Elizabeth Yeampierre: ‘We have to build intergenerational power’
Puerto Rican attorney and environmental justice leader. Executive director of Uprose, Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization
“What [big organizations in the climate movement] should be doing is supporting frontline leadership because we’re the ones that are being impacted by climate change. Not the other way around. They extract our narratives. They extract our resources. They extract our young people. That extraction is capitalist and it’s colonizing. Changing their culture of practice so that it’s in alignment with the work that we’re all doing would mean a fundamental change.”