Grassroots tribal networks leverage national council seats to advance local cases

Evidence

IEN now serves as a national voice on environmental justice for scattered grassroots tribal groups. In this role, IEN brings to the attention of decision makers the issues that affect indigenous people in their communities and leverages its access to those decision makers to bring resolution to local problems. … Tom Goldtooth, national coordinator of IEN, sits on the U.S. EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, the body appointed to give input to the agency on environmental justice matters, and chairs the NEJAC’s Indigenous Subcommittee. Through that forum, IEN has consistently been able to present crucial local issues to decision makers in Washington, D.C.; the bundling of local issues also helps demonstrate the national policy implications of EPA’s actions in any particular situation. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 654

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Power in environmental justice is relational and contestable, not simply dominant versus subordinate — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 674; Networks of local protest can constitute national politics from the ground up — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 620; Interested groups can shape national political agendas by bringing cases to the Supreme Court — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1476

Broader Connections

• Networks of local protest can constitute national politics from the ground up #expands (0.82) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 620
• Interested groups can shape national political agendas by bringing cases to the Supreme Court #corroborates (0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1476