An Open Letter from Graduate Students regarding Vanessa Gray’s court case. Vanessa’s Story Vanessa Gray is a 23 year-old Anishinaabe’kwe from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, located in Canada’s Chemical Valley, near Sarnia, Ontario. She has been working with community members to bring awareness to environmental racism and […]
After 2 weeks of exciting discoveries in Catalunya I’m almost ready to come back to Montreal. Dear E4Aers, a lot of interesting stuff is going on at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona!! My first surprise was that I met 2 of our new “climate justice” E4Aers, one […]
Audre Lorde famously said “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”. Activists and other agents of change often quote her to make the point that to remake the world we need to make sure to not inadvertently re-establish the dynamics and structures we’re trying to move […]
As I was waiting to embark on a boat tour to Gwaii Haanas, the national park protecting over half of Haida Gwaii, a raven circled overhead, chattering down at me and my fellow passengers. The Haida guide helping us onto the boat looked up at the bird, laughed […]