It’s time for our elected leaders to stop rewarding special interests and their record profits. Enough is enough.”

We need Congress to act with sensitivity and urgency to come to the table with a spending plan that puts our health and well-being first, protects affordable healthcare and food access, and safeguards our clean air and water for future generations.

…families, our local communities, & the natural places we all love continues. With grocery prices & everyday costs still too high, & essential programs for our seniors, veterans, & neighborhoods continuing to be cut, big corporations are getting tax breaks & a free pass to pollute our communities.

Learn more about CJA at COP30 here: climatejusticealliance.org/COP30

Sonny Akhivgak is an Iñupiaq and Mexican community organizer based in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Lower Tanana Dena’ Lands, and organizes against continued and new fossil fuel and mineral extraction projects in Alaska, and the protections of lands, waters, and cultures.

Over 200 vessels carrying ~5,000 participants from 60 countries denounce genocide and false climate solutions, while highlighting community-led environmental protection.

“To build a world of abundance where all life in endless diversity is given opportunities to flourish.” This is the world that we can actively build, with Indigenous leadership at the fore.

An abundant world is possible, and in many ways, already exists. We need to listen to frontline communities on the ground and implement their solutions —solutions that address deep inequities, the root causes of climate change, and are already proven to work.

While millionaires continue to profit from extraction and deregulation, the only thing that will be in abundance is harm. If that harm continues to fall on communities suffering cumulative impacts from pollution, we must ask ourselves: abundance of what, and abundance for whom?

The climate crisis is only getting worse, yet the U.S is actively deregulating the fossil industry and defunding clean energy projects.

Meanwhile, the “Abundance Agenda” being pushed in the U.S is a misinformed approach to solving our climate and infrastructure crisis by cutting community and environmental safeguards.