Congrats to our friends, the Climate Change Crew, who just won First Place for their song “Change is Needed” in Green For All’s The Dream Reborn Story Contest!
Listen to the song here.
This group hails from the Twin Cities; they are Awesome. Here’s what they have to say about it:
We are high school students from Minneapolis and St. Paul. We represent the Twin Cities low-income communities of color, whose voices often go unheard when major decisions are made. We work through a lens of understanding that climate change is an “opportune crisis”. We believe that if decisions are made to address climate change with intent to also address current social problems, we can reshape and rebuild our communities so that they are sustainable, both socially and environmentally. In our day-to-day work we are informing our generation about climate change problems and solutions, and are working both to be, and strengthen, the voice for our communities on this important issue. We work on the ground to make our communities sustainable by organizing our neighborhoods around urban agriculture projects, providing people living in food deserts with access to fresh and nutritious foods.
We’re looking forward to working working with the Climate Change Crew, and having them represent on RYSE. Congratulations!
Kasha is the RYSE Blog Content Coordinator. She is a lover of justice and nature. Kasha formerly worked on the Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign for RAN, and is currently managing the RYSE Blog remotely from Hawai'i.
Kasha is committed to making this world better, and especially working with Native communities in the struggle for environmental justice and self-determination. In addition to RYSE, she blogs at www.cultivatingdomesticity.com in an effort to reposition the “domestic” as central in our acts of revolution.
She wants to help you blog about your own passions and activism right here – so hit her up on the “apply to be a blogger” page!
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RYSE is the youth branch of RAN, Rainforest Action Network, which works to protect the Earth and support human rights through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
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Climate Change is really scary, now we have super typhoons and a lot of flooding going on some countries..”;~