Points of Unity

These Points reflect the Coalition's work with movement elders, Indigenous leaders, and prominent social justice leaders across the state. 

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Protect the Sacred 

• Standing against the commodification of what is sacred; land, water, air, our communities

 

Debunk Greenwashed Solutions

• Addressing corporate roles in climate mitigation, market-based/nature based solutions

  • Basing solutions on individual/consumer change, rather than addressing the global market and making systematic change

  • Dismantle global capitalism, neoliberal climate policies, imperialism  

  • Aligned opposition against net-zero, offsetting schemes, fossil fueled hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, geo-engineering, biomass, etc. 
     

Build Collective Grassroots Power 

• Decentering/shifting power from white institutions 

• Counternarrative - Legacy of false solutions, the legacy of stealing land and water, a legacy of colonialism

• Look at the historic legacy of false solutions; including white conservation efforts, consumer-based solutions (what is that?) individual changes to help mitigate climate change
   

Build an Intergenerational Movement 

• Bringing people together to share stories, information, traditional knowledge 

• Love, care, and respect 
   

We Speak for Ourselves

• Jemez Principles, climate/environmental justice movements, history of EJ in NM

• This is the foundation of our No False Solutions movement 

• Solidarity, mutuality, and trust