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Protecting our planet starts with
protecting our people.
In Brooklyn’s
Sunset Park, corporate developments are paving
over green spaces and raising rent. But the
community is coming together to reclaim their
space – building communal
gardens, installing solar panels, and fighting
gentrification – led by youth artist
and climate justice organizer Adan
Palermo.
This week, we
released the third installment in
The
World We Need series – in it, Adan
Palermo tells his story of
fighting corporate development
and building environmental
resilience in New York City’s
concrete jungle. Will you help
us continue this series, so we can tell the
stories and uplift the voices of leaders from
critical environmental battles?
The World
We Need is a compelling series
of first-person narrated animations that feature
leading lights of the movement
for environmental justice. This series achieves
several storytelling goals: it centers the
stories of leaders and
communities too often underrepresented in
environmental media, inspires viewers to
explore their own purpose and
passion for changemaking, and dovetails with
our Grassroots Grants program in an important
way – by driving financial and
other forms of support toward leaders and groups
on the frontlines of the fight for a
more sustainable, just and equitable future.
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Last year,
The
World We Need brought you the
stories of Eric Enos, who preserves and teaches
the ancient Hawaiian practices of
caring for land and sea, and Sharon Lavigne,
who fights to prevent the toxic
buildout of plastics plants in Cancer Alley,
Louisiana. Later this year,
we’ll bring you the story of Alaskan Gwich’in
leader Bernadette Demientieff, who is fighting
to protect the pristine
wilderness of the Arctic Refuge from oil
drilling.
Will
you help us keep the series
going?
These
activists are close to the pain,
but also close to the promise – their local
victories have a ripple effect and far reaching
consequences for all of us. We
provide stipends of $1,000 to each of the
activists we feature, which is funded
through our Grassroots Grants program. It serves
as a mini-grant to the organizations they
represent. And, we’re developing wraparound
materials for each activist, building out our
website and social channels with material on
their background, links to their organizations,
how to support or donate, and updates on their
campaigns, as well as study guides and short
curricula for educators. Your
support will help us produce these inspiring
stories and bring them to audiences around the
world.
Thank you for
standing behind stories that matter.
Miguel and The
Story of Stuff
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