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Featuring contributions from JTNWI organizers and community members on the frontlines of environmental justice in Northwest Indiana. From personal stories and poetry to campaign updates, interviews, and reflections, these pieces highlight local resistance, community power, and the collective work of building a just, fossil-free future.

Cheryl Chapman Cheryl Chapman

We Can’t Not: A Poem

We showed up to let the world know

That our stories have the energy, the true power,

The true electricity, to protect all of America,

Just like that able and proud widow

Whose life is now spent in places like this,

With us, protecting America.

She can’t not.

We will be there beside her and for her because, like her,

We can’t not.

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