Thread by @AntoniaJuhasz

Today I'm sharing a thread of articles I've written featuring powerful women of color defining and defying the harms of racism--including environmental & climate racism--on their lives, with stories from across the U.S. and the world. I hope you'll read, share, & contribute. /1

First, meet Sharon Lavigne. Five generations of Lavigne’s family have lived in St. James, Louisiana. Not far from her home stands a historical marker heralding the 1872 founding of the Settlement of Freetown by former slaves./2 rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Meet Teri Garcia, Priscilla Villa, and Sema Hernandez who said of the fossil fuel companies operating in her neighborhood near Houston: "They're the ones creating the pollution. Why shouldn't they be forced to leave?" /3 sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-4-…

Meet 12-year-old Angelika Soriano, going head-to-head against a proposed coal terminal in her Oakland, California neighborhood: “I know I might be little,” Angelika begins in a spoken word poem. “But I make a huge impact on this earth.” /4
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Meet "Rana," descendent of the P’urhépecha indigenous people of Mexico. One of the thousands of water protectors who sought to halt construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline confronted by a massive militarized police and private security response./5 grist.org/justice/meet-o…

Meet the Jingle Dress Dancers who brought healing and prayer after a historic day of battle in North Dakota’s oil pipeline war./6 psmag.com/news/we-have-c…

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Among the many fierce women in this article is Lorrena Alameda, water protector, Dakota Sioux and Iraq war Army veteran. She describes hurt and shame at seeing the same equipment used in Iraq deployed on her homeland. “Eee ya ya," she says. They must go./8
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Meet 18-year-old, Rossmery Zayas of Southeast Los Angeles, Azeb Girmai of Ethiopia and Reem Al Mealla, Bahrain’s first female marine and conservation biologist. For @MsMagazine /9 antoniajuhasz.net/article/women-…

Meet Kandi Mossett (now White) @mhawea of @IENearth and her daughter, Ayana, members of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Nation. Describing their life in the heart of the ND Bakken #fracking boom, she says "It's been like death by a thousand cuts."/10
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Meet Inupiaq rap artist Allison Akootchook Warden, aka “AKU-MATU,” in Wainwright, Alaska as Shell's massive oilrig approaches to begin drilling. "It's a terrible thing to watch your culture be threatened in this way, our very way of life," she says. /11 newsweek.com/2015/10/23/she…

Meet rappers Katrina Pestaño and Sarra Tekola of @gotgreenseattle going head-to-head against the world's largest oil company to halt offshore oil drilling. “Climate denial is white class privilege,” Tekola says. @RollingStone
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Meet Alicia Cahuilla, native Waorani tribal leader in the Ecuadorian Amazon leading efforts to halt the spread of oil extraction. "We have the richness of the forest and the river. We need for nothing, except what the oil companies destroy." @CNN /13
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Meet Get Equals' Cd “Chaz” Kirven who after witnessing friends, transgender people, and butch women losing jobs without any protection began organizing against ExxonMobil, her work a direct extension of the Black civil rights movement. /14 @TheAdvocateMag advocate.com/print-issue/cu…

Meet Emem Okon, founder and executive director of Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre of Nigeria leading a thriving Nigerian ecofeminist movement and going head-to-head against the devastation wrought to her home by Chevron. /15 @MsMagazine msmagazine.com/2012/06/04/spe…

Another w/Emem Okon: “I am here to represent the women of the Niger Delta who live in communities near gas flares and who suffer health issues of infertility, early menopause, miscarriages, cancer, rashes – women who fish in waters polluted by Chevron.”/16
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Meet LaTosha Brown of the Saving Our-Selves (SOS) Coalition and the Gulf Coast Fund defending her community from the disaster of the BP Gulf Oil Spill. She explains, “This is the South, and strong women have always dominated in the South.” /17 @MsMagazine
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Meet and learn from many more women of color leading the struggle to defend against and rebuild from the BP Gulf oil disaster featured in my 2011 book, BLACK TIDE: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill. /18
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You'll read the stories of many fierce women of color leading struggles at the intersection of racism, environmental and climate injustice, and war whom I had the honor to feature in my 2008 book, The Tyranny of Oil. /19
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I end this thread by acknowledging the privilege that enables me to tell and share these stories through my own journalism and writing. I will continue to commit to my own ongoing efforts to uplift the work of women and girls of color so that their voices are directly heard. /20