag with a Black Panther emblem, is carried from St. Augustine's Episcopal Church by six pallbearers in black berets, black suits and white gloves. 📸 Photo 4: (1969) Children enjoy breakfast as part of the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast for School Children program. 📸 Photo 5: Children in a classroom with their teacher, Evon Carter, widow of Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter, at the Intercommunal Youth Institute, the Black Panther Party school. #Abolition #BlackLiberation

We are deeply saddened to report that, since this story was published, Ms. Doris Bradshaw has passed away. Three generations of Depot residents have died amid a fight for transparency and a cleaner, safer neighborhood, without seeing many improvements in their lifetimes. In spite of their service to the country, veterans like Ms. Doris’ grandfather have faced the ripple effects of military activity, from PTSD to “Depot Cancer” diagnoses. We honor Ms. Doris’ legacy by continuing to uplift stories from the frontline of the fight for environmental justice. 🕊️❤️ 🔎 Read the full story by Leanna First-Arai, “WE GLOW IN THE DARK” at www.themargin.us. The Margin is an independent project at Counterstream Media. Photos by Ariel Cobbert. #IndependentJournalism #ClimateJournalism #EnvironmentalJustice #SuperfundSite #Redlining

🚨 Environmental Justice advocates in Angleton and #BrazoriaCounty are raising the alarm about the severe health impacts from nearby petrochemical giants Chevron Phillips and Petrologistics PDH. 🌬️💔 Chevron Phillips’ Ethylene Cracker Plant and Petrologistics’ PDH Plant are seriously affecting local air and water quality, leading to respiratory issues, heart problems, and more. 📲 Follow Counterstream Media for in-depth coverage on the impacts of these industries. 📣 : Texas Campaign for the Environment Safe Diversity Community Beyond Petrochemicals New Liberty Road Community Development Corporation

In 2020, National Park Service aquatic ecologist, Ashley “Ash” Rawhouser, conducted an analysis confirming the oral traditions and findings of the Upper Skagit Tribe, concluding no such barriers to anadromous fish migration existed in the Skagit River until SCL dammed the river and dewatered the bypass reach. In his latest piece for The Margin, Rico Moore reports on how contemporary science merges with oral history to debunk widely accepted falsehoods. 🔎 READ THE FULL STORY: “A RIVER OF DECEPTION” 🔍 www.themargin.us ⬅️ The Margin is an independent project at Counterstream Media. This issue is co-published with The Nation. Photos by Chona Kasinger. #IndependentJournalism #ClimateJournalism #EnvironmentalJustice #LandBack #IndigenousActivism #OralHistory

🏭 #Rubbertown, an industrial corridor located in Louisville, Kentucky, is also a center of environmental injustice. Responsible for 42% of Jefferson County’s industrial air emissions, this area puts predominantly African American communities in West Louisville at risk — leading to higher rates of asthma, cancer, and more. 🌫️🚨 But there’s hope: Counterstream Media's #SolidarityRides and local groups like Black Appalachian Coalition, The Food Literacy Project, and BearFruit and Grow Farm are uniting to raise awareness and fight for change. Together, we’re pushing for cleaner air and a healthier future for Rubbertown residents. 🌟💪 #EnvironmentalJustice #CleanAir #CommunityAction #FoodSovereignty #FoodDesert 📷: Jon Cherry and Michael McKenzie Pictured: LeTicia Marshall - Founder of BearFruit and Grow, Members of Food Literacy Project, Gwen Jones - Brazoria Climate Conversations, Bishop Marcia Dinkins - Black Appalachian Coalition, and Solidarity Riders.

Tribal Nations, ones federally recognized and not, often partner up with universities and other institutions to build their digital archives. But Maria Montenegro, Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, points out that since academia and other cultural institutions have spent decades extracting knowledge, data, artifacts, and even stealing ancestral remains, these relationships can be problematic. Chief Valentin Lopez, Chief of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, explains that while some of the Tribes’ sacred sites are being threatened by coastal erosion, they decided to keep those locations confidential, after suffering massive looting both at the hands of private citizens and researchers. This is why for many Tribal citizens, being in control of their own archival and digitization efforts is key. This is why for many Tribal citizens, being in control of their own archival and digitization efforts is key. 🔎 READ THE FULL STORY: “ERODING INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY” 🔍 www.themargin.us ⬅️ (Link in bio.) The Margin is an independent project at Counterstream Media. This issue is co-published with The Nation. ✍️ Story by Ottavia Spaggiari. 📸 Photos by Chona Kasinger. #EnvironmentalJustice #IndigenousSovereignty #LandBack #IndigenousActivism #LandSovereignty

The cobalt mining crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is characterized by severe human rights abuses, environmental degradation, and forced evictions. Multinational companies involved in these projects are reportedly disregarding legal safeguards and international human rights standards. ❇️ Read the full story by Michael McKenzie in the first issue of #PeaceAndRiot at https://lnkd.in/dRq5arAr ❇️ #EnvironmentalJustice #FreeCongo #CobaltMining