Educators National Earth Day Week of Ation

 
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American educators and students are in crisis. Working and learning conditions inside school buildings are in terrible shape. Educators and students have been under a sustained attack from disinvestment and disrepair, privatization, crumbling school buildings (sometimes even without heat or air conditioning), toxins like asbestos and lead, polluted air and weather disasters, COVID death and long illness, gun violence, and burnout. Educators also desperately need wage increases, The morale of teachers is at an all time low, and most have thought about quitting teaching altogether!

Students can’t learn and teachers can’t teach, if they’re sick, neglected, and under-resourced.

Now is the time to finally go on offense. Educators and youth are organizing to fight back, and there are huge opportunities to take advantage of. Congress passed legislation that is offering big sums of money for green renovations and energy savings projects that union educators can seize upon. This funding will allow schools to modernize, get rid of carbon that makes our climate worse, get rid of toxins that make our educators and students sick, and become hubs of resilience and clean energy for their surrounding community.

Education jobs have dignity, and they need to be valued and treated as such, along with the conditions necessary to make the education of our future generations thrive.

Healthy schools can only exist on a healthy planet - it’s impossible to have one without the other. It’s time to fight back.

Sign this form and pledge to take action during the week of Earth Day (April 16th - 22nd) with fellow educators, youth, and your communities.

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We're on Board for Transit Equity Day 2023!

Register your Transit Equity Day 2023 action!

It's that time of year! Transit Equity Day "season," where unions, transit rider organizers and climate and environmental justice groups come together to plan actions to take place on February 4, Rosa Park's birthday, and to declare transit equity as a civil right. It is once again time to Educate. Agitate. Organize.

Are you ready for Transit Equity Day 2023? If you have an action in the works, please feel free to register it below so we can start helping you with organizing and amplification. Join us at our biweekly planning meetings on Fridays at Noon Eastern. To make sure you're invited, contact Bakari Height at bakari@labor4sustainability.org.

NOTE: We *may* be able to offer a stipend up to $500 to organizations hosting a Transit Equity Day action. Please indicate below if you are requesting this. Learn more here. Thank you!

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Sponsor Transit Equity Day 2023

 
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Thank You for Your Interest

For the past 5 years on Feb. 4, a network of transit rider unions, community organizations, environmental groups and labor unions have organized Transit Equity Day–a national day of action to commemorate the birthday of Rosa Parks by declaring that public transit is a civil right. Rosa is an iconic figure of the civil rights era who chose the tactic of refusing to give up her seat on the bus to demand an end to segregation in the Montgomery, Alabama, transit system. We make the connection to this act of resistance to highlight the rights of all people to high-quality public transportation run on clean/renewable energy.

In addition to hosting an action, you can support Transit Equity Day 2023 in a variety of ways. Learn more below. If you have any questions, please contact Bakari Height at bakari@labor4sustainability.org. Thank you!

Ways to Participate

Participate in the Transit Equity Network (TrEN)
  • This is the larger body for organizing Transit Equity Day and other transit equity activities.
  • Meets bi-weekly every other Friday at noon ET; a representative from your organization would attend.
  • Not a formal membership body, attendance is not required.
  • Learning space to share ideas, information and organizing strategies.
Participate in the Planning Committee
  • Meets bi-weekly on Fridays - alternating with the TrEN meetings - 11am ET.
  • Provides overall coordination to the TrEN process.
  • Does lead thinking to plan agendas for full network meetings.
  • Membership is voluntary, but requires a commitment to participate and contribute work.
  • Current members include Institute for Policy Studies, Labor Network for Sustainability, REAMP Network, and Sierra Club.
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Sponsorship - Can include at least one of the following:

1. Providing a financial contribution and/or in-kind contribution to the Transit Equity Network. If you select this option, please continue to complete this form and we will reply to you with instructions on how to donate. Thank you!

2. Providing communications support by designating a communications point person to work with LNS Comms and Information Director or participating in the Comms Committee.

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Endorsement

  • Can be listed publicly as an endorsing organization
  • Amplifies social media posts of Transit Equity Network
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Here at the Labor Network for Sustainability, we believe that inequality and climate change are the two most pressing issues of our time. But there’s also a great opportunity to address both.

We know that labor unions are a key ingredient a strong, powerful climate movement and a sustainable world. We’re teaming up with workers and unionists nationwide to initiate change and reshape the world’s economic, political, and social systems.

To do that, we need everyone. That means we need you.



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Educators: Pledge to take action during the week of Earth Day 2023!

 
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Are you an educator who is passionate about climate justice and green, healthy, fully-resourced schools? Sign this Pledge to act with other educators during the week of Earth Day 2023: April 16th - 22nd.

After signing up, we'll send you an easy-to-follow toolkit with resources to take action and one of our organizers will reach out to provide support!

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