The Jamaica Climate Change Youth Council (JCCYC) is a youth based organization focused on climate change advocacy among young people in Jamaican and on empowering them to participate in environmental protection and resilience initiatives in their own spaces
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A Victory for One, A Victory for All: Grenada Land Actors Lead the Way in Caribbean Environmental Justice
GLA’s fight resonates deeply with other grassroots organizations across the Caribbean facing similar challenges. Too often, communities are shut out of decision-making processes, their voices silenced by powerful interests. This case reminds us, that legal action, though cost, time and energy prohibitive, can be highly effective, not only in achieving justice in individual cases but also in setting precedents that pave the way for greater environmental protection and community participation across the region.
They Give Us Weapons, Not Schools’ : Haitian Peasant Women Denounce State Complicity in Massacres and Demand Action
The women of Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen raise their voices in grief and outrage, mourning the loss of live in the Pont-Sondé massacre of October 3, 2024. They condemn the authorities’ inaction, their complicity in the violence, the “anti-people action plan” that shatters families and forces communities to flee.
Reparations, Restoration, and Decolonization
Meaningful reparations, restoration and decolonization are three essential concepts that must be upheld to address historical and ongoing injustices faced by Caribbean communities.
Access to justice
Access to justice The struggle for a fair and equitable society in the Caribbean depends on the guarantee of effective, universal and safe access to justice. Although social transformation cannot only happen via courts, access to justice and adequate responses can play a crucial role in ensuring that historically vulnerable individuals and communities can swiftly …
United Against Disaster Capitalism (2024 Manifesto)
United Against Disaster Capitalism The whole of the Caribbean accounts for less than 10% of the annual greenhouse gas emissions and have contributed with just a fraction of the historical contamination. However, the countries and the people of the Caribbean are at the forefront of the violence of climate change and extreme weather events. The …
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Democratic Governance and Just ‘Development’
Democratic Governance and Just ‘Development’ The Caribbean has been at the core of the colonialist project, the heart of racial capitalism and the universalization of unecological and violent visions for the people and the planet. For centuries, communities and territories were excluded from the decision-making processes and deprived of their right to self-determination. This has …
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Intersectional Justice for the Caribbean
Intersectional Justice for the Caribbean Intersectional justice indicates the need to recognize racism as a structural component of the capitalist system, but not the only form of oppression experienced by people racialized as non-white. Along with race, individuals and groups may be discriminated against on the basis of gender, class, physical capacity and other visible …
Food Sovereignty for Self-Determination and Decolonization
No region and no people will be free and autonomous until food sovereignty as “the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems” is attained.
Delayed Justice, Lasting Damage: Grenada’s Environmental Legal Struggle
Legal remediation is often the only way for concerned citizens to ensure their voices will be heard, but it often proves slow and prohibitively expensive. The Grenadian case, ongoing since March 2021, exemplifies these challenges.
