Environmental Justice
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Voices of the Rain
“Water sustains all life. Her songs begin in the tiniest of raindrops, transform to flowing rivers, travel to majestic oceans and thundering clouds and back to earth again. When water is threatened, all…
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Blue, With or Without Us
“Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue—that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.” Georgia O’Keeffe
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Hope from the “Fish Hawk”
“In this gloomy age, with our environment being assailed on so many fronts, it’s worth remembering the lesson of the Osprey.” Peter Dunne
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Impact
“Environmental protection doesn’t happen in a vacuum. One can’t separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.“ Jim Clyburn
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A New Day
Morning has broken like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. From “Morning Has Broken” hymn, words by Eleanor Farjeon Some mornings, I’m up early enough to catch the sunrise.…
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Connections
“This we know. The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth. All things are connected, like the blood that unites one family. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children…
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Battlefields
“The battlefields of life were first meadows and gardens. We made them into battlefields, and by the same power, we must release the dark spell, so they are meadows and gardens once again.”…
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Earth Remembers
“The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.” Patrisse Cullors
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Environmental Justice
“Environmental justice means loving my neighbor. It means speaking truth to power and standing up for the right to breathe clean air, the right to drink clean water and the right to eat…
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Exposed
“…injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,…
