Blog
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.
Reflections on World Water Day 2025: Guest Blog
Reflecting on World Water Day this year, it is difficult to ignore that our country is in dark times.
Stop Ratepayer Robbery and Oppose HB 1007, SB 423, and SB 424: Op-Ed
Today, three proposed laws are winding their way through the statehouse, forfeiting what could amount to billions of tax dollars raising our utility prices even higher.
Polluters Paradise is the Problem: A Letter to the Editor
JTNWI’s legislative and policy director, Susan Thomas, points out a few important points about the proposed buyout and why everyone should be taking notice.
An Environmental Justice Poetry Collection
Read six poems about environmental justice by JTNWI member Tim Fab-Eme.
The Interconnection of Social Work and Environmental Justice
We applaud these future social workers for their desire to work with vulnerable populations while also protecting the environment, climate, and future generations. Their stories describe their firsthand experiences with the unfair distribution of environmental burdens and the consequences for community health.
An Interview with Artist William Estrada
Artwork allows us to imagine things and make those things a reality through the art we create. Art is a way for us to build the futures that we want to live in. We're taking our imagination and building things that don't yet exist. But through our creation, they are now possible because now people can envision it.
Living Green Garden: An Interview with Libré Booker
When you grow your own food, the nutrients your body needs will be grown in the food that you are connecting with and growing. It is like the plants know what your body needs. It’s a beautiful dance and a beautiful relationship. We have cut off this dance because we have removed ourselves from nature and given up our food sovereignty to solely big businesses.
Voices of Steel: An Interview with Elizabeth Palacio
The steel industry is male-dominated, but if women speak up, we can get there too. It needs us!
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.