Cornell on Fire Weekly 5/1
On April 22nd, we moved to Reclaim Earth Day from media greenwashing, corporate propaganda, and obfuscation by the political shills of the reigning socioeconomic world order. On this May Day, we must move onward to secure the earth itself and all its inhabitants, human and others, from those who are burning and inundating and poisoning and stripping it of life for the sake of personal profit, and from the political-economic system that enables and protects them.
Cornell on Fire Weekly 4/24
When over 440 people take action across Tompkins County to reclaim their relationship with earth and one another, something moves. On Monday, April 22, the people of Ithaca joined forces across campuses and the community to act in concert with the national movement to Reclaim Earth Day. We streamed in from the east, south, north, and west, in six different marches converging on the center. Under clear blue skies, we reclaimed our duty and our right to climate honesty.
Michael Charles speaks to Reclaim Earth Day
With gratitude, we reprint the opening address for Reclaim Earth Day by Cornell Professor Michael Charles, a Diné (Navajo) scholar and Provost’s New Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in Biological and Environmental Engineering.
May we walk in beauty.
Yanenowi Logan speaks to Reclaim Earth Day
Yanenowi Logan, Seneca youth leader and senior at Cornell, spoke these words at Reclaim Earth Day on the Ithaca Commons, April 22, 2024. We gratefully reprint her words here as a continued call to action.
May we act with urgency and determination to protect our planet and all of our relations.
Cornell on Fire Weekly 4/17
Five days until we Reclaim Earth Day for climate justice! Our most provocative and primary demand is decolonization. Climate justice communities are the essential power for climate action because they offer a way of being that is decolonized. Here is what they say: Your society has lied to you. The earth is not a resource to be exploited, but a relation to be honored and tended.