FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Virginia Rodino, virginia@labor4sustainability.
July 1, 2025
Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) Executive Directors Liz Ratzloff and Joshua Dedmond have recently been elected to serve on the boards of two important allied coalitions within the climate justice movement.
LNS co-director Joshua Dedmond has been elected to the National Board of the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA).
Climate Justice Alliance 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.”
LNS Co-Executive Director Liz Ratzloff was elected to the board of RE-AMP. The mission of the RE-AMP Network is to set collective strategy and enable collaboration on climate solutions in the Midwest. Its North Star Goal is to equitably eliminate greenhouse gas emissions in the Midwest by 2050.
“While some member organizations focus on policy advocacy, others work in frontline communities or focus on building the political will necessary for climate action. Over 130 groups including the Minneapolis Foundation, Union of Concerned Scientists, Joyce Foundation, Ohio Citizen Action, Black Environmental Leaders Association, Climate Generation, Ecology Center, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, Sierra Club, Center for Rural Affairs, and many others bring a diversity of perspectives that not only position the Network to build a broader and more effective climate movement in the Midwest, but also amplify Network members’ collective power and ability to achieve results. By thinking systemically and acting collaboratively as peers, funders and advocates within the RE-AMP Network have been working diligently over the last decade toward our shared goal.”
Liz’ and Joshua’s election reflects the growing momentum for building a stronger labor strategy within the climate justice movement and the leadership LNS is bringing to that effort.
Please join me in celebrating this exciting moment for Joshua, Liz, LNS, and for the labor-climate movement.
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The Labor Network for Sustainability strives to be a relentless force for urgent, science-based climate action by building a powerful labor-climate movement to secure an ecologically sustainable and economically just future where everyone can make a living on a living planet.