Earth Day All Month Long – Events & Resources to Help You Keep Up The Good Fight!
Dear Hoodwinked Community,
It has been a minute. At Hoodwinked HQ, we’ve been recalibrating, re-thinking and shifting how and where we spend our time and energy, de-googling our lives (well, trying to…), and taking care of ourselves and one another so we can keep up this fight for the long haul!
What Have We Been Up to?
- Revising the Hoodwinked in the Hothouse booklet with the latest information on false solutions and real pathways toward climate justice
- Organizing an upcoming false solutions training & strategy camp: stay tuned!
- Coordinating a roundtable discussion on land and liberation with frontline leaders and land defenders
- Engaging with a group of EJ and labor allies from across the US in discussions around green hydrogen messaging and how to bridge the gap between EJ and labor movements in confronting the expansion of hydrogen fuels and other corporate climate schemes
- And more… !
Movement Spotlight: Protect Dinétah
Leona Morgan, Diné anti-nuclear activist and community organizer with Haul No! explains that the Earth Day march and rally were not organized by any one group to push any one issue, but it was a collective of several Diné organizations, activists and community members coming together to share the urgency to protect Tó (water).
“Across Diné Bikéyah, we are at risk of losing our precious water due to climate change and external forces, such as uranium and coal mining. Multiple organizations, community groups, activists and some elected officials marched and rallied yesterday to share information, stories and support for protecting Diné waters. Our collective message to the Navajo Nation Council and the world is that it is a critical time for us to come together as Diné for the protection of Tó.”
— Leona Morgan, Diné Organizer
Listen to the calls to action here: PROTECT DINÉTAH Earth Day Protest
WINDOW ROCK, AZ – March to Protect Dinétah is organized by a collective of Diné citizens, and community groups, concerned about the President of the Navajo Nation Buu Nygren and Navajo Nation Council’s neglect to prioritize Navajo Water and failure to protect it from continued waste and pollution by industry.
This collective of Diné citizens will march in Window Rock on Earth Day under the banner “Protect Dinétah, Protect Navajo Water.” This collective message will be brought to the Navajo Nation Council Chambers during the 25th Navajo Nation Council Spring Session Day 2.
This event will coincide with Day 2 of Spring Session which is themed “Our Power, Our Planet,” which is fitting for this rally as grassroots speaker will share a brief statement regarding their issue and protections envisioned of the various environmental impacts affecting Dinétah (the Navajo homeland), such as coal mining and reclamation, uranium hauling, uranium cleanup and remediation, oil and gas production, the proposed hydrogen pipeline project, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and Utilization (CCUS), and demanding the Navajo Nation strength its communication and planning on existing projects such as tribal parks with communities that play host to these projects.
Leona Morgan, Diné anti-nuclear activist and community organizer with Haul No! explains that the Earth Day march and rally were not organized by any one group to push any one issue, but it was a collective of several Diné organizations, activists and community members coming together to share the urgency to protect Tó (water).
Photos from Indigenous Lifeways.
Hoodwinked and Climate News
The White House made an Earth Day commitment to continue subsidizing corporate climate scams, including nuclear and carbon capture and storage (CCS).
→ Read it here, but don’t get Hoodwinked in the Whitehouse! More importantly, read the statement in response from CJA Executive Director KD Chavez.
From Carajás to Gaza: Peasant Struggles Are Global — To Defend Land, Water, and Territories for Life! – La Via Campesina
Ziigwan: A Time of Renewed Commitments Indigenous Climate Action
Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace | Indigenous Environmental Network
Energy Justice Network – Florida: Trash Incineration Capital of the US
Check out JTA Policy Lead Dr. Fernando Tormos-Aponte’s article in the Nature journal:
‘Now is not the time for despair’ — how scientists can take a stand against political interference
Peoples’ Summit towards COP30: Joining Voices for Climate Justice | La Via Campesina
Need to brush up on why CCS and nuclear are NOT climate just solutions but feeling strapped for time?
Checkout Hoodwinked’s Audiobook chapters on carbon capture and nuclear and listen at your convenience.
Hoodwinked Member News
Indigenous Rights of Mother Earth UNPFII Side Event- IEN
Friday, April 25th 1:30-3 pm ET (NYC)
Cultural Survival Live Conversations and Recordings – UNPFII 2025
Earth Week Community Events – YUCCA April 24th and April 26th in New Mexico
Pueblo Action Alliance 9th Annual Healing Circle, ”Strengthening Community Relationships”
Saturday, April 26, 2025 (Albuquerque, NM)
April 26th, Astoria, NY, 12 PM – Sunset
CHASING CHIMERAS Premiere – Sunday, April 27 at 4 pm (Portland, Oregon)
Monday, April 28th, 12 – 3 pm ET, NYC
Elder Teaching with Kokum Lorette Goulet – Indigenous Climate Action (Online)
Apr 28, 2025 03:00 PM ET
War Is Not Green! Community Call – CODEPINK – Women for Peace (Online)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 8:00pm – 9:00pm (EDT)
Zero Waste New York (ZWNY) Founding Statewide Conference For Advocates Working on Incineration, Landfills, PFAS, Sewage Sludge, Recycling, Reuse, Composting & Waste Prevention – Wednesday, April 30, 2025 & Thursday, May 1, 2025 in Albany, NY
May Day Week of Action – May 1st – 5th
- Chicago immigrant advocates plan ‘full week of civil disobediences’ kicking off on May Day
- Workers in 600+ US Cities to Protest ‘Billionaire Takeover’ on May Day | Common Dreams
- Find an action in your community!
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living – Saturday May 3rd, Environmental Justice Day (Chester, PA)
Community Care Clinic for Disabled and Chronically Ill Movement Folks Multiple Dates (Online)
Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond | WECAN International
June 23-28 Virtual Conference
DeSchool 2025 – a gathering to connect, learn, organize and strengthen the degrowth movement in the U.S. July 26-29 (Chicago, IL)
And ICYMI (incase you missed it), check out these Earth Day event recordings:
Protecting Land, Rights & Future Generations: Indigenous Women on the Frontlines of Climate Action and Earth Defense Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network
“Advanced Nuclear” is it a Real Solution for Energy and Climate? – Earth Day Briefing with Tim Judson of NIRS – Register to receive the recording
Action Items
- STOP GAZA GENOCIDE UPDATED TOOLKIT | USCPR
- Californians: Make Polluters Pay! – Action Network
- Write to Congress: Demand the Release of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, and all student activists – Action Network
- Follow us on Instagram, FB and Bluesky where we share more time-sensitive action items.
What We’re Reading
- Regulatory Gaps and Resistance: The Battle Over Fracking in Southern Illinois
- MST marks the Day of Struggle for Agrarian Reform with more than 50 mobilizations across the country
- Amazon Rainforest Cleared for Climate Conference – CounterPunch.org
- Cop30 in talks to hire PR firm that worked for lobby seeking weaker Amazon protections
- Best Day Ever at Eco-Afro Futures 2025 | Movement Generation
- Climate and Biodiversity in Freefall. How Policy Failures Accelerate the Polycrisis – Friends of the Earth International
- Real Solutions for a Feminist Just Energy Transition – FoEI
- Ensuring Climate Crisis The Insurance Industry and Fossil Fuel Giants
- The Brief Origins of May Day | Industrial Workers of the World
What We’re Listening To
- Conversations with Mother Nature Episode 2: Buen Vivir, Indigenous Pathways to Harmonious Coexistence with Nature – GARN Podcast
- This episode explores how Indigenous knowledge and practices are integral to the Rights of Nature. Casey Camp Horinek, of the Ponca Nation and chair of GARN’s Indigenous Council, and Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, discuss the vital role of Indigenous perspectives in fostering a harmonious relationship with Mother Earth.
- Mapuche Struggle for Azncestral Lands: Ancestral Rights and Political Prisoners in Chile’s Wallmapu with Anne Petermann – Breaking Green
- No Planet B: Why Mars is More Myth than Mission with Dennis Meredith – Breaking Green
- MYTH-BUSTING “BIOMASS” ENERGY – Green Root Podcast
- Visions of a Climate Just World – We Rise Episode 58 – Movement Generation & Cultural Power
Free Resources & Maps
Research Tools for Organizers – LittleSis (May 15, June 19, July 17, Aug 14)
Standing Together Against Injustice – ICE Get Prepared Fact Sheet
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The Hoodwinked Collaborative is a global ecosystem of base-building movements led by Indigenous and frontline communities, and allied grassroots networks and alliances that have been collaborating over the past decade to successfully stop neoliberal climate policy schemes and subsidies for dangerous techno fixes, so that public funds can go towards the place-based, environmental justice solutions we really need. Over the past three years, we have armed our grassroots bases with popular education materials, strategies and allied NGO networks that have helped our frontlines stop many existing and emergent polluting industries, from stopping local permits for dangerous geoengineering experiments, to shutting down toxic trash incinerators that have dumped massive toxic pollution loads in Black, Brown, Indigenous and farmworker communities for decades.