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.

Daniela Guerrero Rodriguez Daniela Guerrero Rodriguez

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.

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Malaska Hernandez Malaska Hernandez

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.

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Malaska Hernandez Malaska Hernandez

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.

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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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