by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 15, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Events
Join us! We are attending an event called Richmond, Virginia Poor People’s Hearing. RSVP today and join the Virginia Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and National Co-Chairs Rev. Drs. Barber and Theoharis as we hold a Poor...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 14, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Events
Mindy Zlotnick and Hanuman will present to the Waynesboro Community on the Community Rights and Rights of Nature Movement lead by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund [CELDF]. The film, “We the People 2.0” will be shown, followed by a...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 7, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
It has been said that where you stand often depends on where you sit. Such is the case with the term “old plantation.” People who want to distort the cruel history of slavery in America use the term “old plantation” to conjure false and comforting (to some) memories...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 29, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Health & Safety
The following press release is from the Global Justice Ecology Project, following today’s vote by Gov. Northam’s Advisory Council on Environmental Justice (ACEJ) to make its letter, calling for a moratorium on further construction of the fracked-gas Atlantic Coast...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 18, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Spiritual Ecology
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — Pastor Paul was nursing a sore throat, but as he preached on a sleepy Sunday morning in his little country church, he felt a rising sense of urgency. “Turning points!” the Rev. Paul Wilson shouted. Like the biblical Paul on the road to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 17, 2018 | Environmental Justice
Virginia- In response to a letter from his own advisory committee calling for a halt to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline due in part to its disproportional impact on poor and minority communities, the assistant for Governor Northam’s press secretary, Marissa Astor, told...
