Colette Pichon Battle - Expanding Our Movements for Climate Justice

One of the Southeast U.S.’ and Gulf South's most renowned veterans of climate justice struggles as an activist, community organizer, coalition-builder, and award-winning litigating environmental and human rights attorney, Colette Pichon Battle, born and raised in Bayou Liberty, Louisiana, focuses on creating spaces for frontline communities to gather and advance climate strategies that help them steward their water, energy, and land responsibly. She draws from her decades of experience fighting for equitable climate resilience to unearth historic lessons and exposes the root causes of the inequities and imbalances that characterize our relationships to the natural world and to each other. Colette argues that we must expand our understanding of what a genuine Climate Justice movement needs to encompass if we are to succeed in innovating a better future, and why such struggles as gender and migrant justice are inextricably connected to human rights for clean air, clean water, sovereign land, and community control of justly-sourced sustainable energy.
This keynote talk was delivered at the 2024 Bioneers Conference. To see more conference talks visit www.bioneers.org/2024talks

[@cindyspence6194]

Wow. This Devine woman is something special. Walking fire! I just love love love her. Fabulous❤️ together we stand. Greetings from South Africa❤ So honest, so genuine such such a light.

[@jayalexandertilley]

My whole heart, all my love and everything i have goes to this commitment. Goodbye to white supremacy, imperialism, patriarchy, colonial-capitalism, piracy and profiteering. So much love to this human and the message they carry so gracefully. Love and truth only hurt if you've been living and feeding off a lie.

[@iBRiDGE380]

Min 6:00 YES!!!! FIRST STEP AFTER SELF AWARENESS AND SELF HEALING AND SELF DISCOVERY IS ADMITTING JUST HOW ADDICTED AMERICAS GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATIONS HAVE BECOME TO THE ILLUSION IF ABUDANCE as it creates scarcity. THANK YOU. ADMITTING YOU HAVE A PROBLEM IS THE TRUE WAY.

[@nasirhill]

Fuck yeah! More of this please 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@iBRiDGE380]

I follow LOVE, NOT BLACK, NOT BROWN, NOT WHITE, I get the brink, i get the trauma, i feeeeeel all of it and lived it and studied it and see it and know it exists, ...we will NEVER GET THE NUMBERS USING THAT PREVIOUS WAR IN A PRESENT SHIFT. BLACKS MUST ACCEPT THEY ARE NOT THE ONES LEADING ALONE, THEY ARE AMONG ALL THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SCREAMING ALL THIS FOR CENTURIES. Long before american slavery, native peoples worldwide were living WITH THE LAND. When race is used? It creates a counter culture of black racists and white hatred. I know how it feels to have to set down the stories that got us here. I have no friends who think and feel and speak as i do. No one who is close to me. No touch. No love. No warmth Only excuses. Stories. Gods and divisive culture wars. And i become their target because i challenge their pov. As god. Not UNDER A DIETIES ILLUSORY WILL. AND MOST BLACKS ARE RELGIOUS. Therein, they will never break free from that and NEVER serve "climate justice" because the church, that thrives under fossil fuels PROTECTS AND SHEILDS THOSE WHO PRAY AND OBEY.