Join me so we can fight in flight!

Beloved Community, 

Earlier this year Arundhati Roy shared the wisdom that "the pandemic is a portal".  After being on the Board for a number of years, a member for even longer, and a believer in the power of grassroots organizing even longer than that, I entered into my own new "portal" of unknown. In March, when the pandemic reached the US, I had just begun my new journey as a staff member with Clean Air. 

Together with my beloved colleagues, team members and larger community, we got to the hard work of navigating our new reality. We learned new skills together, connected and built relationships over Zoom and continued and deepened our work of environmental and racial justice. Oh, and we won. We won a lot. 

We won because we took advantage of a moment of crisis; we entered the portal together. We entered connected and grounded in our principles, values and visions. We did not shy away from the hard things; we faced our own relationships to white supremacy and hopelessness and are doing the work to uproot and transform them into pathways for collective liberation. We turned to look at one another as imperfectly perfect human creatures, as beloved miracles of the universe who are deserving of care, love, dignity and justice and acted with that responsibility in all that we did. We won because we had the audacity to run campaigns beyond what was just politically possible to make our demands politically, morally and spiritually inevitable. We won because we joined together through our differences, united towards our common goals and dreams. We won because we did the work. 

This holiday season I want to invite you to join as we continue to navigate the pandemic's portal. Join us as we step into 2021 unabashed and unafraid to put our audacious dreams into action. We have work to do, and we need you to come along with us. 

If you donate today to my personal fundraising page, your contribution will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Your donations fuel and feed our smart, dynamic and visionary organizing that wins. 

Thank you! 

With bread and roses, 

Emily, Oliver, Elly and Muna 

P.S. For more information about Clean Air's campaigns, check out their website: (https://www.cacwny.org/) or like them on Facebook (www.facebook.com/cleanairwny).