Working towards ecological equity & climate justice in Gulf South communities on frontline of climate change. Come join us at now @taprootearth!
Gulf South- TX, LA, MS, AL, FL
Joined March 2013
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Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
Indigenous, Black, frontline, rural and low wealth communities need more than climate investments and jobs, we need #climatejustice.
Join @ndncollective and @TaprootEarth for a twitter space conversation reflecting on @POTUS recent EA's. Starting soon!
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
UPDATE! The proposal deadline has been extended to August 1.
*ALSO* @classcrits, in tandem with TapRoot Earth (@GCCLP), is now offering *40 Scholarships* to help defray expenses for attendance!
Call for Papers & Presentations!!
"Unlocking Inequality: Revisiting the Intersection of Race and Class" - October 21-22
Proposals due by by JUNE 30.
@ClassCrits @TSULaw & TapRoot Earth (@GCCLP)
extend a special invitation to junior scholars!
lpeproject.org/events/cfp-cl…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
Our new analysis with @HealthyGulf & @GCCLP shows that ending federal offshore oil and gas lease sales in the next Five-Year Program would have less than a penny per gallon increase on gas prices over the next 19 years - @maxinejoselow ejus.tc/3y30ITb
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
Industrial water use threatens Louisiana capital’s drinking water theguardian.com/environment/…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
Call for Papers & Presentations!!
"Unlocking Inequality: Revisiting the Intersection of Race and Class" - October 21-22
Proposals due by by JUNE 30.
@ClassCrits @TSULaw & TapRoot Earth (@GCCLP)
extend a special invitation to junior scholars!
lpeproject.org/events/cfp-cl…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
We'll be hosting our quarterly Southern Regional Water Call this Friday May 27 at 12:00 central/1:00 eastern, People from around the South are invited to learn from each other about how climate, water, and justice are intersecting where you live.
tinyurl.com/SouthernWaterCal…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
The video of our #ClimateJustice conversation with the amazing @CPichonBattle is now online. Check-it out! @gcclp @UCSCtransform #WeChooseNow transform.ucsc.edu/wechoosen…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
People, water, and the land must be respected. The reality of #climatechange is that we have very few options and we have very limited time to get it right. We must #ShutdownDAPL ✊🏽 @IndianCountry indiancountrytoday.com/news/…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
A thread: LBP, together with community partners, has crafted A Recovery Agenda for Louisiana to provide policymakers with programs and policy solutions to ensure that surplus dollars get where they are needed most. labudget.org/wp-content/uplo… #lalege #lagov (1/6)
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
Listen 🔈:@CPichonBattle, ED at @GCCLP joins @kristatippett on the @OnBeing podcast to share her story about life in the Bayou before & after Katrina + how climate change & sea level rise changed her life & community forever. #EnvironmentalJustice onbeing.org/programs/colette…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
It’s a human story.
It’s a story about home.
It’s a story about belonging.
It’s about what we know and love and hold dear.
This week @onbeing.
onbeing.org/programs/colette…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
The Water Equity & Climate Resilience Caucus response to new #IPCC report: We must stop fueling the #climate crisis and invest in climate-smart infrastructure, prioritizing overburdened communities. #WECR
Read the full statement: climatewaterequity.org/prior…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
#Climatechange is not the problem. Climate change is the most horrible symptom of an economic system that has been built for a few to extract every precious value out of this planet and its people… — Collette Pichon Battle
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
"Welcome #WRISE2022 Keynote @CPichonBattle, Founder & Executive Director of @GCCLP.
As a climate activist, Colette will share her expertise on equitable disaster recovery and advocacy initiatives that intersect with race, systems of power, and ecology.
⇨wriseleadershipforum.org
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
A judge has thrown out the Biden administration's massive oil & gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, rejecting a Trump-era environmental analysis that somehow concluded climate pollution would be worse *without* the sale: washingtonpost.com/climate-e… via @annamphillips @maxinejoselow
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
The way we finance water service now isn't working.
It's left critical updates unfunded in communities across the country despite rising rates that make water unaffordable for millions of families.
@kendix of @GCCLP offers an alternative in @PplPolicyProj.
#WaterforAll
Clean water is a human right no matter how little money you have. Governments should guarantee that right by simply eliminating water bills.
Check out this new paper by our national policy director over at @PplPolicyProj:
peoplespolicyproject.org/pro…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
Fantastic new article out by @dharnanoor featuring CCP member @MarkVinPaul on the devastating effects of failing to invest in a GND:"Inaction does not result in business as usual, it results in catastrophic death and devastation and a great deal of economic instability."
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Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
To achieve cross-sector systems change rooted in "reconciliation" and "healing," we must "sit in deep conversation about equitable distribution of resources," said Colette Pichon Battle, Esq., Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (@gcclp). #njwater21
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
Incredible people doing incredible work to represent + uplift the Gulf South at #COP26. I'm so honored to know + work with some of them. Thank you all so, so much for the work you do + inspire! 😍😍 @isevier @kendix
#GulfSouth4GND
Read more ⏩ gcclp.salsalabs.org/octjobop…
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP) retweeted
To end colonialism we gotta decolonize ourselves.
Thank you for your energetic dedication and inspiring words, Colette!
@COP26_Coalition @GCCLP
#COP26 #UprootTheSystem #ClimateJustice #OurTimeIsNow – at Leven, Scotland
