Jamala Rogers

if we’re committed to fighting the systems of governmental and capitalist oppression, those systems are not going to pay us to bring them down. An environmental nonprofit whose major funder is ExxonMobil is not likely to make much headway in the quest for environmental justice.

We learned how essential family, friends and nature are to our overall well-being. We understood our inter-connectedness in deep and practical ways.

they are aggressively carrying out the calculated plan to derail the political and economic agenda of Black folks. All that cannot be taken back will be discredited or destroyed.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did its usual song-and-dance and assured residents there would be no harm to humans. Residents reported dying chickens, cats and dogs.

The Missouri Attorney General has always been white. This was a showdown for racial justice.

They are doubling down and passing laws in red states that give them even more protection from justice-seeking voters.

Most of us were so focused on the crumbs we would receive from ARPA, we didn’t see what the phat cats were getting out of the deal.

Our movements need to go cold turkey on our gradualism addiction and be prepared to take some unflinching liberatory leaps this year.

Based upon the trauma we are putting on the planet, it will become more difficult - and more expensive - to guarantee safe water to residents.