A People’s Climate is currently in 1st place for the Webby People’s Voice—but it’s a tight race! Our show centers people power and frontline organizing as a counterforce to institutional agendas. We’d love your support, please vote and share: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting... @thenation.com

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A People'e Climate has been nominated for a Webby Award for Best Show, Sustainability and Environment! You can support them by voting here. @shilpichhotray.bsky.social vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

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"Her story is a reminder that even the largest corporations can be stopped when ordinary people refuse to back down." Diane Wilson, a fisherwoman from a small town in Texas, took on ExxonMobil. Guess who won? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray

Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries

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🎙️ UPROSE Executive Director @yeampierre.bsky.social on @thenation.com "A People's Climate" podcast. NYC's first community-owned solar project, Just Transition, and why frontline communities are the climate experts. Listen now ⬇️ tr.ee/imEAZey_eB

My latest conversation with @yeampierre.bsky.social moves us beyond “green energy” and centers a Just Transition: local ownership, worker protections, and building intergenerational power. 🌱Featuring the work of @uprose.bsky.social Tune into A People's Climate for @thenation.com

(Solar) Power to the People, With Elizabeth Yeampierre

On A People's Climate: The path to climate justice is local.

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Yesterday, through a flurry of interviews & phone calls, @tinavasquez.bsky.social wrote this excellent report on the immigration raids in cities across North Carolina. She spoke to community members about the devastation & fear, as well as the love & resistance. prismreports.org/2025/11/19/n...

North Carolina immigration raids expected to escalate

As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities

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How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray

How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray

Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries

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A Texas shrimper just made ExxonMobil pause a $10 billion plastics project. My new op-ed in @us.theguardian.com explores how Diane Wilson and her community used a local court challenge to pressure one of the world’s most powerful oil companies. @breakfreefromplastic.org @goldmanprize.bsky.social

How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray

Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries

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These aren’t isolated NIMBY fights but a regional reckoning with a century of extraction. As heat and storms worsen, #Exxon still calls its #oil and petrochemical expansion “accelerating a just transition” —a claim verging on self-parody. share.google/9rj2v2CyzIQK... via @shilpichhotray.bsky.social

How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray

Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries

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Palestinian seed saver and conservationist Vivien Sansour explains why environmental annihilation is a weapon of war — and why climate movements must speak clearly about genocide. Hear the latest episode of A People's Climate for @thenation.com.

Seeds of Resistance, With Vivien Sansour

On A People's Climate: “If you want to support Palestine, get free.”

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Tennessee Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social is taking on unchecked corporate power grabs: from Big Oil to Big Tech. In S. Memphis, Musk’s xAI data centers are polluting the air, guzzling water, and undermining hard-won environmental protections. Hear our timely conversation for @thenation.com

Memphis vs. Musk, With Representative Justin J. Pearson

“No matter how many billions you have, you don't have enough to buy our lives.”

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This is cool: @shilpichhotray.bsky.social interviews @justinjpearson.bsky.social for her podcast "A People's Climate" talking about his work defending Memphis communities from oil companies and Elon Musk. Happy to have connected them. Check it out! @thenation.com @counterstream.bsky.social 1/

Memphis vs. Musk, With Representative Justin J. Pearson

“No matter how many billions you have, you don't have enough to buy our lives.”

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Leah Penniman from Soil Fire Farm breaks down how land justice and reparations can drive policy, people power, and a movement to dismantle Big Ag. 🌾 We also trace the legacy of stolen land, wealth disparities, and the fight to build Black land commons on A People’s Climate for @thenation.com.

All Revolution Is Based on Land, with Leah Penniman

On A People's Climate: What the soil can teach us in the fight for climate justice.

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Solving the climate crisis takes innovation and connection. 🌱 Hear Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman on A People’s Climate with @shilpichhotray.bsky.social exploring #food justice, land, and liberation. By @counterstream.bsky.social 🎧 lnkd.in/esiN-9mC #Land #Soil #Farming #Farms

‼️The climate story is being shaped by the very industries causing climate chaos. Edelman built the fossil fuel playbook and now it’s running comms for COP30. Meanwhile, frontline communities have a different story to tell. My latest for @thenation.com.

How a PR Giant Hijacked COP30 to Greenwash the Planet

Edelman invented the fossil fuel narratives, and now it’s running communications for COP30. All the while, frontline communities are telling very different stories.

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The Klamath River runs through the heart of Yurok life. For decades, the community fought to free it — and in 2024, they won. I spoke with Yurok Tribal attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis about what it means to restore a river, a people, and a way of life in my latest conversation for @thenation.com.

The Water Remembers, With Amy Bowers Cordalis

On A People's Climate: The largest dam removal in US history.

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In my latest conversation for @thenation.com, I chat with Nick Tilsen of @ndncollective.bsky.social about Indigenous sovereignty, #LandBack, & the power of collective organizing. Nick's fight is deeply connected to the struggle for Palestinian freedom: rooted in resistance to occupation & erasure.

It’s Never a Strategy to Remain Quiet, With Nick Tilsen

On A People's Climate: A call for big, bad, bold courage.

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ICE criminalizes survival. In my latest conversation for @thenation.com, #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Patrisse Cullors unpacks the science behind movements — and why the fight for abolition is inseparable from the fight for a livable planet. narrativeedit.substack.com/p/patrisse-c...

Today, we’re revisiting a powerful story from Peace & Riot with @raniabatrice.bsky.social that explores the intersections of climate justice and Palestinian liberation. Read the story here: tinyurl.com/palestine-cl...

Palestinian Land, Heritage, and Identity — Peace & Riot

As the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Rania Batrice has blazed a life path as a voice for the silenced including the topics of gun violence, climate change, immigration, and women’s rights. Rania...

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Patrisse Cullors, artist, abolitionist, and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter talks about the science behind movements and what it takes to build solidarity across climate and racial justice in my latest conversation for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/podcast/envi...

Mass Movements, With Patrisse Cullors

On Episode 2 of A People's Climate: This is when people-powered movements matter most.

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We’re listening to “A People’s Climate” by our friends @counterstream.bsky.social which just launched last weekend👏 The show exposes the omissions in climate coverage while amplifying the voices of the people most harmed by ecological violence when we talk about climate change. Listen ⤵️

A People's Climate — Counterstream Media

Climate conversations about real, grassroots action that puts power back in the hands of the people. From Counterstream and The Nation. Hosted by Shilpi Chhotray.

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The climate crisis isn’t just about carbon. It’s about democracy, power, and whose lives are treated as expendable Read my op ed: The Climate Crisis Has Blind Spots. We’re Here to Expose Them. And learn more in A People’s Climate, @counterstream.bsky.social's new podcast with @thenation.com🎙️

The first episode of A People’s Climate for @thenation.com is here 🎙️ Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper took on the sixth largest chemical company in the world and won. But her story goes far deeper: decades of organizing for prison reform, anti-war, and the fight for human dignity.

🎙️ Breaking Down Walls: Diane Wilson’s Relentless Fight for Justice

The first episode of A People’s Climate, a new podcast for The Nation, uncovers the radical history of one woman’s fight against corporate power, mass incarceration, and militarism

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The climate crisis isn’t just about carbon. It’s about democracy, power, and whose lives are treated as expendable Read my op ed: The Climate Crisis Has Blind Spots. We’re Here to Expose Them. And learn more in A People’s Climate, @counterstream.bsky.social's new podcast with @thenation.com🎙️

The Climate Movement Has Blind Spots. We’re Here to Expose Them.

The people most harmed by ecological violence are usually the least represented in the stories we consume about climate change. That’s why the podcast A People’s Climate exists.

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Billionaires won't save us from the climate crisis. What will? People power. Introducing A People’s Climate, a new podcast by @counterstream.bsky.social & The Nation, hosted by Shilpi Chhotray. Coming 9/27! https://www.thenation.com/podcast/environment/introducing-a-peoples-climate/

@abc7news.bsky.social asked about climate blind spots. @shilpichhotray.bsky.social said the ‘A People’s Climate’ podcast “isn’t climate talk as usual”—it highlights environmental justice, inequities in climate systems, and links to racial justice solutions. slingshot.twdc.com/getfile.php?...

Joined Kari Hall on @nbcbayarea.com to talk about our new podcast "A People’s Climate" 🎙️ launching with @thenation.com. First episode drops Sept 27 🔥 Learn more: www.counterstream.org/apc-podcast

How climate change affects people of color

Environmentalist and social justice advocate Shilpi Chhotray talks about how climate change affects people of color

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Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the world to read.

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Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the ...

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The International Court of Justice can name climate obligations. Why won’t it confirm genocide? prismreports.org/2025/08/14/i... Grateful to @prismreports.org for the space to connect these fights, and for their fearless coverage of Gaza.

ICJ can name climate obligations. Why won’t it confirm genocide?

The International Court of Justice’s silence on Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians reveals how international law fails the vulnerable

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🏭 In Louisiana, telling the truth about air pollution could cost you $1 million. @descendantsproject.bsky.social

Pollution is legal. Reporting it carries a million dollar fine.

At the heart of a new lawsuit against Louisiana: a battle over narrative, public health, and the right to tell the truth.

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Our team is thrilled to be shortlisted for the International Women’s Podcast Awards in the category for “changing the world one moment at a time!” Take a peek and listen our episode titled “Protest” with @candicefortin.bsky.social of @350.org hosted and created by yours truly. ✨🎙️