Coretta Anderson
@coretta.bsky.social
creative & strategic partnerships @earthjustice. board of directors @one earth philanthropy. no climate justice without racial justice. occasional❤️🔥sports takes. my mother’s daughter. dog mama to Bowie. she|her. thoughts shared are mine. PFB: Freedom Quilt
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d agoBreaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.
what a match! the US Open doesn't disappoint. an amazing day of tennis.
anyone else notice that Google’s Labor Day Doodle has no people in it
Not my girl, Dolly. 💔 Loved that woman my whole life. May she rest well.
The thing about “woke 1” was that it was substantially correct.
in July, bystander video of another police killing in broad daylight went viral. 6 years since 2020's movement to defund and abolish police, killings have risen—now including Corey Ruiz. organizers place his killing in a long backlash to it, which began immediately: police budgets went up by 2022
Killing of Corey Ruiz revives calls to shift power from police to communities
Community organizers demand systemic changes after police killed a 38-year-old Black man in Wisconsin
theguardian.com
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
Must-read story by @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @propublica.org. Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study @themadstone.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social @katieworth.bsky.social
Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
propublica.org
A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide
Trump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rules
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationw...
reuters.com
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The New York Groove@nygroove.nyc · 4mo ago"I'm gonna fly out and I'm gonna go to a game, and my kids asked ‘Can we go?’ and I said, ‘You haven't suffered enough, you don't have enough equity to earn this trip.’” @davecolon.bsky.social talked to Knicks loyalists about the sweet unfamiliar smell of success nygroove.nyc/diehard-knic...
Here’s the gift link A remarkable life.
Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95
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A beautiful and important 🧵 Worth your time today
Jeanne Theoharis@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt’s time to reckon with the full activist life & legacy of Coretta Scott King. And particularly on Memorial Day, we need to see her as the antiwar leader that she was, leading her husband & the nation. She had that global perspective and anti-militarism when she and MLK met in 1952. A month-long 🧵
Ms Rachel and Mychal the librarian are out here trying to shut down a child jail. Let this be inspiration to others to do the same.
Louisiana's SCOTUS-enabled racial gerrymandering will bring the tyranny of toxicity without representation to the mostly Black folks of heavily polluted 'Cancer Alley,' who'll lose a seat in Congress Voting rights die, environmental racism thrives. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/raci...
For La.’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black voting struggle is a fight to breathe | Will Bunch
For disadvantaged Black residents of the most heavily polluted region in America, racial redistricting is a life-or-death matter.
inquirer.com
