LNS is working with unions and allies to promote a cascade of actions from Earth Day to May Day – April 22 to May 1.
At the forefront of these actions is the Educators Climate Action Network (ECAN). It says:
Public schools are enduring cuts, closures, and immigration raids, as well as suffering toxic facilities, extreme heat, and climate disasters. These harms are coming from a common set of fossil fueled, racist billionaires, corporations, and politicians.
The billionaire class will ruin the public sector and the planet we share if it means more power, profit, and control for them. They strap districts with unsustainable debts, while leaving our schools and environment falling apart. Without a strong public sector, there is no community resilience or protection against billionaire rule and climate disaster.
The public sector, especially public school communities, are the frontline of democracy and resilience against billionaire attacks, Trump attacks, and climate disasters.
ECAN is organizing “Walk-In” actions at schools around the country on Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22. Educators along with students, parents, and community members will walk-in collectively to school in the morning, host rallies or town halls at the entrances, and have conversations with others coming in about the connections between healthy school facilities, sustainable educator jobs, community resilience, the environment, and our common billionaire adversaries. Their goal is to organize people in support of fully funded, healthy community schools with clean air and clean energy.
Educators who want to participate can contact [email protected]. Sign up for ECAN at www.labor4sustainability.org/