Elizabeth Yeampierre, the executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization and co-chair of the national Climate Justice Alliance, told ICN’s reporters that she considers showing up to fight police brutality and racial violence an essential element of her climate crisis activism. Since “big green” eco-organizations have used the climate justice narrative without necessarily making it a priority of their agendas, Yeampierre says they should take direction from Black Lives Matter organizers in this matter.
Black Lives Matter: Eco-advocacy groups step forward with vows to fight for environmental AND racial justice