we know that if the victims of the original sins of this co… - Colette Pichon Battle

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we know that if the victims of the original sins of this country can get together and form a united front, we can actually change this country.

Colette Pichon Battle

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About Colette Pichon Battle

Colette Pichon Battle is a climate activist and lawyer, who founded the climate justice and human rights center The Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy. She was a TED speaker, and a 2019 Obama Foundation fellow. She is best known for advocating for the needs of communities of color in the face of the Climate crisis in the Gulf Coast of the United States.

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I work at the community level to make sure that Black folks and poor folks and Native folks are part of this climate movement.

This is not about greenhouse gas reduction. This is about do we value people equally? And if we do, we’ve got some recalibrating to do, as a planet.

Creole people were free people of color, and they could own land before many Black folks could. And so my family had been there before it was America, before it was the U.S.

we know that if the victims of the original sins of this country can get together and form a united front, we can actually change this country. - Colette Pichon Battle

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