02-14-2025, 06:51 PM
Quote:According to Fox News, Zeldin, who was sworn in as the EPA administrator at the end of January 2025, was on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” on Thursday, where he spoke about cancelling the grant.
“Just earlier today, I cancelled a $50 million grant to an organisation called the Climate Justice Alliance.
“They say that climate justice runs through a free Palestine. I think that the American taxpayer wouldn’t want $50 million going to this left-wing advocacy group. It’s cancelled,” he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-s-canceled-trump-s-team-exposes-biden-administration-s-50-million-gift-to-group/ar-AA1z1Ysf?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=8401174c654f48348642874a0971a9d9&ei=26
Biden giving 50 million to these guys....
https://climatejusticealliance.org/
Quote:The path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine
Together with Movement Generation and Survival Media Agency, Climate Justice Alliance created a short video that uses an anti-colonial framework to show how Climate Justice and the liberation of Palestine are connected.
interview with Elizabeth Yeampierre, Board Co-Chair
Quote:ELIZABETH YEAMPIERRE: Climate change is the result of a legacy of extraction, of colonialism, of slavery. A lot of times when people talk about environmental justice they go back to the 1970s or ‘60s. But I think about the slave quarters. I think about people who got the worst food, the worst health care, the worst treatment, and then when freed, were given lands that were eventually surrounded by things like petrochemical industries. The idea of killing black people or indigenous people, all of that has a long, long history that is centered on capitalism and the extraction of our land and our labor in this country.
“Climate change is the result of a legacy of extraction, of colonialism, of slavery.”
For us, as part of the climate justice movement, to separate those things is impossible. The truth is that the climate justice movement, people of color, indigenous people, have always worked multi-dimensionally because we have to be able to fight on so many different planes.
When I first came into this work, I was fighting police brutality at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund. We were fighting for racial justice. We were in our 20s and this is how we started. It was only a few years after that I realized that if we couldn’t breathe, we couldn’t fight for justice and that’s how I got into the environmental justice movement. For us, there is no distinction between one and the other.
In our communities, people are suffering from asthma and upper respiratory disease, and we’ve been fighting for the right to breathe for generations. It’s ironic that those are the signs you’re seeing in these protests — “I can’t breathe.” When the police are using chokeholds, literally people who suffer from a history of asthma and respiratory disease, their breath is taken away. When Eric Garner died [in 2014 from a New York City police officer’s chokehold], and we heard he had asthma, the first thing we said in my house was, “This is an environmental justice issue.”
The communities that are most impacted by Covid, or by pollution, it’s not surprising that they’re the ones that are going to be most impacted by extreme weather events. And it’s not surprising that they’re the ones that are targeted for racial violence. It’s all the same communities, all over the United States. And you can’t treat one part of the problem without the other, because it’s so systemic.
The Dems can kiss my ass in the county square. All their bullshit has to stop if they want my vote again.
$50,000,000 could do a lot of good work in my neck of the woods.
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