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📣 The Next Issue of The Margin is Coming Spring 2025! 📣 This next issue marks a step toward our goal of publishing quarterly by 2026, bringing 20 long-form investigative stories to life each year. Your support fuels this expansion and solidifies #TheMargin as a leading voice for environmental and climate justice in media. 🎁 Please consider making a donation. Your gift makes an immediate impact. Donate today to uplift these crucial narratives. Donate at https://lnkd.in/e2bgTpWb Thank you for standing with us on this journey. Let’s create a just future together.

This Peace & Riot Pick was selected by Counterstream Media advisor Bakeyah S. Nelson. “This book is a vivid illustration of the complexities in confronting the false promise and peril of big oil,” she writes. Bakeyah is the Founder of Community Health Collaborative Consulting, LLC. Read the full list of recommendations in the latest issue of  📣Peace & Riot 📣 https://lnkd.in/dRq5arAr #environmentaljustice #peaceandriot #counterstreammedia #environmentalracism #frontlinecommunity #historicalfiction #africa #goodreads #booklover #bookstagram #bookcommunity #readingtime #ilovebooks #readersofig #readmorebooks #alwaysreading #bookhoarder #bookhaul #librarylife #bookstack

For the first time in history, climate activists held an entire season of sustained civil disobedience protests targeting Wall Street and big banks for their role in fueling the climate crisis. Deemed the “Summer of Heat”, hundreds of Environmental Justice leaders and advocates from the Gulf South gathered in New York City to challenge banks and insurers of the toxic petrochemical industries in their communities. “Insurance companies and banks have been involved with the sacrifice of our people since the days of enslavement,” Jo Banner, M.A. of the Descendants Project said. “Our communities can no longer bear the burden of poor climate, poor health, poor environment because of the pollutants that they continue to support.” Organizers visited BlackRock, Bank of America, KKR, MUFG, and Mizuho Wrapping headquarters to demand corporations stop financing environmental racism and climate destruction Read the full story in the latest issue of 📣Peace & Riot 📣 https://lnkd.in/gxTJ-CYr Watch the documentary produced by Texas Campaign for the Environment ➡️  https://lnkd.in/ggHVhicK 📷 Michael McKenzie M.Ed. 1 - Gulf South Delegates from Donaldsonville, Louisiana 2 - Gulf South Delegates from Texas 3 - Manny Rollerson, Founder of the Freeport Haven Project 4 - Juan Mancias, Chief of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas 5 - Climate Conversations of Brazoria County #summerofheat #peopleoverplastic #peopleoverprofit #environmentaljustice #environmentalinjustice #environementalracism #canceralley #nyc #divest #climate #climateactivism #climateaction #climatejustice #gulfsouth #gulfsouthrising #frontlinesrising #solidarity #peaceandriot #zine

This Giving Tuesday, we’re proud to debut the trailer for Solidarity Ride: Convergence, Resurgence, Healing & Justice, a powerful new documentary short that sheds light on environmental racism, social injustice, and the resilience of communities leading the charge for change. WATCH: https://lnkd.in/gJX6sBST In a world where environmental racism and social injustices continue to disproportionately affect communities of color, storytelling becomes one of the most powerful tools for change. DONATE: Your contribution makes Environmental Justice media initiatives like this possible. Big or small, every donation helps power media for Environmental Justice. Donations of:  🌟 $100 or more receive a *Special Thanks* credit in the film + Early Access to watch the full film online.  🎞 $1,000 or more receive a *Producer* credit in the film. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gQnVyq6z ‘Solidarity Ride: Convergence Resurgence Healing & Justice’ will be released on January 15, 2025. Follow our page for more updates. #solidarityride #freedomriders #environmentaljustice #environmentalracism #givingtuesday #give #donate #documentary #shortfilm #healing #justice #socialjustice #storytelling #narrativejustice #grassroots #activism #peoplepower #independentmedia

Born in rural Ethiopia, Weyessa McAlister founded Bridge H2OPE after experiencing the loss of his father and brother to water contamination at a young age. Today, he works to provide water solutions in the Global South while advancing clean water solutions as the Director of Community Conservation for  Potomac Conservancy. Read more about Weyessa’s work in the latest issue of  📣Peace & Riot 📣. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dRq5arAr #peaceandriot #waterjustice #potomac #Ethiopia #cleanwater #environmentaljustice #climatejustice #zine

In “Troubled Waters,” author Mary Annaïse Heglar gives us a front-row seat to the emotional and physical toll of climate-induced disasters. As we follow Corinne’s story, we’re transported into the heart of Mississippi’s swelling rivers and rising anxieties—an all-too-real manifestation of a destabilized climate. Through Corinne’s inner turmoil and her struggles with doubt, Heglar challenges us to confront the undeniable link between climate change and the extreme events reshaping our lives. Read more from the book with an introduction by our co-founder Shilpi Chhotray in the latest issue of  📣 Peace & Riot 📣. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gV3QEA7G #peaceandriot #climatefiction #mississippi #climateart #environmentaljustice #climatejustice #art #artmag #blackwriters #blackart #zine

The movement to #StopCopCity is founded on one of our most vital democratic principles: The freedom of expression and assembly. And right now, direct action is more important than ever. Learn more about our right to protest in one of our latest podcast episodes: “Protest” with Candice Fortin (Season 4, Episode 3). Then revisit our episode with Prism (@prismreports) climate justice reporter Ray Levy Uyeda about what’s happening in #Atlanta where the South River Forest — one of the four “city lungs” — is under attack. Audio from: ”The Hot Seat” (Season 3, Episode 2) #CopCity #EnvironmentalJustice  https://lnkd.in/gG8qMTYJ

In the wake of Hurricane Beryl’s destruction, Houston’s poet laureate Aris Kian turned to community members on social media to pen a collective poem archiving their grief. Read the full poem in the latest issue of  📣Peace & Riot 📣. 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gxTJ-CYr #peaceandriot #houstonstrong #poetlaureate #poetry #houston #climateart #environmentaljustice #climatejustice #beryl #hurricaneberyl #art #artmag #blackpoets #blackwriters #blackart #zine

Founded by Vivien Sansour, the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library and its Traveling Kitchen project seek to preserve and promote heritage,  threatened seed varieties, traditional Palestinian farming practices and the cultural stories and identities associated with them. 🌿 Based in the village of Battir, a UNESCO World Heritage site outside Bethlehem, the PHSL also serves as a space for collaborations with artists, poets, writers, journalists, and other members to showcase and promote their talents and work. Read the full story in the latest issue of Peace & Riot. 📣 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gxTJ-CYr #peaceandriot #palestine #heirloomseed #seedlibrary #seedsharing #storytelling #memorywork #environmentaljustice

📣 Calling all editors with a passion for Environmental Justice! Counterstream Media is looking for a talented Zine Editor for our next issue of Peace & Riot. 📝 Apply by November 15.