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Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
How the GOP is Saving the Fossil Fuel Industry From Trump…With Help From the Democrats
14 May 2025
Despite Trump’s tariffs battering the fossil fuel industry, bipartisan policies, including Democrat-backed subsidies, are rescuing Big Oil, locking in climate destruction while working-class…
Socialist Workers Movement of the Dominican Republic
The march in Friusa failed and the neo-fascist movement was divided
09 Apr 2025
The Dominican far-right’s violent march on Friusa collapsed in disarray, exposing weakness in the movement as racist mobs failed to overrun a working-class community. However, the threat remains.…
Black Alliance for Peace
Los Angeles Fires: The Santa Ana Blowback of Capitalist Climate Change Neglect
15 Jan 2025
The fires that have been raging in southern California for days are destroying the cities and homes of tens of thousands of people. This disaster, driven by the worsening climate crisis, is…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Comes with the Cost of Sacrificing Constitutionally Mandated Human Rights of NYC’s Environmental Justice Communities
08 Jan 2025
NYC's new congestion pricing program has grave environmental justice implications for poor, working class, and Black communities which will be subjected to increased pollution and poor air quality.
Krys Cerisier
COP29 Contradiction and the Climate
18 Dec 2024
Journalist Krys Cerisier attended the COP29 climate conference, where they reported and conducted interviews with activists from around the world demanding funding for climate solutions from the…
Kodjovi Kpachavi
Lawton’s Second Parasite: The Empire’s First Cobalt Refinery
27 Nov 2024
The domestic expression of imperialism has once again been made clear with the installation of a new cobalt refinery in an Oklahoma town. Through the extraction of raw materials from the global south…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Zionist Effort to Defund Climate and Environmental Justice
27 Nov 2024
Nonprofit organizations of all orientations are under attack, with threats of withholding funding, for their association with Palestine solidarity activities. Climate justice organizations have not…
Lylla Younes
Black Residents in Cancer Alley Try What May be a Last Legal Defense to Curb Toxic Pollution
23 Oct 2024
In St. James Parish, a zoning ordinance divides industrial development along racial lines.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Why All Hurricanes Should Be Named “Jim”
16 Oct 2024
Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Blue (MAGA) In Green (Or, U.S. Bourgeois Environmental Groups Prioritize the Democratic Party Over Environmental Justice Principles)
18 Sep 2024
The Democratic Party markets itself as the party of environmental protection while pursuing policies that are endangering all life on earth. Fossil fuel producers are able to do as they please…