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Welcome to the WIN Digest and welcome to the inaugural Racial Justice Community centered WIN Digest.
Last week, we focused on Indigenous People’s Day and resources based around assisting Indigenous people in gaining autonomy toward liberation. With climate change setting us on a breakneck speed toward larger and more frequent natural disasters, the need to listen to Indigenous voices, and BIPOC voices as a whole, is more important than ever.
Over the centuries Indigenous people have seen colonizers destroy, not only their culture but the health and well-being of the land they cared for so well.
Whether it's Indigenous people protesting ecological disasters like the Line 3 pipeline or Black activists in Flint Michigan fighting for clean drinking water, marginalized groups are often the ones most affected by climate change.
So why are we ignoring their cries for help?
Why is there not a place for oppressed people in the climate change discussion?
What is our fight for equity if not to uplift the voices of those most in need?
No more.
BIPOC voices not only deserve but NEED a place in the climate change discussion.
This issue we dedicate to those voices, left in the dark but still refusing to allow our planet go down quietly. May we all learn from their strength.