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An Indigenous Just Transition (IJT) means respecting and weaving Indigenous knowledge and leadership into the process of creating a sustainable future. IJT recognizes our inherent rights, sovereignty, and assertion of self determination over our ancestral waters, land and territories, and all natural landscapes, inclusive within our own laws, values, customs and traditions. #IndigenousJustTransition

Learn more ➡️ ienearth.org/justtransition by @ien_earth

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Yesterday at #UNPFII Standing Rock and Cheyenne River youth delivered a powerful intervention, bringing attention to the ongoing resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

These youth also warned Indigenous relatives in the movement that large corporations like Energy Transfer are using legal tactics like Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) suits to shift blame, accountability, and attack the Indigenous movement in our fight for self-determination to protect Mother Earth.

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#StillNoDAPL #IndigenousPeoplesAtTheUN #UNPFII2024 by @ien_earth

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Today, on #WorldWaterDay, we recognize the vital connection between water and Indigenous Peoples. Water is our relative- and our relationship to water is reflected in our Indigenous languages. Protecting our waters also means protecting our knowledge systems, where our worldviews flow like rivers, carrying forward wisdom and traditions. #WaterIsLife by @ien_earth

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The Young Icelandic Environmentalists joined IEN this Arctic Circle Assembly to say it's time for ARCTIC OVER PROFIT! You can't solve the climate crisis using the same mechanisms which got us here. #DefendTheSacred taken in Reykjavik by @ien_earth

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"Self-determination should not mean self destruction..." IEN's Geoengineering Outreach Organizer, Aakaluk A. Blatchford, stood outside the Harpa convention center during Arctic Circle Assembly to call out the dangerous schemes being proposed in order to continue fossil fuel extraction. It's time for an Indigenous Just Transition away from extraction, not new markets which allow business as usual to continue. #DefendTheSacred taken in Reykjavik, Iceland by @ien_earth

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Oppose the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act” (BAAJA). 👎❌

Lawmakers say they need to cut through the “red tape” so Big Business can build projects of any kind faster, like data centers 🤖. But what they really want is to strip away protections that keep our drinking water clean, our families safe, and our utility bills affordable.

We are not red tape. ❌
Our health, our livelihoods, and our neighborhoods come before corporate profits. This is a dirty deal. 🌻

The so-called “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act” (BAAJA) is scheduled for a vote in the Senate on November 9, 2026. If passed into law, this bill would weaken environmental protections and our rights. 🚫

📞 Call your Senators today! Tell them to vote NO on the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act” (BAAJA)

☎️ U.S. Senate Switchboard: 202-224-3121 ☎️

➡️ and send an email to your members of Congress: https://climatejusticealliance.org/action ( 🔗 link in bio) by @ien_earth

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This Indigenous Peoples Day, remember to be a good relative 💚 ⁣
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Whose land are you on? by @ien_earth

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On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we do more than celebrate, we rise together. Every day, Indigenous Peoples lead the way as protectors of land, water, air, and all that is sacred. Our voices, traditions, and resistance are woven into the fabric of justice and healing.

We honor the ancestors and uplift the next generation, standing strong against systems that threaten our sovereignty. Today and every day, we defend, restore, and reconnect our relationship with Mother Earth.

#DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred by @ien_earth

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We cannot allow the lies to continue, as the facts are clear: If this backroom permitting reform deal is pushed through, it will enable a no-guardrails buildout of dangerous projects that will harm our health and environment, drive up energy costs, and violate our rights. This will be especially harmful for communities of color and lower income neighborhoods already overburdened by pollution and climate impacts. Indigenous Peoples, Black, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, and working class white communities disproportionately live near fossil fuel infrastructure and endure greater climate impacts due to a legacy of prejudicial redlining practices. The ‘Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act’ claims to advance clean energy, but will only lock in more fossil fuel projects for decades to come, continuing the immoral and damaging practice of using vulnerable communities as sacrifice zones.

Contact your members of Congress to urge them to oppose any permitting deal under this Congress, particularly any deal that weakens community engagement and public health analysis, Tribal consultation, transparency, or judicial review.

You can use the link in the bio of @cjaourpower to send your message directly to your Representative and your Senators). by @ien_earth

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We cannot allow the lies to continue, as the facts are clear: If this backroom permitting reform deal is pushed through, it will enable a no-guardrails buildout of dangerous projects that will harm our health and environment, drive up energy costs, and violate our rights. This will be especially harmful for communities of color and lower income neighborhoods already overburdened by pollution and climate impacts. Indigenous Peoples, Black, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, and working class white communities disproportionately live near fossil fuel infrastructure and endure greater climate impacts due to a legacy of prejudicial redlining practices. The ‘Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act’ claims to advance clean energy, but will only lock in more fossil fuel projects for decades to come, continuing the immoral and damaging practice of using vulnerable communities as sacrifice zones.

Jordan Harmon, Policy Specialist at @ien_earth : “Indigenous Peoples deserve better than being treated as a negotiation pawn in backroom permitting deals. Any member of Congress who would vote to destroy the Tribal consultation process and violate the Treaty and trust obligations is no climate defender and no ally to Tribes.” by @ien_earth

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Today, @cjaourpower, @greenlatinos, @ien_earth, @weact4ej, and @welc_org led a broad coalition of national organizations representing thousands of frontline, environmental justice, and Indigenous communities across the U.S. to oppose a dangerous deregulatory permitting reform proposal, disingenuously titled the ‘Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act’, currently being negotiated in Congress. We share a deep frustration and outrage over this sidelining effort which shows continued disregard for communities who have spent years demanding policies that protect their health, rights, neighborhoods, and pocketbooks, while also benefitting the larger public good. by @ien_earth

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The dirty “permitting reform” proposals that are currently being discussed in Congress will not provide communities with the safe, clean infrastructure we are asking for. Instead, they are hand outs to the tech and energy industry who are pushing this deregulatory “permitting reform” so they can circumvent critical safeguards and pad their pocketbooks. Communities on the ground will be asked to pay the price with our water, air, land, and health.

Contact your members of Congress and urge them to vote NO on any permitting deal under this Congress, particularly any deal that weakens community engagement and public health analysis, Tribal consultation, transparency, or judicial review. Click the action alert link in the bio of @cjaourpower by @ien_earth

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