Written by Alexandrea Flanders Early last year, I was invited to support my best friend, Rogue LaMere, deliver a fiery speech at the Climate Crisis Parade in Des Moines, Iowa. This would be the first time in my life where I traveled to Des Moines, Iowa. The Climate Crisis Parade was a success. However, the event that followed afterwards is what got my heart pumping. It was an event to denounce white supremacy at the Iowa State Capitol building. Erected in front of the Iowa St

Written by Alexandrea Flanders "Within the last few centuries, humanity has evolved, and the earth has changed with it. From the purest form of water to the wasteland on our planet, this is our unfortunate reality. If we aren't able to step up and protect our land and natural resources, then we shouldn't be allowed to harvest from it either. The Rights of Nature is something that Indigenous peoples have always stood by, and it's time that the rest of the world wakes up and do

Written by Trisha Etringer A Black civil rights activist by the name of Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr. came up with the term environmental racism in 1982. He defined environmental racism as, “racial discrimination in environmental policy-making, the enforcement of regulations and laws, the deliberate targeting of communities of colour for toxic waste facilities, the official sanctioning of the life-threatening presence of poisons and pollutants in our communities, and the history o

Written By Alexandrea Flanders At the beginning of this year, I was getting ready to attend a trip to the Virgin Islands with some colleagues to participate in an emergency management conference over our spring break. I remember my excitement; I was finally going to see the ocean for the first time in my life. I’d never left the country, and it would be a first as well, especially going so far south. My excitement came to an end when COVID-19 started vastly impacting the enti