Dispatches from the Frontlines
Stories directly from the leaders fighting – and winning – the battle for a fossil free future.
About Dispatches
We watch big important fights across our Twitter feeds and newspapers and we cheer on our pipeline fighting comrades heartily wherever they are. At the same time, it can feel so mysterious that our brave and merry rag-tag band draws relatively little attention. Our goal is to let these stories be seen.
Featured | November 5, 2024
Whatever Happens, We’ll Still be Here
Justin J. Pearson of Memphis Community Against Pollution reflects on the stakes of the current moment and his commitment to continue to fight for his community to breathe safe air, drink clean water, and live free from pollution
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Whatever Happens, We’ll Still Be Here.
Representative Justin J. Pearson reflects on the 2024 election and what it means for frontline groups.
More than Meets the Eye: Exposing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Invisible Methane Gas in the Texas Permian
Miguel's life changed after viewing fossil fuel industry infrastructure in his community though a specialty optical gas imaging camera...
Shifting the Narrative to Shift Power
Communications savant and director of Fossil Free Media Jamie Henn …
Ahead of COP28, This CliDef Lawyer Is on a Mission to Defend Climate Defenders
Liberian lawyer and Goldman Environmental Prize winner Alfred Brownell and founding president of our sister organization CliDef (Global Climate Legal Defense) recounts how his own history of lawyering on the frontlines, retaliation, and resulting exile led him to a career protecting others speaking up for climate and environmental justice.
Building Unlikely Alliances to Defeat Fossil Fuels in Rural America
Nebraska farmer Art Tanderup reflects on how unlikely alliances across generations and identities worked together to build movement power and defeat a major pipeline, and the challenges ahead for rural communities in the Great Plains who are now fighting carbon pipelines.
The River is My Kinfolk. It Deserves More Rights than Dirty Pipelines.
Crystal ‘Red Bear” Cavalier-Keck recounts her organizing journey and use of the law to demand that Indigenous and nature-based rights trump corporate rights in the Mountain Valley Pipeline fight.
Compair Lapin vs. Christopher James in Cancer Alley
Joy Banner describes the way her rural Black community is using the power of law and rights to their ancestral land to fight an industrial scheme that threatens to tear it apart.
Why I Fight for Environmental Justice and Democracy in Tennessee
Justin J. Pearson draws the link between the environmental justice movement he led to the pro-democracy solidarity movement that followed.
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Equation Campaign funds movements on the ground to keep fossil fuels in the ground. We support place-based efforts to block new oil and gas infrastructure in the US, where industry impacts are high and where climate philanthropy has been historically low.