Environmental justice

Environmental justice and climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times yet movements for justice often exclude the voices of marginalized peoples. These resources explore how and why environmentalism is a racial justice issue and a feminist issue.

CLIMATE CHANGE

• The Least Convenient Truth Part I: Climate Change and White Supremacy by Bani Amor

• A Country Within A Country Part II: Climate Change, Privilege, and Disaster Survival by Bani Amor

• A Vacation is Not Activism Part III: On Tourism and Ecosocial Disasters by Bani Amor

• Misogynoir and Climate Change Part IV: How Disaster Relief Fails Black Women by Bani Amor

• “But I Know It’s True”: Environmental Risk Assessment, Justice, and Anthropology by Melissa Checker

• Global Climate Change and Colonialism by Ron Jacobs

INTERSECTIONALITY

• What is Eco-Feminism? By Sara Alcid

• 3 Reasons We Can’t Forget Environmentalism in Our Social Justice Activism by Kimberly Fanshier

• Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Studies: Black Lives Matter as an Environmental Justice Challenge by Davis Pellow

• Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Environmental racism, racial capitalism, and state sanctioned violence by Laura Pulido

• Why Climate Change is an Issue of Social Justice for Vulnerable People by Jessica Xiao

OIL

• Dark Side of Oil Development: Bakken Oil Boom Pumping Sexual Violence Into Fort Berthold Reservation by Nikke Alex

• Bearing Witness: North Dakota Oil Industry Increases Violence Against Native Women by Juliana Britto Schwartz

• An Open Letter to President Obama from Natives in America written by young Natives

• Just Oil? The Distribution of Environmental and Social Impacts of Oil Production and Consumption by Dara O’Rourke and Sarah Connolly

• DAPL Timeline from the Sacred Stone Camp website

• Proposed Pipelines in Tribal Homelands Map

• #StandingRockSyllabus by NYC Stands with Standing Rock

• Why understanding Native American religion is important for resolving the Dakota Access Pipeline crisis by Rosalyn LaPier

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

• #IdleNoMore in Historical Context by Glen Coulthard (an environmental justice movement started by First Nations people that spread throughout the US and Canada)

• Launching a Green Economy for Brown People by Winona LaDuke

• Smudging: Plants, Purification, and Prayer by Rosalyn LaPier

• Why is water sacred to Native Americans? by Rosalyn LaPier

• Consuming Interests: Water, Rum, and Coca-cola from Ritual Propitiation to Corporate Expropriation in Highland Chiapas by June Nash

• Learning from the land: Indigenous land based pedagogy and decolonization by Matthew Wildcat, Mandee McDonald, Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox and Glen Coulthard

• Food Sovereignty Assessment Tool by First Nations Development Institute

• Protecting Indigenous Rights in Climate Policy, Resources by the Indian Law Resource Center

• Violence on the Lands, Violence on our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence, Women's Earth Alliance and Native Youth Sexual Health Network