LNS co-director Joshua Dedmond was recently elected to the Board of LNS’ allied organization Climate Justice Alliance. CJA was formed in 2013:
“to create a new center of gravity in the climate movement by uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force. Our translocal organizing strategy and mobilizing capacity is building a Just Transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression, and towards resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. We believe that the process of transition must place race, gender and class at the center of the solutions equation in order to make it a truly Just Transition.”
CJA is a growing member alliance of 95 urban and rural frontline communities, organizations and supporting networks in the climate justice movement. It is composed of “locally, tribally, and regionally-based racial and economic justice organizations of Indigenous Peoples, Black, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, and poor white communities who share legacies of racial and economic oppression and social justice organizing.
Congratulations, Joshua!