Frontline Leaders Decry Lack of Progress for Real Climate Justice at COP27 and Call for Further Action to Protect Millions of Lives

It Takes Roots (ITR) consists of the Climate Justice Alliance, the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the Right to the City Alliance. The ITR COP27 Contingent also included the Movement for Black Lives - The Black Hive, Indigenous Climate Action, Just Transition Alliance, La Via Campasina, and the World March of Women.

View Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, third broadcast on COP27, conducted on Thursday, November 17, 2022. This recording focuses on the corporate dominance of the COP space and what social movements need to do to impact the climate negotiations process going forward.

This report focused on the corporate capture of the negotiations, particularly by Big Oil and Nuclear, how they are underwriting and drafting the false solution proposals being advanced and incorporated by the nation-states. It also focuses on the extensive “green washing” that occurred at COP27. And focuses on the need for social movements to regroup and build their own initiatives and programs to combat climate change, ecological destruction, and species loss.

Global Afrobeat Live Talk Show | Episode 7 November 15, 2022 live from COP27 Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt Featuring: Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson, USA with your host Denise Abdul-Rahman, The Chisholm Legacy Project & Global Afro-Descendent Climate Justice Collaborative

View Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, third broadcast on COP27, conducted on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. This interview features Anthony Rodgers-Wright with Black Alliance for Peace (BAP).

This report focused on some of the false solutions being promoted by the US government, the limitations of the climate measures in the Inflation Reduction Act, and the need for a global mass movement for a just transition to save complex life on our planet.

View Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, first broadcast on COP27, conducted on Thursday November 10, 2022. This interview features George Galvis, from Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, aka CURYJ (pronounced Courage).

This report focused on some of the challenges of the COP site, the limitations of the climate negotiations, and the need for a global mass movement for a just transition to save complex life on our planet.

A few days before the mid-term elections, on November 8, a team from Arte Reportage went to Jackson, a city of 150,000 inhabitants, capital of the State of Mississippi.

At the end of August, floods disrupted the operation of a water treatment plant essential for the city, but badly maintained for lack of money.

Faced with an emergency situation, this city in the South of the United States with an African-American majority, where the poverty rate is very high, spent several weeks without drinking water. This water crisis reveals the state of a country with aging infrastructure, a particularly staggering finding in the richest country in the world.

The Town Hall, run by a Democrat, denounces a flagrant lack of investment allocated to water management. The State of Mississippi, held by the conservatives of the Republican Party, denounces the negligence of the City and proposes to privatize the water to restore the network to working order.

In the meantime, daily life is turned upside down. Jackson is losing more and more people, its businesses are declining, young graduates are moving elsewhere. An explosive environment, which could lead to riots: left-wing movements are trying to mobilize the population around the defense of a quality public service for water. And the theses put forward at the national level by Bernie Sanders are making their way to the South of the United States.

Report by Vladimir Vasak (France, 2022)

available until 20/10/2052

View the Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, first broadcast on COP27, conducted on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.

This report back focused on some of the challenges of the COP site, the limitations of the climate negotiations, and the need for a global mass movement for a just transition to save complex life on our planet.

This Primer has been the product of a collective process of thinking between the authors and their organisations, who have been working in different ways on the concept of Just Transition with social movements, organisations and communities around the world, and trying to understand how this simple but powerful idea can help people to mobilise for genuine and transformative change. This is not a final or exhaustive vision of Just Transition, as different regions, communities, movements and organisations are developing their own visions (see the final section). However it is hoped that these key ideas and questions will give all readers tools for thinking more deeply about what Just Transition might mean for them, their movements, and their communities.

Authors

Kali Akuno, Katie Sandwell, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Jaron Browne

In collaboration with

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ)

Kali Akuno, the Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson, speaking on the Ayman Mohyeldin show on MSNBC on Saturday, September 24, 2022 about Jackson, MS ongoing water crisis and how it is linked with state mismanagement and corruption, as demonstrated by the Bret Favre welfare fraud scandal.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says privatizing the water system is “on the table.” But the city's mayor and others argue that would likely create more problems rather than fix Jackson's broken infrastructure.

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Jared Brey

More than 80% of the population in Jackson, Mississippi, is Black, and the residents there remain under a boil water notice without an end date in sight

by Imani StephensSeptember 13th, 2022

Organizer, writer, and educator Kali Akuno joins The Marc Steiner Show to explain how the current crisis is a reflection of capitalism's failures and decades of institutional racism.

Originally published on the Real News Network

Climate Justice Alliance Our Power Campaign Instagram Live Broadcast with Kali Akuno, Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson on the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS. This was live on Monday, September 12, 2022.

Mississippi’s mostly Black capital city has been at the mercy of a conservative white state government for decades. The water crisis is its latest battle for self-determination.

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Maddie Coates, a Community Organizer with Cooperation Jackson, speaks with the Status Coup News about the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS on Saturday, September 10, 2022.

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PHOTOGRAPH BY JEREMY LANGE

The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, reminds us how much worse things will get in a heating world if we don’t take action now. The Frontline shows us a path forward.

Jacque Reid interviews Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson Executive Director, about the ongoing Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi on the Jacque Reid Experience on Instagram Live on Friday, September 9, 2022.

This episode goes deep into the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, where water is no longer running from taps as a result of racist infrastructural failure. Our guest is Joshua Dedmond of Cooperation Jackson who is involved in coordinating emergency water response for residents.

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Al Jazeera English News focuses on the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS.

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

This interview features Kwame Braxton, a Cooperation Jackson member and co-anchor of the Community Production Cooperative. He shares his experience growing up in Jackson and Cooperation Jackson’s effort to raise awareness about the situation and what it is going to take to resolve it.

NY Times Film

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Over 150,000 people are without safe and reliable drinking water in Jackson, Miss. A pregnant mother, her husband and a community activist describe the dire conditions and explain how the water crisis has affected them.