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Johnson stands outside the office of People for Community Recovery, the organization she founded in 1979. (Courtesy of People for Community Recovery)

EarthBeat Weekly: Lessons for Catholics from life of Hazel Johnson, 'mother of environmental justice'

Feb 26, 2021

Johnson is known for her relentless battle against the evil that surrounded her neighborhood in the form of toxic dumps, lead paint and other pollution that sickened her neighbors and shortened their lives.

Screenshot from Feb. 23 online event presented by Catholic Climate Covenant, with Anna Robertson, the group's new director of youth and young adult mobilization

Catholic Climate Covenant launches youth mobilization initiative

by Brian Roewe

Feb 26, 2021

The mobilization effort will focus on four main areas: advocacy, community resilience, education and ecological spirituality. The hope is that young Catholics will mold the program to support what they want to do to further environmental stewardship.

Native American group files motion to stop mining at sacred Oak Flat site

by Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service

Feb 25, 2021

A group of Apache peoples and other Native American and non-Native supporters has filed an emergency motion to stop the U.S. government from transferring an Apache sacred site in Arizona to a mining company in the next two weeks.

Oil spill damage in the Niger Delta region, April 6, 2010 (Flickr/Sosialistisk Ungdom)

Nigerian farming communities win landmark court ruling against Shell

by Patrick Egwu

Feb 23, 2021

Simon Ayafa has witnessed oil pollution in the Niger Delta region since he was 15. Now, at 35, he feels the region has been made uninhabitable by decades of oil spills. A series of pipeline spills between 2008 and 2009 left the Niger Delta region flowing in oil, but recently, farmers won a landmark case against Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria.

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EarthBeat Weekly: Lessons for Catholics from life of Hazel Johnson, 'mother of environmental justice'

Catholic Climate Covenant launches youth mobilization initiative

Native American group files motion to stop mining at sacred Oak Flat site

Nigerian farming communities win landmark court ruling against Shell

Faiths institute asks Gates Foundation to change tactics in Africa

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