Welcome to our Climate Justice Digital Storybook. We kicked off the storybook at a community dialogue in late 2011, in partnership with the Sierra Club. This storybook will grow in the coming years, to show the depth of knowledge and understanding in New Mexico and larger southwest region’s grassroots communities about the urgent problem of global warming and climate change. Please check back often.
~The SouthWest Organizing Project, www.swop.net
- "Poor folks don't turn up their furnaces"
- Language is important
- "1% pollutes the world; 99% suffers"
- Transformational leaders come "from us", that's what the 99% is about
- "We have a very polluted political system"
- "We're in the boiling kettle"
- Nuclear isn't green
- Mining has long and detrimental health legacy on Navajo
- Climate justice is the largest moral, ethical, spiritual issue of our day
- "Our graves have been desecrated (to mine coal)"
- It's about the Dineh way of life
- We’re the 1%, humanity. The 99% is the plant lifes...the water beings that live in the ocean, the four legged.
- Environmental destruction from mining has a long history
About the Climate Justice Digital Storybook
A December 7th dialogue held in Albuquerque, New Mexico is the basis for this digital storybook about climate justice. Sponsored by The SouthWest Organizing Project and the Sierra Club, the discussion was wide-ranging, and our video captures here include both panelists as well as audience members who spoke to us in a special studio we created. The panelists included:
Leona Morgan, Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining; Shrayas Jatkar, Sierra Club; Sister Joan Brown, Interfaith Power and Light; NM State Rep. Eleanor Chavez; Travis McKenzie, Project Feed the Hood; Navajo green economy leader Anna Rondon; and Albuquerque City Councilor Rey Garduno. The panel was moderated by Juan Reynosa, SouthWest Organizing Project.
Audience members who participated in the storybook, and who you will also see in the videos here, were Amber Harris, Norman Patrick Brown, Ron Kinsel, and Lucille Cordova.
This site is maintained by The SouthWest Organizing Project, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We'll be growing and enhancing our storybook in the coming year, and welcome contributions. Please contact us at climatejusticenm@gmail.com.
