Dear John,

We are excited to announce that after 8 years with our fiscal sponsor Movement Strategy Center, Climate Justice Alliance is officially a 501(c)3 organization! 

This is a big achievement and we want to show appreciation to everybody who has supported us along the way, especially all of our member organizations who keep CJA true to it's values and principles! We are trying our best, staying steady and mindful for a healthy and sustainable alliance.

We can't wait to dive into all of the opportunities that this is going to open up for our alliance, and we will continue to share them with you along the way!

In our ongoing work to shift culture, CJA members recently joined a panel discussion to share innovative approaches to fighting the bad and building the new. Hosted by Natalia Linares of the New Economy Coalition, Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan of Movement Generation; Doria Robinson of Cooperation Richmond & Urban Tilth; and Najari Smith of Cooperation Richmond & Rich City Rides share how they are organizing against extractive economic systems and creating new and just models of regenerative economic development for frontline communities. Watch the panel here. We hope it will inspire you as much as it did us!

On a related note, check out a feature story on member organization Rich City Rides, a cooperative bike shop creating opportunities to improve health and economics by promoting cycling as a social, sustainable and green mode of transportation in Richmond, California!

“We share the stress, we share the profits, we share the challenges, and we share the victories, all evenly,” says Mr. Smith, who wants to help incubate other cooperative businesses in the area. And, as always, he hopes to bring even more Richmond residents into the biking fold. Read the full story here!

The FANG Collective is happy to announce that ICE will be cancelling all contracts with Bristol County, Massachusetts. This includes their 287(g) contract which trains deputies to collaborate with ICE and perform immigration agent duties, and their IGSA contract which turned the Bristol County House of Corrections into an ICE detention center. Read the full story here!

CJA is a proud sponsor of the Treaty People Gathering! As Enbridge builds Line 3 through Anishinaabe treaty land and the Mississippi Headwaters, we continue to stand strong in our resistance. Click here to learn more and join in the fight! 

Climate Justice Alliance and nearly 200 other organizations—representing millions of members from unions and workers, climate and racial justice organizations—just called on Congress to send bold legislation to Biden by August to secure a Jobs & Recovery Plan that will actually meet the moment. Lowering investments to cater to Republicans just for the sake of appearing bi-partisan isn't going to get the job done at this critical moment in time. Read the New York Times letter we signed that ran this week for more information and learn more about the THRIVE Act that would put 15 million people back to work and address the climate justice emergency we currently face here.

Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and Climate Justice Alliance celebrates and supports the Read Road to DC of the Lummi Nation transporting a 24-foot totem pole to Washington, DC on a journey to build support for the sovereign right of Tribal nations to shape local and federal solutions, as well as protection of sacred places. IEN will be working with the Lummi on lifting up the THRIVE Act that has provisions for strengthening tribal sovereignty and implementing federal policy recognizing Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). Image credit Alan Berner from The Seattle Times

Check out this popular education toolkit: Hoodwinked in the Hothouse (version 3), to learn more about resistant movements organizing against false solutions to climate change. We hope you'll review it and share it with your networks and communities.

CJA's newest Medium article delves into Earth-Bound Building Cooperative's roots in Southern Maryland and the importance of democratic non-extractive loan models like the Our Power Loan Fund.

Earth-Bound Building is a construction cooperative based in Maryland who came together with a mission to provide ecological and affordable construction services to Black, brown and low income farmers with less access to resources.

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