People's Climate March
Today, the Right To The City Alliance marched with the larger Climate Justice Alliance. The frontlines of the climate crisis are low-income people, communities of color and indigenous communities. We understand that the climate crisis will affect everyone, but will have harsher consequences for low income people and communities of color. As housing organizers and people who care deeply about housing justice we see how climate change has and will exacerbate the conditions of gentrification and displacement. The wealth of neighborhoods often influences the way that recovery efforts for major climate crisis incidents gets prioritized. We hope to change this trend. We are the hardest hit by both climate disruption––the storms, floods and droughts––as well as by the extractive, polluting and wasteful industries causing global warming. We are also at the forefront of innovative community-led solutions that ensure a just transition off fossil fuels, and that support an economy good for both people and the planet. We know that we must rush recovery funds from floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters to displaced groups and low-income families who need it most.
Right to the City emerged in 2007 as a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt the displacement of low-income people, people of color, marginalized LGBTQ communities, and youths of color from their historic urban neighborhoods. We are a national alliance of racial, economic and environmental justice organizations. Through shared principles and a common frame and theory of change, RTTC is building a national movement for racial justice, urban justice, human rights, and democracy
The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a collaborative of over 35 community-based and movement support organizations uniting frontline communities to forge a scalable, and socio-economically just transition away from unsustainable energy towards local living economies to address the root causes of climate change.
People's Climate March
Today, the Right To The City Alliance marched with the larger Climate Justice Alliance. The frontlines of the climate crisis are low-income people, communities of color and indigenous communities. We understand that the climate crisis will affect everyone, but will have harsher consequences for low income people and communities of color. As housing organizers and people who care deeply about housing justice we see how climate change has and will exacerbate the conditions of gentrification and displacement. The wealth of neighborhoods often influences the way that recovery efforts for major climate crisis incidents gets prioritized. We hope to change this trend. We are the hardest hit by both climate disruption––the storms, floods and droughts––as well as by the extractive, polluting and wasteful industries causing global warming. We are also at the forefront of innovative community-led solutions that ensure a just transition off fossil fuels, and that support an economy good for both people and the planet. We know that we must rush recovery funds from floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters to displaced groups and low-income families who need it most.
Right to the City emerged in 2007 as a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt the displacement of low-income people, people of color, marginalized LGBTQ communities, and youths of color from their historic urban neighborhoods. We are a national alliance of racial, economic and environmental justice organizations. Through shared principles and a common frame and theory of change, RTTC is building a national movement for racial justice, urban justice, human rights, and democracy
The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a collaborative of over 35 community-based and movement support organizations uniting frontline communities to forge a scalable, and socio-economically just transition away from unsustainable energy towards local living economies to address the root causes of climate change.