Environmental justice coalitions must unite digital and legacy activist constituencies

Evidence

The new media offer no panacea, but deployed with inventive vigilance, they constitute a potential resource of hope within a broad coalition to advance environmental justice. Such a coalition must necessarily draw on the strategic energies—and, in turn, empower—more traditional activist constituencies: labor, native, and student groups, progressive scientists, and campaigners for human rights, women’s rights, and civil liberties, as well as organized opponents of unchecked globalization. Within this coalition, that protean figure, the writer-activist, will continue to play a critical role by drawing to the surface—and infusing with emotional force—submerged stories of injustice and resource rebellions. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 851

Categorization

• XREF: Coalition logic echoes Nixon’s earlier claims (ch7, ch22/ch24 genre-collage coalition form) and his described 350.com alliance joining ether and ground. — connects to: Environmental justice movements are inherently plural and network-based, not singular in principle or structure — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 617

Broader Connections

• Environmental justice movements are inherently plural and network-based, not singular in principle or structure #expands (0.72) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 617