Archive: What’s on your mind blog

Rethinking Boundaries and Borders

By Kristen Locy / July 28, 2020
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While watching the third installment of Movement Generation’s “Course Correction” series, I learned about the idea of thinking of places in terms of “bioregions” instead of the political boundaries we use today to govern, like counties or states. A bioregion is defined by Movement Generation as “a land and water territory whose limits are defined […]

A Powerful Story about a Group of Indigenous Ecuadorians and Their Fight for Environmental Justice

By Lisa DePaoli / July 23, 2020
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In the summer of 2003, I went to Ecuador to do six weeks of preliminary research with the Sarayaku Kichwa (also spelled Quichua), one of 13 indigenous groups living there. I had contacts within the community, and they knew I was coming to Puyo, a town on the edge of the Oriente, the Amazonian region […]

Star-lust

By Nick Hood / June 22, 2020
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As part of our What’s on your mind? blog series, we’re posting mid-month entries by CCJ staff as a way for you to get to know us better. This fourth mid-month staff post is by Community Organizer Nick Hood. As I continue to grow older, new information still perplexes me as I try to wrap […]

Mornings at Home

By Lovell Johnson / May 19, 2020
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As part of our What’s on your mind? blog series, we will be posting mid-month entries by CCJ staff as a way for you to get to know us better. This third mid-month staff post is by our Operations and Data Manager Lovell Johnson: My morning routine: a second cup of coffee, a socially distant […]

My ‘Go-To’ Song for Right Now

By Veronica Coptis / April 17, 2020
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As part of our What’s on your mind? blog series, we will be posting mid-month entries by CCJ staff as a way for you to get to know us better and to provide topical variety that is of interest to our members. This second mid-month staff post is by our Executive Director Veronica Coptis: All […]

Someone We’re Staying Home For

By Heaven Sensky / April 3, 2020
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This is the 11th installment in our What’s on your mind? series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Heaven Sensky. I’ve been caring for my dad, alongside my mom, for 20 years (most of my life). Most caregivers these days are feeling immense grief, fear, and more distress than we have ever endured in […]

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