Earthworks Supports Anti Racist Organizations

By Raquel Dominguez, Anaïs Peterson, Brytnee Laurette, Kaitlyn Joshua, Jennifer Krill

Final week, Earthworks made donations to 6 organizations who’re combating white supremacy and advancing reproductive, immigrant, Indigenous, and environmental justice. 

Descriptions of those organizations are under, together with the Earthworks employees who nominated every of them. Our monetary contributions are a part of our commitment to dismantle white supremacy, patriarchy, transphobia, and different programs of oppression each internally and externally. That is the second yr Earthworks has made donations to organizations doing antiracist work (you will discover our 2020 weblog here).

Our work defending communities from the impacts of oil, gasoline, and hardrock mineral extraction is guided by the work of many Black, Indigenous, and students of colour; this yr we now have been notably knowledgeable by Kimberlé Crenshaw, creator of intersectionality theory, and the Southwest Community for Environmental and Financial Justice (SNEEJ), creator of the Jemez Principles. 

Environmental and local weather justice are solely attainable by the abolition of programs of oppression. The organizations we now have donated to all contribute to constructing a greater world as they dismantle the previous one. We specific our gratitude to those organizations for all the things that they’re doing and decide to act in solidarity with them as we try and do the identical. 

Abolitionist Legislation Heart – Combat Poisonous Prisons Marketing campaign nominated by Anaïs Peterson

The ALC is a public curiosity regulation agency organizing for the tip of race and sophistication primarily based mass incarceration. The ALC has ongoing campaigns to free political prisoners, combat poisonous prisons and advocate in opposition to solitary confinement and loss of life by incarceration (life with out parole). The marketing campaign to combat poisonous prisons attracts from each the abolitionist motion and the environmental justice motion. Low revenue and communities of colour are these most frequently on the frontlines of the violence of air pollution and incarceration. You may donate to the ALC’s Combat Poisonous Prisons Marketing campaign here. 

O’odham Anti-Border Collective nominated by Brytnee Laurette 

O’odham Anti-Border Collective is a grassroots collective of Akimel O’odham, Tohono O’odham and Hia Ced O’odham tribal members and descendants dedicated to the unification of all O’odham peoples, regeneration of O’odham himdag (traditions, spirituality, language and tradition), and the safety of O’odham Jewed (homelands) by the dismantling of colonial borders. A member of the O’odham Anti-Border Collective, Amber Ortega, is dealing with trial for defending her ancestral homelands (Quitobaquito Spring) from border militarization. You may donate to the O’odham Anti-Border Collective by Paypal here – while you log in, you will discover them at @antibordercollective. 

Trans Asylum Seeker Help Community nominated by Brytnee Laurette

The Trans Asylum Seeker Help Community is a border abolitionist direct motion and mutual help collective. It focuses on supporting transgender asylum seekers crossing the border, getting out of detention, and securing housing, authorized assist, healthcare, and transportation. This group offers complete day by day monetary and materials assist, constructing thriving lives and communities, and successful asylum instances. You may donate to the Trans Asylum Seeker Help Community here. 

Celina Indian Heart supported households nominated by Anaïs Peterson

This previous November the Celina Indian Heart in Southwestern Ohio closed after 45 years of supporting native Indigenous households. The middle was supporting 30 households in SWOH with meals and final yr offered toys for 200 kids for the vacations. Particularly with the middle closing, these households are in want of assist this vacation season for meals and toys this yr. You may donate to the Celina Indian Heart by Heartbeat Gardens here with a word that the donation must be earmarked “WETU” (a Lakota phrase which means ‘when life pressure flows’). 

One other Gulf is Attainable Collaborative nominated by Kaitlyn Joshua 

The One other Gulf is Attainable Collaborative is a woman-of-color-led grassroots collaborative that facilities cultural organizing, arts-based therapeutic, direct motion, advocacy, transformative justice, training, and locally-led capacity-building coaching. They function from Brownsville, Texas to Pensacola, Florida. You may donate to the One other Gulf is Attainable Collaborative (through examine) here. 

Southern College Scholar Coalition nominated by Kaitlyn Joshua

The Southern College Scholar Coalition is Southern University’s Sierra Club chapter, and are often known as the 771 Alliance. They’re led by Black and brown college students and do mutual help and catastrophe reduction work all through Louisiana. You may donate to the Southern College Scholar Coalition by @SUSC771 on Paypal here, or by sending a examine to the Sierra Club Foundation at the linked address, please earmark the examine for ‘Southern College Scholar Coalition.’ 

Very long time abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba says all the things worthwhile is completed with different folks. Preventing capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and different programs of oppression means committing to work you didn’t see the start of and won’t see the tip of. It isn’t simply essential to work in collaboration with others however essential to each facet of those struggles. Whereas we will not be collaborating on a daily foundation with these organizations, we share their dedication to a world free from injustice.

We invite you to face in solidarity with them, by monetary assist, by studying about their work, and by becoming a member of their campaigns for justice.