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“We must move funds to frontline communities for clean energy projects and stop fossil fuel developers from perpetuating conventional investments in dirty energy and injustice.â€
Leanna First-Arai | Apr 20, 2021
Students across generations are flocking to online crash courses on movement building and the Green New Deal.
Leanna First-Arai | Apr 30, 2020
In New Orleans, colorful street festivals celebrating death grew out of necessity, incorporating West African rhythms and syncretized dance.
Leanna First-Arai | Aug 16, 2019
May 24 is the second global “Fridays for Future†strike modeled after climate activist Greta Thunberg’s weekly demonstrations outside the Swedish parliament building.
Leanna First-Arai | May 24, 2019
The youth-led movement builds on the momentum of the increasingly Black and Brown leadership behind the Green New Deal.
Leanna First-Arai | Mar 13, 2019
The Equal Justice Initiative is using soil to document the lynchings of more than 4,400 African-descended people between 1877 and 1950.
Leanna First-Arai | Feb 27, 2019