Climate Movement

The Commodification Of Social Justice

August 5, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! climate crisis, Climate Movement, Data Centers, Frontline Community

The data center subject has become a ubiquitous element of the U.S. polity that has implications for many pillars of U.S. society - economic, political/electoral, and environmental to name a few. The subject is very much an economic one as poor and working class United Statesians have been subjected to a meteoric rise in their electric bills - in one region of the country, customers who live close to data centers have seen their electricity costs rise as much as %267 in the last five years. Economic impacts associated with the data center subject in concert with specific impacts on the finances of poor and working class voters has made it very political during the current Midterm election cycle.

Climate Activists Take On A New Foe: Data Centers

June 30, 2026 Kate Yoder, People's World. Organize! Carbon emissions, Climate Movement, Data Centers, Green New Deal

Amid the many political casualties of 2025 — mass federal layoffs, shuttered agencies, and clean energy spending cuts — the passing of one of the last decade’s defining political projects went almost entirely unnoticed. On December 31, 2025, the Green New Deal Network, a coalition of climate, labor, and social justice organizations, officially died. The coalition wasn’t intended to last forever, but its demise was sped up by the political mood that got President Donald Trump reelected in 2024, when the momentum that the movement had enjoyed under Joe Biden’s administration seemingly evaporated overnight.

Veteran Climate Organizer’s New Book Shares Lessons From The Frontlines

August 9, 2025 George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Book Review, Climate Movement, Frontline Community, Solidarity

One route to enhancing an activist’s power is to sign up for training sessions, where you can receive coaching on how to improve your organizing skills. There’s only one problem: Sometimes there aren’t enough trainers to meet the growing demand. We learned this in the early 1960s, when the U.S. civil rights movement expanded too rapidly for available coaches to fill the need. As a result, Marty Oppenheimer and I published “A Manual for Direct Action.” When we ran out of copies, all we had to do was print more. The current level of environmental crisis is no doubt increasing the need and demand for more activist coaching. Thankfully, Eileen Flanagan’s new book — “Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from our Illusion of Separation” — has arrived just in time to help out. (Flanagan is a longtime Waging Nonviolence contributor.)

The Green Zone Of Controlled Opposition

August 6, 2025 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Climate Movement, Controlled opposition, Renewable Energy, Trump Administration

In three weeks, many in the Gulf South and across the country will commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which resulted in over 1,800 deaths and was responsible for over $100 billion in damage (un-adjusted 2005 dollars) . At a time when the climate crisis has only been exacerbated as the global capitalist dictatorship’s insatiable appetite for profit is only matched by its insatiable need to extract resources (including people and their labor), the United States, in particular, continues to move in ways that are antithetical to and completely dismissive of the science that tells us we must rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transform the way we develop, distribute, and make decisions about energy.

The 2024 Election Was The Final Nail In The US Climate Movement’s Coffin

November 18, 2024 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Big Greens, Climate Movement, Democrats, Election, Fossil Fuels, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris

The newest Global Carbon Budget Report found that carbon emissions were at a record high in 2024, despite the strong evidence that emissions must be cut drastically to mitigate the climate crisis. The United States, the largest producer of fossil fuels and responsible for 13% of global carbon emissions (with only 4% of the world's population), is largely responsible for the crisis. Clearing the FOG speaks with Anthony Rogers-Wright, a national racial and climate justice advocate, about the failures of the US climate movement and its fatal flaw of being loyal to the Democratic Party. That loyalty profoundly undermined the credibility of the big environmental groups in this election cycle. Rogers-Wright discusses the COP29 and where we go from here to build an independent and more strategic climate movement in the United States.

Unprincipled, Unstrategic, And Unsustainable: E(U)Logy For The US Climate “Movement”

November 13, 2024 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! climate crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Movement, Elections

In 1991, Strong Island trio, De La Soul dropped their second album on wax, “De La Soul is Dead.” Writer, Jeffery Harvey characterized the group’s sophomore offering as, “a kamikaze mission of salvation through sabotage,” noting that the group embarked on a high-wire act of destruction and deconstruction that included a sonic castigation of the corporate takeover of the hip hop brand that resulted in more funding and investment for hedonistic and misogynist manifestations that largely only exacerbated the “nihilism in the streets.”

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